I used to envy those people that lived out in the sticks that seemed to be able to make a living. Now I’m one of them and I gotta say that stories like this are hard to take. The lack of freedom in the cities is Orwellian.
A cop would have to drive up a 1/6 mile long driveway to get to my house and ticket me. It’s amazing how you can control people when you have them all packed together.
Kennewick has a similar ordinance but I’ve never heard of an idling vehicle with a manual transmission being stolen. A fair number of automatics, though.