Audi driver shamed for parking in disabled spot outside gym

Anger erupted online after a photo showed three cars parked in disabled bays outside a gym in Sydney without permits last week.

The driver of a black Audi has been blasted after they opted to park in one of three disabled bays at the door of a Sydney gym.

An image shared online last week showed the black luxury vehicle between two other cars in disabled spots outside Fitness First in Rockdale, south of the city.

The shameful scene was captured by an onlooker who used a wheelchair, who said none of the three vehicles were displaying a disabled driver permit.

He claimed one of the cars, which he believed to be a hire car, was a repeat offender.

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This shameful scene was captured outside Fitness First in Rockdale last week. Picture: Facebook

“This time I spoke to the hire car driver as he was getting out of his car. Apparently has a knee injury,” he wrote in a Facebook post.

“I said, ‘no permit no park’. He didn’t seem to care what I said,” he added.

The witness said he reported the matter to a woman at the gym’s reception, but she apparently “didn’t seem to really care either”.

Each of the drivers were slammed in comments to the post, with people labelling them “inconsiderate interlopers”.

“So sick of the ‘I don’t give a flying f**k’ attitude,” one person wrote.

“If they’re all parked there then they are all inconsiderate, and should be reprimanded,” another said.

“I hate it when anyone who parks in these bays without a permit,” a third wrote.

Others pointed out the gym was powerless to legally penalise drivers for doing the wrong thing due to the parking lot technically being on private property.

“Last time I went to my osteopath three of the four disabled spots were taken by interlopers. All the carpark attendant said was they put notes on them,” one fed up person wrote.

Some found it ironic that despite the drivers likely being at the gym to exercise, they had taken a bizarrely firm stance on not walking across the carpark.

“I always wondered why people going to a gym to work out need to park nearest the door? Don’t they like exercise?” one person’s comment read.

Fines for people who wrongly parked in council managed disabled bays were doubled in Brisbane last week to a whopping $533.

The same offence carries a $600 fine in the ACT, a $581 fine in NSW and $165 fine in Victoria.

Originally published as Audi driver shamed for parking in disabled spot outside gym