He said he didn't know his dad needed to be present to use a handicap permit issued to his dad? Yeah, right. That's not owning up to it. That's lying.

“I didnt know my dad had to be present” DUDE if the person that requires the placard didnt have to be present ANYONE could have one

They always say they didn't know they couldn't use a relatives placard when they were not with them. Yeah you knew.

Why is it everyone has to use an excuse? Admit that you did it because you wanted the convenience. People have a hard time admitting when their wrong.

Give mandatory 30 days community service + mandatory $2,000 fine. Let's see what happens then. Low punishments = people don't mind. Higher punishments = people will pay attention.

I have been confined to a wheelchair for almost 55 years due to Vietnam. My car has Disabled Veteran plates, so I don't use a placard. I am 79 years old and when I drive to the home center or store and find the handicap parking filled with what I call Parking Pigs. I drive to an aera in the parking lot where there are no cars and park there. I get my wheelchair out and push myself to the store. The people who cheat and use the handicap parking have to think they are handicap. They don't know what the word means, and I refuse to give in. My elbows and shoulders are beginning to hurt at my age and may give out, but I'll be dammed if I'll let some Parking Pigs get me upset.

As an former LA Sheriff Deputy I can tell you that it is a misdemeanor to use a handicap placard or plate if the person it is registered to is not present in the car or the driver knowingly uses it for their own personal use. It is an arrestable offense, you will be fined and your car most likely will be towed away and the card/license plate will be confiscated then the person it is registered to has to go to a DMV hearing to get it back. I probably gave out 200 hundred of these violations citations and some were towed as well. Don't do it.

I use a walker I have noticed when I call the police to report misuse of disabled placards they blow me off, like it's no big deal. There are times I can't find a place to park when shopping for dinner and I go home and eat breakfast cereal for dinner - I think it's a big deal. If I ate my cat's cat food, she would think it's a big deal too.

That makes me mad. I’m handicapped and need those spaces. Hard to get in and out of my car along with my wheelchair in a regular space. When people like these misuse the plaques just to get a better spot I just want to yell at them! PEOPLE, IF YOUR NAME ISN’T ON THOSE PLAQUES DON’T USE THEM!!

Ive had my placard since I was 46. I'm in god awful pain 24/7 and those spaces allow me to get in and out of the store and home.

I can watch these videos all day. Keep them coming, and keep the tickets expensive! The real gems are the ones that get angry after getting caught. XD

If your not disabled or have someone who is disabled with you don't need the space. People who violate this know what they are doing, they deserve a large fine. Someone disabled people can't get these placards when they would benefit from them.

Oh yes they are bad people

I disagree with her statement I believe handicap placard violators are very bad people and should be put in jail.

"There is a lot going on in my life right now." Really? We don't give a shit. You still have to follow the rules for using the placard.

100% Disabled vet with placard here. In my apt complex, I have to park a block away and walk or get a ride from my wife because the 8 Handicap spaces in the apt complex are occupied by teenagers and young drivers. I have no way to prove them wrong, but the property manager told me there are 2 Handicapped persons according to information on the lease. I wish Cali would make these placards with photos of the handicapped person.

please come to San Francisco's Chinatown, every car parked has a disable placard..................

I'm thankful for the disabled placard. I never thought I would need one. I'm amazed how they are misused however, always seems like when I really need one and I see a person using a placard and leaping out of their car and running to whatever they are going to do, it's just not right. The fine is to low. Start at 500 dollars and up, that'll get their heart pounding.

I'm disabled with a placard. My husband won't use disabled parking unless I am with him AND getting out of the car. He understands that placard is mine not ours.

My mother doesn't drive, but she has a placard for when someone transports her. Usually, If I take her somewhere, I'll drop her off at the door of the place and go park in a regular spot, just to keep the handicapped spot open for someone else to use. When we're done, I bring the car around and pick her up at the door. It was the same with my father before he passed. Seeing a car in a handicapped spot without plates or placard really gets my goat.

I always without fail have had people tell me I’m not disabled because “I don’t look disabled, you’re too young” or “if you’re disabled why aren’t you in a wheelchair” - I have POTS & Dysautonomia, with all the subcategories that follow them. I’m currently without health insurance aka I don’t have my meds rn and something as simple as walking to the bathroom is a struggle sometimes, let alone walking across an entire parking lot. These people are so incredibly selfish.

The women that she isn't a bad person, but she is a bad person. She is a crook.

I've got alot going on in my life!! Me to, I'm handicap I need that space!! Thanks for forcing me to walk 3 city blocks!

Oh bull they know when they get them that the person has to be with and has to exit the vehicle not just sit in it while you go into a store

“They are not bad people. They just made a mistake.” Are you freakin’ kidding me?!?!”

I got mine stolen once so now I just have Handicap plates fixed with tamper proof screws

This needs to be done in apartments where the disabled & elderly live, but police falsely claim apartments are private property so they don't have to deal with it; yet the ADA states that every handicapped parking spot is public. The largest number of placard abuse offenders are asians, africans, mexicans and city/state employees. It's really abuse of the elderly & handicapped because it forces them to park so far from their destination that it's painful or life threatening to walk that far. Placard abuse needs to be a highly enforced felony offense.

site, remove placard, tow car, notify insurance company. there would be no second offense, if there is sell car take license for one year!

I am a severe diabetic that just had a heart transplant. Before that I was stuck with cardiac issues for 10 years that caused me to get super winded to even go 50 ft... Yet because I didn't walk with a limp and some days were better than others I had to justify myself everyday for having a permanent handicap plate.

Another common violation is when the person the placard is issued to is present but never exists the vehicle. If you're driving a disabled person around, but they stay in the car, it's still illegal to use a handicap space. The person the placard or plate is issued to must both be present and actually enter the business the handicap space is located at.

Friendly reminder to not be a vigilante and assume someone is using a fake or stolen placard. You could be hurting someone with an invisible illness.

I have been disabled since 2004 and I do not have a Placard. I park in the rear and walk. I am crippled, I am not that crippled. There was an old expression, "Have you no shame ?" Some folks...

It's actually dispicable behavior to be using those spots without a placard authorization and in my neck of the woods the fine can be as high as $5,000.00 so there are not too many violators taking the risk around here. Ridiculous it's come to that of high fines to discourage people who should know better.

It should be a $5,000 fee and somebody handicap placard in your car gets towed to no questions asked automatically

People arent dumb they know they are not supposed to use these placards.

Why don't they confiscate the misused tags?

Wonder what would happen if they raised the fine to $10,000 min

Tow the car if the fine equals the value of the car and sell the car!

I was following someone just yesterday and they pulled into a Handicap Parking spot and a regular space was right next to it. So I pulled into that space he didn't have a Handicap Placard or plate and as he got out I asked him do you want to borrow my handicap placard so you don't get a ticket. He said big deal there was a open space right next to it. So I said not anymore.

Thank you sooooooooo much for doing this. Keep it up!

Abuse handicap placecards should pay a minium of $300 and temporarily suspended their drivers license.

Authorities are too linient w/ handicap parking violators! 😤

There's 2.4 million placards issued legally and another 2.4 million counterfeits sold. That's the way I see it.

They should make it harder to get this cards and those people that sign the forms to issue it should be charged with fraud and lying on a stat declaration and go to jail

These people are sorry that they got caught, NOT that they did it.

I didn’t know daddy had to be present? So by you taking the spot to go to class someone else who is disabled will have to park in the back. I use a placard and have had to park in the back while someone who didn’t care that she took the spot, parked up front. She then cursed me out and gave me the finger for telling her she was in a handicap spot. I was still on oxygen at the time.

We could end our national debt if this law was really enforced.

Their cars should be impounded for 30 days along with a 1500 dollar fine.

I call it VIP parking. My mother was handicapped and someone harassed her saying she should be ashamed as they assumed she wasn't although it was on her plates. She had bad muscles, a stroke, heart attack and kidney failure. She just knew how to look presentable and not down and out all the time.

It looks like the female DMV officer spends more time at Winchells instead of investigating handicap placard abuse.

Absolutely disgusting, they should be put in jail, not fined

EVERY SINGLE TIME SOMEONE IS CAUGHT "they were just making a mistake" there are no criminal s anymore, just victims and people that "didn't know that was a law"

Cruel and selfish. I've seen too many people parking in disabled parking without even having a placard! They need to start cracking down on this violation all over the country.

The first guy is a damn liar. Common sense.

"it can't be worse than this". Just wait until you get home and have to tell dad you got his placard confiscated AND HE WON'T GET ANOTHER.

Go get'em! I am disabled and depend on being able to park close. Before I was disabled it used to really piss me off to see able people taking spaces from those who need them. Now I assume that parking will be a drag and have to leave 15 minutes earlier.

Oh come on. He didn't know that his father had to be there? What a load of crap. They know exactly what they're doing. As for the "there's a lot going on in my life" woman, there's a lot going on in the lives of people with disabilities, like trying to find accessible parking, and it's one reason they have the permits.

They should get at least 6 months in jail. Citations mean nothing. And I mean the full 6 months none of this time served crap.

Didn’t know? Mistake? It’s found in the information that comes with the placard .

If a person uses a bathroom stall marked as handicap and they're not handicapped, can they get fined?🤔

It gripes my butt to see placards hanging on mirrors goung down the riad. In Texas the last line of the first paragraph on the back says Do not drive with this placard on your mirror.

Here in Georgia they put your name on them. There are a few states that put pictures on them. If you’re in legitimate need you can get one by having your doctor sign the form. I got pulled over a couple of months ago because I had my portable placard on my mirror while driving my dads van that has a handicap plate on the car itself. I was wondering why the cop stopped me and she asked why I had a placard when there’s one on the tag and I told her it is my placard but not my car so I can’t just use my dads. This cop was surprised and said that she had never seen someone follow the law like that. I told her that I know the penalty for using someone else’s tag gets it revoked from the person who needs it and I’m not about to do that! I’m 41 and have had old people cuss at me or block me in and call the cops who get mad for having their time wasted.

I believe if you are Disabled, you should be able to write a citation yourself if you go to park and someone is illegally parked. I've had many confrontations with people using the spot I needed saying I'm just waiting for someone...

Reminds me one time when the wife parked on the road and she was driving my truck. I have a Disabled plate and the meter maid seen her get out of it ran the plate course came back to me. Well my wife was going down to one of the paid parking kiosks to pay, the meter maid was writing a ticket when she got back tried to tell her she can't be driving the car with the plates ( which is pure bullshit she can) and that she was trying to get away with free parking My wife with little payment sticker in hand showed her she was paying but the woman just kept writing the ticket out. So off to court we go. We go with the payment receipt in hand which shows it was paid before the meter maid even started her ticket, judge looked at that looked at the meter maid and read her the riot act. oh and case dismissed.

I didn't know I couldn't use my Dad's I.D. to buy booze.

Woman says... "They are not bad people"? How about... "They are not good people". Good people would not be so selfish.

At the end I thought she said the DMV issued 8 citations in the past 3 years. I think need to pay attention more

I have also heard the argument that using the handicap permit of someone else is like borrowing someone else's car. There's no crime in borrowing someone else's car. So why is it a crime to use someone else's permit?

People know they shouldn't use the placards. Ignorance isn't an excuse

I have a placard for my son, we have a large van with side lift. It's still very hard to park at times. When my son is not with me I park without the placard. It's been stolen at car wash and we reported to DMV

Here in the U K, violators have to go before a court on a fraud charge. If found guilty, it’s a police record, a £1000 ($1200) fine and the blue badge as we call it, taken away from the owner. I think you need to tighten up in the USA.

So, 1 time a month they do something useful and the rest of the days they set up speed traps and stop sign traps, giving tickets to people barely driving over the limit and people that don't stop completely at stop signs with no traffic around

There seem to be many people who wrongly think that the placard goes with the car, when it goes with the driver or passenger.

the state could make money on this....a single guy doing this couild make 10,000 a day in fines

I don’t buy that the college students don’t know that they can not use their parent’s permit when their parents are not present.

I don't get upset when I've been checked..I've been told I look to young to be disabled by security offers...I am and have the correct paperwork...if I could walk the distance without help I would do it and not use the han.space...I need also to be able to open my car door completely and that cannot be done in a reg.space...I'm glad there cracking down on this..I've seen a lot of misuse...they also need to check on people who have passed and there family is still using the handicap plate on there car and just pay each year and don't have to prove that that person Is still alive..check age for example or Dr certificate every so many years...

Kind of sad folks do this even getting fake placard

"There is a lot going on in my life right now". . . . What about what is going on in the lives of truly severely handicapped folks who really need the space?

Other states and places need to do this too. My friend’s dad has sat alone in his car listening to music while he waits for her grandma to shop and never questioned besides once. Only asked in a hospital parking lot at a hospital that only allowed one family member with the patient due to Covid. The grandma does really need the placard.

Massachusetts puts the registered owners photo on the tag. With a sleeve that covers the photo. The photo must be shown on request. I Florida as in most states, they have a complicated checking program that doesn't catch anyone.

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All of them may be sorry they got caught, but not for using the tag. And every one of them knows the handicapped person has to be with them. First fine should be $500.

Stupidity is not an excuse...period.

I'm a T4 paraplegic and I don't have one. I just write "Driver uses wheelchair" on an old envelope along with my drivers license number and the C2 all hand controls designation. I've never had a problem. However, I rarely use blue spaces unless the weather is bad.

2,400,000 placards. A total of 2,000 scammers caught by DMV over 4 years. Less than 1 in 1,000. How many more are caught by police? I’d like to think that there are very few scammers, but have to wonder if most get away with it.

if eBay is selling fake placards then why aren't they being punished?

have had to go back home no shopping done due to no spaces avaliable glad police on top of this

If the people want to use the handicap placard so badly, maybe one day their wish will come true. One day they will have some kind of medical issue for them to use the handicap placard.

This’s not mistake, it’s fraud ! Decent people, people with morale and integrity are not doing that ! Shame on those who do !

You can self report violators if it makes you feel any better.

I’m not handicapped and I think you should get a $1000 ticket.

Misdemeanour use of a disabled placard. Surely he can also be charged with illegal parking, failing to pay parking charges, etc.

They need to crack down on people who have them registered to themselves but do not meet the qualifications for one even know they have one under their name. That will make more of an impact I think.

The fine is not high enough

They’re used to getting away with everything.

I am a disabled Veteran, and you would not believe the people I watch parking in the handicap spots - Many get this are in GYM Clothes!

It should be a $10,000 fine

It’s not a mistake, it’s a deliberate. Not bad people? I disagree.

Maybe make more parking spaces and people wouldn’t have to resort to doing this also. Just look at any college town. Zero parking available but always a row of handicap spots just sitting there empty. It’s not right to park if you aren’t handicapped, but I can see the temptation when there is nowhere else to park.

Placard abusers know damn well what they’re doing. Instead of making excuses just state the truth:,”I’m too f*cking lazy to walk a little further”.