An Australian user of TikTok had the perfect answer for an older woman who demanded to know why he was using a handicap spot.
The man produced his prosthetic leg, according to his now viral posts about the TikTok incident under the username @pnuks.
The woman approached the younger one-legged man while he was still in the car, the irritated guy said.
“Obviously, you can’t see my disability if I’m in the car,” explained the indignant man to viewers in his first of three videos.
“You are not the disability police!” he said, referring to the woman.
“Even if someone doesn’t look old or doesn’t look handicapped enough, if he has that, you shut up and go,” said the man, pointing to his parking permit for viewers.
“The last thing you want to do is approach someone who you think doesn’t seem disabled, and when you get out of the car, you realize:‘ Wow, he’s missing a leg, he must be disabled ’. You look stupid. You look like a clown, ”added the man, who did not have the video of the actual meeting.
A banner on the video says: “Why do the elderly think they are the disabled police?”
The man later confronted the woman and shared this interaction in a follow-up video.
The footage shows the woman repeatedly insisting to him that she had the right to ask why he qualified for space, while the man screams for her.
“I need it separately, and there were times …”, she tells him before he interrupts her with a speech that ends with, “Never do that again!”
In the third clip, the man said he reported the woman to the police – and encouraged his followers to “tag McDonalds Australia so we can get the footage.”
He explained that it was the first time that he was confronted to prove his right to park in a parking space for the disabled.
“That’s why Boomers suck,” he said. “Because, for some reason, the elderly are the only group of people who can be disabled.”