The NYPD is unleashing barnacles to battle parking pirates.
The department this week said it will begin using “windshield boots” — a 17-pound device that attaches to a vehicle’s windshield like a barnacle and remains there until a scofflaw pays their tickets — on illegally parked trucks.
The contraption is also known as a Barnacle Device for its commercial-grade suction cups that attach to glass with 1,000 pounds of force, making it impossible to remove — like the sticky crustaceans on their oceanic hosts, officials said.
“The use of the Barnacle device is part of a pilot program,” an NYPD spokeswoman said Saturday. “The NYPD has leased four devices and we will use them to target illegally parked trucks and vehicles with excess fines.”
The panels cost $250 each per month to operate. So far, the city has leased four, which it used during an operation in Queens going after illegally parked trucks, the NYPD said.
The NYPD and the city didn’t immediately answer questions about how far they planned to expand the pilot program and how many more they would buy.
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The department this week said it will begin using “windshield boots” — a 17-pound device that attaches to a vehicle’s windshield like a barnacle and remains there until a scofflaw pays their tickets — on illegally parked trucks.
The contraption is also known as a Barnacle Device for its commercial-grade suction cups that attach to glass with 1,000 pounds of force, making it impossible to remove — like the sticky crustaceans on their oceanic hosts, officials said.
“The use of the Barnacle device is part of a pilot program,” an NYPD spokeswoman said Saturday. “The NYPD has leased four devices and we will use them to target illegally parked trucks and vehicles with excess fines.”
The panels cost $250 each per month to operate. So far, the city has leased four, which it used during an operation in Queens going after illegally parked trucks, the NYPD said.
The NYPD and the city didn’t immediately answer questions about how far they planned to expand the pilot program and how many more they would buy.
NYPD rolls out ‘barnacle’ windshield boots to force violators to pay
The NYPD began rolling out its new “Barnacle Device” on social media and in the street this week and plans to attach the suction-cup panels to the windshields of parking violators, immo…
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guys go around with a van and change your windshield.
