A driver with a disability has slammed passer-by who slapped a note on her car claiming to have reported her for fraudulently using a blue badge.
The car's driver, Helen, branded the stranger a 'narrow-minded ignorant person' for suspecting her of wrongly using priority parking.
Scrawled in block capitals, the note read: "Your BB has been taken and reported to the ticket office".
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The MEN reports how Helen hit back by pointing out that she does in fact qualify for her blue badge and said the incident highlights how disabilities are not always visible, and that a person does not have to justify themselves to others.
"Just because I’m young and not in wheelchair doesn’t mean I’m not entitled to a blue badge," said Helen.
Helen has a 'really bad back', has had numerous spinal surgeries and has nerve damage in her legs, but despite the huge impact her disability is not as 'visible' as other kinds.
On Sunday, Helen decided to go for a quick stroll in the park to help manage her back.
"They obviously saw me, saw that I'm in my 40s, walking away," she said.
"And I just thought they've got no idea what my circumstances are."
Helen recently lost a friend to cancer and she had a blue badge too.
"What if I had been her, and I was here to take my last walk ever, and I came back to this message? How rude can some people be."
This isn't the first time Helen has been confronted about her blue badge.
She says that whenever she goes to Tesco she gets people staring at her.
"Someone once said to me 'are you travelling around with a dead relative's blue badge'," she said.
Helen used to have a blue badge for her son too, who has autism.
She recalls a time when her son was six or seven and a man with a stick called her a 'f***ing b**ch'.
Helen says she reacted by shoving her blue badge in his face and saying 'are you happy now'.
She said in other circumstances she would confront people by saying things like 'do you want to see the scars down my back'.
There was no way for Helen to respond to the person who left this note.
But, Helen says she knows whoever left it has 'absolutely no life'.
