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Posted on 06/10/2024 6:28:17 AM PDT by davikkm
Picture this: a bright yellow contraption adheres to your windshield like a determined barnacle on a ship’s hull. But this isn’t marine life—it’s the Barnacle, a high-tech parking deterrent that’s turning heads (and immobilizing wheels). With suction cups boasting a whopping 1,000 lbs of force, it secures itself to your car, rendering any escape futile. No more clunky wheel clamps; the Barnacle is sleek, efficient, and, dare I say, oddly captivating. But fear not—there’s a QR code escape hatch for those who’ve crossed the parking law abyss. Welcome to the future of parking enforcement!
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Turn your car on to high heat and wait. You should be able to get it off with a flat edge of some kind.
You’re welcome.
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The University of Oklahoma (OU) announced on January 14, 2020, that it would start using the Barnacle on illegally parked cars on its campus beginning on January 21. By January 16, OU students had figured out how to defeat the Barnacle using a variety of means, including by using a defogger and a credit card to release the suction cups, by blocking its signal with an aluminum Faraday cage, and by parking 12 decrepit cars as bait to exhaust OU's stock of Barnacle's devices. OU paused its deployment of the Barnacle before its start date.
Tungsten carbide drill bit from the side it’s vacuum sealed even the thinnest leak will break that vacuum seal.
I keep a 500w inverter and a 120V 3 amp sawzall and diamond cutting wheels in the tool box in the trunk no parking boot has ever withstood the sawzall. I loan it out at my favorite little dive bar in Austin on the regular the closed shopping center next door at night boots and the regulars such as myself help the tourists shoot the finger at the parkingnazis. The look is priceless when the come back later and there is just boot pieces in the lot we sit on the patio and have a good laugh.
Safelite repair, safelite replace!
Another government plot to extort more money from the citizenry for having the audacity to park on public streets.
Much like taffic cams, the idea is to maximize traffic fines as a less controversial money maker than raising taxes.
Probably the engineering department.
When I was in college, I always parked in the staff lot. I would affix my parking pass to the corner of the windshield where the wiper didn’t hit and made sure to never scrape the snow and ice off that section.
Two years at that school and zero tickets.
Maybe they should create more legal parking spots?
>>By January 16, OU students had figured out how to defeat the Barnacle using a variety of means
From an article on that:
“the Barnacle also has a built-in SIM card. One reddit user figured out the SIM card had unlimited data, and hacked it so they could tether their own personal cell phone to its network, giving them unlimited free phone data for several months.”
Americans are ungovernable when we want to be. I just wish we’d choose to do that more.
That would defeat the purpose of bringing in more money.
LOL, after you pay the fine and remove it yourself, you’re supposed to drive it to a drop off box to return it.
Since it has a GPS inside it they can find it, but I’m betting it won’t be at the drop off box. Should be some interesting locations they pop up.
I wonder if you can be fined again for a destroyed unit?
“I just wish we’d choose to do that more.”
Especially college kids who are imbibing the totalitarian swill from communist professors.
Lol! My free Ear Worm du jour. Thanks!
They’re just a big suction cup. If you drill a hole in it it will come off, but how many people carry a drill around in their car?
I bet a simple ice pick could break the vacuum easily. I remember years ago they came up with a clamp to immobilize the tire.
So you take pride in illegal parking, vandalism, and destroying property. Got it. Nice to know you’re such a fine upstanding citizen.
Now I wanna hear your pretzel rationale for your actions.
I decided 15 years ago to not live where such things would be needed. Life is good.
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