The Barnacle!!!

misterbarlow

Anyone else seen this !!!!..??
How long before the thievin' scumbags start using this to get around the clamping ban??

"Being 'tested' in the US with 'great success'..."





http://barnacleparking.com/infficiencysolved-1/

Basically it mounts on the windscreen with massive powerful suckers, and renders the vehicle more or less un-driveable!!

If you’ve ever had a clamp put on your car, you know what a total pain in the !!! it is. The cumbersome contraption is as much trouble for city parking attendants as it is for you.

Well the Barnacle solves one half of that equation—yeah, you’re still screwed. The new device is attached to your windshield via two suction cups that pucker at 750lbs of force each. You may have visions of motoring down the road with your head out the window, ala Ace Ventura, but Barnacle’s inventors assure us, that’s an incredibly difficult endeavor, and not worth trying.

It comes equipped with an integrated pump and commercial grade suction cups that provide 100's of pounds of force, securely fastening it to the windshield and making it nearly impossible to remove without the release code. With a built-in anti-tamper alarm, it can sense when someone is attempting to move the vehicle or illegally remove the device.

Perhaps more importantly, the device is not only more effective at shutting your ride down, it’s lighter to carry around and much safer for parking enforcement to attach.

Once put in place, motorists can call a number listed on the device to pay fines and receive the code to remove the machine. Then you fold it up, throw it in the trunk and take it back to local Parking Enforcement for a partial refund.

Currently the yellow book of shame, as I’m calling it, is in experimental use in Pennsylvania and Florida.
It’s passed all tests with flying colors so far, but winters could pose the biggest test yet. The creators aren’t sure how icy conditions/snow will affect the suction.

pappa_golf

Guidance on Section 56 and Schedule 4
of the Protection of Freedoms Act 2012:
Recovery of Unpaid Parking Charges
3. Background/purpose of the
policy
3.1 The Protection of Freedoms Act 2012 makes a number of changes to the
law related to parking. It bans private sector wheel-clamping and vehicle
removal where there is no lawful authority to do so, and, as a balance to
that, provides landholders with extra powers to manage parking on their
land once the ban comes into force. It does this by allowing landholders,
in certain circumstances, to hold the registered keeper of a vehicle liable
for unpaid parking charges if the registered keeper refuses or is unable
to name the driver at the time the parking charge was incurred. The
relevant parts of the Act are:
  Section 54, which makes it an offence to clamp, remove or otherwise
immobilise a vehicle without lawful authority in England and Wales,
from 1 October 2012

Fruitcake

Imobilising a car on private land is illegal, whether a clamp or chain and padlock or something like this is used on the vehicle.

You can use gates or bollards in the car park itself, as long as they were there before the alleged offending vehicle arrived.

If a car is illegally immobilised, I believe it is perfectly lawful to remove the device.

Laws on council land or public roads is different.

misterbarlow

oh ok, I hadnt actually read the full legislation, only assumed 'clamping' only only was banned... nothing much to worry about then from the look of it...!!!

Shows you the lengths they will go to though!!!

pappa_golf

section 54 also states that it is legal to use a tazer or kick the *hit out of any PRIVATE parking company person attempting to immobile a vehicle


ok , it was dropped from the final publication.

Fruitcake

pappa_golf wrote: »

section 54 also states that it is legal to use a tazer or kick the *hit out of any PRIVATE parking company person attempting to immobile a vehicle


ok , it was dropped from the final publication.

That section was removed to protect the guilty.

fisherjim

I'm sure a couple of small holes drilled through the centre of the suckers would do the trick, as for the alarm who cares!