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PoliticAverse

(26,366 posts) Mon Jun 23, 2014, 07:36 PM Jun 2014

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San Francisco Clamps Down On Monkey Parking App That Allows Drivers To Auction Public Parking Spots

SAN FRANCISCO (CBS SF) — San Francisco is putting the brakes on a mobile app that allows drivers to auction off their choice public parking spots to the highest bidder.

City Attorney Dennis Herrera Monday issued a cease-and-desist demand to Rome, Italy-based startup Monkey Parking and CEO Paolo Dobrowolny.

Herrera also sent a request to the legal department of Apple Inc. to immediately remove the mobile application from its App Store because Herrera said it violates Apple’s own guidelines on legal requirements for apps.

The Monkey Parking app was launched in April and shortly after the city attorney’s office said it would investigate whether the business model of profiting off a public space was legal.

Read the rest at: http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2014/06/23/san-francisco-clamps-down-on-monkey-parking-app-that-allows-drivers-to-auction-public-parking-spots/

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San Francisco Clamps Down On Monkey Parking App That Allows Drivers To Auction Public Parking Spots (Original Post) PoliticAverse Jun 2014 OP

How do they train the monkeys to do that? DJ13 Jun 2014 #1

People are the craziest monkeys... n/t PoliticAverse Jun 2014 #3

ultimate freemarket BULLSHIT. Glad they stopped it. elehhhhna Jun 2014 #2

DJ13

(23,671 posts)

1. How do they train the monkeys to do that?

Reply to PoliticAverse (Original post)

Mon Jun 23, 2014, 07:51 PM

Jun 2014

I cant even train my cat to get me a beer.

PoliticAverse

(26,366 posts)

3. People are the craziest monkeys... n/t

Reply to DJ13 (Reply #1)

Mon Jun 23, 2014, 07:56 PM

Jun 2014

elehhhhna

(32,076 posts)

2. ultimate freemarket BULLSHIT. Glad they stopped it.

Reply to PoliticAverse (Original post)

Mon Jun 23, 2014, 07:54 PM

Jun 2014

Selling shit that you don't own. The American way?

I know! Let's et up a tollbooth on a random street while we're at it.

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