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| Cerebus:
Talking of hats in the back of cars: A bloke I used to know used to say that you can make a car invisible to the police by leaving a homburg hat in the rear window. :) I don't know if the following still works simply because I don't know if the police still use them, but one trick was to leave a hardbacked log book that looked like the log books police were required to fill out on taking a car out on the dashboard - strategically placed so that the front and spine were invisible outside the car. Acted as a near perfect traffic warden repellant. (Anybody remember actual traffic wardens rather than the council parking goons we have nowadays?) |
| Brumby:
My take on the Dwagon's eBay experience - translated into the vehicular world.... "Door handle missing. Lights come on but engine won't start." Alternatively... "Door handle missing. Lights come on but vehicle doesn't move." ... only to find out the transmission is missing - and the crankshaft has been damaged in its removal. |
| mnementh:
You forgot the important part: You can inspect the vehicle, but only from a distance of at least 10 feet. If you want to open doors or pop the hood, not until you've paid to have it towed to your house. mnem *knocks self unconscious with a flywheel mallet* :=\ |
| mnementh:
--- Quote from: bitseeker on July 03, 2022, 02:06:41 am --- --- Quote from: mnementh on July 03, 2022, 01:34:23 am ---WELCOME TO 5000! --- End quote --- Indeed! :-DMM --- End quote --- Yeah, I figured in honor of page 5000...What the hey... Might as well post something that's actually on topic for a change. :-DD mnem Fun fact: a 54645A cannot taste blueberries. |
| vk6zgo:
--- Quote from: Brumby on July 03, 2022, 02:11:55 am --- --- Quote from: bd139 on July 02, 2022, 02:59:13 pm --- --- Quote from: Cerebus on July 02, 2022, 02:53:25 pm --- --- Quote from: tggzzz on July 02, 2022, 01:43:44 pm ---Normally when I'm driving and see a BMW, I scowl. --- End quote --- Why? All the people who used to give BMWs a bad name have moved on to driving Audis and Range Rovers. --- End quote --- They’ve moved on from there too. They all drive Teslas now. Probably so there’s some plausible deniability about their driving being cunty. --- End quote --- Down under (from my experience) we still have the classic BMW "entitled", closely followed by the Mercedes crowd. Volvo drivers have evolved into an eclectic bunch - but you can generally identify driving habits from the model - the older tanks equate to "sedate" (somnambulistic) while the sportier versions are more likely to be quicker off the mark. Telsa drivers, however, have been somewhat normal - not that we have a great many to observe. Nevertheless, ANY vehicle with a white hat on the rear parcel shelf will be travelling at a speed that would allow someone to walk in front, waving a red lantern. --- End quote --- Back in the day, the WA cops normally wore a blue serge uniform & white peaked hats like this: http://www.policemansway.com/collection/detail/white-police-cap-wa/ My brother, who was a ship's Radio officer on the State Ships, used to chuck his very similar uniform cap on the rear parcel shelf. After a while, it dawned on him why all the cars around him were being driven so immaculately. ;D |
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