I am not going to use the 'b' word, instead here is a clip of my home carpark protection device, that recently caused me bother when I had to replace the battery. You could drive over the top of it and it would push down, but if you tried to reverse it could well catch on something under your car and damage.
Later edit: Just to make it clear, this is to protect my car parking spaces from anyone else parking there, so I reverse out, raise the device and when I return, lower it before I park. The remote control is kept in the car.
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Who invented the secure parking device? Was it Wile E. Coyote?
ReplyDeleteLOL
DeleteI think the brand name was Acme.
DeleteOuch ...
ReplyDeleteOnly ouch for the incompetent, JayCee.
DeleteThat would certainly detain a thief
ReplyDeleteYes it could Jeanie.
DeleteI don't understand it.
ReplyDeleteI hope my edit note made it clear. I did not explain it properly.
DeleteI'd probably forget to use the remote, and damage my car backing out.
ReplyDeleteKirk, it is only up when you are out. Using it when your car is there, would be a disaster, soon enough, and as you suggest.
DeleteWhat a good idea!
ReplyDeleteDiane, we would have never bothered with it if we had get out of our car to raise or lower it.
DeleteIt's quite different from what's called a bollard here. But now I get the idea.
ReplyDeleteBoud, yes. It isn't a static post of substance but is called that name.
DeleteIt's a nifty little thing, I was imagining the regular type of poles that were somehow set to raise and lower, like the ones out front of stores to stop people driving in through the windows. Although I am not sure that type does raise and lower, they're more permanent.
ReplyDeleteYou pretty well have it River.
DeleteIs it set into the cement?
ReplyDeleteBolted into the cement, Strayer.
DeleteWhat a fabulous 'thing' to have for your situation. Nifty how you can move it up and down from your car.
ReplyDeleteMargaret, I could never be bothered to get in and out of the car.
DeleteYou are so up to date in Australia with tech marking out your car space. This morning I saw on Australian news an automatic delivery contraption get stuck on rail lines and then get smashed by a train.
ReplyDeleteThelma, it always amazes me about what people overseas learn about Australia, and at times like this, one I don't know about.
DeleteThere is a very amusing clip about Marty the store cleaning robot making a break for it. He was caught cutting through the parking lot.
DeleteInteresting to see how it works.
ReplyDeleteTP, it is fairly simple.
DeleteI haven't seen this particular bollard before. Bollards here are a
ReplyDeletewide pole about a metre high. Some have lights. They're often in a line at the entrance to a mall to stop thieves bent on crashing cars into shops. They're also in car bays and can fold down, usually commercial places. But then I haven’t been in underground carparks of high rises.
Aussiebel, I suppose it is an overall term for protecting.
DeleteNow I get it, useful device.
ReplyDeleteCertainly a deterrent, Deb.
DeleteNow there is something I haven't seen before! Clever
ReplyDeleteCloudia, we've never had anyone park in our space since, even if the device is down.
DeleteAh...I see. I suppose it is useful in the big city.
ReplyDeleteIt has been Debby.
DeleteThis is quite a useful device. Here people just put up a signboard on the gate: "Do not park in front of the gate".
ReplyDeleteThe spaces next to mine are mostly empty but when they are needed, a sign attached to a broom standing in a bucket goes up.
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