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Mon 3 Mar 2003 15:24
Boy racers - cabsmanuk
Just had to share this one with other backroomers.

Parked outside Halfords waiting for eldest son to drag himself away
from bicycle dept. when a fancy looking small Pug covered in chrome and alloy
bits and pieces pulled up at the side of
me and out gets young driver with a bit of a stunner girl friend.
I was just about to call after them that he'd left the engine running when he
turned round, pointed his key at the car and switched the engine off.
What a poseur thinks I (or something like that). Two mins later said
youth (who looks about 15) comes out of Halfords and when about 10
metres from car points the remote control at it and starts the engine.
Hmmm thinks I, a first class poseur (or something like that). In jumps
youth and stunning girlfriend and promplty stalls the car. Sad to say
the thing didn't want to restart for some reason. Last I saw of them he
was stood outside the car frantically prodding at his remote control. Looking
for the rewind function I suppose. Laugh, I nearly pee'd myself.
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Mon 3 Mar 2003 15:51
Boy racers - Tony N
That'll learn 'im!!!!

Also illegal unless its an auto (which I'm guessing it wasn't).
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Mon 3 Mar 2003 16:18
Boy racers - Trisha TR
Heard a similar story.... guy had 'remote starting' during frosty period he left car in gear rather than using handbrake because the brakes kept freezing on.

Next morning he goes to car, hits remote button! Car is in gear lurches forward and stops. No problem....yet. The remote start is set to auto retry on a failed start.... it leaps forward again and again stalls. Chap can't get into the car cuz the lock is frozen. On the 3rd retry it leaps forward into the back of the car parked in front!!!
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Mon 3 Mar 2003 18:25
Boy racers - Pugugly {P}
How depressing.
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Mon 3 Mar 2003 18:47
Boy racers - Ian (Cape Town)
C'mon Pug, you know you want one on your BMW... :)
Hilariously, one of my work colleagues had a convertible, to which was fitted a remote opener/closer.
Now, we all know a crowd gathers and oohs and aaahs for the average convertible, but to open and close one remotely is the canine's testicles...
So he wants to show everybody how flash it is, and takes everybody to the carpark .. yet forgets to take into account that we are in a multistorey parking area, with 2m of clearance - just a few inches shy of what is required for the thing to unfold ...
Had he been sitting in the car, we would have been amused, in a schadenfreud-type way, but the look on his face as he stood, frantically pressing the remote fob from 50ft away was priceless!
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