Have you ever walked up to your car to find a parking ticket on the front windshield . . . then notice a chalk mark on one of your tires?
If you would’ve come out and moved your car even just three inches, you could have avoided that ticket.
Well, it turns out that chalk mark violates your Fourth Amendment rights against unreasonable searches, according to the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Cincinnati.
The ruling was made after a Michigan woman sued the city for violating her rights by chalking her tires, so now the case will go back to a district court in her home state.
Does that mean the whole chalk on the tires thing ends?
Well, not just yet.
Now there’s a legal precedent that could make cities think twice about chalking those tires, but we’re sure they’ll just figure out some other way to not so noticeably monitor your parking time limit — like, taking a photo of your tires instead or something.
(NBC News)
