LAKE COUNTY, Fla. -- A legally disabled driver vacationing in Lake County was struggling to fight a $250 ticket until Eyewitness News got involved. A deputy watched him park in a handicapped spot, but when he got out and didn't appear disabled, she wrote him a ticket.

The fact that the driver had a handicapped placard on his dashboard apparently wasn't enough. He says a deputy saw him get out and walk into a Wal-Mart, but she didn't know just how disabled he really is.

Just walking into the Lake County Sheriff's Office was no easy trek for Benjamin Greene.

"I've got a steel rod in my back and I have a shoulder that's been cut on," he said.

Greene has had several surgeries after getting hit by a car, which is why he has a handicapped parking permit from his home state of North Carolina. He even used it to park at a Holiday Inn in Clermont where he's vacationing.

"She put the ticket just like that on my windshield," Greene described.

Greene said he tried to talk to the deputy who wrote the $250 ticket and to her supervisor, but when that didn't work he called Eyewitness News. After two more hours at the sheriff's office, he came out with better news.

"Benji, how'd it go?" WFTV reporter Eric Rasmussen asked.

"She wrote 'void' on the ticket," Greene responded.

"We see the placard right next to where the ticket went. Any guess as to how something like that happens?" Rasmussen asked Cpl. Jim Vachon of the Lake County Sheriff's Office.

"My understanding is at the time yesterday, it was partially obscured," Cpl. Vachon replied.

The sheriff's office says it's reviewing its practices to make sure it doesn't happen again. Greene filed a complaint against the deputy who wrote the ticket and says it's all wasted time on a short vacation he'll never get back.

"I wanted to go have fun. What fun is this?" Greene asked.

The sheriff's office says the deputy involved has been in trouble once before, about five years ago, for bringing an inmate into the jail who was carrying a pocket knife.

The sheriff's office says it will review Greene's complaint thoroughly.