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Originally Posted by Rusty
If someone in the family is handicap. They can get plates for the car. So they end up abusing the plate. See it all the time.  |
As a deputized volunteer in Travis County, I can write tickets for illegal parking in accessible parking spaces. Unfortunately, I do not have access to the computer systems that the officers do in order to determine whether a placard is being used by the person it was issued to.
It's amazing how entitled some people are when I walk up and politely tell them that I'm going to give them a $750 ticket if they don't move their vehicle parked that is parked diagonal across three accessible parking spaces. They get all defensive, grabbing the placard and pointing at it vigorously, sometimes even angrily. I just tell them, "the fact that you have a placard that I'm pretty certain is being misused does not entitle you to prevent others from using the spaces"
I can even still give them the ticket if I have photos of the car before they moved it; only once did the moron continue to harass me even after moving their car that I went ahead and sent in the ticket anyway. The volunteer coordinator said they were
pissed when they called after receiving it in the mail. When I explained the situation, she just laughed.