A storm in a parking spot? The Chief Minister Andrew Barr has taken some public scorn and derision after a photograph showing his expensive electric car indifferently parked in a disabled space over Easter came to light via the Australian Disability Parking Wall of Shame Facebook page.
Not a great look for someone, who in 2017, led a government crackdown on the misuse of disabled parking spaces, telling a press conference at the time: “If you’re using a disability parking spot and you’re not entitled to it then you would be breaking the law.”
He’ll get a ticket and pay it like everyone else, right? Wrong.
It wasn’t his fault, he says, it was the organisers of the Good Friday function he attended at EPIC (there is a sign to the right of the parking space). They say he was offered a covered park with the rest of the attendees but, instead, insisted on his own special space. Which is pretty well a blessing, given the chief’s parking prowess revealed in the illustration.
An attendee at the event wrote on the website that he was in Canberra for the Geocaching MEGA event, “and this is how the chief minister treats disabled parking spaces”.
He posted that he spoke to the site manager. “He was not at all impressed by this inconsiderate behaviour. He had offered to man the boom gate and allow the chief minister to park under the sheltered area… he was ignored!”
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