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1935: An entrepreneurial politician files a patent application for a device that will elicit curses and contempt from generations of motorists: the parking meter.
In Washington D.C., parking meters are allegedly out to destroy the human race as “out-of-order” meters are suddenly coming back to life and repairing themselves, leaving a number of motorists with “wrongful” parking tickets.
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