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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.
Maybe they should create more legal parking spots?
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?
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 decided 15 years ago to not live where such things would be needed. Life is good.
I’ve always found it odd that the “solution” to illegal parking is to render the car immobile. I mean I get they’re trying to force you to pay the fine so they’ll remove the block. But it’s still goofy. “Hey you can’t park here, and to prove we’ll keep your car where it’s not supposed to be.”
Until they are declared “racist”
A friend of mine repo’d a car with a barnacle on it, despite the security guards telling him that he can’t take it.
The barnacle was easily removed. Last I knew, he still has it (the barnacle not the car), they never called to get it back.
The car was picked up by the bank or their agent and presumably went to auction.
There is/was an epic thread that began on an Audi forum and ended up cross posted on many car forums from a guy who dubbed himself “Dolly Man.”
He was living in a HOA and you had to have a parking pass hanging from the rear view mirror to be able to park in your own driveway. His mirror had fallen off so he laid it on the dash where it could easily be seen, but the parking nazis booted his car.
He put it on car dollies and rolled it into his garage for some long term repair and restoration.
They demanded that he give the boot back “there it is, take it.”
But you have to pay. I will in some months. We need it now. Take it. You have to pay.
And round and round it went. By the end of it people were calling and hating on the parking nazis day and night and restraining orders and lawyers were bickering back and forth.
It got to the point that all the threads on it got wiped away. Truly an epic thread.
About 20 years ago, there was a wonderful scene in a movie. One of the main characters figured out how to always get a really good parking space in the city. He had his own Denver Boot in the trunk. He would put it on his front tire after illegally parking. Whether it was just a 5 minute stop, or half the night, his car was always where he had parked it.
Towing tends to work well.
