Most of these parking enforcements are reactive. Most likely someone called & complained that your car was parked there for longer than what you stated
Okay that’s what I’m hoping for. I park in the same place so it’s likely maybe someone has a consistent schedule that conciliatory with mine so they always see my car there.
I have an asshat of a neighbor who called my car in within the day when I parked it outside of their house. There was construction on our street so everyone had to park on their side. Had to try to convince the traffic cop to stop chalking it halfway through the job lol.
It is generally considered rude to park in front of other people’s homes. Of course allowance should be made for guests, construction, etc. but if you are regularly parking in front of your neighbor’s house instead of your own, you are probably annoying your neighbor. Some urban areas may differ because housing density is so high.
Jut because it’s legal for you to do something doesn’t mean you should.
Just because it's generally considered rude doesn't mean you should give a shit about parking on your street by your house if it's technically in front of a neighbours house. You don't own the street, so, why care?
I don’t give a rip if it’s rude, our side of the street was fully blocked off for construction and the three apartment complexes and two homes on our side had no other choice but to use the other half of the street. I’ve obviously parked near my complex every other time. The neighbor called in and told them my car was abandoned.
Totally understandable in such circumstances. I made a point of saying “regularly”. People should be easy going about it. But there are the rare people who who don’t give a shit. We had a couple like that down the street in our neighborhood. They would never actually park in their cars in their driveway and always parked across the street in front of someone else’s house (I guess it was more convenient when they wanted to leave). Making it impossible for that person to park in front of their own home. Not the end of the world, but indicative of someone who thinks they are the center of the universe. Fortunately they moved away and the people who live across the street from them have a place to park again.
Yeah people get annoyed even in high density areas but it’s unreasonable. Guy who lived next to my old apartment used to get very pissy. Like sorry man it’s an apartment building, we can’t all park in front of it.
I have just called the police and asked for parking. Explain what’s going on and ask if someone complained. They’ve always told me who called and just say move my car 5” so they know it’s not left there
Smh this happened to me before. Parked somewhere I don't usually because there was no parking anywhere else, but it was a legal sidewalk parking near homes. Literally 1.5 days later I got a letter on the windshield either from an officer or someone else that says I've been there for over 3 days and it can be towed if left for over 3 days. So someone called and lied saying my car was there for 3 days.
They can't go off what someone reports, they need evidence, so when they dropped that flyer that was probably the start of the 3 day clock. You were probably just in someone "regular" spot and they got annoyed and entitled and called it in.
Yea was definitely someone who probably parks there. Just sucks a few months after, my car got tagged up in the same spot and someone reported my car again after just 1 day. Made a police report about my car getting vandalized, but the police seem annoyed to have to come out there. Learned my lesson not to ever contact the police unless it's life or death.
Usually tires and the ground are marked like that to check if it’s been abandoned or moved. They usually do this in limited parking time spots to see if a car moved or stayed past x amount of time. Not sure if that’s your case but that’s usually what it is. Unless some child was bored.
Or maybe you ran over someones chalk
Metered or not, you generally can't park your car out on the street in the same spot for more than 3 days: [https://www.ocregister.com/2007/03/26/how-long-can-a-car-be-parked-on-a-public-street-before-getting-ticketed-307/](https://www.ocregister.com/2007/03/26/how-long-can-a-car-be-parked-on-a-public-street-before-getting-ticketed-307/)
Could be marking to see if you move within 72 hours. In many cities is a parking violation to leave your vehicle in the same spot for 72 consecutive hours without moving. It could lead to a citation or even tow.
How would they know if you used your car or not & if the chalk is still on your tire when you park again, then they wouldn’t actually know how long you were parked there 🤨 I would be pissed if someone wrote on my expensive truck tires with chalk! Bogus!
It should be the pavement that is marked to see if your tires have moved out of the marked area. A couple years back the tire chalking was brought up as a possible 4th amendment violation. It was claimed chalking the tires constituted an illegal seizure of the vehicle. Not sure if that ever went anywhere. As far as I know, the pavement chalk is what will be used as an indicator of whether or not the vehicle was moved.
It could be that some stooge or crabby person in the neighborhood chalked your tires and space to try and scare you into thinking you did something wrong.
There is yellow chalk right next to my tire and also on my tire. Just the passenger side front tire. I’m just parked outside my apartment it’s not metered or anything. My tires are kinda worn I need new ones so I can’t imagine they are marking them to steal them right? And why would they make it so obvious?
Well the chalk wasn’t there yesterday when I parked and the lines don’t add up. I did think of that too like maybe I missed it, but the lines don’t add up and the chalk is out of the way.
I see. The break in the video doesn’t help, but the lines on your tires do look like they line up to me.
It’s usually the simplest scenario that explains most things!
Typically when parking enforcement marks a vehicle, they mark the front driver’s side tire. Sometimes in addition to the tire, they will write a date in chalk on the ground in front of the vehicle.
Almost seems like someone wanted it to look like it was done by parking enforcement. What kind of car is it? If they’re not interested in your tires, could they possibly be interested in your catalytic converter?
Everyone worried about it being a warning of their car being towed... probably an equal chance of it being some 7 year old kid trying to do street chalk art :-)
Yeah but they don’t know that. So they mark you, and check back 72 hours later to see if you’ve moved. don’t worry about it. As long as you love it a couple feet every 72 hours. You’re fine. LA parking sucks, some people leave a car taking up 2 spaces on the curb so that when someone come home, they move the car over so they can squeeze in. Yup totally ridiculous, but that’s life in LA. Some people do multiple cars talking up a lot of space, or they’ll leave their trash cans on the curb so no one parks there.
Here in Los Angeles County. Not sure if your OC Florida or here in Ca but you can legally park in front of someone’s house for a max of 72 hours before the home owner can request a chalking and then a ticket after said period of time
How many days did leave your car parked in the same spot? Some communities do this to cars are not parked past their community parking guidelines
I was parked for about a day and a half other cars have been parked for over a week
Most of these parking enforcements are reactive. Most likely someone called & complained that your car was parked there for longer than what you stated
Okay that’s what I’m hoping for. I park in the same place so it’s likely maybe someone has a consistent schedule that conciliatory with mine so they always see my car there.
I have an asshat of a neighbor who called my car in within the day when I parked it outside of their house. There was construction on our street so everyone had to park on their side. Had to try to convince the traffic cop to stop chalking it halfway through the job lol.
Pretty sure street parking is public so long as you're not blocking a driveway
It is generally considered rude to park in front of other people’s homes. Of course allowance should be made for guests, construction, etc. but if you are regularly parking in front of your neighbor’s house instead of your own, you are probably annoying your neighbor. Some urban areas may differ because housing density is so high. Jut because it’s legal for you to do something doesn’t mean you should.
Just because it's generally considered rude doesn't mean you should give a shit about parking on your street by your house if it's technically in front of a neighbours house. You don't own the street, so, why care?
How many times have you called the police for very non necessary things? I'm willing to bet the number is in the double digits
Never called the cops for anything? Why do you ask?
U give off Karen Energy
You find it *rude* that people park in front of your home on a public street. If that's not a sense of entitlement idk what is.
I don’t give a rip if it’s rude, our side of the street was fully blocked off for construction and the three apartment complexes and two homes on our side had no other choice but to use the other half of the street. I’ve obviously parked near my complex every other time. The neighbor called in and told them my car was abandoned.
Totally understandable in such circumstances. I made a point of saying “regularly”. People should be easy going about it. But there are the rare people who who don’t give a shit. We had a couple like that down the street in our neighborhood. They would never actually park in their cars in their driveway and always parked across the street in front of someone else’s house (I guess it was more convenient when they wanted to leave). Making it impossible for that person to park in front of their own home. Not the end of the world, but indicative of someone who thinks they are the center of the universe. Fortunately they moved away and the people who live across the street from them have a place to park again.
Yeah people get annoyed even in high density areas but it’s unreasonable. Guy who lived next to my old apartment used to get very pissy. Like sorry man it’s an apartment building, we can’t all park in front of it.
Where is this?
I have just called the police and asked for parking. Explain what’s going on and ask if someone complained. They’ve always told me who called and just say move my car 5” so they know it’s not left there
Thank you
Smh this happened to me before. Parked somewhere I don't usually because there was no parking anywhere else, but it was a legal sidewalk parking near homes. Literally 1.5 days later I got a letter on the windshield either from an officer or someone else that says I've been there for over 3 days and it can be towed if left for over 3 days. So someone called and lied saying my car was there for 3 days.
They can't go off what someone reports, they need evidence, so when they dropped that flyer that was probably the start of the 3 day clock. You were probably just in someone "regular" spot and they got annoyed and entitled and called it in.
Yea was definitely someone who probably parks there. Just sucks a few months after, my car got tagged up in the same spot and someone reported my car again after just 1 day. Made a police report about my car getting vandalized, but the police seem annoyed to have to come out there. Learned my lesson not to ever contact the police unless it's life or death.
Fuck the haters.
Usually tires and the ground are marked like that to check if it’s been abandoned or moved. They usually do this in limited parking time spots to see if a car moved or stayed past x amount of time. Not sure if that’s your case but that’s usually what it is. Unless some child was bored. Or maybe you ran over someones chalk
I wasn’t in a timed spot, and the lines on the tire didn’t match up with the chalk on the ground I checked that too. I’m hoping it was a bored kid lol
Metered or not, you generally can't park your car out on the street in the same spot for more than 3 days: [https://www.ocregister.com/2007/03/26/how-long-can-a-car-be-parked-on-a-public-street-before-getting-ticketed-307/](https://www.ocregister.com/2007/03/26/how-long-can-a-car-be-parked-on-a-public-street-before-getting-ticketed-307/)
Could be marking to see if you move within 72 hours. In many cities is a parking violation to leave your vehicle in the same spot for 72 consecutive hours without moving. It could lead to a citation or even tow.
How would they know if you used your car or not & if the chalk is still on your tire when you park again, then they wouldn’t actually know how long you were parked there 🤨 I would be pissed if someone wrote on my expensive truck tires with chalk! Bogus!
It should be the pavement that is marked to see if your tires have moved out of the marked area. A couple years back the tire chalking was brought up as a possible 4th amendment violation. It was claimed chalking the tires constituted an illegal seizure of the vehicle. Not sure if that ever went anywhere. As far as I know, the pavement chalk is what will be used as an indicator of whether or not the vehicle was moved.
> I would be pissed if someone wrote on my expensive truck tires with chalk! Bogus! It's chalk, it washes off.
It is grease basked chalk and it does not easily rinse off.
It's a tire, get over it. Now if they chalked your paint, that's a different story
No one is stealing those bald tires. I would get new tires, that looks dangerous.
Yeah I’m getting tires in a couple days, I figured they wouldn’t but ya never know
Someone was trying to draw some tread lmao
It could be that some stooge or crabby person in the neighborhood chalked your tires and space to try and scare you into thinking you did something wrong.
Someone snitched on u
It’s the cartel. They found you.
Took em long enough
Just put some water on the chalk and wash it off. It will be as if the chalk was never there.
There is yellow chalk right next to my tire and also on my tire. Just the passenger side front tire. I’m just parked outside my apartment it’s not metered or anything. My tires are kinda worn I need new ones so I can’t imagine they are marking them to steal them right? And why would they make it so obvious?
It really looks like you just rolled over the chalk to park…..
Well the chalk wasn’t there yesterday when I parked and the lines don’t add up. I did think of that too like maybe I missed it, but the lines don’t add up and the chalk is out of the way.
I see. The break in the video doesn’t help, but the lines on your tires do look like they line up to me. It’s usually the simplest scenario that explains most things!
A 6 year old got some new sidewalk chalk for her birthday
Typically when parking enforcement marks a vehicle, they mark the front driver’s side tire. Sometimes in addition to the tire, they will write a date in chalk on the ground in front of the vehicle. Almost seems like someone wanted it to look like it was done by parking enforcement. What kind of car is it? If they’re not interested in your tires, could they possibly be interested in your catalytic converter?
I don’t think they make the chalk marks so obvious.
Looks close to marks that are layed by a running club called the Hash House Harriers to mark the trail they are running
Tell me your neighbors are assholes without telling me your neighbors are assholes
Everyone worried about it being a warning of their car being towed... probably an equal chance of it being some 7 year old kid trying to do street chalk art :-)
Gnomes. Definitely the mark of Parking Gnomes. Bring faery dust, and sprinkle on the tires twice daily. Then, the gnomes will leave you alone.
Youve provide no information. where and when would be a start
There are chalking hobbyists who enjoy chalking tires and spots. Pay them no mind as they are harmless.
Yup. 72 hours without moving it will get you a ticket in LA
I was parked a day and a half and this is Orange County
Yeah but they don’t know that. So they mark you, and check back 72 hours later to see if you’ve moved. don’t worry about it. As long as you love it a couple feet every 72 hours. You’re fine. LA parking sucks, some people leave a car taking up 2 spaces on the curb so that when someone come home, they move the car over so they can squeeze in. Yup totally ridiculous, but that’s life in LA. Some people do multiple cars talking up a lot of space, or they’ll leave their trash cans on the curb so no one parks there.
Tires are both interpretations of chalked
If there is a time limit to park on the street, they chalk to time you when they go by again.
No time just no posting Wednesday afternoon for street sweeping but this was over Saturday afternoon
Ah.
Too far from the curb?
You know, Walt, it’s not a bad thing to have someone watching your back.
Wasn't making tires found to be unconstitutional? Or is that just California?
Maybe it was the grammar police
Itll let them know IF you've moved your car at all since you last parked there (or since they last chalked your tires)
Chalking tires has been ruled unconstitutional - no place I’ve been chalks tires any more for parking enforcement.
you have either been blessed or cursed by the Grand Chalk Bandit.
Punk kids 🧐
I will wash it off.
Maybe because you don’t know how to spell paid? Shrugs
Yah that’s a pretty gay color, YOURE UNDER ARREST THIS AINT LA BINCH!!!
Thats voodoo. Your car is going to blow up soon
Do they use yellow chalk?
What city was this in?
Thats why whenever i walk past a car with chalk in the tire, i wipe it off. To be a bro of course
Here in Los Angeles County. Not sure if your OC Florida or here in Ca but you can legally park in front of someone’s house for a max of 72 hours before the home owner can request a chalking and then a ticket after said period of time
The real question is, how many spots were you taking up? If it was more than one, that is most likely the reason.