I just left 200 fake parking tickets at YC Demo Day...
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#3The joke is pretty good but it's unfortunate that the startup (Tripl - discover the world through your friends beautiful travel stories) has nothing to do with the ticket. Seems like it would work better for AngelList or some other company.
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#4I must admit -- it's an ingenious way to pitch your company.
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#5superb hack. any leads?
would be great if you could follow up with any interesting stories that came out of this.
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#6Haha pretty creative. You should scale this up to the entire city of Mountain View!
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#7It's a funny, well-executed idea, but issuing official-looking city documents with "City of Mountain View" as the header and all of your identifying information is a great way to get written up by the police department.
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#8Oh man, this is either going end very well or very badly - there is no middle ground.
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#9Interesting idea, and I hope it works out for you!
Sadly, it's almost certainly against municipal code.
All it takes is one jerk to make a smart street team effort go bad by complaining to the police or mayor.
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#10http://picturesofpeoplescanningqrcodes.tumblr.com/
This is always relevant! I can't count the number of times I have shown this url to people discussing QR codes. And I am still waiting for the shiny day I find some creature "in the wild" conducting a QR code scan.