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W of O. The Time Zone Warrior.2/07/2013 3:53:43 pm PST

Serious dickism from Tel Aviv city officials. Turning a woman into a criminal within 5 minutes. Read it to believe it. (Google cache)

The Tel Aviv municipality changed a legal parking spot into a handicapped parking spot while a local woman’s car was parked there and then towed the car for parking illegally without a handicapped permit.

The owner of the car, Hila Ben Baruch, threatened to sue the city after being told Sunday she had to pay a NIS 1,000 fine and cover the NIS 350 cost of towing before she could retrieve her vehicle. Fortunately for her, a surveillance camera documented the entire incident.

The video, which Ben Baruch posted on Facebook Monday night, along with her description of what happened, has been shared more than 9,000 times. She earned an apology from city hall, which canceled the fine and towing fee when she picked her car up Monday night.

“You just see it and can’t believe it,” Ben Baruch wrote when she posted the video, which she got from an office building across the street that has a surveillance camera trained on the parking lot.