A DISABLED holidaymaker has expressed outraged after he received a R1 000 ticket for parking in disabled parking bay in uMhlanga recently.

Lawrence Metz, who has a prosthetic limb, said he received the ticket despite clearly displaying his disability parking disk on his dashboard window. Metro Police issued the ticket on Thursday, 28 December at entrance 9 of the Gateway Theatre of Shopping.

“It is very unfair. The disk was placed in clear sight, and I do have an actual disability. I simply refuse to pay the unlawful fine,” he said.

Metz said he had sent an email to Metro Police to highlight the issue, but has yet to receive any response.

“It drives me crazy when people who aren’t disabled park in a parking bay marked for people with disabilities, and you see them running into the shop. Yet, here I am getting a fine when it is totally in my right to park in those bays. It becomes very painful for me to have to walk a long way,” he added.

What’s more the Gauteng visitor said it was especially disheartening when he thought about the rigmarole that he had to endure to apply for and receive the disabled parking bay sticker in the first place.

Comment has been requested from both Metro Police and Gateway Theatre of Shopping

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