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PTD: Parking Ticket Dispenser

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A Samurai has his Katana. A Jedi has his Light Sabre. In the "not to distant dystopian cyberpunk future", Meter Maids will have Parking Ticket Dispensers as their chief instrument of dispensing justice.

Since the initials, "PTD", are very similar to Philip K Dick's initials--which are used for the eponymous PKD pistol of Blade Runner fame-- and since DMV is more or less, a cyberpunk story, I took a lot of cues from the iconic weapon. such as the clear polyethylene grips--except that I decided to go with a more "policeman like" palette for their coloring. :D

Initially, I wanted to use the same general proportions from a Colt Army Single Action revolver for this retro-futuristic weapon, but I found that a Colt Anaconda worked better for my purposes. (Many thanks to my good friend and retired postal worker Ken Cox for the gift of the Complete World Encyclopedia of Guns. ;p)

A little pseudo-technical information: A standard PTD carries 250 blank parking tickets in the form of compactly folded sheets of interwoven carbon nanotubes.

Each ticket is accelerated to approximately 300 meters per second by a series of 110 wafer thin magnetic field accelerators, lining the interior of the dispenser's barrel, and is programmed to unfold within seconds of attaching itself, nigh-irremoveably, to a target.

With a PTD, every Parking Enforcement Officer holds the power of life and debt in her hands.
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V1EWT1FUL's avatar

great, now they can give tickets while the car is moving