I-Team: Drivers Caught Illegally Using Handicap Parking Placards

Keep doing it. I have a placard and I never find an empty space.

Being morally handicapped does not entitle one to a handicapped placard.

My sister was disabled and when anyone without a placard or sticker parked there I'd Park behind them go inside a store and call the police. I still do it

I'm so glad they're doing this. I have a handicap placard & If there's a spot close enough to the store that I can park in I don't use the handicap spot. I know there other people in worse shape than I am who needs it.

What I think is amazing is that most of the people using the placards are very fit. I've seen a couple L.A. ones where they parked with a placard to go to the gym, or on a long nature walk. The 2 ticket placard fines end up being around $2k total. Now that sends a message!

"They should be put in jail." She said it like a Boss :-) LOL

Those people make me sick. I am unable to walk & have a placard, but I am blessed to be driven by family for my med visits so we never, EVER take one of the few handicapped spots. I either get pushed from a reg spot to the office (ok so sometimes I get rained or snowed on a little), or I get dropped at the front of the building & wait for my family member to walk back to me from a regular spot. Most handicapped people have already been thru hell just trying to get bathed and dressed to go out, Getting in and out of their vehicles is another cross to some. Having to drive around in circles while a healthy person takes their spot (was only gonna be in there a minute officer) has caused many a stressed handicapped person to give up and go home. It's cruel and it's against the law...Fine 'em a couple of thousand bucks & they will stop quickly.

and I actually was handicapped with a placard and I rarely used it though I had a mobility device. I can't believe the audacity of some people to be so rude and selfish though to take a handicapped spot when they are not handicapped.

Fine them $5,000.00 it'll be the end of it.

I’m glad they do this. So many times my dad had to walk across parking lots with a bad heart and on oxygen because people wouldn’t stop illegally taking the handicap spots.

"they ought to be put in jail". That is one badass grandma

I agree with the lady who said, "They ought to be put in jail".

We need this level of enforcement in Texas, I'm a placard holder with a completely invisible disability to the casual observer, yet I've never been approached by anyone asking if it's my placard.

In Tyler Texas, the rich park where they want. Specially at Walmart handicap spots. When security is made aware they just walk away

i have a spinal cord injurry, really need that space, it infuriates me when i see fakies using

They should get two options. A large fine, or the cop beats them with a billy club until they become handicap.

I've only parked in a handicap parking spot one time and it was only because I didn't know it was for the handicap. Once I was out my car I realized where I was parked so I got back in my car and parked somewhere else.

Our car's have disable plate's on them (for my husband). The only time I park in a handicapped spot is when he is with me. It's not worth getting caught illegally & what happens when someone really need's the spot?

I have a co-worker who is totally "enabled" using a placard. I am 65, she's about 20. I asked her about it. "Oh, my mom needs it." Is mom at work today with you? Sidney, I'm not asking about the legitimacy of the placard, but you using it. Right now, I don't need handicapped parking but when I do, it would be wrong if you block me out because we are friends. She was embarrassed and made excuses and still uses the space. When we arrive to work together and I see her, I let her know I'm watching. She will be caught and get the $499 (not 500?) fine and blame everyone but herself.

Keep up the outstanding work.