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The Parking Meter Turns 75 Today
nj_peeps writes "75 years ago Carl Magee filed a patent application for what would become one of the most hated inventions in history: the parking meter. From the article: 'Magee's brainwave was to install a device that had a coin acceptor and a dial to engage a timing mechanism. A visible pointer and flag indicated the expiration of the paid period, meaning you either had to move, put in more money, or face the wrath of the local constabulary. The design continued largely unchanged for more than 40 years.'"
The Parking Meter: Haunting humankind for 75 years.
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Write to your congressmen. Make them scrap those abominations!
Get out your pipe cutter and celebrate.
Some mornings it's hardly worth chewing through the restraints to get out of bed.
I treat chalk marks on my tires like any other form of graffiti. If you don't remove it immediately, the taggers assume you don't care, and then there's no end to it.
...nothing better to lock your bike to.