r/interesting • u/Separate_Finance_183 • 6d ago

MISC. NYPD personnel deploying "Barnacles" on illegally parked cars

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u/firesoups 6d ago

You’re thinking too rich. Zuckerberg and Bezos aren’t driving around manhattan and parking on the streets.

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u/Dr0110111001101111 6d ago

Finland uses the system. Back in 2001, the CEO of Nokia got a speeding ticket worth over $100k

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u/iamworsethanyou 5d ago

He was charged 25 years ago and we're still talking about it. Typical Nokia

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u/Dr0110111001101111 5d ago

Hah, I see what you did there.

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u/MobileSuitBooty 6d ago

Lowkey the idea of setting traps for billionaires to trip over and hand in a few 100K that can go to a school is kind of brilliant.

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u/CocoaCali 5d ago

We already do the same in reverse so they can go to space. So let's switch the game up for once

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u/PalmMutator 5d ago

You'll have mr beast racing 150mph in 25mph zone to make another "charitable" video. Pass

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u/Altruistic-Cap8524 5d ago

Lmao sure whenever it’s not going to wars

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u/Common-Mix-8279 3d ago

But it won't go to a school it will go right into the hands of a local politician which somehow manages to be more crupt that the federal politicians SMH

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u/JetTeague_NoDraws 3d ago

What kind of ceo drives his own car?

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u/BTR1701 2d ago

Yes, all those billionaires that are driving around Manhattan and parking in bike lanes.

Some of you folks are living in a robust fantasy world.

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u/AdhesivenessUnfair13 6d ago

It’s not going to a school silly goose’s it’s going to the police department. Ain’t no way they’d let that kind of cabbage leave the precinct

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u/Mandingy24 6d ago

We all know that money would not be responsibly allocated

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u/Ornery_Director_8477 6d ago

Best leave the billionaires hoard it, eh?

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u/Fresh_Wrongdoer4819 6d ago

and it does so much good in their hands

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u/ExtremlyFastLinoone 6d ago

You misread, it said finland not whatever shithole you live in, they actually have standards over there

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u/Dick-Fu 6d ago

All the income will go directly to purchasing more barnacles to put on poor people's cars

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u/surprised-duncan 6d ago

That fucking rules

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u/Dr0110111001101111 6d ago

Yeah. And that was 25 years ago. In today’s dollars that would be almost double

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u/Tech_Veggies 6d ago

The CEO of Nokia was quoted as saying "If Nokia made the speed limit then it couldn't be broken."

;-)

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u/traffick 5d ago

That's the kind of thinking that has kept Nokia on top of the smartphone market.

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u/Keepurkewl 6h ago

I think it's a joke about how unbreakable old Nokia phones were.

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u/ScottyStellar 6d ago

Right but all the elites in the US would ensure their cars are driven and owned by others, so they dont pay the fee

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u/Dr0110111001101111 5d ago

They could do that already to avoid DUIs and we still hear about high profile DUI cases once in a while

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u/Ok-Woodpecker-223 4d ago

Parking fines are not based on income though

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u/0veremployed 10h ago

because speeding is linked to an individuals drivers license, parking isnt.

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u/ElbryanWyn 6d ago

Maybe not but people with whom they have vicarious liability likely do

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u/waxy1234 5d ago

Barnacle the chopper. In Arnold’s voice

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u/Cosmic_Seth 6d ago

Elon Musk did this all the time in California.

He didn't care at all.