Monday 11 March 2019

At Last, A Use For That Dyson!

The Toff-tastic West London borough of Kensington and Chelsea has recommended that Hugo and Caggie stop paying to park their Bentleys with cash – because hoover-hauling hoodlums are sucking coins out of the meters.
*blinks*
...the gangs cut a suitably nozzle-sized hole in the side of the pay machine then suck out the shrapnel.
Sometimes, you just have to admire the ingenuity...
"It is a trend we need to stop and motorists going cashless is one way we can help tackle this.." Cllr Will Pascall said.
Hmmm. As the person who sent this puts it:

A couple of thing of note. 

 1) with all the surveillance cameras the police appear to be unable to catch anyone with a vacuum cleaner at work. 
2) from the council, it appears that they are trying to make paying parking fees a cashless endeavor which allows them much more data collection.

Quite!

 H/T: Ivan via email
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4 comments:

  1. Anonymous11 March 2019 at 11:32

    Paying by card doesn’t mean any more data collection. Without getting too technical, the rules applied by the payment card industry (Visa, MasterCard, etc.) state that merchants can only use card data for payment, nothing else. For example they aren’t allowed to use your card number to track repeat visits. It’s just not an issue.

    Besides, Hugo and Caggie are already paying by card (or by iPhone). Who still pays to park in K&C using cash? Tradesmen. That’s who can be expected to bear the brunt of any changes.
    - Andrew M

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  2. Anonymous11 March 2019 at 12:14

    I guess they also rejected the idea of installing parking meters made of something slightly stronger than wet bog roll.

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  3. Anonymous13 March 2019 at 16:02

    Found the pic:

    https://media.gettyimages.com/photos/paul-newman-about-to-be-arrested-for-decapitating-parking-meters-in-a-picture-id130893761

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  4. JuliaM24 March 2019 at 06:56

    "...they aren’t allowed to use your card number to track repeat visits. It’s just not an issue."

    But it does sound plausible, so that's usually all people read.

    "...installing parking meters made of something slightly stronger than wet bog roll."

    Wouldn't that just encourage greater effort to remove them? At what point, I wonder, does it become unprofitable for the thieves?

    "Found the pic:"

    LOL!

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