Handicapped parking placards are only supposed to be used by the person who is handicapped, not by any random friend or relative who wants to borrow it.

In today’s story, one woman takes care of her father before he dies and steals his handicapped placard while she’s there. Her child is not cool with this and decides to get even.

Let’s see how the story plays out…

Volunteer Parking Enforcment

My grandfather passed away last year, and my mother immediately swooped in to “take care of him”.

In his final 3 weeks, she went through all his belongings and took all the good stuff before her siblings could.

She hired a lovely nurse to help him, but my mother still maintains that she was his sole caretaker.

OP’s mom has been parking illegally.

One of the things she took was the handicap placard from his car.

She then started using it everywhere she went despite being in perfect physical health.

When I told her it was bad of her, she said “I spent so much time caring for him, I earned it”.

As I’ve said before, that’s a lie.

OP decided to get revenge.

I then found out that our city has a Volunteer Parking Enforcement program.

I spent four hours on a Saturday to get certified. It was free.

Then I started following her.

When she said she was going out for groceries, when she went out for brunch with friends, and even when she went to church.

OP’s mom ended up paying $1500.

And by the power vested in me by the great city-in-which-I’m-a-resident, I wrote her three parking tickets in a week totaling somewhere around $1500. (Each ticket is $500).

I took pictures of her car each time so I would have evidence if needed.

She even had to argue with a judge that she would never do it again and that she didn’t deserve community service.

A poor choice on the judge’s part but hey that’s the system for you.

It sounds like the mom learned a hard lesson. I wonder if she ever found out who gave her the tickets.

Let’s see how Reddit reacted to this post…

Maybe OP should keep following the mom.

This reader wants to participate in a volunteer parking enforcement program.

There might be a bigger problem than just parking illegally.

OP’s mom really shouldn’t be using the handicapped placard.

Here’s the perspective of someone who needs a handicapped placard.

I wonder what else she stole from her dad.

If you thought that was an interesting story, check out what happened when a family gave their in-laws a free place to stay in exchange for babysitting, but things changed when they don’t hold up their end of the bargain.