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Re: [OM] OT: Potential Auto Theft?

Subject: Re: [OM] OT: Potential Auto Theft?
From: Rick Beckrich <rbeckrich@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 26 Apr 2015 16:14:59 -0400
Back-in-the-day, the simple solution was to remove the rotor from the
distributor, stick rotor in pocket, replace cap.
Worked all over Europe, as well as in Chicago, in the 50's.

Later I had a piece of merde MG sedan (hydro suspension) that I would leave
on the street with key in ignition... No one would steal the damn thing!
On Apr 26, 2015 2:33 PM, "Jez Cunningham" <jez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Or just leave your iWatch alone for 24 hours and it will stop working :-)
>
> On 26 April 2015 at 14:17, Chris Trask <christrask@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > >
> > >>
> > >>>       Takes a lickin' and keeps on tickin'.
> > >>
> > >>John Cameron Trask, I presume.
> > >
> > >John Cameron Swayze, I believe.
> > >
> >
> >      Back in the late 1950s, many TV commercials were live, especially
> the
> > Timex watch commercials with John Cameron Swayze.  One evening he was
> > demonstrating the durability of a Timex watch by attaching it to the
> > propeller of an outboard motor, dropping it into a tank of water, then
> > running the motor for about 30 seconds.  When he lifted the motor out of
> > the tank, the watch was gone.  I was watching that commercial when it
> > happened.
> >
> >      The watch was found a couple of weeks later, embedded in the
> > ceiling.  They wound it up and it still ran.
> >
> >      Try doing that with your iWatch.
> >
> >
> > Chris
> >
> > When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro
> >      - Hunter S. Thompson
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