NEW YORK, Jan. 10 (UPI) -- An elderly man is challenging a traffic ticket incurred in New York when he double parked to pick up his ailing wife from a dialysis clinic.
Eugene Iannicelli, 84, said he attempted to explain the details of the situation to the officer, but was offered no sympathy, the New York Daily News reported Thursday.
"My wife is legally blind, can't walk, and is totally disabled," Iannicelli told the Daily News.
"For this meter maid to stand there and write me a ticket as I help her into the car -- I call that cruel," he said.
Iannicelli said there were no open parking spots at the Dyker Heights Dialysis Center when he was picking up his wife, Mary, 83, on Dec. 19.
"What was I supposed to do?" he asked. "There were no empty spaces and if she doesn't get this treatment she could die."
"I am angry. How can anyone be so heartless?" Mary Iannicelli said Wednesday. "This is a lot of money and all we are asking for is a little consideration."
The couple said they plan to fight the ticket in court.
