Hah, my colleague did that, it got booted at a private property. It was late and he wanted to go home. Then after he left they took his wheel and threatened to dispose of it, he just threatened to call the actual police for theft of the wheel. Didn’t have to pay at the end.
That’s why these boots usually have a plate that covers the lugnuts
Doesn’t matter. They’re all pretty cheap & there are tricks to getting them off. What really will fuck you is they enter in all your vehicle information, they’ll grab your address & everything, and they’ll legally harass & fine the shit out of you.
Everybody involved kinda sucks. None of this is okay. I think it’s pretty fucking stupid, to pay for parking, to pay parking tickets. BUT: the alternative to all these cute little boots & wasting your time, money is they physically yoink your car & impound it in a towyard. Which is annoying AF. So instead they boot it & hope you’re a decent, normal person that doesn’t crack car boots.
…so if you find your car booted, unless you want to encourage them towing away vehicles all willy-nilly…just pay the stupid fine. And try not to park in pay lots in the future.
stupid to pay for parking
I heard !fuck_cars@lemmy.ml rumble. Prepare for an earful about free public storage for private property!
(Not taking a side here…)
Not taking a side but still trying to start a fight. Interesting take.
But sure if you want it: Drivers or not, free parking and the driving incentive it provides are massive drains on the taxpayers. It’s a net-negative. The fuckcars crowd can back everything with historical examples, studies, and all manner of hard evidence and the people that don’t even know how many cylinders their cars have only have embarrassing outrage. Of course they’re annoyed, car-centric infrastructure is actively hurting everyone and not a scrap evidence shows that it’s truly beneficial for literally anyone save for incredibly niche cases that aren’t ever what anyone is talking about. You should be pissed.
Those boots are easily pried off or drilled out. Pretty sure it took lock picking lawyer like 30 seconds to get into one.
It takes LPL about 30 seconds to get into any lock
especially with some of those tools he’s been marketing the shit out of lately!
true, but this one wasn’t lockpicked, it was just pried off.
I hate this picture so damn much. It’s so obvious how this wouldn’t work, yet people have been reposting this for ages.
Dude 30 seconds with a bandsaw or angle grinder and that boot is toast, of course he brought the whole thing home
I’m pretty sure it does, it looks visible through the wheel. I also think it’s kind of telling that in the first picture the wheel is already off the car, it doesn’t show them removing the lug nuts at all.
The ticket is probably cheaper than the wheel.
Who said he didn’t just take it with him in the trunk to deal with later? 😁
I was going to say, anybody with a full size spare in a sedan like that probably also owns an angle grinder for later
this greentext collage made the rounds amongst my friend group not that long ago:
when i think of boots, i think of it. so, i’m now thinking of it.
HONNNNNKPeace was never an option.
Honk
No pics of him drilling the boot or blasting the attendant with the air horn despite saying he does.
Fake AF.
well yeah it’s a green text ofc it’s fake. 4chan is just freeform creative writing as far as I’m concerned
Calling out things for being fake and gay is also 4chan tradition.
Fake: the story
Gay: anon got close to another man
what a masterpiece
What the fuck
This is the day you will always remember as the day you almost caught Captain Jack Sparrow.
Those free tire stands sure do come in handy when you need to change a flat.
dear lemmy
I’m so high and I don’t get it
thank you
Dear high, guy had a wheel lock for parking in a forbidden spot. He changed his tire to be able to drive instead of paying the ticket and getting it removed.
That’s why the boot design has a plate covering the lugs.
The Lockpicking Lawyer has a video or two on how to get boots off.
