Frozen Auto Redux
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I know that the picture of the car looked familiar when I saw this page. Of course! I'd seen a similar thing on IoTD.
Original from IoTD http://cellar.org/2002/auto.jpg http://www.cellar.org/showthread.php?t=1105 Check out the other pics: http://www.skyandsummit.com/Glacegeneve/index.html |
After seeing all these images of ice coated cars, my sick mind begins to wander.
I remember hearing of a tradition in downtown Boston where people shovel out public parking spots on the street in front of their houses, and then "reserve" them by placing a cone or lawn chair or something in the space. If someone takes their reserved spot, they sometime will vandalize that car. A better solution, in my opinion, would be to set up a lawn sprinkler and let the parking spot thief return in the morning to find their car entombed in ice like this. Would send the message without any actual damage to the car. I wonder what the law would have to say about this? |
Takes too much time, but sounds like quite an interesting idea.
In Philadelphia, parking in someone else's lawnchair-reserved space is a shooting offense. |
When I lived in Jersey, there was a blizzard that slammed us with more than three feet of snow within some insanely short amount of time. The downstairs neighbor sat in her parking-spot-reserving-lawn chair with a shotgun in her lap. :eyebrow: Yeah, no one else was gonna touch that one.
You figure, though, if you're gonna *sit* out there and wait for your roomate to return, the shotgun would be unnecessary. Said roomate showed up just a few minutes later, sans incident. |
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Another shot of that car from Wunderground. :)
Looks like it was taken a little later. |
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Anyone know what is (or was) that upside-down V-shaped thing in Bruce's picture?
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Looks like power lines bent down under the weight of the ice.
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I wonder if this is the same place...
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If I had any kind of reasonable public transit, I'd just leave the car to thaw out of it's parking space in the spring (on second thought, no I wouldn't. I am a driver through and through. The idea of being without a car gives me a panic attack). |
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I think that idea was in grumpy old men, one of them spent the evening showering the other's snow covered roof to effect an avalanche when the guy opened his door or something. |
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I notice that a lot of people in Philly use traffic cones borrowed from PennDOT or a city agency rather than lawn chairs. |
This isn't near as icy as the other cars, but I thought it was interesting to see how water can freeze in this position. It looks like the ice was starting to slide off the car and then froze there.
This is my car btw, I took this pic :) http://www.nexuscore.com/icecar.jpg |
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