A handwritten note left on a car has sparked outrage online.
The shocked woman found the letter after returning to her car, parked in a disabled space on a residential street in Sydney Glebe, last Thursday evening.
On the back of a torn envelope, an irate resident scribbled at the motorist to “not move the bin” left in the parking lot to be reserved for the resident.
“The municipality knows that the box is there so that the resident can come home and park,” the letter says.
The woman, who had a valid disability permit, then took to social media to vent their frustrations and seek advice after being ‘shaken a bit’ by locals, who then came out of their home to ‘attempt to cart’.
“If the council has said it’s its own disabled space, why isn’t there a lockable bollard or some other type of sign?” they wondered.
‘They would never say: put a bin on the spot to ‘keep an eye on it’.’
Although the City of Sydney Council may grant disabled parking spaces near a home of someone with a permit, this does not always mean the space is reserved for them.
Aussies are shocked by a note left on a car asking them not to park in a disabled parking space, despite the driver having a permit (pictured)
Aussies were shocked by the note and claimed the resident was wrong for thinking he had exclusive access to the car park.
“If you have a permit and it is available, you can park,” one person wrote.
“Some people think they are entitled to much more than they really are… If they need their own handicapped parking space, move to a building with an underground parking garage.”
Another added: ‘It’s a public disabled car park. End of story’.
“She doesn’t argue with you because you’re within your rights.”
The woman claims the resident warned her after she parked at this spot in Glebe
A third wrote: ‘If you live in one of these terraced houses, parking is often at a premium.’
‘You don’t get your own driveway or garage to park in, if a parking permit for only residential properties has not been signed, it is bad luck for the tenant.
‘If you live somewhere else, like the rest of us, if you need a parking space due to a disability, then it’s fit for purpose.’
However, not everyone sat on the driver’s side.
One said they wouldn’t park in a handicapped spot outside a home because they had “gone through the processes to have it installed.”
The City of Sydney Council requires waste bins to be kept on private property.
‘All your waste bins must be placed on your premises between collections, not on the footpath or on the street,’ the website reads.
Daily Mail Australia has contacted the council for comment regarding the resident’s claim.