 Roseville man posts ticket he received for warming car in own driveway Local News Roseville man posts ticket he received for warming car in own driveway A Roseville man is becoming Facebook famous after he posted a picture of a ticket he received from a Roseville cop for warming up his vehicle in his own driveway. FOX 2 contacted the Michigan State Police for more information. Roseville police phones have been lighting up with calls from people who are furious that Taylor was given a ticket for warming up his car. Franklin, who used to do a radio spot called the "Partner Car Care Minute," said even when the spot was about something he believed was "definitive," colleagues would track him down on the street to tell him he was wrong. Taylor said he started his car Tuesday morning to warm it up and went inside for 5 minutes. The ticket shows ordinance listed as 99006 but there is no ordinance in the city or state that corresponds to 99006. Police said the key component of the case is whether the key is in the car. Lt. Mike Shaw says there is no state law that prohibits letting your car idle with the keys in the ignition. "You're putting the public at risk," Roseville police Chief James Berlin said. "This is purely a public safety issue." Nick Taylor posted the sarcastic Facebook post on Thursday, thanking the officer who gave him the ticket. He said he regrets the swearing and calling the officer an offensive name. The post received thousands of comments and shares since he posted it. Berlin said if the car would have had auto-start, this would not be an issue. It didn't take long on an afternoon stroll through Burlington Town Center to find someone who didn't agree with Lague. Under the description of the offense, it lists VEH/MOTOR ON UNATTENDED 895. "I mostly just put it online to see what people thought of it and see if it's happened to anyone else because I've never heard of this," Taylor said. Bill Brisson, 54, said he warms his car up for eight to 10 minutes on cold winter mornings.
– A Michigan man is fuming after he left his car running in a driveway—and got a ticket. "Every person warms up their car," Nick Taylor tells WDIV. "We live in Michigan!" Taylor, 24, left the car idling unlocked at his girlfriend's house on a frigid morning last week. When he returned a few minutes later, he spied the $128 ticket for leaving a vehicle unattended. Taylor posted a photo of the ticket on his Facebook page and railed against the "dip----" Roseville police officer who left it there for "wasting the taxpayer's money." (He later "retracted" the insult.) The post has been shared nearly 14,000 times, but Police Chief James Berlin wasn't backing down, saying you can't leave vehicles running. "This is purely a public safety issue," he tells Fox2. "You see it all the time, people hop in a running car and steal them. Something bad happens when that occurs." And because of the original insult, Berlin says he's not about to tear up the ticket. One footnote for those who practice Taylor's habit of warming up the car: Mechanics say the old-school ritual is no longer necessary in the era of fuel-injected engines, notes USA Today. In fact, today's cars tend to warm up more quickly being driven rather than idling. (This driver faced DUI charges, though he had only caffeine in his system.)