"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."
"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."
A February 2026 Instagram post went viral claiming a New York City man crafted a snow car and received a parking ticket from NYPD. However, fact-checking revealed the post contained misleading content from unrelated sources. The images originated from a 2018 Facebook post featuring a Canadian machinist who created a snow car in Montreal and received a fake parking ticket as part of a prank. Additionally, the video footage came from 2021 and showed a Lithuanian couple sculpting a Ferrari from snow. Neither original post indicated real law enforcement issued actual tickets. The claim about the NYC incident is false.
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