A new invention could replace the rusty car boot with a more effective solution. The Barnacle is a new concept that uses industrial-strength suction cups to adhere itself to illegally parked cars ...

The city of San Marcos is introducing a new immobilizing device to crack down on unpaid parking violations. The enforcement ...

The City of San Marcos is adding barnacles, an alternative device to car boots, which will be attached to windshields of ...

Unlike steel parking boots — which lock a car’s wheels — the device immobilizes vehicles by blocking drivers’ views. “The use of the Barnacle device is part of a pilot program,” an ...

Parking scofflaws in Scranton will soon get stuck between a “Barnacle” windshield blocker and their unpaid ticket citations.

Beginning March 10, the city said its parking enforcement personnel would be using the Barnacle, a vehicle immobilization device that attaches to a car’s windshield. (City of San Marcos photo ...

The device will be used by the city marshal’s parking enforcement staff. The Barnacle attaches to a car’s windshield, making it undrivable until outstanding fines are paid. Unlike traditional ...

F or a motorist, few things are more aggravating than returning to your parking space and finding that your automobile has been towed. And even if the vehicle was parked in violation of municipal ...

A Barnacle parking enforcement device is installed ... Now, Grow America and the firm it uses to manage the system, a company called The Car Park LLC, as well as a magistrate’s office, have ...