Mayor Shlomo Lahat has rejected an appeal by the Foreign Ministry not to place the “Denver boot” on diplomats’ cars which are illegally parked in Tel Aviv. Denver boots, so-called from the U.S. city where they were invented, are clamped on a wheel of an illegally-parked car, making it impossible to move. They are only removed, a few hours later, after payment of a fine.
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