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Viral Gold Coast ‘Parking Hack’ Prompts Legal Warnings of Possible Jail Time

Lawyers say obscuring road markings to evade a ticket may amount to attempting to pervert the course of justice.

Overview

  • A TikTok video shows a couple covering a continuous yellow kerb line with sand near Coolangatta beach to hide a no‑stopping marking, drawing millions of views and split reactions.
  • Queensland rules prohibit stopping on a continuous yellow line, with local reporting citing a $333 fine for violations.
  • Criminal lawyer Avinash Singh cautioned that deliberately tampering with road markings to avoid enforcement could be treated as perverting the course of justice.
  • Maximum penalties cited include up to 25 years in Victoria, 14 years in New South Wales, and seven years in Queensland and Western Australia.
  • The couple say the clip was a joke and they were dropping off surfboards, and there are no reports in the coverage of charges or fines being issued.