'I caught police officer parking in disabled bay - so I taught him a lesson'

A man taught a police officer a valuable lesson after catching him in a disabled spot. He explained how he and his dad - who is paraplegic but is able to drive a specially modified car - drove to their shopping centre to watch a movie.

However, when they arrived at the car park, they saw a police car taking up the disabled parking bay. To teach them a lesson, his dad decided to park up behind them. The man said on Reddit: "He wouldn't be blocking the road, only that one spot.

"We proceed to go and watch a movie, and had a nice meal at a restaurant. Took our sweet time too. About five hours later, we decided it was time to head home, so as we left the mall, my dad hung back to pay for the parking, while I went ahead to open up the car to load him and his wheelchair."

It was at this point when he was approached by a "steaming buffalo of a man" who wanted to know whether this was his car.

He added: "He went off like an exploding rotten whale carcass. He called me every possible expletive his pea sized brain could summon. As I walked around the car, I saw that he had plastered about 20 parking tickets to the windscreen. It's worth noting that we did not have a handicapped sign in the window at the time.

"I just calmly let him finish his tirade, as I waited for my dad to join me. Which happened about a minute later. I swear, the look on his already bovine face made the whole tongue lashing absolutely worth it." The police officer immediately started backtracking and apologising for his outburst - but the duo were having none of it.

"Apparently he was just popping into the pharmacy to pick up something. As he started ripping the tickets of the windscreen, my dad stopped him to ask what he was doing. He tried to play it off, but my dad insisted that he would be delighted to have his day in court for this one. In the end, after some truly pathetic grovelling, we decided to let him off with a warning.

Commenting on his post, one user said: "My dad was a paraplegic and would do the same. He would park right behind them, and then we'd go off and do whatever. When we came back and there was an angry person waiting on him, he would just pull out his badge and then get in the car and off we would go. He was the district attorney.

"I definitely can relate to you being a kid of a paraplegic. I was the designated assistant. Good on you for being a good kid. Another user added: " Wow, a policeman who waited five hours for the owner of a car with no handicapped sign that was blocking him illegally parked in handicapped parking! Unbelievable!

A third user said: "As someone who rides with my handicapped mother who also has a special vehicle that transports her wheelchair, I wish I could have watched this interaction."