MP and mining magnate Clive Palmer says he parked in disabled spot as matter of public safety MP Clive Palmer says parking in a disabled spot was a matter of public safety after his car broke down. WOULD you stop to help if you saw a Rolls Royce break down on the side of the road? Billionaire Clive Palmer doesn't think so. Mr Palmer this morning attempted to justify why his Rolls Royce Phantom convertible was parked in a disabled spot in Fortitude Valley last week, saying he had car trouble and knew no one would help him. "I had to pull over...for public safety," Mr Palmer told 4BC of the decision, which earned him a fine. When you've got a Rolls Royce that breaks down no one wants to help you. You could stay there all day. When I've broken down in my commodore it's not so bad. I think you have to pull over wherever you were because you've got to think of public safety, you don't want to have any sort of accident or hurt anybody. Mr Palmer is also making headlines this week for facing the minor problem of trying to convince up to 1000 cruise ship passengers to "rough it" in the infamous steerage section of the Titanic II . Daniel Strudwick crosses to Channel Ten's Wake Up to discuss Clive Palmer's Titanic II.