Pictures worth a thousand words!!

**deathwish2** · 04-29-2006, 08:18 PM

After reading that thread the other day about ODB-II codes . . . I was searching for info on my car, and came across this . . . .

Aw crud . . . :( :(
http://www.woodworking.com/dcforum/d...e6117cad2b.jpg

http://www.woodworking.com/dcforum/d...4e13a0accc.jpg

What the!?!?!?!?!?! }> }> }>

http://www.woodworking.com/dcforum/d...32117cb623.jpg

Apparantly, a student at a Community College racked up a few parking tickets from the campus police . . . so they booted his rear tire.

Being upset, he posted online, looking for 'assistance' in removing the boot! Some suggested cutting the lock . . . other cutting the boot . . . a few suggested leaving the trailing arm and rear tire there . . . one even suggested those wheeled casters that you put under a car to scoot it around a garage so he could drive it away!!

Well, instead of removing the boot . . . he slipped in his OE lug wrench under the loosely installed boot and took off the tire!

He apparantly left it there in the parking lot. The police had no idea who this kid was . . . he had bought the car from a friend who left the country, and never bothered to change the registration, since it was all paid up and his friend had left him the plates and registration.

It was only the posting on the web site, that was sent along to the campus police that got him 'busted'. Someone read the 'Property of' handwriting on the boot . . . and confirmed it with the mountains in the first picture. Freaking cyber-sleuth. ;)

Moral of the story, if you plan on committing a felony, don't post online looking for help first . . .and if you're the one seizing the vehicle . . . put the boot on tight! ;) }>

**TDHofstetter** · 04-29-2006, 10:27 PM

I wonder... if it's loose, what happens if you just drive away? Relatively slowly? Doesn't it just drag on the ground, looking inutterably silly?

Shame to leave it behind - I'd'a packratted off with the thing. Kinda' neat-looking, like the sound of one mechanical hand clapping. :D :D :D

-- Tim --

Crow ain't so bad
Once you get the hang of
the recipe

:)

**rrich** · 04-29-2006, 10:46 PM

Isn't the "Boot" the reason that selling R-12 Freon became illegal?

**deathwish2** · 04-30-2006, 07:51 AM

No, I believe they have a hardened rod that goes through the wheel from the front plate to the back of the clamp. That is what holds it tight.

The thread I got this from was hilarious (and over 30 pages), but it was also R-rated. ;)

**deathwish2** · 04-30-2006, 07:52 AM

??

No, AFAIK, that was an ozone thing. Unless by 'boot' you mean the rising tides in Venice. }>

**TDHofstetter** · 04-30-2006, 04:58 PM

The trick about Freon is you can squirt it onto hardened steel, chilling the heck out of it real fast, and you can break it easily.

You can do that with the new stuff, too, but not as easily as with R12.

-- Tim --

Crow ain't so bad
Once you get the hang of
the recipe

:)

Sonny Edmonds · 04-30-2006, 05:13 PM

So when is your court date, since they caught you?
Shoulda paid that fine! :)

Pretty funny! Too bad the kid got caught. Bet it doesn't happen again,
to the booter or the bootie. :P

:D

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