Parking Meter Fail

Posted by Rob Beschizza, December 4, 2008 11:25 AM | permalink

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Another Failmeter, courtesy of commenter Boycat:

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#1 posted by nprnncbl , December 4, 2008 11:59 AM

A failure that I once encountered (but don't have a photo of): negative time on the meter, which was then deducted from the time purchased by coin.

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#2 posted by sheshe , December 4, 2008 12:06 PM

mine said fail yesterday! the parking guy standing there said it means you get a free 2 hours when they finally come fix it. from now on i'm all about the fail meters

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#3 posted by Anonymous , December 4, 2008 12:11 PM

Please say that this has been submitted to failblog.org. If not, I might need to shoulder the responsibility myself

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#4 posted by TJ S , December 4, 2008 12:26 PM

So, if you get 2 free hours, then Fail = Win?

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#5 posted by boycat , December 4, 2008 12:50 PM

Neat!
I took a picture of one of these in my hometown:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/jre/152479215/

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#6 posted by sheshe , December 4, 2008 12:52 PM

i think fail for them, win for you

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#7 posted by vamidus , December 4, 2008 1:05 PM

I've been reading about Motorolla for some time now and this looks Shopped. Just like their crappy phones.

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#8 posted by nprnncbl , December 4, 2008 1:56 PM

#7 Vamidus: you forgot to mention the Krave.

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#9 posted by guy_jin , December 4, 2008 2:43 PM

i do believe those are spider legs inside that second meter. perhaps that has something to do with the failure?

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#10 posted by airshowfan

, December 4, 2008 6:46 PM

Saw one of those near USC a couple weeks ago. Thought about photographing it, but then I figured FailBlog must already be full of'em.

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#11 posted by Ghede , December 4, 2008 8:01 PM

Man. I saw one of those parking meters, but the lighting was working against me. Couldn't take a picture with my crappy camera phone.

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#12 posted by Anonymous , December 6, 2008 9:40 PM

"Fail" is really just a four letter version of "paper clip". It used to be that after they fixed the meters, they would put in two hours. Now it sounds like DC has got license plate scanners to get people for two hour violations regardless of working, non-working or even existent meters.