Thursday, January 16, 2014

Noted



Spotted today by @grac43 on East Second Street and Avenue B.

Not sure how to score this one: City 0, Car owner 0?

Regardless, it is one way to deal with a car boot...


[Photo by Mark White.]

16 comments:

A little while ago I said...

YES! Nice. Stickin' it to the man.

Anonymous said...

That is fucking amazing.

Anonymous said...

I attempted to assist a friend in taking the air out of the tire to free it from the clamp! He wanted to sell it. 30 bucks all day long!

xootrman said...

It is very impressive and certainly much cheaper than the tow + extra charges.

Anonymous said...

Ha!
How was this done? Aren't boots supposed to make this kind of thing not possible?
Is this just an extremely poorly deigned boot?

As an aside: I'm suddenly seeing a lot of these around the neighborhood. Sure fks the sht out of street cleaning.

Anonymous said...

Sadly, this is not going to work out well for the car owner:
See that serial number sticker on the boot? (the sticker he should have peeled off). It's in a database next to his cars license plate number.

Whatever parking fine he had has now been upgraded to an arrest warrant.

Should have thrown the boot in his trunk, and taken it to sleep wit da fishes.

Makeout said...

@ Anon 4:29- Oh yeah. Fucking' OOPS huh?

Anonymous said...

i've seen a number of booted cars in the last 10 days or so, and a couple of cars being towed. i guess the new mayor is making his mark.

ahoy polloi said...

Am I the only one who immediately thinks of the Simpsons' trip to NYC whenever they see a booted car?

nygrump said...

Oh yeah, sure, the mayor is sitting in his new office personally decreeing "tow more cars!" Especially from neighborhoods that helped get him elected. Sure, its policy from the mayor. Of course it is, there was never a car towed or booted before Jan 1. Why not go all the way and blame it on Obama.

Unknown said...

Several months ago, in 2013, a new private firmreceived the city contract to boot cars. They operate separate from the NYPD, but on data received from the PD and other departments. I found out some of this information when I called 311 to complain about cars being booted while parked in crosswalks.

Anonymous said...

The city needs money to pay for everything DeBlasio promised in the election.

Anonymous said...

The strange thing about this booting company that's working with the city is that you do not need to be illegally parked for them to boot you. You just need to owe more than $350 in tickets. This means that they troll the streets checking every car license plate
Bastards!

Anonymous said...

> This means that they troll the
> streets checking every car license
> plate

using their automated license plate reading cameras!

I-)

Anonymous said...

The tire boot is the modern day equivalent of the stocks or the pillory. Discuss.

Anonymous said...

ANON 10:54 AM

thanks for giving me a new way to look at that object!! awesome-ness!