It appears that disabled drivers are finding it harder and harder to park in a space designated for them, as fake parking stickers begin to hit the open market, according to The Star.
The English language daily reported that members of the Damai Disabled Person Association had complained of able-bodied drivers with such stickers taking disabled parking spots in several locations across Kuala Lumpur and the Klang Valley, particularly in shopping malls and at commercial areas.
These fake stickers are said to be sold openly at several hardware shops at a price of between RM7 and RM20 each. By contrast, authentic stickers could only be obtained from the Road Transport Department (JPJ) after an assessment of the condition of the applicant, said Damai Disabled Person Association Malaysia president V Murugeswaran.
“We are sad that there is also lack of enforcement by the local authorities. It seems that the irresponsible drivers are not worried about being fined,” he said, adding that the authorities should also mete higher penalties to deter other drivers from parking in disabled spaces.
“We hope the authorities can also consider introducing a system similar in Germany or other countries where a machine will be able to send photos of vehicles without proper stickers immediately to the police or the local authorities,” he said.
The Star surveyed the area and found a few hardware stores selling disabled stickers to the public, despite the fact that only the JPJ is authorised to issue them. A shopkeeper at one store in Bangsar said that it stocked a variety of parking stickers that anyone could just walk in and buy. “We sell them for about RM10 to RM20,” he said.
Sunway Shopping Malls CEO HC Chan, who also serves as an adviser of the Malaysian Shopping Mall Association, said that the use of disabled parking lots was based on a trust system. “If the sticker is seen, there is little that can be done. But if guards see a healthy person parking in the OKU space, they will take action,” he said.
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When you get a Proton or kimchi, your are financially disabled.
Real bodohs the people who complain. Hello Murugeswaran, my dad is OKU but I drive the car. Most of the time I drop him at shop entrance. Then I go and park the car.
Please lah Muru, use your brain a bit. Minister park in OKU, you all keep quiet like mouse. So scared to say anything.
than ask your dad to sit uber la since it is only a drop-off…. since u drop and pick him up, you should park at normal parking lot.
Bodo punya maikai (chicken seller in canton)
You don’t need to park in an OKU location if you drop him first. Park in an OKU location, help your dad out of the car and go with him. Only then you should be allowed to use such a spot.
People who do abuse these stickers or just park on such a location without permission should be fined heavily. A few thousand minimum.
Some Malaysian drivers are just sampah.
some ppl are really OKU who buy the sticker from hardware shop (Otak Kurang Upaya).
Lets face it, these handicapped parking space are used by ugly VVIP wannabes
“If the sticker is seen, there is little that can be done. But if guards see a healthy person parking in the OKU space, they will take action,”.
sometime, the guard need to check overall. in some event, the car owner is OKU but the driver is not.
if this event happen,
1) if only healthy driver drive OKU car, then advise them to park at normal lots. not fair to real OKU ppl.
2) if driver OKU, and the real OKU is passenger, then is ok to let them park at OKU slot. sometimes is son or daughter who dun own a car and drive their parents car to bring them for a walk or something.
you know what? people with no disability parking inside a car park for disable is like cursing themselves to be disable, one day they will become disable and then they will know, maybe they can’t even drive anymore.
Disgusting. This is taking “kiasu” too far.
Scumbags hope they rot in hell for causing distress to other people
Be careful for what you wish for…
This is very common la in Malaysia.
Always see normal people park at disable parking.
If the authorities want to take action with loads of $$$$$ go to the Ara Damansara Tesco. Everyone there who is not OKU likes to park at the OKU parking.
Kasi saman saja semua…
They are to disable actually. Mental disablement, disable to make a good judgement, disable to learn other’s needs.
I have a question. I am not disable nor my wife. But one of my kid is. We never use a disable parking spot before. Someone with a disable kid told me that we should put a disable sticker and we can use the disable parking spot whenever we have our kid with us. My question, is this correct?
I never consider this option until my kid grows up. Imagine that when my wife is alone with my kid and she have to carry my heavy grown up kid all the way to the building by herself. It is not easy I tell you. Its like carrying a cement bag for 300m or so depending on how far you park.
Come back to my question. Should we use the disable parking spot or not?
You should.
I hope that those normal healthy person who parked at OKU parking or buy a sticker just to park there become OKU themselves
Amen…
People can make that happen… maybe they should.
I think ar the goverman must force all shopping malls to build minimum one whole level of parking space for OKU one. And on top of that, one whole level of Ladies Parking like that one. these special parking floor are closely monitored by well trained enforcement units.
Good suggestion, but very utopian in practicality.
another floor only for family with little kids only as well……
even JPJ fortuner also park OKU space..got photo at FB to proff
Dekat Pavillion KL almost 99% OKU parking taken by these Otak Kurang Upaya ppl. Sigh
Certainly we should rely on the authorities to take appropriate action on such indiscriminate parking. However, as this has obviously been shown to be unreliable, should we shame these people and have their license plates be available all to see?
As an example, on the above picture, the license plate should not be pixelated.
Is there a website hosting such driver shaming? this should include indiscriminate parking on family and spots for women only drivers.