Things I learned today

[andygates]

1: When you lock your keys in your vehicle, the spares will be at least five hundred miles away.

2: You can spend two hours trying to force the lock on a vehicle in a supermarket car park. The only interference you will get is a cheerful crusty offering to help.

3) Breaking a side window takes more force than you might think, but makes less noise than you might think. Not kersmash, but thud-choff. The bits end up everywhere.

That felt rather good for something so ungood. Goes alongside my hotwiring cherry. Now, where's my bin-bag and gaffer tape, and that part-finder website? A '92 Mazda van window glass can't be that expensive...

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[andygates.livejournal.com]

Yup, tried that. Tried getting a wire in to flick the lock tab up, too. Alas in the van they're in creative locations and have annoying anti-thief features like being smooth and sloping upward. The buggers. Still, driving along with a bin-bag with a big gaffer-tape X across it in the passenger window does seem to ooze menace.