Huh?

Strange I'd have thought anyone nicking a car would at least switch it off before dumping it, it's bound to draw attention if someone just walks away from a running car, maybe alien abduction ? ;)

On a similar (well, not really) note, on Saturday night I was following a silver BMW (not actually following it, just going in the same direction) when we stopped at the lights to turn right. He missed the lights going green due to (I thought) dancing away to his music, anyway we missed the green light. Next time around I sounded my horn at him and decided to go around him. On the way past I looked at him and he seemed to be having some kind of fit. I pulled up round the corner and rang the police/ambulance while I ran to his car. He was in a state, soaked with sweat, wide eyes, making circling genstures with his head and arms, seemed petrified and didn't seem to understand anything I was saying, the only thing he could say was "Ey ?" I turned the engine off stuck the hazards on and talked to him 'til the police/ambulance arrived, he didn't get any better but seemed a little less frightened.

Anyway, any idea what was wrong with him, didn't seem like a normal seizure to me, driving OK if a little slow for Saturday night until we stopped at the lights, too many pills ?

Major electrical failure, and the ministers wife owner ran for her life thinking it was possessed?

Sounds like an epileptic fit of the "small" variety. But I Am Not A Quack.

Perhaps the person couldn't figure out how to turn the engine off and opened the windows, turned on the lights and wipers in their attempts.

When I got my golf it tookme 2 hours and asking at least 6 people how to open the fuel filler.

Similar thing happened outside my parents house, some people abandoned a car, just left the engine running.

When I got the astra van I was driving away from a band rehearsal (giving the drummer a lift home) and couldn't figure out how to turn the interior light off, so Danny (drummer) took the bulb out! Fuck knows how I managed to turn it on without knowing, but there goes!

Peter

"AstraVanMan" wrote

I think you pulled the headlight knob when you turned the headlights on. (c;

Douglas

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It was Richard Hamster Hammonds car, he doesn't really drive a Porsche, and and he had a relapse in to Paul McKenna's Hypnotism stunt.

I say sue the Bastard.

How strange!

Perhaps it was being used in one of those annoying "look what members of the public did when they found a car by itself, running, with nobody to be seen| TV shows?

If they were, 7-8pm on a Sunday isn't a good day to pull the trick around these parts. There were only three people around to see it.

Is that "How much is that doggy in the window"?

And nope, I don't speak any language other than the queens english (even though she is a german with a danish greek husband).

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Yup. The italian for 'woof' is 'arf', apparently :)

Got it in one.

Drop me a mail Re: Saturday, my hard drive grenaded itself so i don't have your address no more :)

While it still had any petrol?

I think I'm getting good at italian. Or was that in Latin (the origin).

As soon as Carl mentioned it, I started to notice loads of latin-derived words (coda = end = tail?, vendita = to do with selling, cane = dog, etc.).

Peter

No, it was in Italian.

You should have also noticed vetrina from vetro (glass), quanto "how much" or quantity as in "quant suff." and spero "I hope" from schoolboy Latin.

I never did much Latin (did it at school for a year so I could get to go to Pompeii, learned a bit as well 'spose), but could relate a lot of the words to French I know - la vitrine (window - no, shit, fenetre is window - I'm sure vitrine means window in one language!) and j'espere meaning "I hope" in French.

Peter