Cracked in 48 Hours

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Barnacle

Every so often, something comes along that changes the game. This is one of those moments. The Barnacle is parking enforcement that sticks.

Why it worked

The video worked because it presented a clever and unexpected way to overcome a common annoyance (parking tickets/boots) by exploiting loopholes in the device's design. The "hack" nature of the solutions and the relatable desire to avoid fines likely resonated with viewers.

Summary

This video explains how students found ways to bypass and remove a police parking boot called a Barnacle, which is attached to a car's windshield. They discovered methods involving weakening the suction with the car's defroster and disabling its GPS tracking with aluminum foil.

Structure

1Introduction of the Barnacle device
2Method 1: Using the car's defroster to weaken suction
3Method 2: Disabling GPS with aluminum foil
4Method 3: Exploiting the SIM card for free internet

Original caption

Impossible to Remove Police Device - Cracked

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The video shows a yellow parking boot, also called a Barnacle, which is a device that attaches to a car's windshield to prevent it from moving. The Barnacle is shown being applied to a car and later being removed by a person using a phone. The video also mentions that the device uses suction with 1,000 pounds of force and that it can be removed by sliding a credit card under it. One student realized the device had a SIM card with infinite data and used it for free internet. The police are shown trying to find the car with the Barnacle on it. The Barnacle itself acts as a device to immobilize a vehicle, and its functionality is demonstrated. The SIM card within the Barnacle acts as a source of free internet.

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Transcript

These students found a way to crack a police device to be impossible to remove. And it made the police look like clowns. It's called a Barnacle and it's basically a parking boot but for your windshield. Instead of being a boot on your tire that prevents you from moving, it's a suction onto your windshield that prevents you from seeing anything. So there's no way you'd be able to drive with this thing on. It's actually suctioned on with 1,000 pounds of force. So if you try to break it off, you would end up cracking your own windshield, which would be completely counterproductive. The only way to get it out is to pay a fine on your phone and then you can type in on the Barnacle to unlock and then you can type in on the Barnacle to unlock. These college students beat the whole thing in under 48 hours. The first kid figured out that if you just run your defroster on your car window for 15 minutes, the suction weakens enough that you could slide a credit card under it and pop the thing right off. Another student realized that he could wrap the entire thing in aluminum foil, which prevented the GPS system from working, which meant that the police would have no way to find where this Barnacle ended up. They would just end up wasting their money. But the final student realized that this device ended up coming with a SIM card that had infinite data. So he just left it on and used it to get completely free internet wherever he went and didn't even have to pay a dime. After this all went viral, they decided not to roll this for more hilarious stories like this.