Posted on 03/23/2016 7:26:25 AM PDT by simpson96
A YouTube video of a woman angered by a man who confronted her for parking in a disabled parking spot outside a Tim Hortons in Toronto has sparked howls of Internet outrage.
The video, posted by the man - named Ryan Favro - has garnered more than one million views since it was posted on Monday.
It begins with Favro politely asking the woman about her parking as she returns to her Jeep with her Timmys coffee and ice coffee.
"So why do you park in a handicapped parking spot? Are you handicapped?" he is heard asking.
"No," she says, and walks away.
"Well, what makes you so special that you can park in a handicapped spot?" he asks.
"Record me, I’ll break your (expletive) phone," she says as she gets into the driver's seat, and slams the door.
The woman then gets back out, and hurls what appears to be the iced coffee - along with profanities - at the videographer.
When he then persists in asking, "What makes you so special?" she throws the coffee at him.
"I'm taking this to the police, you assaulted me," he says.
"Good for you!" she yells, before backing up and driving away, licence plate clearly visible in the video.
Late Tuesday, Favro made his video private.
In addition, Instanews said it had taken down the video "at the request of the citizen journalist who filmed it."
"We have been told that the Toronto police are aware of the incident," Instanews said in a post.
(Excerpt) Read more at thestar.com ...
A co-worker went to Spain with his wife, and he caught a local with her hand in his wife's purse.
The Spaniard went nuts at both failing to steal, and being unnoticed.
My co-worker was shocked at the response.
wonder why she wasnt’ arrested, at least for littering, if nto assault and abuse of HC spot?
Well I bet she was bleeding
Nice to read that. I live at the Ontario/Michigan border. Politest place in town. Everyone says a polite excuse me when easing in and out.
As to the persons who abuse parking privileges, I feel they are a special breed. Guys like me are very nervous of offending someone. The abusers, including one who puts his emergency flashers on at the Non Parking - then shops, must be made of brass.
Poor young woman, must have had a bad day. Oh those videos! Excuse my ramble.
Why do handicapped people drive like they are?
Ten to one she doesn't know what a Purple Heart is.
While I do not approve of non-handicapped people parking in a handicapped space its interesting to watch how indignant people get at those who violate that rule. Even taking into account cases where a store has 15 handicapped spots and only 1 is in use, and how common it is to see people who have handicapped stickers who seem reasonably able bodied (no canes, walkers, crutches, wheelchairs, limps, etc). Personally I dont do it but I also wouldn’t call the cops or beat on someone who did.
Which reminds me of a incident in grad school when I worked for a professor who had recently been confined to a wheelchair. One of the other students saw a car parked in the professor’s handicapped spot and wrote a really nasty note to the driver. This genius was offended and stormed up to lab to confront the note writer. He found himself facing ~ 10 angry grad students and postdocs, got himself viciously attacked (verbally) and beat a hasty retreat before things became physical.
just curious- they never bullied you again right?
just curios number 2- in high school one or both became hotter then heck and you regret pounding her, right? (that happened to me- a girl I made fun of turned out to be the hottest thing I ever saw in my life, to my eternal regret)
I hope you taught him a lesson!
out her eyes and out of her.... whatever
It does seem that the wheelchair icon drivers have problems driving a lot of the time. Once and a while you’ll get one that is great, but yeah most of the time not so much.
Freegards
I have shared this story before but here goes.
I had a buddy thirty-five years ago who had comeback from Vietnam without his legs. As a Green Beret he was wound pretty tight after they put him back on earth.
I saw him leave his wheel chair on the sidewalk, take his crutches and climb onto the hood of a car that was improperly parked in the only handicapped parking space at the establishment were we were meeting. He sat on the hood of that car with his pinned up legless pants and his crutches waiting until the owner returned so that he could explain his displeasure in a loud and public lecture about their lack of consideration and courtesy.
I will NOT put up with that kind of talk, PERIOD!
I have been on crutches or canes for nearly 30 yrs. due to a nasty little virus that I got as a young adult which left me with horrible balance, weakness in the legs and a limp. One day I pulled into a handicapped spot at a Sams Club with my tag displayed as the law demands. As I opened my door and stood up to stretch my legs out before getting my canes a woman stopped and barked out to demand why I was parking there!
I reached in my vehicle and pulled out my two walking canes and shut my door and told her honey don’t be fooled I just use these two canes as an excuse to park in handicapped spots and for sh*ts and giggles with people like you and then slowly walked on in the store. She just stood there mouth open and red faced from making a fool of herself and other people around us looking at her and shaking their heads.
Ha that’s funny.
I did, I took his wheelchair and placed it on the other end of the shopping center parking lot........
I”m female so I never regretted it. No, they were trashy. But they never bothered me again, you are right.
“‘Just because you WON your Purple Heart license plate “. . .
Sheesh. . .you were injured in combat. . .by the enemy. . you didn’t win a lottery for closer parking.
You earned that right.
Let me jump in here with a few comments, please.
“Sorry, but your husband needs to apply for a handicapped placard as well to avoid such confrontations.”
You get the plate, you have the right. The placard is for those non-military types that have a temporary disability.
“I wouldn’t get upset at people who are looking out for the welfare of the handicapped.”
True, but when “looking out for the handicapped” includes profanity, verbal assaults (and maybe more), that is not looking out for anybody.
“This isn’t ignorance, but people know that being a disabled / Purple Heart vet and ownng those license tags doesn’t necessarily mean there is a medical problem that makes walking difficult or impossible.”
How do you KNOW?
“For example, many disabled vets who drive have profound hearing loss or loss of vision in one eye, or the loss of upper body function, but retain full lower body function.”
Plenty, but they are disabled and therefore earned the right, they served their country and suffered a service-connected disability that the state views as qualifying and earns them the parking privilege.
“Those parking spots are reserved for those with a lower body disability, balance issues, or medical issues where exertion is dangerous.”
The State of Texas (like all other states) have their own qualifications for a DV plate, and nowhere does Texas say anything regarding what you said are qualifying medical condition for a DV plate/placard (see below for the list).
AND the disability may not be readily apparent to those watching, and exertion has nothing to do with some disabilities.
“They are not there for people with unqualified medical disabilities.”
Who makes the call of what is an “unqualified” medical condition? Answer: For a vet, the VA does, not a vigilante supposedly looking out for disabled parking violators.
“By having the placard, your husband can show that he qualifies because he specifically has a need for the space.”
And the DV plate does just that.
I broke my back in combat, yanking G’s in the jet to avoid a missile. I look normal—so to speak—but it hurts like heck most of the time and I have a DV plate (with Air Medal on it). Getting into and out of the car hurts badly, though initially walking away from the car is okay but after about 50’ or so, it really starts to act up and only gets worse. So, you in the parking lot would see me exit my car, walk like nothing wrong into the store and condemn me for abusing the system, insisting I have to go back to the DV to prove my disability every couple of years, and the DV is such a joy and welcoming place. I have a documented lifetime injury, so, no sir, I will not go to the DMV to get a placard just so public scrutiny will be mitigated.
I earned the right and am under no obligation to prove to the world that might be watching that I was truly hurt in the service of my country.
In Texas, if you have a disability rating less than 50%, no DV plate. 50% or more, you get the plate, and that is only after being examined and rated by VA doctors.
List for Texas:
Placard and plate eligibility is based on a medical condition that meets the legal definition of a disability. “Disability” means a condition in which a person has:
Visual acuity of 20/200 or less in the better eye with correcting lenses
Visual acuity of more than 20/200 but with a limited field of vision in which the widest diameter of the visual field subtends an angle of 20 degrees or less
Mobility problems that substantially impair a person’s ability to move around; these problems can be caused by:
Paralysis
Lung disease
Cardiac deficiency
Wheelchair confinement
Arthritis
Foot disorder
Other medical condition causing a person to use a brace, cane, crutch or other assistive device.
Thanks for listening.
Cheers.
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