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	Parking meter - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A parking meter is a device used to collect money in exchange for the right to park a vehicle in a particular place for a limited amount of time.
		Parking meters are usually seen along the curb of a street, but are sometimes used within parking garages as well.
		In Berkeley, California, the "chopped off" remains of meter poles were a common sight during the 1990s, and parking was largely free (and chaotic) throughout the city until the government installed digital parking meters with very thick poles in 2000.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Parking_meter (402 words)

	Meter
		Par meter A peak-to-average ratio meter (Par meter) is a device used to measure the ratio of the peak telephone channe...
		Parking meter theft Parking meter theft is a type of minor theft where Parking meters are stolen, often as a prank.
		Variable area meter A variable area meter is a meter that measures fluid flow by allowing the cross sectional area of th...
	www.brainyencyclopedia.com /topics/meter.html (332 words)

	Slim profits in parking meter thefts
		Breaking into a parking meter takes a sledgehammer and a crowbar, and the time and sweat to pound and pry through a quarter-inch of iron.
		Meter theft has to be one of the dumbest existing urban crimes, combining maximum effort with minimum payoff.
		To steal a meter, they have to be yanked out of the ground, usually by breaking through the bolts fastening them into metal sleeves embedded in concrete.
	www.post-gazette.com /neigh_city/20010316parkingmeter2.asp (739 words)

	Parking
		Parking Parking facilities include indoor and outdoor private property belonging to a parking lot or car park, and indo...
		Parking lot Parking lot is the United Kingdom and several other English-speaking countries, a parking lot is called a ca...
		Parking structure The term parking structure is a Californianism, referring to something known by various different name...
	www.brainyencyclopedia.com /topics/parking.html (179 words)

	Parking Meter - Operations Review
		It is recommended that new electronic parking meter equipment be purchased to replace over 1000 existing empty spaces and the 3500 remaining mechanical meters over a 3 year period.
		METER RATE CHANGES Council policy is that parking meter rates should reflect off- street rates to minimize circulating traffic, and that they should be set to provide short term parking for area visitors.
		METER OPERATION HOURS In response to Council's recent request, Staff are reviewing the hours of operation of meters to see if there is merit in extending their use into the evening or to Sundays.
	www.city.vancouver.bc.ca /ctyclerk/cclerk/960109/a8.htm (2053 words)

	SDOT - Motorcycle Parking in Seattle
		This includes paid parking spaces (meter or pay station), spaces with time-limit restrictions, and spaces that are unrestricted (but still subject to the citywide 72-hour on-street time limit).
		If a parking meter controls the space, the meter must be paid as long as there is a vehicle occupying the space.
		If a parking space is controlled by a pay station, motorcyclists must purchase a receipt at a pay station and properly display it on the headlamp.
	www.cityofseattle.net /transportation/parking/motorcycleparking.htm (467 words)

	Police solve costly parking meter theft 'epidemic' (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The Pittsburgh Parking Authority meters were stolen in clumps from the Strip District, Bloomfield, Lawrenceville, Shadyside, East Liberty, Garfield, Squirrel Hill and Oakland as well as some from Downtown and the South Side.
		In some cases, an entire row of meters -- poles and heads -- would be stolen and then replaced by the parking authority, only to be stolen again not long after.
		Moreover, he said, he was amazed that no one called police when the thefts were taking place, given the loud sounds it would take to dislodge just one meter and pole, and the fact that numerous meters and poles were taken from locations.
	www.post-gazette.com /pg/04349/426492.stm (1036 words)

	Road Traffic Technology - San Francisco Parking Meter Replacements
		The new meters to be installed are electronic and thus overcome the past problems of mechanical meters, such as moving parts wearing down, loss of accuracy, the difficulty in finding replacement parts and their vulnerability to damage and theft.
		The meters accept various coins (unlike the current mechanical meters that only accept quarters) and in the near future, will be engineered to take in translink cards, also known as smart card technology.
		The multi-space meters are aimed at reducing sidewalk clutter and improving the aesthetics of the surrounding urban environment.
	www.roadtraffic-technology.com /projects/san_fran_parking (1026 words)

	Motorcycle Cruiser magazine on Anti-Theft Strategies
		Park your bike next to the security shack at work, cover it and make friends with all the security folks, so they know who should be leaving with that bike.
		An airport parking lot is pretty deserted at 2:00 a.m., and the bad guys may have time to bypass multiple theft deterrents.
		Parking where the bike is hard to move will tell you when your bike is being test-sat and when someone is actually trying to steal it.
	www.motorcyclecruiser.com /tech/antitheft (3928 words)

	WirelessWeek.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		To rob money from meters in Burlingame and other San Francisco Bay area cities, the thieves first steal a parking meter head and have a key retrofitted to it.
		At night, two or three thieves walk down the street, open the locks and empty all the change out of the parking meters into their bags.
		Parking meter thieves are not new to San Francisco.
	www.wirelessweek.com /index.asp?layout=print_page&articleID=CA3721&doc_id= (602 words)

	Online TDM Encyclopedia - Pricing Methods
		Meters need to be close to parking stalls (within about 100 feet), and sufficient in number to handle peak demand.
		More sophisticated meters can be networked so users can pay for additional time using a credit or debit card account at a meter several blocks away from where they parked, or using the Internet or telephone messaging, allowing motorists to pay from an in-vehicle telematic system or a cellular telephone.
		The meter is turned on and hung from the rear-view mirror when the vehicle is parked in a designated stall (such as on-street parking spaces, or municipal off-street parking).
	www.vtpi.org /tdm/tdm83.htm (3072 words)

	For parking meter male, the job's just the ticket
		Parking enforcement officer Matt Miller, left, talks with Thomas Palmisano, visiting from North Carolina, after Palmisano came out to his car on lower Queen Anne this week and found a gold Chevrolet had backed up against his bumper, keeping him from getting his car out.
		The Chevy got a ticket for parking too close to a stop sign (the car was 11 feet from the stop sign, well within the 30-foot no-parking zone).
		After 12 years, this meter male's mastered the method, as described during a two-hour ridealong last week on Capitol Hill that scared up some $400 worth of parking tickets and a new definition of Teflon calm.
	seattlepi.nwsource.com /local/175408_vjobjournal28.html (1268 words)

	Carolina Morning News on the Web \| Local News - Beach parking meter stolen 08/18/01
		The 150-pound meter, valued at $10,000, had been unbolted from a concrete slab and removed from the lot overnight.
		The meter was insured and contained an estimated $75 to $100, he said.
		Using the meter, the parking rate was $1 an hour or $4 for a full day.
	www.lowcountrynow.com /stories/081801/LOCmeter.shtml (318 words)

	Chicanery tops meters in Berkeley / Vandals wanting to park free put city in yet another jam
		Armed with coin-slot-jamming matchbooks and gum wrappers, cheapskate vandals are knocking out meters by the hundreds, costing the cash-strapped city millions of dollars and prompting officials to begin thinking about yet another expensive overhaul of the system.
		He put a quarter into his meter, noticed that it was stuck somewhere in the slot, then tried to free it up with his car key.
		But Betsy Mitchell, a 47-year-old educational outreach coordinator for the university, said she was well aware that the meters were broken when she pulled up to buy a quick cup of chili at Top Dog.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2004/01/25/BAG664HDH31.DTL&type=printable (1084 words)

	Definition of motor vehicle theft
		3: In almost all jurisdictions, theft of a motor vehicle is punishable as a [[felony]] due to the extreme...
		1: '''Parking meter theft''' is [[theft]] of [[parking meter]]s, often as a prank.
		1:...idered to be a [[prank]] by the perpetrators, the theft is often expensive and inconvenient, and sometime...
	www.wordiq.com /search/motor+vehicle+theft.html (819 words)

	The News-Press: Bonita Springs - Key likely used in meter case
		City employees in charge of emptying the meters reported earlier this week that dozens of meters along the beach for 12 city blocks were empty.
		He said crooks in the past have been known to steal a meter, have a key made to fit the lock, and then use the key to open meters up and down the beach.
		The meters during the annual winter-spring tourist season — especially around Easter — are usually stuffed full of quarters from tourists paying the 75 cents an hour beach parking meter fee.
	www.news-press.com /apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050324/NEWS0102/503240378/1002/NEWS01 (487 words)

	Parking meter case cracked - PittsburghLIVE.com
		Many of the stolen meters were found in a lot across the street from Harris' house, police said.
		More than 400 parking meters have been plucked from their posts over the last 18 months, according to the Pittsburgh Parking Authority.
		Pilyih said the meters were unscrewed from the base or a saw was used.
	www.pittsburghlive.com /x/tribune-review/trib/pittsburgh/s_283031.html (467 words)

	The CPTED Page - INTRO
		Among the goals of the study were determination of: 1) the primary crime problem(s) facing the parks, 2) which parks were experiencing crime problems, 3) the sources of the problems, and 4) the amounts and types of crimes occurring.
		The findings suggested "that people's use of public parks can be influenced by the park's landscape." Specific design elements are discussed with regard to their impact on users (e.g., vegetation, pathways, edge effects).
		Parking areas, although central to the public's daily routines and frequently the scenes of personal assaults, receive little attention.
	www.thecptedpage.wsu.edu /Resources.html (14697 words)

	Chicanery tops meters in Berkeley / Vandals wanting to park free put city in yet another jam
		Others have been known to saddle a healthy meter with a "broken" sign or a telltale baggie.
		When a meter is broken, a meter maid must chalk a car's tires.
		In 2002, the city replaced 211 parking meters on the south side of the university campus with one-hour and two-hour zones.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2004/01/25/BAG664HDH31.DTL (1106 words)

	AsianWeek.com: Bay News: SupesRoundup - Parking Meter Resolution Adopted (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The new meters are expected to replace the city’s 23,000 meters within nine months.
		The new technologically advanced meters have been touted as tamper-proof and have the ability to accept a variety of coins.
		He said if the commission began the bid again for the parking meters, the bids would probably be higher.
	www.asianweek.com /2002_05_17/bay_supes.html (478 words)

	Parking meter theft rises as three more are stolen; 10 this semester
		Parking meter theft rises as three more are stolen; 10 this semester
		Rhonda Wilson, a route marker for Parking Services, said she believes the meters are being stolen "as a rebellious issue." Wilson said a least 10 meters have been stolen this semester.
		"They are taking the meters by popping off the the tops," she said.
	www.stater.kent.edu /stories_old/99spring/021999/n8c.html (344 words)

	Automated Parking Attendant, Parking Equipment, Parking Meter
		The Smart Card can also be used to replace existing parking or campus cards, providing prepaid or billable parking, lot admittance, and with or without discounts.
		Inter-facing, acceptance and recharging of proprietary third party smart cards or mag strip cards, at the terminal, though special programming and agreement between the vendors, enable proprietary meter or other cards to be utilized and recharged at the terminal.
		In addition, each Smart Card can be tied to a specific user and the parking department's secret coding system, which identifies the smart card as being an authorized system parking card.
	www.mitico.com /mitivend_attendant1_.htm (927 words)

	3 charged with Greensburg meter theft - PittsburghLIVE.com
		Two men and a woman were jailed Monday for allegedly stealing and breaking open six Greensburg parking meters, causing an estimated $6,000 in damage.
		Police allege that parts of the parking meters were found in the truck and $1.75 in coins were found in Postlethwait's pants, Seranko said.
		The meters were stolen from city parking lots on North Maple Avenue, North Main Street and South Pennsylvania Avenue, Seranko said.
	www.pittsburghlive.com /x/tribune-review/s_191343.html (332 words)

	Definition of theft
		Legally, theft is generally considered to be [[synonym]]ous with...
		The technical name for the charge is '''petty theft with a prior'''.
		3: In almost all jurisdictions, theft of a motor vehicle is punishable as a [[felony]]...
	www.wordiq.com /search/theft.html (760 words)

	ZSOLT NEMETH, TIBOR ZOLTAN PEHM, ZSOLT SZABADOS, burglary, theft, Seminole County Sheriff's Office, Traveling Criminals (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Above individuals were arrested in Toronto, Canada for burglarizing coin operated parking meters that were of the modern "burglar-proof" type that could not be pried open.
		This is the type of parking meter used throughout Canada and the United States.
		The meters were burglarized by drilling a hole in a prespecified location on the meter by using a template.
	www.seminolesheriff.org /traveling_criminals/trav105_nemeth&ohem&szabados.html (229 words)

	Self-Propelled City: News and Opinion
		Bicycle theft was the only larceny that did not decrease in 1996.
		Lock your bike to a fixed, immovable object like a parking meter, or a permanent bike rack that is cemented or anchored into the ground.
		The parking meter head must prevent the thief from slipping locked bike off over the top.
	www.self-propelled-city.com /cgi-bin/news.pl?task=article&artfile=theftbike.txt (1424 words)

	Encyclopedia Obscura: Spiritual Warfare (NES)
		And another thing, the fraggles are twelve inches tops, while uncle Mac is able to put quarters into a parking meter.
		You may have noticed that the park is completely fl.
		This is because all the contours and fl areas of the character sprites are transparent, so if they were to walk on, say grass, their beards, sunglasses and armpits would suddenly turn green.
	www.encyclopedia-obscura.com /gamessw.html (1803 words)

	STUFF : NATIONAL NEWS - STORY : New Zealand's leading news and information website (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Stealing a Tauranga City Council parking meter has cost Jason Ritchie $500.
		The 20-year-old Tauranga man was walking down a city street with the parking meter at 3.30am on February 19 when he was seen by a passing police patrol.
		He pleaded guilty to a charge of theft when he appeared in Tauranga District Court yesterday.
	www.stuff.co.nz /stuff/0,2106,3203265a11,00.html (170 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Description: In May, 1978, Brink's Inc. was awarded a contract to collect coins from some 70,000 parking meters in New York City for delivery to the City Department of Finance.
		The city sued Brink's for negligent supervision of its employees, seeking to recover the amount stolen.
		As the fact of theft had been established, a reasonable estimate of the amount stolen was acceptable to the judge.
	www.stat.yale.edu /~jay/deptdata/ParkingMeter.txt (169 words)

	Archive--parking meter theft (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Two parking meters in the small lot south of Old Main were ripped out of the ground and stolen this week.
		Whatever the reason, it is unique someone would steal two meters from the same area in a three-day period, Sessions says.
		The meters are emptied every Tuesday, so the one stolen Monday could have contained anywhere from $10 to $20, Sessions said.
	www.hardnewscafe.usu.edu /archive/dec2002/1211_thieves.html (362 words)

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