Paraplegic man and son teach police officer a lesson for misusing disabled parking spot

A man has shared how his paraplegic father taught a police officer a lesson for

The duo had planned a day out at their local shopping centre to watch a movie and enjoy a meal. However, upon arrival, they found a police car occupying the parking bay. In a swift response, his dad decided to park behind them, blocking only that one spot.

"We proceed to go and watch a movie, and had a nice meal at a ," he said. "Took our sweet time too. About five hours later, we decided it was time to head home," he wrote. As they left the mall, his dad stayed behind to pay for while he went ahead to open up the car to prepare to load him and his wheelchair."

It was then that he was approached by an irate man wanting to know if this was his car, reports . He continued: "He went off like an exploding rotten whale carcass. He called me every possible expletive his pea sized brain could summon. As I walked around the car, I saw that he had plastered about 20 parking tickets to the windscreen.

"It's worth noting that we did not have a handicapped sign in the window at the time. I just calmly let him finish his tirade, as I waited for my dad to join me. Which happened about a minute later. I swear, the look on his already bovine face made the whole tongue lashing absolutely worth it.

"The police officer quickly began to backtrack and apologise for his outburst, but the pair were not having any of it. "Apparently he was just popping into the pharmacy to pick up something," he said. "As he started ripping the tickets off the windscreen, my dad stopped him to ask what he was doing.

"He tried to brush it off, but my dad insisted that he would be more than happy to have his day in court over this. In the end, after some truly pitiful grovelling, we decided to let him off with a warning." Reacting to the post, one user shared: "My dad was a paraplegic and would do the same. He would park right behind them, and then we'd go off and do whatever.

"When we came back and there was an angry person waiting on him, he would just pull out his badge and then get in the car and off we would go. He was the district attorney. He wouldn't be blocking the road, only that one spot. I definitely can relate to you being a kid of a paraplegic. I was the designated assistant. Good on you for being a good kid."

Another user chimed in: "Wow, a policeman who waited five hours for the owner of a car with no handicapped sign that was blocking him illegally parked in handicapped parking! Unbelievable!" One more added: "As someone who rides with my handicapped mother who also has a special vehicle that transports her wheelchair, I wish I could have watched this interaction."