‘Hate gets expensive’: Entitled Candian woman tastes justice when she's fined $750 in Florida for swiping the handicap spot unknowingly from the police chief's son with cerebral palsy

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Elna McHilderson • Managing Editor
Mar 14, 2025 11:00 PM EDT

It's not everyday that you find a story online of karma finding her way to an entitled Karen. Usually, you read about some entitled person, doing something clearly disrespectful to a totally innocent bystander, then they throw a tantrum for any 'ole reason, and then, whether they get away with whatever it was they were doing or not, they don't tend to understand anything wrong they just did. But we've found the story, y'all!!

 

Here, we find karma at its finest. Two people with their own disabilities go in to grab the closest handicap parking spot. One uses a wheelchair and the other doesn't. So the one who doesn't use the wheelchair decided to back out of the spot, so the one who did could have it—a very nice thing to do! However, as she was pulling out, the Karen appeared out of nowhere. She swooped in-between the two cars and took the spot. She didn't even have a handicap placard. That's when the confrontation, naturally, started…

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  • The Karen started throwing a tantrum the second she got called out for not even being allowed to park there, let alone the disrespectful act of swiping the spot from someone who was about to pull in. But karma took the wheel, because it turns out this lady didn't just mess with some random person, she messed with the son of the town's police chief. Yes, we know this is nepotism, and yes, we know it is extremely unfair. But the karma it brought down on this Karen is still satisfying, nonetheless! 

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  • Not my (27M) story, but my mom's (59F). Last week, I went to Costco to run some errands. I have a GI condition which allows me to park in the disabled parking space so I start the parking in one of the only spots until I see a van which also has a disability placard hanging from their mirror.
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  • I figured since they have a van they must have a person in need of a wheelchair inside, so I figured "I can walk a few more feet, so they deserve this spot more than me." I started backing out my car when all of a sudden... ENTER ENTITLED KAREN.
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  • As I backed out to give the van space to park, a woman in a pristine Cadillac sedan (without a disabled parking placard) whips in between my car and the van to park in the disabled parking spot. Both the driver in that van and I were p ed (understandably so), but she was the only one who got out of her car and let the lady have it (I'm usually the "pick your own battles" type of person so I backed off, but still watched from a distance). Karen starts going off on her (probably projecting, I
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  • couldn't hear everything that was being said but knew no matter what it was you couldn't defend her actions). I did notice that on her bumper was a Canadian license place (we live in Florida). This will come into play a bit later, but at the time I thought it was funny given the fact that people stereotype Canadians as being overtly friendly (which was the polar opposite of this lady's demeanor).
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  • So Canada Karen storms off inside to do her shopping or whatever and the van lady picked up her phone and started calling someone (probably the police). I'd wanted to tell her that she'd be better off getting an employee because it'd take a long time for dispatch to send someone here (since honestly our PD is usually lazy as h I) and Karen would already have been gone by then.
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  • But very strangely enough, it didn't even take more than FIVE minutes for one of the patrol units to show up! Canada Karen didn't even arrive back at her car until a few minutes after the cop showed up. This time I was outside giving the police officer my side of the story considering I was a witness. Canada Karen (CK), of course, got into a tiff and here is how it went...
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  • _Officer: "Ma'am, you do - understand that 1) you almost hit these two vehicles, and 2) you cannot park in a disabled parking spot if you are not authorized or don't have a placard." CK: "Oh no! You're entirely misreading the situation! These two were fighting over the spot and while they were, I just pulled in! No harm done, right?" (ugh...the gaslighting)
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  • OP: "Uh...no. I was letting her park because she needed the spot more than I did." (while I motioned over at van lady's grandson to hopefully give her a hint; he had cerebral palsy and is wheelchair-bound) CK: "(scoffs) CLEARLY! You don't even LOOK disabled! (ah yes, a typical Karen phrase) "If she could park here, then why can't / park here too?"
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  • Officer: "Ma'am...I noticed you have Ontario plates. How long have you been here in the states?" (Canada Karen starts sweating bullets. She probably thought he was going to question her legal status or something.) CK: "Umm...well, you see, | moved in with my husband! He's American and-"
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  • Officer: "Ma'am, this car is registered to you, not your husband. And you haven't answered my question. How long have YOU lived here in the states?" CK: "Oh...about a year." BIG. MISTAKE.
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  • Officer: "Ma'am, you understand that according to federal law, any non-U.S. citizen living in the states longer than a 30-day period must register their vehicle within 30 days of entering the country. Correct?" If Karen's jaw dropped any lower at that moment, it would've fallen off.
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  • Officer: "I'm afraid I will have to write you up on a $500 fine for inability to register within 30 days of entry. And additionally a $250 fine for unauthorized parking in a disability parking space." When they handed Canada Karen her ticket, she snatched it out of his hand and stormed back into her car, still angry but now more embarrassed.
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  • Before I left the scene to (finally) go shopping, I went up to van lady and asked her if she needed any more help. She said she was alright and thanked me. I told her it was amazing how quickly the cops showed up, and then she laid THIS on me:
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  • Apparently, she didn't dial 911. She called her son who was the POLICE CHIEF of our town, who just so happened to be her grandson's (the boy with cerebral palsy) father! As a mom who has a son on the spectrum, I know this more than anything: H I hath no fury like a parent when their child with special needs is mistreated!
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  • Once he heard that this batshit crazy lady stole a parking spot from his own son who needed that spot and wasn't able to defend himself, he IMMEDIATELY had a squad car sent out to hopefully deescalate the situation (and our police station was just up the road).
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  • Luckily once Karen left (with a $750 A-h e tax in tow), van lady and her grandson were able to park in the spot and continue on with their day and me with mine. Moral of the Story: don't create drama if you don't want karma. TL;DR: Canada Karen tries to steal parking spot from family with a disabled child. Ends up with a $750 fine for parking in that spot without a placard and for not registering her car.
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  • OutrageousYak5868 I'm guessing that the fine for not properly registering the car within 30 days is rarely handed out, but they probably pulled it out because she was being such a b*tch. What's the saying about not committing a 2nd crime while committing the first crime? Yeah, that. slickster66r OP Kindness is free and hate gets expensive. But it gets even more expensive when you're stupid.
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  • CrabFarts One crime at a time. or Don't break the law while you're breaking the law.
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  • Independent-Speed 710 If you want fun, I had a cop in Colorado actually take my disabled plates off a brand new vehicle I purchased in another state because he could not understand the paperwork. I called Washington DC and the person I talk to absolutely flipped out. It seems that in order for an officer to take plates, it takes a written authorization from their immediate supervisor. I forget who I called in DC, but they called the police department as well as suggested that I get an attorney a
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  • jennabenav I love that sentence you wrote -don't create drama if you don't want karma. I am gonna start using that phrase cuz it is soo true. Love the story and glad things turned out good for both you and the people in the van. All Karen's are bu ies IMO, and try to be entitled. Sometimes they get their way, sometimes not but either way they are bu ies. Kudos to the lady in the van for making sure Karen pays up.
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