Drop the chalk and step away from the vehicle.

I saw that on Yahoo. I just wonder if people can go back about 100 years and collect back money for parking tickets ?

It would probably put many small towns out of business.

The lawyer is talking about a class action suit but they are mostly designed to make lawyers rich. People in the class get a few bucks and the lawyer gets millions. Personally, I haven't had enough parking tickets to be interested and I am sure you would have to prove you got a ticket and it was because of a chalked tire, not just an expired meter. My guess is technology is going to replace chalk. They will ride around taking time stamped pictures. with tag recognition and GPS. The computer will generate the ticket. You might not even see a piece of paper until the bill shows up in the mail, like "Toll by Plate" bills. When we are all carrying transponders in our cars for the mileage tax it will be even easier. ;-)

The meters were taken out of the town near me years ago. Might as well as most people do their main shopping at the malls now. This is in a town that is only about 10 to 15 blocks long down the main street where most of the stores used to be.

They are just now starting to have toll roads in NC. Going to be interisting as to how long those stay toll roads.

Judging from history, forever, with periodic toll increases.

I had parking meters throughout my high school years. Guys parked on the street, metered parking. We had a "class" you could take called service squad. I did it Jr and Sr year, twice a day as a senior. I assume at one time it was "hall monitors" but what it was when I was there is guys would give you the address of where their car was parked and some quarters. You went around and plugged all the meters and wiped off the chalk. There was usually a tip in there. Since the guys who drove were usually older, they could buy beer. It wasn't a tax, it was a fee ;-)

If you didn't have any meters to plug you were off for an hour in downtown DC. You could amuse yourself. Walking down to Sunny's Surplus was always a way to blow 40 minutes and occasionally you saw something you wanted. That was when they really had military surplus.

There were a few places that had meters when I was running calls but I tried to avoid them if I knew I would be there a while. Stuff it in a parking garage. IBM pays.

The weirdest was Santa Cruz California. You needed "Suzies" for the meters (Anthony dollar coins) Who in the hell has dollar coins in their pocket? The shop keepers got s***ty if you weren't buying something so I dropped my wife in a shop she was interested in, broke a 5, plugged the meter and went back. I figure it cost me about $55-60 an hour to park there. ;-).

I spent about 10 days off and on with the toll people in Florida inspecting the booth at mile marker 99 (I-75). I spent time with facinating people. It is an interesting place once you dig down and see what's all there, most 6 feet under the pavement to the top of a solid concrete duct bank. There are a bunch of 2" conduits going to each booth but there is also a high speed HVAC duct piping 1 a ton of cold fresh air from behind the office. Grounding is like a radio tower around the whole place. Those were the engineers. I also spent some time with the state ops manager. He had all sorts of stories but the best was one booth on the east coast where they had one drive through bucket going into a drywall bucket inside and they split the money. The gate was always up so people lined up for that lane and drove as fast as they could and still hit the bucket. They were guessing a quarter every 5 to 7 seconds. (>$300 an hour when it is busy) It would have gone on forever but one woman got fired for some totally different thing and she ratted them out.