California man faces 13 years in jail for scribbling anti-bank messages in chalk



$6000 to clean up sidewalk chalk, seems legit. Meanwhile they charge $$ to cash a check.
 
From John Hasnas in his essay The Myth of the Rule of Law:

In this Article, I have suggested that when it comes to the idea of the rule of law, the American public is in a state of deep denial. Despite being surrounded by evidence that the law is inherently political in nature, most people are nevertheless able to convince themselves that it is an embodiment of objective rules of justice which they have a moral obligation to obey.


Hasnas discusses law in a slightly different context than that of the BOA incident. But his essay reveals problems of monopoly law that are worth noting in cases like this.

It's worth reading.