[HN Gopher] Atlanta's Boot Girls are challenging the car booting...
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       Atlanta's Boot Girls are challenging the car booting industry
        
       Author : evo_9
       Score  : 40 points
       Date   : 2023-05-16 20:05 UTC (2 hours ago)
        
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       | spiffotron wrote:
       | Being from the Uk this headline had a completely different
       | connotation. I'm very disappointed it's not actually about car
       | boot sales.
        
         | seabass-labrax wrote:
         | Indeed; this article is about what we might refer to in Britain
         | as 'car clamping'.
        
       | JohnFen wrote:
       | The spirit of Angle Grinder Man lives on!
       | 
       | https://www.geekextreme.com/angle-grinder-man/
        
       | PrimeMcFly wrote:
       | Good on them.
       | 
       | Those metal brackets are legal extortion and utter BS.
       | 
       | At least these women are fighting back against it, and I don't
       | begrudge them making some money by undercutting the actual
       | blackmailers.
       | 
       | Although I fear it isn't long until law enforcement hires them
       | just as a trap to arrest them.
        
         | netsharc wrote:
         | FTA, it isn't LE booting the cars, but private parking
         | enforcers hired by the lot owners.
        
           | mustacheemperor wrote:
           | I read the commenter's point to be that eventually the
           | private enforcers will go to LE to try and get them arrested.
           | I won't opine on who the Atlanta PD is more likely to side
           | with in that scenario.
        
             | PrimeMcFly wrote:
             | > I read the commenter's point to be that eventually the
             | private enforcers will go to LE to try and get them
             | arrested.
             | 
             | That was exactly my point.
        
       | tedunangst wrote:
       | > While "it is not illegal to own a boot key," the Atlanta Police
       | wrote, the use of a boot key to modify, tamper or disengage a
       | booting device from a vehicle could result in a variety of
       | charges, such as criminal trespass, theft of services, theft by
       | taking or second-degree property damage.
       | 
       | Easy for them to say that (and make initial arrest), but hard to
       | see how any of it sticks if you don't take the boot.
        
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