01-30-2019, 06:26 PM
(01-30-2019, 06:03 PM)chutten Wrote: Is there a law against touching cars? Damaging/defacing them would be vandalism, certainly... but I can't think of a statute we'd be falling afoul of for touching, tapping, leaning on... even rearranging the wing mirrors or beetling the windshield wipers.
There's a fine line, the officers didn't continue to discuss that I folded in the mirror, only asked about it, but any more, and officers have a lot of discretion, I still think you'd spend the night in a holding cell, even if you might eventually beat the charge in court. Certainly stickers I think would qualify as vandalism.
And of course, endangering someone by blocking a bike lanes pales in comparison to the crime of defacing someone's car.