Here's what Joe Sixpack does when his work van gets tagged by the parking police. He pleads his case with the nice lady with the ticket book, and then his co-worker whips out a metal saw and saws the damn thing down.
Parking Meter Alarm Is Too Convenient For The Average Driver
For those that regularly have to deal with feeding quarters into parking meters, this device could be a life ticket saver. It's a small keychain that includes a timer and holds a stack of quarters. Set the timer when you feed the meter and it will beep five minutes prior to it expiring. But there is a definite downside …
39 Percent of Atlanta's Parking Meters Stolen During Past Year
Someone has been doing a Cool Hand Luke and sawing off Atlanta's parking meters, managing to get 39% of the city's total meter population this year. City officials think the thefts are all about cutting off the heads for easy change-removal at a more convenient location, but perhaps it's a cell of the Nationalist…
VIOLATION: First Parking Meters Installed on this Day in 1935
Sure, we all hate parking meters, but before July 19, 1935, they were just a gleam in the eye of America's crooked municipal bosses and the ladies who performed their happy endings. On this day, that year, the city of Oklahoma City installed the first automatic parking meter in the US, the Park-O-Meter. According to…
Smile, You're on Candid Photoviolationmeter
In the 1967 movie "Cool Hand Luke," when a cop asks Paul Newman why he's drunkenly sawing the heads off of parking meters, he tells him, "Small town, not much to do in the evenin.'" Newman's "natural-born world shaker" would have found himself on the chain gang even sooner had that small town had a photoviolationmeter, a…
