{"id":6614,"date":"2025-05-22T08:51:13","date_gmt":"2025-05-22T07:51:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/buzzfeednews.uk\/?p=6614"},"modified":"2025-05-22T08:51:13","modified_gmt":"2025-05-22T07:51:13","slug":"heres-what-a-handshake-symbol-on-a-parking-space-means-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/buzzfeednews.uk\/?p=6614","title":{"rendered":"Here\u2019s what a handshake symbol on a parking space means"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In Pembroke, Ontario, certain parking spots now display a new insignia. The areas outside the Pembroke OPP station at 77, International Dr. that display the handshake symbol are designed to serve as community safety zones for online transactions. bIf you purchase something online and need to meet someone in person to pay for it or pick it up, there are locations you may use to guarantee everyone\u2019s safety, according to the Upper Ottawa Valley OPP. <\/p>\n<p>According to an OPP news release, \u201cProject Safe Trade aims to establish a \u2018community safety zone\u2019 at an OPP detachment parking lot to facilitate online property transactions.\u201d \u201cThe idea behind establishing a \u2018community safety zone\u2019 is to shift online transactions from private parking lots, homes, and other locations to public spaces<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Pembroke, Ontario, certain parking spots now display a new insignia. The areas outside the Pembroke OPP station at 77, International Dr. that display the handshake symbol are designed to serve as community safety zones for online transactions. bIf you purchase something online and need to meet someone in person to pay for it or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2719,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-random-stuff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/buzzfeednews.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6614","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/buzzfeednews.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/buzzfeednews.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/buzzfeednews.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/buzzfeednews.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6614"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/buzzfeednews.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6614\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6615,"href":"http:\/\/buzzfeednews.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6614\/revisions\/6615"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/buzzfeednews.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/buzzfeednews.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/buzzfeednews.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/buzzfeednews.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}