St. Petersburg Target Parking Blank Post-It Notes on Cars

Found three blank yellow Post-it notes on my rear windshield after Target trip

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1. Nov 5, 2026, 4:46 PM#1
   Hey everyone!! So I ran out to Target today after work to pick up some items for the toddlers, came home for a little bit, and then went back out. When I pulled into my driveway, I happened to look back and saw three blank yellow Post-it notes stuck across the outside of my rear windshield?? They were completely blank and randomly spread across the glass, just flapping in the wind! Honestly one of them actually flapped right off while I was driving down the street. I am probably just overthinking this, but it made me super uneasy... could someone be marking my car or putting a tracker on it? Has anyone in St. Pete ever experienced anything like this before?? What should I do next? 🙂

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2. Nov 5, 2026, 5:00 PM#2
   Wrong. Nobody is tracking a family vehicle using paper sticky notes stuck to exterior glass where wind blows them off at 35 mph. 1. If someone wanted to track your vehicle, they would slap a magnetic GPS tracker under your subframe, not bright yellow paper on your rear glass. 2. This was either kids playing a stupid joke in the parking lot or someone's reminder notes blowing out of their hand. 3. Throw the remaining notes in the trash and move on with your day.

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3. Nov 5, 2026, 5:22 PM#3
   Honestly... sounds like bored kids hanging around target / parking lot shenanigans... certainly not some high-tech vehicle marking scheme... though people driving giant lifted trucks down central ave parking spots do far worse things to glass... just peel them off / ignore it...

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4. Nov 5, 2026, 5:57 PM#4
   Thank you Dan and CentralAveChowder! That makes me feel a bit better! Dan, did you mean just looking under the rear bumper with a flashlight, or is there anywhere specific on the vehicle frame people check? I just want to make sure I am keeping things safe with the kids in the back! 🙂

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5. Nov 5, 2026, 6:48 PM#5
   Probably some idiot goofing off in the retail lot while people are trying to get out onto 4th Street North, I spent twenty minutes stuck behind somebody slamming on their brakes every ten feet looking in their rearview at stuff stuck on their back window instead of using their turn signal to get toward I-275, if SPPD or DOT would actually monitor that gridlock people wouldn't be messing around sticking paper on cars while sitting in traffic.

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6. Nov 5, 2026, 8:12 PM#6
   Clean the paper off your glass before you drive anywhere else. Trash blowing off windshields clogs front storm drain cowls. HIGH TIDE expected tomorrow morning. Last thing anyone needs is paper pulp backing up street drainage.

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7. Nov 5, 2026, 11:27 PM#7
   You kids don't remember back in the late 90s when people used to stick actual paper flyers under every single windshield wiper in the shopping plaza lots!!! You couldn't park anywhere without coming back to five different paper ads for carpet cleaning or pressure washing plastered across your glass! Half the time if afternoon storms hit, the ink would melt right onto the windshield! Blank yellow sticky notes flapping off in the wind just sounds like someone dropped their notepad or kids messing around in the lot! Nothing to get worked up over at all!

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