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# Face of the Day
- URL: https://goodoil.news/face-of-the-day-1176/
- Published: 2025-03-23T17:30:31.000Z
- Updated: 2025-03-23T17:30:30.000Z
- Description: “I’ll pay $750 if it goes to the disabled community or it goes to a rest-home or somebody that needs it, not to the council” – Shea
- Author: Good Oil Staff
- Tags: Face of the Day

> A muso who used a disability park in Arrowtown to unload heavy gear is voicing concerns over council’s handling of his case.  
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> Nic Shea understands parking in a disabled park’s not OK, but says he couldn’t find a park near Blue Door to offload his musical equipment, and there wasn’t a loading zone nearby.  
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> He maintains he only pulled in halfway with his hazard lights on and engine still running, and was there no longer than five minutes.  
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> “I don’t see it as parking so much as I was unloading.  
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> “I had no intention of harming disabled people in the community, I was there to actually bring joy and happiness.”  
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> Shea was mortified to be fined $750 for his troubles – a fine the government raised from $150 last October. When he pleaded his case with a council staffer, he was not only unsuccessful but, when he said he didn’t have $750 at his disposal, he was told he couldn’t set up a payment plan. He’d have to go through the court system if he wanted to pay in installments – “but then you have court fees on top”. \[...\]  
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> “I’ll pay $750 if it goes to the disabled community or it goes to a rest-home or somebody that needs it, not to the council.”

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