You get into your vehicle in the morning, drive away with the hope that a kind wind will clear off the snow from last night. You see people who believe this theory every day. But when it gets this cold that snow might be stickier than you thought. Not to mention the other drivers having to deal with the snow blowing off your vehicle, limiting their visibility can cause plenty of other problems. But what if it was going to cost you? A Winnipeg man was slapped with a nearly $240 ticket for driving with too much snow on the roof of his van.

The driver had roughly seven to 10 centimeters of snow on the roof of his minivan, that was enough to earn him a ticket from a police officer for operating a vehicle with an unsecured load worth $237.50.

It's a law in Manitoba and many other provinces regarding unsecured loads on vehicles, but bet you didn't know the law could be applied to snow, too.

The law says cargo transported by a vehicle must be "contained, covered, immobilized or secured" so it can't be dislodged from the vehicle or shift and adversely affect the vehicle's stability.

So basically it could apply to anything on the vehicle that isn't actually part of the vehicle that could potentially fly off and cause a hazard for people behind you.

So Airdrie, Do you think there should be a punishment for not brushing your vehicle off?