It's the difference between being towed because you parked in a fire lane (that's your fault), and for being towed when someone came up after you parked, painted in a fire lane, and then towed you (not your fault).
I've actually had this with a handicapped parking spot that was created while my car was in the spot and got fined immediately after they finished putting the post up.
I tried getting it reversed but not dice. Very frustrating.
IJmuiden, NL.
> And did you try to appeal?
Yes, I did.
> That seems crazy.
It is crazy. Especially since the RDW (local equivalent of the DMV) has my address on file and I lived right across the street. All they had to do was ring the bell and ask me to move my car. Hefty fine too, 140 guilders at the time (70 Euros or so today).
A couple of such incidents in your life and you start to feel really bad about authorities of any plumage.
Woman says red zone painted after she parked:
http://abc7news.com/news/woman-says-red-zone-painted-after-s...
The US government down to the municipal level, is not bound by that concept. Ignorance of the law etc. It's strange how many people are figuring out how screwed up the US system is AFTER they decided they don't like something. It smacks of the same behavior that US politicians engage in. Idiocy married with desperation.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Article_One_of_the_United_Stat...
> No State shall [...] pass any Bill of Attainder, ex post facto Law, or Law impairing the Obligation of Contracts [...]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Article_One_of_the_United_Stat...
However, the way his office implemented this was terribly irresponsible:
1. Usually immigration policy changes have a window to take effect so that they don't leave a bunch of people in legal limbo. This one didn't. It's quite obviously on purpose.
2. Similar to #1, by not giving agencies enough time to prepare for the policies in question Trump's team has maximized the opportunity for mistakes and deliberately racist actions from within his agencies. Which is what we are seeing, particularly with green card holders (WHY EVEN?) and citizens being banned (sorry sir, too brown for us).
3. Usually when the Executive pens an EO, the staff has vetted the legality of the EO and if it's not directly enforcible this is well understood in advance. Trump's office does not have the power to do this, but does have the power to enforce the law. By issuing this edict, Trump has forced an illegal policy into law and then demanded taxpayer time and money be wasted dealing with the series of domestic and international lawsuits that are inbound over it.
If this is what we can expect from Trump, we can expect the dissolution of the rule of law.