They say that one shouldn’t assume because you can end up making an ass out of yourself. Well, that exactly what one person did who left an angry note on Natasha Hope-Simpson’s car.
Hope-Simpson, who lives in Halifax was taken aback when she found the anonymous that accused her of not being handicapped.
Hope-Simpson wears a prosthetic leg and apparently learned how to walk so well with it that it looked like her actual leg.
But she was not prepared for the onslaught of negativity she found when she picked up the note. Afterall, she had always parked in that spot near her job.
“It’s just across the street and it’s free,” she told CBN News.
No one had ever given her trouble until the day that she found the note.
The lady in the note basically flipped out explaining that she had been stalking Hope-Simpson and was super offended by the fact she might not be handicapped.
“I have a video of you walking away from your car on numerous occasions, you are not HANDICAPPED!” the letter snaps. “The next time you park here I will forward the videos to police with your license plate number. YOU SHOULD BE ASHAMED OF YOURSELF!!!!”
Hope-Simpson lost her leg after it was crushed in a hit-and-run accident in 2013. Even though the woman had a handicap permit on her car, this didn’t free her from the wrath of the nosy onlooker trying to play morality police.
Luckily, Hope-Simpson has a good sense of humor and a positive outlook on life.
“I’m kind of flattered about that because I’ve been working pretty hard on my walk to make it look natural,” she told CBC News.
Tova Sherman, who advocates for people with disabilities, says that Hope-Simpson was discriminated against.
“It’s really none of our business whether they run out of the car, or crawl out of the car,” he told CBC. “Great example is people who live with fibromyalgia -chronic pain- it is episodic, meaning it comes and it goes.”
Hope-Simpson, who is an artist, says she has no idea how many times she was recorded or who sent the note. She told AOL that she uses the experience of losing her leg to incorporate sculpture into her own body.
She is currently wearing a really cool steampunk prosthetic leg that she helped Alleles Design Studio create.
“Everybody should have a say in what sort of look their prosthetic has because its a part of their body,” Hope-Simpson told CBC News.
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