Today was ONE of 'those' days, tough day at work, leg not behaving and I had an appointment that I had to keep at the local shopping centre.
So off I trundle and lo and behold - cars parked everywhere and OF COURSE no parking within easy walking distance of the front door of the centre and .......... numerous cars parked in permit ONLY bays, WITHOUT permits.
So I proceed to take photos of several vehicles.
Photos all taken at Epping Plaza, at 3.38pm TODAY the 5th March 2013
XHR-045 - Parking in Px2 Parking - No permit visible
YOU-243 - Parking in Px2 Parking - No permit visible (green line denote the Px2 parking; the blue ford next door is the one featured above)
SRN-260 - Parking in a 'blue' disabled bay - no permit visible
WSV-311 - Parking in a 'blue' disabled bay - no permit visible
Now this thug - deserves a little more than a byline, he attacked me, threatened to smash my phone and did hit my hand. Intervention by a lovely biker, (my angel in dark leather) preventing the parking deviant from taking taking further aggressive action. (BTW - He was a HUGE guy, both tall and wide) and had obviously used his size in the past to intimidate people and get his own way.
His excuse - My mum is renewing her permit inside???????????????
Ummm - NO - Permits for disabled parking are issued from council offices NOT shopping centres.
I leave the scene, to avoid further confrontation, walking about 200m and sitting down on public seating INSIDE the shopping centre. Noting that the person IN the vehicle DID NOT follow me inside at this stage.
5 minutes later I am being verbally abused, I look up and realise it is the same *cough* gentleman that physically assaulted me before, this time he had a baby on his hip and a mouthy girlfriend/wife in tow. They both started to verbally abuse me. Two rent-a-cops were nearby, I called them over, they reluctantly came over and intervened. Basically said 'you won't park there again, will you?' Not a word to me and then wandered off.
How can ANYONE DO anything when people are quite happy to assault people, simply because the honest people in world point out that perhaps the parking offenders inadvertently parked in disabled bay without realising?
Makes me realise that some people PURPOSELY park in these bays, simply because it's convenient FOR THEM.............
Previous posts on the same subject - photos included
NO Permit No Park
Don't suggest I call someone:-
Police - It's private property,
Council - We will send someone when we can
Centre Management - We can't do anything
Rent-A-Cops - IF they speak English, have no desire to get involved
SO WHO DO YOU CALL?
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