A lady parked her pickup truck in a handicapped parking space at a DeLand big-box store on a Saturday morning. When she returned to her truck carrying goods she’d purchased, she noticed that the driver’s-side door was ajar.

The lady could tell that someone had handled her CB radio, but the only thing missing was her handicapped permit, which had been hanging from her rearview mirror.

A DeLand Police officer got the store’s loss-prevention officer to run some video surveillance footage of the handicapped-parking area for him. The footage showed a white male wearing an orange long-sleeved shirt and a camouflage hat enter the lady’s pickup, leave, and get into a four-door sedan.

The officer saw that the sedan was parked in the lot, and there inside it was a white male wearing an orange long-sleeved shirt and a camouflage hat. (Apparently the camouflage didn’t keep him from being seen sitting in his car.)

The lady’s handicapped-parking permit was hanging on the inside of Parking Permit Poacher’s windshield.

When the law officer asked him why he stole the permit, Poacher said “he knew it was a stupid thing to do,” but said “he did not take anything from the [lady’s truck].” (I guess he didn’t consider the parking permit to be anything at all — other than something he’d like to use so he could get better parking spaces.)

Parking Permit Poacher was arrested on a charge of burglary of an unoccupied conveyance unarmed.

The DeLand officer returned the permit to its rightful owner, who, it is hoped, will lock her vehicle from now on.