Attention David Carr’s brother: Because of an “oversight,” scalping tickets is ostensibly legal in D.C. At least for the next month or so.

As WJLA and Fox5 reported, D.C. police were told to stop making arrests for reselling tickets as the law against doing so was repealed. After Fox let Council Chair Phil Mendelson know what was up (he was unaware that the law had disappeared), he told the TV news outlet that the Council will likely take up emergency legislation to reinstate the law.

So how did this all happen? Well, it seems Joe Carr’s Washington Post op-ed, which detailed how he was arrested for trying to sell Nats tickets near the stadium, had something to do with it. From Fox5:

A source in the executive branch says the provision on scalping was deliberately removed after a baseball fan wrote an op-ed in the Washington Post describing his arrest for scalping outside Nationals Park.

The intent was to put it back in after internally reexamining the law, but according to the source, that never happened.

The law stated that tickets cannot be sold anywhere on public land, with offenders facing up to 90 days in jail or a $300 maximum fine. But now? Anarchy! At least for a few weeks.

Update: MPD spokesperson Gwen Crump has confirmed the report: “When the administration revised the vending regulations, scalping was not included. Emergency legislation to reinstate this provision will be submitted to the Council for consideration in November.”