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What do Steve Jobs, Julia Roberts and Paris Hilton have in common? They drive expensive cars and have been caught parking in handicap spaces without a permit. The familiar blue handicap parking designation with its symbol of a wheelchair can be seen in every public parking lot, but some celebs seem not to notice them. Jobs, co-founder of Apple Inc., was caught docking his $130,000 sports car in a handicap slot so often than one wag pasted a Mercedes logo over the wheelchair picture. The Oklahoman reported this week that 12,000 citations for illegal parking in handicap slots were issued in the past two years in Oklahoma City alone. We doubt that many of them were celebrities. Or politicians. Speaking of which, Anthony Steen, a Conservative member of the British Parliament, when caught illegally parking, defended himself by saying, “I should not have parked there and I am sorry for that but there was nowhere else I could go.” This is an old dodge: Many folks believe there are too many handicap slots and most of them are empty most of the time.
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