Police Are Using Twitter To Find (And Punish) Illegally Parked Cars

Police in Rome have had a tough time combatting the “creative” solutions its citizens have typically used to squeeze their cars and other vehicles into the narrow city streets. But now they’ve got a special new parking unit… Twitter.

As Business Insider reports, Roman police have set up the dedicated @PLRomaCapitale Twitter account to enlist the public in spotting parking violations.

The public is encouraged to tweet the location of an illegally parked car to the account.