It's a familiar scene. A car with excessive unpaid parking fines is rendered immobile by a "boot" or clamp on its wheel. The result is a new headache for the driver and parking enforcement. The car's ...

NEW YORK (PIX11) – The NYPD has rolled out a new parking enforcement tool that locks onto a vehicle’s windshield. The windshield boot, also known as the “barnacle device,” can immobilize vehicles that ...

CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCBD) – Charleston City leaders are rolling out a new parking enforcement pilot program. Beginning on May 9, a device called the Barnacle will be used to immobilize vehicles if the ...

The "Barnacle Device" is a 17-pound tool that sticks to the windshield like a commercial-grade suction. New York City’s Police Department has revealed a new weapon called “windshield boots,” also ...

Enforcement of unpaid parking tickets has begun with a windshield blocker called Barnacle, the operators of Scranton’s downtown parking system remind motorists. The suction device that sticks to a ...

BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) -- The traditional parking-enforcement "boot" is getting the boot. The city of Bend has implemented a new tool to enforce parking ticket payments. If you have several outstanding ...

HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - A new controversial device, known as “barnacles,” have been popping up around East Oahu and costing illegal parkers. An alternative to a parking boot, the yellow horizontal ...

CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCIV) — City of Charleston Parking officers plan to try a new tactic for immobilizing vehicles with an excessive amount of unpaid parking tickets. The pilot program will use the ...

Feb. 26—Barnacle parking devices, an increasingly popular alternative to parking boots that attach to car windshields and are designed to immobilize parked vehicles, are not allowed on public property ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. NEW YORK (PIX11) – The NYPD has rolled out a ...