• trunks was: streets

    From NANCY BACKUS@1:123/140 to JOE MACKEY on Sat Jun 8 14:10:00 2019
    Quoting Joe Mackey to Gaylen Hintz on 06-05-19 09:19 <=-

    hehehehe, somewhee someone was looking a a car whose trun just popped
    open and no one around. Knowing a bit of the city... I sure hope
    whatever was in your trunk was still there. <g>

    I would imagine so :)

    And maybe you were far enough away from your rental for the fob's
    signals to reach it... ;)

    Had no problems at all when in NYC. The part of Manhattan I was in
    was totally safe. To me anyway.

    I've never had any issues in NYC, either... :)

    Speaking of trunks popping open and no one around.
    A few years ago at work I was going to make a money run to the bank
    with meter money, which was always a police escort. The fella giving
    me the ride forgot something and back into the station. I was standing beside the cruiser and thought I had heard snow slide off the station
    roof and went to see but nothing there. Walking past the cruiser
    where a co-worker was standing suddenly the trunk popped open and
    closed again. We were laughing about that when suddenly the engine
    burst into flames with the hood opening, doors opening, etc. There was some sort of "malfunction" and what I thought was snow sliding off the roof were the airbags opening.

    Sounds like the computer went totally berserk... starting with setting
    off the airbags.... ;)

    We were very fortunate since if we left when planned we would have
    been in traffic when that happened.

    That was indeed very providential.... :)

    I walked into the station telling the day commander, "One of your
    cars is on fire". He looked out, freaked out, and grabbed a fire extinguisher but it took the fire department to totally put it out.
    We called that Impala "old sparky" after that. :)
    It was retired and sat in a garage for years until it finally
    disappeared.

    I'd not think it would have been drivable after all that....! :) Just
    as well it was retired.... went out with a bang.... ;)

    ttyl neb

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