Doctor parks in disabled space, refuses to pay fine

Marcusm

See the press report here. https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/courts/i-will-never-ever-pay-this-fine-doctor-prepared-to-go-to-jail-for-parking-in-disabled-spot-37511844.html

I have no respect for this so-called professional. She may have a valid grievance against the HSEfor not providing staff parking but it speaks volumes about her character that she was willing to park in a disabled space. This is a residential area and there are adjacent (30 feet or less) spaces where she could have parked on double yellows rather than in a disabled space. Yes this would have been a breach of the law but in that vicinity there are a number of such spaces that would not cause danger or inconvenience to passing traffic (e.g. Lawnswood Park). She, however, chose to park in a space given over to the more vulnerable in society.

I am disappointed that the judge did not commit her for contempt of court.

Homer

In fairness, look at the head on her. /Mod deletion. Pls be civil./

fritzelly

Bit of a chip on her shoulder hasn't she

Apparently she was "forced" to do so by her employer. Warped sense of entitlement.

Samuel T. Cogley

Simply solved by boarding the number 17 Bus, love.

What Username Guidelines

I too have an ongoing parking problem in work in that work don’t provide parking, so I don’t drive. Plenty do, but park elsewhere. Even worse is she mentions it’s an ongoing problem so not a once off, she should have left earlier or used some other way of getting to work.

LirW

I give it two pages until this is about parent and child spots and how parking in Disabled spots is fine on shop carparks since they aren't legally binding.

alchemist33

“I was faced with a dilemma; should I break the law and park in the disabled parking space and do the clinic, or should I drive off and abandon children with appointments, whose parents take time off work to be there,” she said. “I chose to put patients first and I parked in the space.”

But what if those patients needed the disabled parking spot?

nuac

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