{"id":26878,"date":"2025-07-28T06:49:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-28T06:49:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/26878\/"},"modified":"2025-07-28T06:49:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-28T06:49:08","slug":"parking-hack-or-crime-lawyer-warns-against-removing-chalk-marks-from-parked-cars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/26878\/","title":{"rendered":"Parking hack or crime? Lawyer warns against removing chalk marks from parked cars"},"content":{"rendered":"

A criminal lawyer is warning Australians about the potential consequences of removing chalk marks from their tyres before a parking inspection is complete.<\/p>\n

A recent TikTok depicting an individual removing chalk marks from multiple car tyres has gone viral and sparked online conversation.<\/p>\n

But Avinash Singh, from Astor Lega has warned of the potential consequences of the act.<\/p>\n

“Removing chalk off a tyre could be seen as attempting to pervert the course of justice. This is because the removal of chalk would hinder a parking ranger from carrying out their duties and prevent them from issuing a fine,” he said.<\/p>\n

The video sparked debate, with Singh criticising the video, the comment section was flooded with people showing support for the stunt.<\/p>\n

In NSW, Section 319 Crimes Act 1900 makes it an offence to do any act or omission intending in any way to pervert the court of justice.<\/p>\n

\"ChalkChalk mark on car tyre from parking inspectors (JG-TC.com)<\/p>\n

South Australia is the only state that has a specific law that addresses this issue due to the issue becoming so widespread.\ufeff<\/p>\n

Section 174AB of the Road Traffic Act 1961 makes it an offence to remove a parking inspector’s chalk from a vehicle.<\/p>\n

The maximum fine this offense can carry is a $750 fine.\ufeff<\/p>\n

“If a driver finds that a fine has been issued, they can contest the fine and ask for evidence that they were timed correctly. This is usually in the form of timestamped photos that a parking ranger has taken,”\ufeff says Singh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A criminal lawyer is warning Australians about the potential consequences of removing chalk marks from their tyres before…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":26879,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-26878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26878","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26878"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26878\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}