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Car Towed After Workers Change Legal Parking Spot to Handicapped Space

By Scott Stump, NBC News

A woman in Tel Aviv had to fight back after her car was towed for being parked in a handicapped spot that hadn't been one when she parked there! She hunted down security footage showing city workers painting the markings around her car before towing it and slapping her with fines. City officials are now apologizing.

February 8, 2013 Updated Feb 8, 2013 at 5:27 PM PDT

A student in Tel Aviv parked her car on Sunday in a legal, unmarked space. But when Hila Ben Baruch returned, her car was gone, and her spot was marked with a handicapped symbol.

In disbelief, Ben Baruch did some amateur sleuthing, recovering security footage from a camera mounted on the building across the street. The now-viral video, which Ben Baruch posted on her Facebook page, shows city workers painting lines around her parked car, towing it away and then painting a handicapped symbol in the empty spot.

"I have parked on that street for nearly half a year, (I live there) and know well where I can and can’t park,” she wrote in Hebrew on her Facebook page. "While the car was parked in a white-and-blue (legal) zone, two city hall workers arrived and began painting a handicapped space around the car!”

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