THE mother of a disabled child was told to “f**k off” when she confronted a Gold Coast wedding company for parking illegally in a school’s disabled car park.

Local mother Sharyn Thompson took to social media to voice her frustration at Coastline Weddings Videography for their disrespectful reply when she texted the company asking for their vehicle to be moved from the permit-only parking spot at a Burleigh school.

media_camera A Gold Coast wedding company parked in a disabled park at a Burleigh school, sparking an angry text exchange.

“I have a disability permit for my nine-year-old son — he has a terminal muscle wasting disease and uses a mobility device,” she wrote.

“His mobility device is parked in the teacher’s staffroom, which is located right next to the car park.

“The only other disabled parking bays are on the other side of the school, and impossible for my son to use. These spots are in this location for a reason.”

The photo of the car park with the reply of ‘Seriously!!! F**k off’ from the company has gone viral online, picking up more than 160,000 views on web hosting site Imgur, as well as being passed around various Facebook pages.

Coastline Weddings have since issued a statement on their website apologising for the staff member’s actions.

“Parking in a disabled car park is something that we have never done before in our lives and obviously will never do again,” the statement wrote.

“It was poor judgment and decision at the time (as in my mind another situation had arisen and I was trying to contact others to sort that problem out).”

media_camera A statement on the homepage of Coastline Weddings’ website

But the statement went on to claim that the staff member should have “blocked in the other cars instead” of parking in the disabled park.

“However, the one thing that is disturbing is that you have our photo in part of the many conversations that had been attacking us — that were edited to our final straw of swearing,” the company said in a statement.

“Not proud of it, however the person initially receiving the texts was not the person who had the car.

“As anyone who is being attacked with only little knowledge of what’s actually happened and after a handful of not nice messages (making us feel like criminals and scum of the earth) surely you can appreciate the final response.”

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Ms Thompson said the school had to put a call out over the loud speaker asking the company to move the car.

“It took another 10 minutes for the person to literally run out and move their car,” she said.

Ms Thompson said that while the company may be sorry for their actions, she is becoming increasingly frustrated at the number of people who park illegally in disabled car parks.

“I posted this image because enough is enough,” she wrote.

”We seem to be a society of undeserved entitlement, thinking we have the right to do what we want and when we want, but that’s wrong.

“Do you think I want to have a disability permit? Do you think I want to have to use these parking spots? Believe me when I say, I would rather walk a mile with my able-bodied, healthy child than use these spots.

“But when you have a child with the most terrible future, when your family has been turned upside down by disease and disability, then you have to swallow your pride and ‘take the good with the bad’.

These spots make our very difficult lives just that little bit easier.”