[Silly Little Cars] A New Meter Maid Vehicle

[Alec Bennett]

On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 2:08 PM, Kris Motola <kmotola at esoplawgroup.com>wrote:

>  Lower haight is just as bad. I havw seen Jill's - there is no way anyone
> could think it is a meter maid
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You'd think. Here's one of my Cushmans:

photoboof.org

As you can see, it doesn't look a bit like a metermaid anymore, but people
still think its a metermaid sometimes.

And if you get even one tag and don't clean it right away, you're doomed.

And by the way Jille, that etching was probably done with acid:

http://www.puregraffiti.com/graffiti-space/archive/index.php/t-89689.html

Bastards.








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> -----Original Message-----
> *From:* Jille Eikenberry [agent.hosen at gmail.com]
> *Received:* Thursday, 14 Feb 2013, 15:45
> *To:* Silly Little Email List [silly_little_cars at lists.sillylittlecars.com
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> *Subject:* Re: [Silly Little Cars] A New Meter Maid Vehicle
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>  My yellow, painted black, with a huge cat face on the front gets tagged
> all the time. And yeah they got the REAR window (which apparently is
> plastic) with some kind of hot device which essentially etched the tags
> right into my window. Permanently. I gotta move out of the Tenderloin...
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> Sent from my iPhone
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> On Feb 14, 2013, at 1:15 PM, Kris Motola <kmotola at esoplawgroup.com> wrote:
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>  My interceptor got totally covered (it was yellow from Sacto not SF blue
> and white). I painted it and moved it into the garage so no more graffiti.
> They even painted on the windows. Who does that?
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> -----Original Message-----
> *From:* Jille Eikenberry [agent.hosen at gmail.com]
> *Received:* Thursday, 14 Feb 2013, 15:12
> *To:* Silly Little Email List [silly_little_cars at lists.sillylittlecars.com
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> *Subject:* Re: [Silly Little Cars] A New Meter Maid Vehicle
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>  I would have so much money if I lived in San Antonio!!'
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> Sent from my iPhone
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> On Feb 14, 2013, at 1:01 PM, "Steve" <sclark1 at flash.net> wrote:
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>   Interesting how different perceptions are from one end of the country
> to the other.  I am sure there is some truth to the tongue-in-cheek
> reference to  the “portable graffiti wall”.  I have seen some of the pics
> where SF locals do mark-up a three wheeler not knowing whether it is used
> by a cop or not.  Take where I live (San Antonio) as an opposite end of the
> perspective continuum.  Marking up another’s vehicle, three wheeler or not,
>  owned by a cop or not, will likely be settled by Smith and Wesson if
> caught; so no one really ever goes there.  Now buildings, that’s a whole
> different thing.
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> *From:* silly_little_cars-bounces at lists.sillylittlecars.com [
> mailto:silly_little_cars-bounces at lists.sillylittlecars.com<silly_little_cars-bounces at lists.sillylittlecars.com>]
> *On Behalf Of *Powers
> *Sent:* Thursday, February 14, 2013 2:46 PM
> *To:* Silly Little Email List
> *Cc:* Silly Little Email List
> *Subject:* Re: [Silly Little Cars] A New Meter Maid Vehicle
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> How cool, a portable wall for graffiti !
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> Don't they think about these things before they make urban vehicles with
> vast white panels??
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> On Feb 14, 2013, at 12:15 PM, Jille Eikenberry <agent.hosen at gmail.com>
> wrote:
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>  I just saw one of these on my way home the other day (in sf)!
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> On Feb 14, 2013, at 10:49 AM, Alec Bennett <wrybread at gmail.com> wrote:
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>  Charley sent me this email about a new metermaid buggy, I thought I'd
> forward to the list:
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> On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 7:02 AM, Charley wrote:
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>  Alec,
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> Here is a link to the latest in electric meter maid vehicles that may
> become competition for the Westward Industries GO-4 Interceptors. Roanoke,
> VA has recently purchased several of these to replace their GO-4
> Interceptor meter maid fleet.
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> Wow, super cool. Looks like they're also deployed in Santa Monica. Their
> website doesn't have very many pics of them, but I pulled one from their
> goofy Powerpoint presentation, attached.
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