Yeah, good call.  This is definitely another important aspect of the general question about a winner being changed six weeks later.

I’d imagine something like this?

On one hand, I want one. On the other hand I’m terrified that I can have one.

or You Bet on the guy that eventually wins.

Only tangentially related, but it’s something I’ve wondered for a long time...

PASS. Not even close to what I ordered.

Just don’t blame the fact you can buy a robotic flamethrower as a factor in the tragedy, we just need more mental health care not less weaponry.

Do they not watch Black Mirror?

The ubiquitous excuse has gone from “dog ate my homework” to “dog completely incinerated my homework, along with my parents’ house, garage, car, and neighbor’s tree.”

He was driving the truck. At least according to the article I read to the very end.

This needs more stars.

In principle a ticket, like any legal claim, is invalid if they don’t bother being clear what they’re asking for.  That depends on getting a judge who’s not a #$%^ of course.

He tried to pay the ticket. It was issued unfairly, as he wasn’t leaving the vehicle parked like that, but he tried to pay it. The town representative decided to shake him down even more.

That and it’s probably humid too.  If they were in Texas or Florida, you could expect the death rate from heat illness to go up, as the state government told greedy businesses that they no longer had to give water breaks to outdoor workers.

Haven’t we already done the “dude from Nazareth gets big mad about commerce in a public space” thing?

I love the people that have no contact info on the sign, usually at the end of some long rural driveway. Like I want to just walk up to some house in the country and knock on the door. That gets people shot these days.

Greedy idiots. He was actually willing to pay their BS ticket, but then they decided to see how much more they could shake out of his pockets.

The ordinances specifically allow for advertising of services/companies, just not sale, which is such a hilariously specific thing. If they also banned commercial vehicles from having ads and phone numbers it might have been harder to contest, but then they would have had all the local companies fighting it from the…

Seems like they would have to ticket every work vehicle on the road that had a phone number advertised on the side. Isn’t that “using the streets for commercial purposes?”

Sounds to me like he was parking the vehicle in a public space for the purposes of transportation, not “for the purposes of selling it”. If that clause just had ‘sole’ in the middle of it, I’d call this a slam dunk for his lawyers, but as it stands I’d say he’s still likely to win.