Bunnings called out after SUV blocks disabled spots in viral video
A disabled businessman said he had to drive his car to Bunnings’ front door before staff acted on an SUV blocking several disabled parking spaces.


News.com.au
September 9, 2026

A Gold Coast businessman living with a disability has shared a brazen Bunnings customer’s illegal park across several disabled spots, saying he had to make a scene before staff acted.   

Kyle Wilmington, who runs a business setting up short-term rentals, has a rare nerve disorder called Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease that affects his movement and muscles.

He uses his large social media presence to raise awareness for disability issues and the difficulties he has faced with his condition, which requires him to wear leg braces.

When he arrived at Southport Bunnings about 7am on Friday morning he was staggered to see a large SUV with a jet ski attached taking up four disabled parking spaces near the front entrance.   

“I went straight inside to tell the staff. He just said to me ‘what they want me to do about it?’,” he told news.com.au.

“I went outside, I took a video and then moved my car right up in front of the front doors at Bunnings. And then he came out and told me off.

“And the other staff caught wind of it and then decided to actually take action and call the guy (the SUV owner) over the PA and got him moved.”

An SUV blocking multiple disabled car spots at a Gold Coast Bunnings.

It was also towing a jet ski which blocked two spots alone.

Mr Wilmington shared the video he took with his 63,000 Instagram followers, since viewed millions of times, tagging Bunnings in the post captioned “this is out of control”.

“I’ve pulled to Bunnings this morning and this guy is quite literally parked across all of the f***ing disabled spaces,” he said. “All of them.


“Yes there’s some over there, but they’re taken (by) other people attending Bunnings this morning.

“I’m here, I’m disabled. And that’s not even the f***ing point of this video.

“This is just out of this f***ing world that someone would think this is completely acceptable.”

Mr Wilmington told news.com.au on Tuesday there was not enough said about the way people wrongly took up disabled parking spots “on the daily”.

Kyle Wilmington said he usually had a good experience at Bunnings. 

He runs a company setting up short-term-rentals.

He previously made a video with his gym after noticing large SUVs and super cars using the spots, believing it was because they are wider than usual parking spaces.

“People just say ‘it’s a car space’. But what it is, is actual accessibility for the person that needs it,” he said.

A Bunnings spokesperson said a site manager at Southport Bunnings acted immediately when made aware of the blocked disabled car spaces.

“An announcement was made over the PA and the vehicle was moved within 10 minutes,” the statement read.

“We take accessibility seriously and expect everyone to respect accessible parking spaces.

“When we’re made aware of misuse, we will take action to ensure these spaces remain available for people with disability or mobility restrictions.”


Mr Wilmington said Bunnings staff made the announcement about five minutes after he raised the issue but not before he made the point of driving his car up to the front door.

He visited Bunnings regularly and wanted to stress he usually found the staff to be “amazing”.

The 38-year-old hoped his viral video would bring attention to the issue and made people think about the impact they have when planning to use a disabled spot to pop into a shop.

The disabled will become more disabled by notchallenging themselves.

Just like going to the gym is hard work and painful and a struggle but makes you fitter.

My opinion is disabled carparks should be as far from the shop as possible.

This would allow the disabled person the wonderful opportunity to push struggle sweat and overcome a challenge.

As such , they become more mentally strong, higher self esteem and can become a superior man.

Indeed , a person on crutches who climbed Mt Everest deserves more respect then an able bodied person.

A disability is a great thing if you accept it fully and  don't let it define you

whiteknight wrote on Sep 13^th, 2026 at 10:04am:



Wouldn't be people with disabilities leaving their trolley there now would it?

I think the entire population of Australia is disabled.
The UAE can build an entire nation in a desert that attracts the world's wealthiest which generates more income and pride in its citizens.

While Australians can only hug the Coastlines, like holding onto a life raft at sea.

Well, if this is anything like the shopping centres here in Perth then you will probably have to just put up with selfish, ignorant people (which seems to be most people these days) parking in disability bays without a permit.

Especially tradies and delivery people ("I'm only going to be 5 minutes") who are renowned for this sort of thing.

And then you have the able bodied ones who "borrow" a permit from a disabled family member or friend so they can use the disability bays. Lots of those around too, I'll bet.

Because, if you complain to the shopping centre management they will say "sorry, we can't do anything about it, you'll have to talk to the council or the police".

Which does seem a little odd (lazy more like it) because shopping centre carparks are private property owned by the shopping centre. At least here in WA they are.

And, if you follow that advice you'll get the same run around from the council/police.

Nobody wants to take responsibility for anything these days which is half of the reason why society is in the mess it is in.

Disgraceful stuff.

Carl D wrote on Sep 13^th, 2026 at 12:38pm:


Don’t they have parking inspectors checking for permits attached to windscreen if it’s there, or if it’s still within date?

Sophia wrote on Sep 13^th, 2026 at 12:51pm:


Possibly. But, I've never seen any in my visits to shopping centres. Someone would have to call the council to get the inspectors to come to the centre and I get the impression that's way too much trouble (there's that laziness again).

Oh, and then the Council will probably say "That's private property so we can't do anything, talk to the shopping centre management" (and there's that run around again).

As for the "security" staff. Well, the ones that I've seen are usually too busy wandering around the inside of the centre doing what appears to be as little as possible (when they're not leaning on the customer service desk trying to chat up the ladies working there).

Bunnings usually has a number of trailer spots, which is what the jetski guy needed. But idiots in hybrids keep parking in them.