A man whose child is dying of cancer has lashed out at a hospital bureaucracy which won’t stop parking attendants from leaving tickets on his car. At most Canadian hospitals visitors have to pay to park their cars for limited lengths of time. When the time runs out they often have to return to their cars to pay again.
Robert Thornhill has been sharing around-the-clock shifts at their daughter’s bedside as she was treated for acute leukemia at hospitals in Toronto and St. John’s in the eastern province of Newfoundland and Labrador. He was reluctant to leave his daughter’s side and racked up about $500 worth of parking tickets.
depicting a sign he had left for parking officers to read outside
the Health Sciences Centre. © CBC
He was so angry that he left a sign on his car telling parking attendants “my child is upstairs dying of cancer and all you have to do is write me parking tickets. You must feel some good about yourself.” He posted the sign on his Facebook page where it was quickly shared by at least 2,000 other people.
The health organization governing Newfoundland and Labrador say it’s going to bring a new parking payment system next year at its hospitals in St. John’s.
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