Denver Boot Still Sees Action In Namesake City
Invented by a Denver Symphony Orchestra violinist in the 1950s, the Denver Boot now immobilizes parking scofflaws worldwide. While not used as frequently as, say, parking-ticket-revenue-obsessed San Francisco, the Boot still makes regular appearances in the city that gave its name to the device.
The owner of this Tahoe was probably feeling carefree on a beautiful Colorado spring day… until he or she saw this.
Murilee Martin is the pen name of Phil Greden, a writer who has lived in Minnesota, California, Georgia and (now) Colorado. He has toiled at copywriting, technical writing, junkmail writing, fiction writing and now automotive writing. He has owned many terrible vehicles and some good ones. He spends a great deal of time in self-service junkyards. These days, he writes for publications including Autoweek, Autoblog, Hagerty, The Truth About Cars and Capital One.
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In the UK where clamping is all the rage it's illegal to damage one once it's on your car, but it's also technically illegal for someone to attach one to your car in the first place (altering a vehicle without the owners prior approval). I was once clamped behind my university building. Little did the clamp-man know that I kept a full set of tools in my car. Off came the suspension strut and everything else it was chained to and within 45 minutes I was free. The clamp itself was never damaged - I threw it into a nearby river.
Instead of throwing the clamp away in a river I would've left it right where it was, with a note on it that said "ta-da!" or "Houdini wuz here".