City bans camping gear in your vehicle - $1000 fine

So was this buddy a homeless guy living in his car?

These are the kind of laws that are normally used as a tool. If you look like you are homeless and planning to take up residence, they will use it. If you look like a tourist just passing thru, they won't.

Kind of like, they can technically ticket every speeder...but normally, the police use judgement and only ticket those who show risky behavior...normal driver doing 3mph over, they let it go...aggressive driver doing 20mph over, they get a ticket.