ParkingEye keeps its peepers on your parked plates
By Ryan Block 
posted April 25th 2005 2:02AM
posted April 25th 2005 2:02AM
Just when we thought we were out of the woods when it
came to parking tickets, boom, some company called ParkingEye has to go and make it easier for the metermaids to tag
our ticket-magnets cars with fines. The system is analagous to the red-light and speeding cameras mounted on
many lampposts nowadays—it tracks cars entering the lot (we won't even touch the Big Brother implications) and
immediately begins a countdown until it's ticket time. Perhaps most frightening, however, is that it was debuted at
this year's ParkEx and Traffex convention—the metermaids have a convention now? Dear lord, save us all.
Think that sucks? Where I live they actually have those cameras mounted on the meter maid's vehicles (Jeep Wranglers). What I don't get though is why I still see the metermaids lean out the door and chalk the tires after they spent something close to $80,000 on those cameras.
This looks like a job for rotating license plates!
Best bumper sticker I ever saw: "Meter maids eat their young."
(and yes, there was a ticket on the window of that car)
Taking a hammer to these cameras would be a brilliant idea!
Nate, good call. Where's KITT when you need him?