ALERT The Barnacle Device - you're gonna love this!?!

[Toosh]

The Barnacle Device is a new tool for law enforcement. It attaches to your vehicle making it unusable until you pay up. The IRS just purchased 500,000 units. It's being used for vehicular fines of all sorts but also deadbeat dads and small claims judgements.

runs 1minute 11 seconds

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2yLhnw2W6y0&t=71s

 

[Matt]

Small claims judgments.... since when did the meter maids and cops start enforcing civil judgments?

This is why you are hated John Law.... when your ass gets smoked, make sure the widow doesn't waste our time with the go fund me bullshit!

 

[WalknTrot]

So now we'll end up with a bunch of scofflaws trying to drive with their head looking out the side window.

 

[tnphil]

Lol. Like someone is going to go to the trouble of driving to the nearest return box?

 

[Cardinal]

The IRS??
Since when do they enforce"vehicular fines?"

 

[Normallguy]

Looks like drill a couple holes and suction is lost.
I've got no doubt it has some kind of screaming device if this is done tho.
Doesn't look cheap either, we need MORE fed funding!

 

[Dennis Olson]

Become ungovernable….

 

[Dennis Olson]

Toosh, please remove the time component from the link, or simply go back to the source, re-copy the link, and overwrite the one in your OP.


Thanks,

 

[Twisted]

A good scraper blade should get under the edge lol! Or a sharpened coat hanger to stab under the side and see how long the vacuum pump can last

 

[Dennis Olson]

Does anyone else see a wee bit of a problem with drivers cheerfully taking the unit to a “drop-off point?” Gonna be a bunch of those things at the bottom of the nearest river.


JMHO

 

[Twisted]

After going to read what the barnacle designers did to test and update this unit, I'm wondering if you can just taze the damn thing and short it out completely. As advanced as it it, electronics have their faults hahaha

 

[Dennis Olson]

Maybe find one of those “flamethrower dogbots.”

 

[Twisted]

Does anyone else see a wee bit of a problem with drivers cheerfully taking the unit to a “drop-off point?” Gonna be a bunch of those things at the bottom of the nearest river.


JMHO

Looks like they are taking pics of license plates and the barnacle GPS transmits every 15 seconds if it detects movement. And if it's not returned you are on the hook for that too, on top of a damn fine.

 

[Macgyver]

Bet it comes off quicker than a boot with a cordless grinder.

But I piece of sheet metal or pallet strapping is probably faster.

 

[Quiet Man]

I never take things at face value these days.

ETA: This sort of thing will accelerate the ending of the IRS.

 

[Dennis Olson]

Looks like they are taking pics of license plates and the barnacle GPS transmits every 15 seconds if it detects movement. And if it's not returned you are on the hook for that too, on top of a damn fine.

Cover the camera.

 

[Ractivist]

The person who sets it takes all the pertinent information to know whose car it was put on.....and the evil law breaker will be liable for the safe return of the device. No doubt of that. It is amazing how obtrusive government is. This is like icing.

 

[Dennis Olson]

I wouldn’t return it. I’d destroy it. And I wouldn’t pay any associated fines.

 

[greysage]

Get barnacled because you don't have all your shots. Get barnacled if your travel is non-essential. I can see how well this will go for whatever operation gets to put these on private vehicles.

 

[Dennis Olson]

Get barnacled because you don't have all your shots. Get barnacled if your travel is non-essential. I can see how well this will go for whatever operation gets to put these on private vehicles.

Exactly! Which is why I advocate destroying them.

 

[Codeno]

...I'm wondering if you can just taze the damn thing and short it out completely.

I'm wondering if you could just taze the people who accepted the contract to design and build this thing, drag them into an alley and have a talk.

 

[Ogre]

They were using the Denver Boot over 70 years ago,
<Wheel clamp - Wikipedia>

 

[ShadowMan]

For everything "THEY" come up with to try to control us, We The People will come up with a work around. I'm sure within a week of these things being used there will be a "cheat" to defeat it. YEAH TEAM!!!

 

[Loretta Van Riet]

So now we'll end up with a bunch of scofflaws trying to drive with their head looking out the side window.

OR BACKWARDS!

 

[Profit of Doom]

Does anyone else see a wee bit of a problem with drivers cheerfully taking the unit to a “drop-off point?” Gonna be a bunch of those things at the bottom of the nearest river.


JMHO

You are already recorded as the scofflaw. Like a boot, you mess with it, you are fined. People will find a way, of course.

Cover the camera.

They are taking pictures of your license plate when the cop attaches it.

 

[TidesofTruth]

The Barnacle Device is a new tool for law enforcement. It attaches to your vehicle making it unusable until you pay up. The IRS just purchased 500,000 units. It's being used for vehicular fines of all sorts but also deadbeat dads and small claims judgements.

runs 1minute 11 seconds

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2yLhnw2W6y0&t=71s

There is absolutely zero articles stating the IRS purchased 500,000 of these units. They are not a purchasable item. They are leased at 250.00 a month. They have been around since 2016. On Barnacles website They list use case studies of those who use it. Don't you think they would tout 500k units used by the IRS if in fact they did make a deal on them. They have a handful of cities that use them on a limited basis. This is an ill-conceived and short sighted concept. I expect company failure within 3 years and I will repost here when they go bankrupt

 

[Dennis Olson]

You are already recorded as the scofflaw. Like a boot, you mess with it, you are fined. People will find a way, of course.

They are taking pictures of your license plate when the cop attaches it.

I know.

"If you choose to deal with men by means of compulsion, do so. But you will discover that you need the voluntary co-operation of your victims, in many more ways than you can see at present. And your victims should discover that it is their own volition—which you cannot force—that makes you possible. I choose to be consistent and I will obey you in the manner you demand. Whatever you wish me to do, I will do it at the point of a gun. If you sentence me to jail, you will have to send armed men to carry me there—I will not volunteer to move. If you fine me, you will have to seize my property to collect the fine—I will not volunteer to pay it. If you believe that you have the right to force me—use your guns openly. I will not help you to disguise the nature of your action."

- Atlas Shrugged

 

[energy_wave]

 

[Luddite]

I'm so glad the parking police and the road pirates don't need to get down on their knees to apply a tire boot any longer. /sarc

I feel bad for people that must spend their days where potential parking fines exist.

99% of my life is spent never being exposed to paid parking.
Paid parking is almost like living near a 7-Eleven.

To quote ol Joe Biden this week "Don't".

Bottom line: This is just one more example of lazy revenue generation or law enforcement. The meter maids are too lazy to call a tow truck.

Tow truck drivers gotta eat too.

 

[Profit of Doom]

Another reason not to frequent cities.

 

[zealotbat]

Remove the glass…replace.
Think outside the box...go to your trunk and get your freaking tire iron, go to work.

 

[ssonb]

Just remove and destroy them from everyone else's window in the lot except yours, flood the court system!!!!

 

[Thinwater]

View: https://youtu.be/3qn93g42Y9U?si=NvWkjMMloqiD9m0N


NYPD using for parking enforcement.

Drilling a hole in the correct place will break the vacuum

 

[Dobbin]

For everything "THEY" come up with to try to control us, We The People will come up with a work around. I'm sure within a week of these things being used there will be a "cheat" to defeat it. YEAH TEAM!!!

That's the beauty (one of them) of your humanity.

Keep a dirty windshield?

Owner says WD40 is wonderful stuff for removing "adhesion." (he uses it to remove labels.)

Dobbin

 

[Quiet Man]

I wouldn’t return it. I’d destroy it. And I wouldn’t pay any associated fines.

I might find an old microwave, defeat the door switch, and then cook the barnacle slightly ( ) before returning it.

 

[ShyGirl]

Just think about it. If these devices already have electronics incorporated in the design, there are ways to totally disable your vehicle electronically so it cannot move until a mechanic gives the right code to enable it again.

But, like ShadowMan said:

For everything "THEY" come up with to try to control us, We The People will come up with a work around. I'm sure within a week of these things being used there will be a "cheat" to defeat it. YEAH TEAM!!!

For every ECM there is an ECCM.

 

[Thinwater]

That's the beauty (one of them) of your humanity.

Keep a dirty windshield?

Owner says WD40 is wonderful stuff for removing "adhesion." (he uses it to remove labels.)

Dobbin

It uses a vacuum seal, sucking on. Oil would give it a better seal, like vacuum chamber grease.

 

[ed tank]

“They are leased at $250 a month”
An evil minded person might illegally park junkers with old tags found on the side of the road just for laughs.

 

[Illini Warrior]

side note - they are still re-running old episodes of Parking Wars - van drove around Philly and few other cities applying the Denver Boot to the ticket scarflaws >>>>

now - they have an armed guard copper watching their back - toooo dangerous otherwise

 

[Millwright]

First step, take an auto-punch and spiderweb the windshield under the device while starting.

Then call the cops and ask how the want to pay for said windshield.