{"id":415661,"date":"2026-04-28T01:00:51","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T15:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/adelaide-airport-wheelchair-user-pick-up-fine-threat\/"},"modified":"2026-04-28T01:00:51","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T15:00:51","slug":"outrageous-airport-worker-threatens-wheelchair-user-with-fine-for-using-accessible-pick-up-zone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=415661","title":{"rendered":"Outrageous: Airport Worker Threatens Wheelchair User With Fine For Using Accessible Pick-Up Zone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"267822\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/adelaide-airport\/\"  >Adelaide Airport<\/a><\/span> (ADL) in Australia has found itself in hot water after an interaction between a wheelchair user and one of its members of staff went viral online. The video in question was recorded by 41-year-old Shane Hryhorec, a disability advocate who has been using a wheelchair since 2007 due to a spinal injury, who was threatened with a fine by the worker while waiting to be picked up from the<span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"345\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/airport\/\"  >airport<\/a><\/span>&#8216;s disability pick-up zone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shane Hryhorec&#8217;s video of the incident has amassed millions of views on social media.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3493,396,475,273],"tags":[265],"class_list":["post-415661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adelaide-airport","category-aircraft","category-airports","category-australia","tag-adelaide"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415661","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=415661"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415661\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":415662,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415661\/revisions\/415662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=415661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=415661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=415661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}