Ashley Brady, a handicapped woman who lives in Miamisburg, Ohio, received a nasty letter from a neighbor — addressed as "hey handicap" — after Brady asked the person not to park in her designated spot.
Brady, 26, who lost her leg in an accident last year, spent weeks unsuccessfully trying to walk from her car to her apartment in icy conditions,
she told ABC 22. But days after management designated a handicapped parking spot for her, someone else was parking in it.
Brady said she left a note asking the person to refrain from using her spot.
"I was stern and confident in what I was saying and just letting her know she doesn't know what its like to walk around without your own leg," Brady told ABC 22. "She in return had placed this really rude note under my windshield wiper. ... I read it probably like 5 times over and over because my brain just couldn't even process the level of mean that it was."
The text of the letter reads: "Hey handicap! First, never place your hands on my car again! Second, honey you ain't the only one with 'struggles.' You want pity go to a one leg support group! You messed with the wrong one! I don't care what your note said shove it, but you touch my car again I will file a report, I am not playing! I let the office know the cry baby one leg touches my property I will cause trouble so go cry your struggles to someone who cares cause I'm walking away with both mine!"
The writer ended the letter with an expletive.
"I got a lot of feedback online from a lot of other amputees who have been in similar situations," said Brady, who added that she told the police about the situation. "You're not just going to get what you want by being bullying. She told me to cry to someone who cares, so I went to the Internet and it turns out a lot of people care."
She's right. The nasty note has gone viral, and support is squarely in Brady's corner.