Re:His Body Was Behind the Wheel for a Week Before It Was Di...
by danso on Tuesday October 23, 2018 @11:20AM
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It's probably not in the lede of the article because it may not be a significant factor. From what I can tell in the police scene photo [0], the windshield isn't tinted (AFAIK it is not legal to have the entire windshield tinted). The car was parked on a busy neighborhood street for 1 week, in which there were at least 2 days it would have been illegally parked because of street cleaning. He didn't get ticketed, which likely means traffic cops saw him in there and assumed he was just napping. From the article:
> Traffic officers who write parking tickets most likely passed by him at least twice, on days that his car was parked illegally. Officers looking for violators on street-cleaning days — on East 12th Street, those days were Tuesday and Friday — routinely ignore vehicles when the driver is sitting inside. Mr. Weglarz’s vehicle received no tickets on the Tuesday or Friday when it was parked illegally, suggesting an officer might have seen him and assumed he was just another idle driver.
> Traffic officers who write parking tickets most likely passed by him at least twice, on days that his car was parked illegally. Officers looking for violators on street-cleaning days — on East 12th Street, those days were Tuesday and Friday — routinely ignore vehicles when the driver is sitting inside. Mr. Weglarz’s vehicle received no tickets on the Tuesday or Friday when it was parked illegally, suggesting an officer might have seen him and assumed he was just another idle driver.
[0] https://static01.nyt.com/images/2018/10/02/nyregion/00body2/...