Car with Red Rock Nissan license plate frame and dealer tags parked illegally in a handicap spot at 4:05 p.m. on 10/10/24 in front of Target at Mesa Mall, Grand Junction.
Today, Thursday, October 10, 2024 at 4:05 p.m., someone snapped this photo of a red, two-door Dodge sports car with dealer plates and a Red Rock Nissan license plate frame, parked, idling, in a handicap parking spot in front of Target at Mesa Mall, with two able-bodied, 20-something young men loading stuff into it. The license plate number was DQP-G43. The plate had the letters “DLR” vertically on the left side, meaning it is a dealer plate. This means at least one of the two young men had to work at a Red Rock Auto dealership in order to have access to the plate. The license plate frame said “Red Rock Nissan.”
The observer who saw this stopped and asked the young men if they thought it was okay to park in a handicap spot without a handicap plate or tag. One of them answered to the effect of “The sticker goes with the person, not the vehicle.”
The observer then asked, “How would you feel if you were handicapped and looking for a parking spot, or if you were taking your elderly mother to Target, and saw you illegally taking up a handicapped spot like this?”
They said there were plenty of other parking spots and told the observer “Mind your own business.”
After the observer took this photo, one of the young men became aggressive and took a photo of the observer’s license plate, which was a regular Colorado license plate. The observer said the two men were hostile.
In Colorado, using a handicap parking spot without a handicap plate or hang tag is a Class A traffic infraction punishable by a fine of $350 to $1,000 plus a $32 surcharge for the first offense, $600 to $1,000 for a second offense $1,000 to $5,000 and up to 10 hours of community service for third and subsequent offenses.
So much for Red Rock Auto’s community-mindedness.
Full original photo
The person who approached those people is nosey and rude.
Invisible disabilities are common regardless of a person’s license plate or workplace.
An apparently healthy person might well be living with a sometimes debilitating condition or disease such as severe asthma, pulmonary fibrosis, multiple sclerosis, lupus, ankylosing spondylitis, organ transplant complications, etc. etc. etc.
People need to inform themselves and, as Tim Walz says, mind their own business.
https://invisibledisabilities.org/ida-getting-the-word-out-about-invisible-disabilities/defining-invisible-disability/
The law in Colorado is clear: if you use handicapped parking places, you need a disabled person’s placard. Your doctor’s office can set it up for you. The placard moves with the person, not the vehicle, and is hung from rear view window. I often drove elderly friends on their errands, and when picked them up, they carried their placards with them.
Cry harder pansy. Why not have the credential?
Always the picked on even though actions show the opposite. My money says the first posters – – – – – well you know.
There is a way to report people who are in violation of handicap regulations and that doesn’t include attempting to shame a local car dealership.
Someone who was serious about doing that could have informed a law enforcement agency.
The vendetta Anne has against Red Rock is well known and this kind of stuff doesn’t land well, as you can see from the comments.
Cry harder loser. Anne holds people accountable.
I did not know you could tell if someone was disabled or qualified for a disabled parking spot based on a causal observation. It is surprising to see this blog used to attack someone you assume is not disabled based on the presumption that a disabled person would be incapable of performing the task these gentlemen undertook. It is very disappointing to see such an ableist view spread and promoted here.
I thought it was funny that the person who took the picture said the two guys were “hostile”.
Imagine that!
I hope these people sue you for harassment/discrimination. That is exactly what you are doing. Just have to try and find something to try and drag someone’s name through the dirt. I’m hope and pray to find dirt on you one day!! I’ll blast it all over social media. Something will surface. Hope it’s something really embarrassing.
I have to wonder at the mind-set of an individual who takes it upon themselves to accost two total strangers based on their perception of those persons. We should be able to go about our lives without being accosted by a random self-appointed guardian of “whatever”. Really, MYOB.
Backwards visor, tall white socks and sandals; he very well could be handicapped.
Those dealer tags are also used when someone takes a vehicle for a test drive.
DMO (“Demo”) tags are the ones that are supposed to be used for test drives.
In Colorado, the following people can use a dealer full use license plate:
–Owners and co-owners of the dealership
–Employees of the dealership
–A spouse or dependent child of the licensed dealer or wholesaler
–Former, current, and prospective customers (although prospective customers don’t normally go retail shopping while they are test driving a car & they are usually accompanied by a dealership employee.)
Red Rock -Snake Oil sales practices continue.
“Lock them Up” !
Never…I repeat..never do business with Red Rock. Sadly, they own too many dealerships in Grand Junction.