I know that a lot of people earlier this summer in Milwaukee were pushing to seize cars of people accused of cruising.  In other communities, people accused of soliciting a prostitute can have their cars seized.  Remember, they don't have to be convicted, merely accused.  It's a total insult to due process, but that doesn't stop people from trying to push it.  But there is a reason for due process, and here is a great example:

It was Rocio Palacios who first noticed the woman who appeared to need help.

It was 8 a.m. when she and her husband, Erasmo, dropped their 6-year-old daughter off at school and had picked up their 22-year-old daughter to go out for breakfast when they saw the woman waving her arms at 53rd and Kedzie last November.

The couple laughed, realizing this wasn't a woman in distress after all.

But within seconds, Chicago Police swarmed the family car, hauling Erasmo Palacios out in handcuffs. He was charged with solicitation of a prostitute.
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Eight hours later, Palacios, who has no criminal record, was released from custody. And weeks later, charges against him were dropped.
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"I'm so lucky I was with my wife -- imagine if I had to try to tell her and she wasn't with me," he said, before laughing at the image. "She'd never believe me. Never."
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Attorneys Lonny Ben Ogus and Joe Cavanaugh also want to know what happened to the family's 1983 Mercedes. It was impounded that November day and, Palacios said, his wife and daughter were even threatened with arrest as they tried to stop police from taking it, as they were left stranded that morning.

The city wants more than $4,700 in towing and storage fees if he wants the car back.

I guess this is a lesson to any gentleman who might decide to help a lady who looks in distress.  You'll get arrested for your trouble, and then have to pay the city several thousand dollars to get your car back, when you didn't even commit a crime in the first place.  Really, it's merely a tax for being unlucky.  Of course the man arrested is thankful his wife was there so he didn't have to explain it to her.  But the reality of it is that if she wasn't there to vouch for his intentions, he probably would never have been released in the first place.  Which is why attempting to prosecute a "crime" where all participants involved are willing adults is stupid in the first place.

Via Hit & Run.