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At onStreet Pay & Display machines, nearly all of the parking attendants
press some buttons on the front of them, wait about 5 seconds then walk
away. Does anyone know what buttons they are pressing & why they do it?
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Joe wrote:

At onStreet Pay & Display machines, nearly all of the parking attendants
press some buttons on the front of them, wait about 5 seconds then walk
away. Does anyone know what buttons they are pressing & why they do it?

Prove they've been there? Something like the old key stations for night
watchmen?

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"Joe" wrote in message
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At onStreet Pay & Display machines, nearly all of the parking attendants
press some buttons on the front of them, wait about 5 seconds then walk
away. Does anyone know what buttons they are pressing & why they do it?
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Joe wrote:
At onStreet Pay & Display machines, nearly all of the parking attendants
press some buttons on the front of them, wait about 5 seconds then walk
away. Does anyone know what buttons they are pressing & why they do it?

Nope.

Why not film them and let us know :)


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"HVB" wrote in message
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On Sat, 12 Mar 2005 21:07:08 +0000, Joe
wrote:

At onStreet Pay & Display machines, nearly all of the parking attendants
press some buttons on the front of them, wait about 5 seconds then walk
away. Does anyone know what buttons they are pressing & why they do it?

The coin return button in the hope of getting some small change
returned? (No chance!)

A friend's kid used to do this at every machine he saw.
He apparently amassed a quite substantial increase in his
pocket money this way.

tim

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tim wrote:

The coin return button in the hope of getting some small change
returned? (No chance!)

A friend's kid used to do this at every machine he saw.
He apparently amassed a quite substantial increase in his
pocket money this way.

Wasn't the idea to stick some paper or a rag up the coin exit so it
stopped refunds being returned, then come back to the machine later,
remove the 'plug' and gather one's booty.

Not that i would ever condone such irresponsible behaviour.

Someone told me. Honest.

John B

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On Mon, 14 Mar 2005 18:04:27 +0000, JohnB wrote:


Wasn't the idea to stick some paper or a rag up the coin exit so it
stopped refunds being returned, then come back to the machine later,
remove the 'plug' and gather one's booty.

Not that i would ever condone such irresponsible behaviour.

I seem to recall that BT had this problem with some of their payphones
back in the 1980s.

There was a particular type of pay phone that had a plastic flap that
could be jammed up to trap any returned money. BT altered the design
of some of the flaps on the pay phones.

Graham

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"HVB" wrote in message
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On Mon, 14 Mar 2005 15:49:40 +0100, "tim" wrote:


"HVB" wrote in message
On Sat, 12 Mar 2005 21:07:08 +0000, Joe wrote:

At onStreet Pay & Display machines, nearly all of the parking attendants
press some buttons on the front of them, wait about 5 seconds then walk
away. Does anyone know what buttons they are pressing & why they do it?

The coin return button in the hope of getting some small change
returned? (No chance!)

A friend's kid used to do this at every machine he saw.
He apparently amassed a quite substantial increase in his
pocket money this way.

I don't remember the last time I saw a P&D machine that gave change...
or any extra time for overpayment. We're being diddled.

I agree that you don't usually get change (the hopper is just
for rejected coins), but IME it's quite common to get extra time
for the overpayment

tim

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On Tue, 15 Mar 2005 15:56:55 +0100, "tim"
wrote:
I agree that you don't usually get change (the hopper is just
for rejected coins), but IME it's quite common to get extra time
for the overpayment

Works here (Kingston borough). A while ago, credit unused in the
evening would roll over to the next morning as well, but that no
longer happens. I can only think of one reason for that - to collect
more money, with the extra benefit of a few penalties for people who
didn't get to the car park before the chargeable period starts.

Richard.

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On Tue, 15 Mar 2005 23:38:59 +0000,
(Richard) wrote:

Works here (Kingston borough). A while ago, credit unused in the
evening would roll over to the next morning as well, but that no
longer happens. I can only think of one reason for that - to collect
more money, with the extra benefit of a few penalties for people who
didn't get to the car park before the chargeable period starts.

Quite. AFAIAC, all parking machines in car parks that aren't
physically locked at night should allow rolling over to the next day,
if only because it means that people who have decided to have a drink
can happily leave their car until the next day.

Neil

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In article , Neil Williams
wrote:
Quite. AFAIAC, all parking machines in car parks that aren't
physically locked at night should allow rolling over to the next
day, if only because it means that people who have decided to
have a drink can happily leave their car until the next day.

The Wheelhouse car park in Hounslow has recently changed to
charging £1 for 2 hours 0600-1800 and £1 for any length of time
from 1800-0600. I am not going to get up to investigate but wonder
what the expiry time is if you put £1 in at 0500 or 0555:
obviously at 0605 you get until 0805.

Honest dealing would mean that if you put in £2.00 at 1700 you
would get a ticket expiring at 0700 the next day, but I am not all
sure that the machines are this clever.

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Tony Bryer wrote:
In article , Neil Williams
wrote:

Quite. AFAIAC, all parking machines in car parks that aren't
physically locked at night should allow rolling over to the next
day, if only because it means that people who have decided to
have a drink can happily leave their car until the next day.


The Wheelhouse car park in Hounslow has recently changed to
charging £1 for 2 hours 0600-1800 and £1 for any length of time
from 1800-0600. I am not going to get up to investigate but wonder
what the expiry time is if you put £1 in at 0500 or 0555:
obviously at 0605 you get until 0805.

Honest dealing would mean that if you put in £2.00 at 1700 you
would get a ticket expiring at 0700 the next day, but I am not all
sure that the machines are this clever.

Sometimes the machines aren't clever but the companies are nice
(*shocking!*). At Luton town station's car parks, it's £1 per day for
either Saturday or Sunday, but you can't put in £2 on Saturday and get a
ticket that covers Sunday for overnight parking. However, I once emailed
the company that runs the car park (Meteor) to ask about this, and they
said it's OK to just buy and display two Saturday tickets.

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