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Man allegedly slams car door on amputee -- twice. A man who parked in a spot for the handicapped slammed a car door on an amputee's leg -- twice -- when she confronted him.
"I said, 'Excuse me, why are you guys parked in a handicap spot?'" Susan, who has one leg and uses a prosthetic, recalled yesterday.
One of the two men began yelling obscenities at her.
"He just started going ballistic," said Susan, who didn't want her last name published.
When he told her that it was none of her business where he parked, Susan showed the men her prosthetic leg.
"I wear a full-leg prosthetic and I need to park in handicap because I'm having a bad day," she told them, referring to pains in her leg.
Susan said that as the men walked between the two cars, one of them slammed her car door on her legs twice, bruising her knee.
"I was shaking," she said. "It really scared me."
But most upsetting, she said, was the men's ignorance.
"They can't do this to anybody else. It's just not right. It's not about me. It's about the principle of what they did," she said.
After the Canada Day assault in the parking lot of London Drugs on Davie Street, Susan said she went straight home and called police.
"Stupidity is not a handicap," she said.
"Park somewhere else."
Police are looking for the two men.
Surveillance photos from inside the store show one dark-skinned man, 25 to 30 years old, five-foot-nine, 160 pounds, clean shaven, muscular, wearing a tight-fitting black T-shirt, black baseball cap, blue jeans, white sneakers and a gold watch.
The other man is Indo-Canadian or Persian, 25 to 30 years old, wearing a khaki baseball cap, grey T-shirt, three-quarter-length grey or green capri pants, black and silver sneakers, dark sunglasses, a gold watch and small tattoo on the top of his left wrist.
Call police at 604-717-3349 if you can help.
Maria Cootauco, The Province
Published: Thursday, July 10, 2008
mcootauco@png.canwest.com
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