Trying to think of a non-malicious reason why ...
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... a nail was blue-tacked to the front near-side tyre of my car this morning?
OH was out in my car last night meeting at school (she is a director of the pre-school), got back around 10pm. This morning she noticed a nail on the tread of the tyre. It was one of those galvanised tacks that look like big drawing pins, the sort used for tacking the felt onto the shed roof. With a blob of blue-tack. The nail was tacked "head side" to the tyre, rather than sharp side - which is what I would have expected if it was done on purpose to cause a flat.
Normally my car doesn't move during the week, as I cycle to the station each day. This week, though, as my wife's car is low on fuel and she couldn't be bothered to go and get some, she used my car to go for her meeting. She went to work in it this morning as well, it was only because she noticed something looking odd out of the corner of her eye, that she took a closer look and found it.
So is there a wholly explainable innocent reason for this to have happened? Or should I look out for other potential booby traps?
Edit to add ... try as I might, I can't think of anyone I have annoyed recently. The local promising young footballers aren't usually around so late, or before 7:30 in the morning when it was spotted.
OH was out in my car last night meeting at school (she is a director of the pre-school), got back around 10pm. This morning she noticed a nail on the tread of the tyre. It was one of those galvanised tacks that look like big drawing pins, the sort used for tacking the felt onto the shed roof. With a blob of blue-tack. The nail was tacked "head side" to the tyre, rather than sharp side - which is what I would have expected if it was done on purpose to cause a flat.
Normally my car doesn't move during the week, as I cycle to the station each day. This week, though, as my wife's car is low on fuel and she couldn't be bothered to go and get some, she used my car to go for her meeting. She went to work in it this morning as well, it was only because she noticed something looking odd out of the corner of her eye, that she took a closer look and found it.
So is there a wholly explainable innocent reason for this to have happened? Or should I look out for other potential booby traps?
Edit to add ... try as I might, I can't think of anyone I have annoyed recently. The local promising young footballers aren't usually around so late, or before 7:30 in the morning when it was spotted.
Edited by aclivity on Thursday 15th March 23:13
davepoth said:
0a said:
Did you run over some Blu-tack which stuck to a nail?
It's unlikely, but I really can't think of anything more obvious.Not really non-malicious but weirdly I was thinking about this earlier. A year or two back (maybe more) I recall a story on a forum about a crash that occured while street racing (
). The racers were alleging that residents had blu-tacked nails/tacks to the road, which caused the Sierra a blowout. No idea what came of it and whether it was B/S or not.
In your case OP the chances of you picking up some blu-tac and subsequently a nail head-side up and not flattening them/brushing them off while driving seem second to nil to be honest. Probably kids?
). The racers were alleging that residents had blu-tacked nails/tacks to the road, which caused the Sierra a blowout. No idea what came of it and whether it was B/S or not. In your case OP the chances of you picking up some blu-tac and subsequently a nail head-side up and not flattening them/brushing them off while driving seem second to nil to be honest. Probably kids?
A fence panel has been stolen from my back fence. It's definitely stolen, rather than fallen, as I have walked around 50 meters in a circle in the field at the back and it's not there. It was also rather well fixed in place, since the storms earlier in the year when I had to spend a day refencing, and the wood that I had used to fix it in place has been left neatly where the panel used to be.
The rear of the garden backs on to some open ground, which is accessible from the road via a footpath. As far as I can see, walking 10 houses or so in each direction, no-one else has had any fencing removed.
Coincidence?
Or has someone got it in for me in a "minor acts of annoyance and low value pilfering" way?
The rear of the garden backs on to some open ground, which is accessible from the road via a footpath. As far as I can see, walking 10 houses or so in each direction, no-one else has had any fencing removed.
Coincidence?
Or has someone got it in for me in a "minor acts of annoyance and low value pilfering" way?
aclivity said:
Or has someone got it in for me in a "minor acts of annoyance and low value pilfering" way?
In for me, in for me, they've all got in infamy. Said in your very best Kenneth Williams voice.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kvs4bOMv5Xw
ColinM50 said:
In for me, in for me, they've all got in infamy. Said in your very best Kenneth Williams voice.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kvs4bOMv5Xw
Did you swap "infamy" and "in for me" on purpose, or did you actually think that was correct?http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kvs4bOMv5Xw
As a third party "minor act of annoyance", I have a friend who always pushes his door mirrors inwards, no matter where he parks. Fine when he parks on the road outside his house, but go to Sainsbury's and he pushes the mirrors in. Go to a country park and he's the only car there, he'll push the mirrors in.
I know it's an act of self-immolation and it's only me who finds it annoying; but it is annoying nonetheless.
I know it's an act of self-immolation and it's only me who finds it annoying; but it is annoying nonetheless.
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