Work colleague left us keys to his car - what's the worst that can happen

Logsi said:
Is this the one outside that flower shop with the mental women who asks for people to be towed all the time?

:D
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Yes, it is - same car. (Carpet shop btw, not a flower shop)

My work colleague decided to go out of his way and leave the car parked there for a week to teach them a lesson - we decided to go a bit further :)
 
rhysduck said:
You need some of these:
happy_pills.jpg
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Lead painted jelly beans?
 
subbytna said:
The S*n newspaper...classy
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We decided he'd appreciate that more - a dash covered with women.

I've just taken a photo of him sitting in the car btw - it will be very safe in a crash - he didn't bother poping the ballons - just pushed them out of the way.
 
TRNC said:
No not a troll, just an adult who finds things like this tiresome and pathetic - its a long time since i was a prepubescent teenager (like most of GD's posters) who found this kind of thing amusing.
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aww, live a little. He liked it - we certainly liked it. Call it a team building experience.
 
for what it is it is well done so congrats :)

but i need to agree with TRNC, im all for fun and having a laugh, but i dont think/nor can see how this is funny,

it looks like a complete waste of time, a waste of a lot of time.

and with all that in play, i just dont see it as funny.

but not to sound like a boring dad, i really hope you guys had tons of fun doing it, and your mate got a laugh from it. ;)
 
Quite funny at first, but I'm not confident I'd still find it funny after 3 hours of clearing up your mess instead of relaxing at home :) That stuff on the tyres doesn't look like it will come off easy!

I love balloons though.
 
wasc said:
My work colleague decided to go out of his way and leave the car parked there for a week to teach them a lesson - we decided to go a bit further :)
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TRNC said:
No not a troll, just an adult who finds things like this tiresome and pathetic - its a long time since i was a prepubescent teenager (like most of GD's posters) who found this kind of thing amusing.
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Sounds like the work colleague is as childish as the people who did this. Park outside someone's shop to 'teach them a lesson'? Pretty pathetic really.
 
Lethagized said:
Would have been epic if your mate owned that ferrari instead.
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We were doing the car as the ferrari owner parked up. We did tell him we'd quite happily do his car next. Never seen anyone say no so quickly before :)

Was a top bloke though - he had a good look at our efforts and really liked it.
 
Feek said:
Park outside someone's shop to 'teach them a lesson'? Pretty pathetic really.
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Said shop owner has put up illegal signs threatening to clamp people who park on a public road.

Has also put signs on cars that have legally parked.

Oh, and has also lied to the council who sent out a tow truck (probably at tax payers expense) to get a legally parked car towed away.

I think leaving the car there is justified.
 
wasc said:
Said shop owner has put up illegal signs threatening to clamp people who park on a public road.

Has also put signs on cars that have legally parked.

Oh, and has also lied to the council who sent out a tow truck (probably at tax payers expense) to get a legally parked car towed away.

I think leaving the car there is justified.
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so what lesson did they learn from this :confused: surely they would have been told by said tow truck that the car was legally parked which would have been a big enough indication they were in the wrong.
 
paradisiac said:
so what lesson did they learn from this :confused: surely they would have been told by said tow truck that the car was legally parked which would have been a big enough indication they were in the wrong.
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Nope - the council sent out a robot who had been told to tow a car, and was damn well gonna do it :(

Arguing didn't get anywhere.

Filming her on camera while making a statement that we would use the footage in court resulted in a call to her manager who advised her not to take the car.

The thread is in motors section of forum. - http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18424833
 
wasc said:
Nope - the council sent out a robot who had been told to tow a car, and was damn well gonna do it :(

Arguing didn't get anywhere.

Filming her on camera while making a statement that we would use the footage in court resulted in a call to her manager who advised her not to take the car.

The thread is in motors section of forum. - http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18424833
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so, in showing her how petty she was being, you decided to do something petty?
I just don't get how any lesson would be learnt from this, other than the people saying she is in the wrong have a very low maturity level ;) doesn't really give you a lot of credit.
 
When I got my first proper motorbike when I was 17, one of the blokes at work thought it would be highly amusing to take the keys out of my helmet that I used to leave in the kitchen and then take the bike I'd just spent 5k on and hide it in the next industrial estate.

Took me a couple of days to find out who it was, then a couple of weeks before I had the chance to do anything about it, but it came about that he left his car keys on top of his lunchbox a little while later, as for what ever reason he left his belongings in a little pile while he went to the loo before he went home.

I took his keys and threw them in the field next door, it was only short grass, so it only took him a couple of hours to find them.

He knew it was me that did it, as I pretty much did it in front of everybody else.
 
Pretty tame really that.

A mate of mine went on holiday for 3 weeks about 12 years ago. He'd just finished restoring a series 2 Escort RST & he left the keys so we could 'check on it'.

Myself and a few (about 10 of us) stripped the car of it's wiring loom and replaced it with another which we'd modified so that all the switch gear did something other than what it should, ignition activated horn, brake pedal activated wipers etc. (we disabled the ignition so that it couldn't be driven)

It took him a month to see the funny side even though we did refit the original wiring afterwards.
 
paradisiac said:
so, in showing her how petty she was being, you decided to do something petty?
I just don't get how any lesson would be learnt from this, other than the people saying she is in the wrong have a very low maturity level ;) doesn't really give you a lot of credit.
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meh - she wasted an hour of our time, while we argued with a parking warden on one of our busier days when we really did not have time to spare.

I agree leaving the car there for a week is perhaps a bit childish, but the other thing we were thinking about doing was hiring a skip for a week and dumping it outside - we were that annoyed with her. In the end, sticking the car there was cheaper.

We have since made up though - she knows it's one of our cars now, and doesn't have a problem with us parking there anymore.
 
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