Court Says Using Chalk on Tires for Parking Enforcement Violates Constitution

Re:Court Says Using Chalk on Tires for Parking Enforcement V... by cromulent on Tuesday April 23, 2019 @04:37PM (#19732576)

A lot of places in Europe just use a parking disk. No chalking, no second check needed.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disc_parking

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Re:Court Says Using Chalk on Tires for Parking Enforcement V... by stendinator on Tuesday April 23, 2019 @07:01PM (#19733865)

I have seen officers making notes of how the tires are aligned so they know whether the car has been moved when they come by a second time. (Seen in DACH countries)

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Re:Court Says Using Chalk on Tires for Parking Enforcement V... by _archon_ on Wednesday April 24, 2019 @10:44AM (#19738820)

What's to say you didn't leave and return and your wheels are in roughly the same configuration?

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Re:Court Says Using Chalk on Tires for Parking Enforcement V... by ghostly_s on Tuesday April 23, 2019 @05:08PM (#19732873)

Ah, so, the honor system.

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Re:Court Says Using Chalk on Tires for Parking Enforcement V... by finnh on Tuesday April 23, 2019 @05:10PM (#19732894)

Not quite - if you try to game the system by post dating your arrival time, and the disc is checked quickly enough, the enforcer will see the disc time is ahead of the current time = ticket.

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Re:Court Says Using Chalk on Tires for Parking Enforcement V... by em-bee on Wednesday April 24, 2019 @04:43AM (#19736602)

but you could come back after an hour and update the time

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Re:Court Says Using Chalk on Tires for Parking Enforcement V... by finnh on Wednesday April 24, 2019 @12:03PM (#19739773)

and you can wipe chalk off your tires after an hour, too.

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