<p>DETROIT — A Detroit pizzeria owner upset over people getting $150 tickets for unwittingly parking in a handicap zone got a bucket of blue paint and marked the street himself.</p>
<p>“People come to Detroit, try to support our city and walk away with a $150 ticket, and they feel like they were tricked into it and they kind of were tricked into it,” said Tony Sacco, co-owner of Mootz Pizzeria and Bar.</p>
<p>The last straw: A woman and her children getting ice cream found a ticket on their car.</p>
<p>"I was talking to my buddy sitting with me and I said, ‘We’re going to go buy some blue paint.’ And we did,” Sacco <a href="https://www.clickondetroit.com/news/local/2021/05/05/detroit-pizzeria-owner-paints-handicap-parking-zone-after-customers-get-150-tickets/">told</a> WDIV-TV.</p>
<p>There is a single sign along the curb indicating that parking is reserved for drivers with a handicap tag. But Sacco said it’s confusing because parking enforcers consider the street space reserved for as many as four vehicles.</p>
<p>“I mentioned it to the people writing the tickets. I said, ‘People don’t understand this is handicapped,’ and they said, ‘That’s their problem. They should read the sign,’" Sacco said. "That was the attitude.”</p>
<p>There was no immediate comment from the city Wednesday.</p>
<p>Now if anyone illegally parks on the blue patch of street and gets a ticket, “they deserve it,” Sacco said.</p>
