A TikTok posted by a disabled Georgia woman went viral after they clips showed her arriving at the Atlanta airport only to find her handicap-accessible van being blocked by an illegally parked Porsche.
In a video captioned 'BLOCK and LOCKED into parking space...(again)!,' Yvette Pegues, 38, documented her Friday evening arrival at the Atlanta Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport only to find her handicapped van blocked by a blue Porsche SUV.
'I can't even get out of the parking because my van has been blocked by someone who is illegally parked,' she said.
'I have a six-foot ramp that comes out of my car to exit the vehicle. In this case I needed at least six feet,' she added.
Pegues, who is paralyzed from the waist down, then tried turning to airport parking attendants for help.
'I called parking several times. Parking said, 'Call the police.' Police said, 'Call parking,' so I was vacillating between the two,' she said. 'I'm out here alone in the dark and can't get home.'
Yvette Pegues returned home after a long flight to the Atlanta airport only to find her handicap-accessible van boxed in illegally by a Porsche
A confusing back-and-forth with airport parking attendants and the police did not resolve Pegues' problem and her husband had to come pick her up
She says this is not the first time someone has boxed in her specialty van, but it is the first time she decided to record and post it to her TikTok, JetBlack where it has attracted 1.4 million views
To make matters more challenging, Pegues suffers from a cognitive delay.
Hours of back and forth with various parking authorities all to no avail mentally and physically exhausted her, in addition to her phone battery running low.
Eventually her husband came to retrieve her and it wasn't until the next day that a tow truck arrived to remove the Porsche so she could get her van home.
Pegues expressed frustration not just with the airport's handling of the accessibility issue, but with the driver who ignored the stickers on her van that read, 'Extra Space Needed for Ramp or Lift.'
'Those are one of the few moments where I wish I had legs that worked,' she said. 'It feels more than unfair, it feels intentional, it feels ableist to be perfectly honest.'