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’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…)
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
If that’s the case why change the tires? Why not just remove the clamps?
Probably didn’t have his angle grinder on him, people don’t normally just carry those around. But he’s probably got one in his garage.
Those boots are easily pried off or drilled out. Pretty sure it took lock picking lawyer like 30 seconds to get into one.
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.