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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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
true, but this one wasn’t lockpicked, it was just pried off.
especially with some of those tools he’s been marketing the shit out of lately!