After a blizzard hit New York City Feb. 22, a viral Instagram post said, in protest of the city’s inefficient snow removal, a man crafted a car entirely of snow and received a parking ticket for the sculpture.
“NYC man crafts realistic snow car — receives parking ticket from NYPD,” said text on the video.
But a video and images included in the post show events that did not happen in New York or even as recently as this month. It uses images from a similar post on Facebook nearly eight years ago and a video from Lithuania in 2021. And neither posts say law enforcement issued real parking tickets.
The 2018 Facebook post was from a machinist in Canada who fooled Montreal law enforcement with a car made of snow and was issued a fake parking ticket for the prank. The sculpture was in a local snow removal zone and later cleared by sanitation workers the following day, CBS News reported at the time.
The Instagram post also used 2021 footage showing a Lithuanian couple sculpting a Ferrari out of snow and painting it to replicate a real sportscar. Donata Bugiene, who documented her husband building the Ferrari out of snow, was featured on FOX10 and Storyful.
We rate the claim that this Instagram video shows a New York City man sculpting a car out of snow False.
