I just can't understand some people

[Paddy]

ROLF! hehehe

[ZokesPro]

Damn you KV!

[Technoid]

Reminds me of the story my father told me some time ago…

When he was working on a saw yard (or whatever it is called where timber comes in and planks go out…) driving forklift.
Usually they got break-ins in the forklifts, but never ever in one of them….
My father and the other forklift drivers always wondered why (including the driver).
And one week the fellow who usually drove that forklift was sick.
And My father found out why there never was any break ins in that forklift
He touched the handle to climb up to the door and got a nasty zap…
The whole forklift was electric, the electric motor heater had a ground error
The normal driver had never found out since he yanked the cord out before entering the forklift as a habit!
Strangely enough it seemed to be contagious as the other forklifts also had ground errors soon enough and the break-ins swiftly ceased to happen… (and afterwards the drivers “found out” and repaired their motor heaters )

What a shocking experience for the burglars

[RichL]

I heard a particularly nasty trick played by a doctor once who was fed up with his convertible being stolen/broken into.

This doctor had worked in casualty, and had treated a few policemen who'd been retreiving stolen cars and found the scumbags had left behind dirty needle tips embedded in the seats etc.

So this doctor gets himself a dozen or so needle ends and arranges them under the fabric seat cover on his convertible. The idea being, scumbag theif rips open the ragtop with big knife, scumbag theif jumps into the drivers seat, scumbag theif gets multiple perforations and thinks twice about stealing the car.

I dont know if it worked or not.


BTW, a company called TOAD alarms used to make a system that filled the interior of the car with smoke when the alarm was triggered. They also did some stick on window film that made the side windows nigh on shatterproof.

[KvHagedorn]

When we used to do a lot more car alarms where I work, kids would come in all the time asking of we could sharpen the upper edge of their window glass for them (of course we wouldn't do this.) The idea being to leave your car alarmed with the windows down and have a motion detector inside hooked to the alarm. You then use relays to have the electric windows roll up if someone puts their arms inside.. of course the razor sharp glass on the top edge of the window adds to the "effect."

[Dr Mordrid]

Long ago I had someone attempted to steal an under-dash tape deck (remember those?) out of my Fiat Dino.

Too bad I had an insulated copper plate connected its underside which was in turn connected to a battery, a single transistor oscillator and a car igniton coil

Took me weeks to get another window for the Dino, but the deck stayed put....

Dr. Mordrid

[Paddy]

LOL

I was suprised that the side windows would shatter as much as they did. It's made an awfull mess... I may invest in some film to prevent it heppening again... At least it'd be less to clear up.

[Claymonkey]

When I was still living in Boston my girlfriend took our car to her work place in Allston. At one point in the day she looks out the window and notices the quarter glass on the passenger side has been broken. The jerk who broke into the car did it because he saw maybe $2.50 in change in the alcove under the stereo.

He of course rummaged through the car and left a mess, especially all the glass on the back seat. When she called me to tell me about it I nearly had a heart attack. Rummaging through my bag I realized I had taken out my brand new Visor Pro ($300) and must have left it in the car. She looked in the car but didn't see it.

That evening I was cleaning out the glass in the back seat and on a whim rummaged under the seats. Well I'll be, my visor had slid under the passenger seat and the guy must have done a quick search.

What pissed me off is that some homeless guy breaks into our car just to steal $2.50 in loose change. It ends up costing me $75, a heart attack, and the oh so lovely look of duct tape and cardboard for a couple of days.

I guess what I'm saying Paddy is I feel your pain

[Paddy]

Which reminds me:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/

DUCT tape, beloved of American do-it-yourself enthusiasts, can cure warts.
The tape has no exact British equivalent, but carpet tape has some of the same qualities. Its purpose is to repair flexible air ducts in heating or air-conditioning systems, but its actual uses are legion, from patching paddling pools to rebinding books and hanging pictures. And curing warts, according to Dean Focht III of Madigan Army Medical Centre in Tacoma, Washington.

Dr Focht’s team worked with 51 wart sufferers aged between 3 and 22, and treated 26 by wrapping duct tape around their warts. The patients had to leave the tape on for six days before rubbing the wart with an emery board or a pumice stone, leaving it for 12 hours, and repeating the cycle. Other sufferers were treated with liquid nitrogen, which freezes the wart.

The results, published in Archives of Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine, show that most warts treated with duct tape disappeared in a month, about the same time as it took with freezing. Overall, 85 per cent of the tape group were cured, compared with 60 per cent of those treated by freezing.

In fact, about the only thing the tape cannot do is seal ducts. A 1998 study found that it was strong, sticky and fairly easy to use, but that it invariably failed in tests.

[ZokesPro]

Originally posted by Paddy [MU]
LOL

I was suprised that the side windows would shatter as much as they did. It's made an awfull mess... I may invest in some film to prevent it heppening again... At least it'd be less to clear up.

Side windows are made to shatter in a million peices.

If you take a hard metal object like a screw driver and press it hard against the windows it will shatter.

It's so that you can easily escape incase you drive into a body of water and your sinking fast. Usually the water pressure is too great for one to be able to open then door.

[Paddy]

ah, well ...

I'd just have to carry some scuba gear then!

[ZokesPro]

Watch out for angry sea bass! (or sharks with freakin' laser beams on their heads!)

[Paddy]

aye, them sharks with freakin' laser beames attached to their feakin' forheads are a bitch! Still, it's save you having to cook the shark after catching it!

[Byock]

hmm, do you use the laserbeams to cook the shark?

[ZokesPro]

Originally posted by Byock
hmm, do you use the laserbeams to cook the shark?

You cook them the same way you cook chicken!