Community college parking permit (that is, when I was in community college.)
Technically illegal, I think, because here (and probably just about everywhere) you can’t have ANYTHING hanging there when you drive. So you’re supposed to take it down when you drive.
But I doubt that very many people did take it down. A parking pass does NOT obstruct vision in any way, unless you are worried about colliding with flying saucers. But the laws don’t make such fine distinctions.
People leave their parking permits hanging on mirrors all the time. I’ve never heard of anyone getting ticketed for it.
Does anyone have stories of someone getting a ticket?
I see news stories of people pulled over for “obstructed vision” in some of the more upscale towns around here fairly regularly, and subsequently arrested for other violations. So I suspect “obstructed vision” can be a handy excuse for officers to pull someone over for other, more nebulous reasons.
I have never, in 41 years of driving, hung anything from my rear-view mirror.
The only thing I have ever seen hanging from one that made me think, “Cool!” was the lowered ute I once followed that had a nice shiny pair of handcuffs hanging from the mirror.
About two years’ worth of paper parking permits. Every month they give us a new one for the parking lot at work, and I hang it in front of the last one and think that one of these days I need to take all the old ones off and throw them out…
I used to have a shark tooth that a friend got in Fiji but now I just have The Shattered Pieces Of My Former Life strung on dental floss interspersed between popcorn.
Nothing. It’s dangerous. When your brain is used to something moving in your peripheral vision, it tunes out ALL movement in your peripheral vision. So, you could miss a pedestrian walking into your path.