"Darkbrador" (darkbrador)
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Fixed.
For Sweden
> Darkbrador
04/23/2019 at 13:33 |
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I think your url had a seizure
CalzoneGolem
> Darkbrador
04/23/2019 at 13:34 |
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Is this a phishing scam?
If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent
> Darkbrador
04/23/2019 at 13:35 |
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Darkbrador
> For Sweden
04/23/2019 at 13:35 |
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Yes
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Darkbrador
> If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent
04/23/2019 at 13:35 |
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Yes
Ash78, voting early and often
> Darkbrador
04/23/2019 at 13:47 |
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I don’t think I’ve ever heard of chalking until just now. It took me a while to figure out exactly what it was...I assume these are non-metered spots with time limits associated with them? I always just treated those signs as “polite guidance” rather than actual law.
This is what we'll show whenever you publish anything on Kinja:
> Darkbrador
04/23/2019 at 13:49 |
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Good. This decision pleases me, if for no other reason than to stop them from marking up someone's car. Technology exists, use it if you need the parking revenue that badly. The meter maids are literally obsolete; transfer them.
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Darkbrador
> CalzoneGolem
04/23/2019 at 13:50 |
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No
Chuckles
> Ash78, voting early and often
04/23/2019 at 13:54 |
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The town where I attended college did this. Street parking was a 2 hour limit, no meters. So they’d chalk your tire and check a few hours later to see if you moved.
Highlander-Datsuns are Forever
> Darkbrador
04/23/2019 at 13:56 |
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I always wipe the chalk marks off of the tires.
TheRealBicycleBuck
> Darkbrador
04/23/2019 at 14:12 |
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That’s an interesting result. I wonder if the results would have been different if the officers had chalked the street on either side of the tire instead of the tire itself. The article suggests that they could take a picture of the car to determine it’s location, but there’s a lot of debate about the similar practice of scanning plates to track vehicles or check them against a delinquency database.
CaptDale - is secretly British
> Darkbrador
04/23/2019 at 14:38 |
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I like this
chuck07
> TheRealBicycleBuck
04/23/2019 at 14:52 |
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I assume the result would have been different, because then they vehicle would not have been unreasonably searched, but the government owned stre et would have been searched. Then you have the issue of people getting tickets for parking in the same spot as prior vehicles.
By me, they have meter maids that drive around with scanners on their car to track how long people are in spaces for timed spaces, and see if they have paid for metered spaces.
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TheRealBicycleBuck
> chuck07
04/23/2019 at 15:48 |
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I asked about this at the office and one of my coworkers had a story to share. He parked in a metered spot when he was working in DC . He noticed the chalk on his tire when he went out to add money to the meter. He returned before the second two-hour window and there was a ticket on his car even though the meter didn’t expire. Someone didn’t like him taking the space for more than one two-hour block.
His Stigness
> Ash78, voting early and often
04/23/2019 at 17:48 |
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Chalk is mainly used for the 72 hour limit (I’m assuming all 50 states have the same rule as CA: You can’t park more than 72 hours on public streets).
I may or may not have to constantly report a neighbor who stores their cars on the street despite the limiting parking we already have. The local constabulary comes out and marks the tire note the position, then come back 72 hours later and tow it if it’s still there as it’s treated as an abandoned vehicle.
So for people that aren’t assholes, you don’t report the car until after the first 72 hours, so that means most “abandoned” cars will sit for at least a week before it’s removed.
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chuck07
> TheRealBicycleBuck
04/24/2019 at 01:04 |
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DC is terrible with that stuff. It doesnt matter if you move the car, you have to move it out of the zone. So even if he did move his car a few blocks and paid there , he may have still gotten a ticket.