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- From: houle@nmt.edu (Paul Houle)
- Subject: Re: Man opens parking meters
- Message-ID: <1993Jan20.234435.25378@nmt.edu>
- Organization: New Mexico Tech
- References: <72.271.uupcb@ozonehole.com> <llqrh9INNek9@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM>
- Date: Wed, 20 Jan 1993 23:44:35 GMT
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- In article <llqrh9INNek9@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM> williamt@athena.Eng.sun.com (Dances with Drums) writes:
- > Here in our area, actually up in San Francisco, thieves have
- >apparently figured out an easy way to knock the top off of meters and
- >drain them of their cash. Of course it really helped that a local
- >TV station broadcast the method in detail -- the number of meter
- >break-ins skyrocketed. There are alot of headless meters sprinkled
- >thoughout the city right now. Theoretically, it is illegal to park
- >at a broken meter, though I don't think they are enforcing this.
-
- Although this isn't anywhere near as larcenous, a friend and I
- once discovered that one could hit a certain kind of parking meter with
- a piece of rebar on a certain spot, and the vibrations would make the
- little label that points towards the parking space fall off. The amusing
- thing was that this happened 100% of the time, so that a person could
- go down the street and casually whack every meter once and only once and
- somebody could tail behind him, collecting the metal labels.
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