O/T Ever heard of this law ???????

Lets see if I can explain this.
He was on a 2 way city street that has parallel parking on both sides. Lets say the street runs north and south. He was headed north and there was no open parking spaces on the east side of the street so he parked on the west side.
So his car is facing north; parked in a legal space on the west side of the street.
They give him a ticket for facing the wrong way.

Have you ever heard of such a law where you live????

What would you think if you seen a car parked like that?

And as the old saying goes, if one does it there will be more.

They walk among us!!

gene

• Hobby farm

Please don't tell me you'd even think of contesting that ticket?

I have no idea of what the law does or doesn't state in my area, much less yours BUT common sense should tell us that when, entering and especially, exiting a parking stall while facing oncoming traffic is not the smartest/safest thing to do..... ...As one of the other fellows mentioned, your son is lucky he didn't get a ticket for driving in the wrong lane as well..... ...

Be glad there wasn't an accident, take the ticket as a lesson, and move on..... ..... .

Sorry, I don't mean to offend, but it just makes good sence to me for saftey reasons. Exceptions are emergency vehickles of course.

The last few years they have not been inforcing it as much as they did years ago. This winter we all go outside and look if we hear a vehickle coming, just like we used to on the farm when we lived down a long lane. The price of gas slowed our traffic. If we have a car accident in town on a week end, we know the cop car is involved--the only car out there 99% of the time.

I do think it is pretty much the standard in Iowa. We still have some horse laws that haven't been taken off the books.

TRACTOR RELATED----tractors with lugs prohibited! That sign was still up in a nearby town several years ago, but disapeared. I wanted to buy it, but was to late, gone and no one knows who took it down.

Good Luck

Dave

Also, when I worked in downtown Seward, I'd park in an uncontrolled parking spot and walk a block to work. I came out for lunch one day and found that during the course of the morning the City had erected a 2 hour parking sign in front of my car and the police had written me a ticket for parking over two hours.

Another time in Seward, I had a two hour parking ticket on my car when I had witnesses who had seen me driving down the street an hour and 20 minutes before the time on the ticket. I had an hour long confrontation with the Chief of Police over that one.

think about it. You have to drive the wrong way on the other side of the street to get parked and unparked.