Seems logical to me.
As long as you wash your hands afterward. And open the door with a paper towel.
Where the heck are you people parking that the only alternatives are pissing on the car or freezing to death? Go back inside wherever you were before you discovered the frozen door! At home, with the car in the driveway or on the street? Go back inside your damn house. At work or the mall? Go back inside. Get hot water or coffee. Buy some de-icer. Call a tow truck. Bum a ride. Unless you live in your car, and it’s your only form of shelter, what’s with the freezing to death? And if you live in your car, how are you accessing the internet?
802.11…p?
Related Snopes link.
There was also a scene in one of the French “Les Bronzes” movies (I think it was “Les Bronzes Font Du Ski”) where a guy peed on his car door lock to unfreeze it - except it turned out not to be his car, and the real owner turns up just as he’s doing the deed.
A related story:
Old-fashioned caving lamps run on calcium carbide and water (which react to produce acetylene, which produces the light). In Brucker and Watson’s The Longest Cave (a nonfiction account of the exploration and connection of Mammoth Cave and the Flint Ridge cave system), one of the Flint Ridge Cave explorers’ light goes out when he’s separated from the rest of his group. He finds out his lamp’s out of water, so he pisses into the water reservoir of the lamp to replenish the supply. Sure enough, the lamp starts up just fine after he refills it in this manner.
LOL…mighty piss indeed.Now my cats are looking at me funny cuz I’m laughing so danged hard.
IDBB
So that’s what those Calvin stickers are referring to.
Since I am on a Hagakure kick today, allow me to paraphrase a bit:
So it seems that Fenris indeed knows the Way of the Warrior. I am but the student.
You mean locks can freeze? How does that work? Does the ice form inside the lock, and if so, how would peeing on it help? 
If you think pissing on a frozen lock is disturbing…
Most small planes with retractable gear use electro-hydraulic systems for gear extension/retraction. The hydraulic fluid reservoirs are accessible from the cabin. Which is convenient, 'cause it make it easy to “top off” the fluid level when the gear won’t extend.
Do you think semen would work as well?
I mean if I’m going to be put in that position, I want to at least enjoy myself.
and the number one sign that you called AA instead of AAA “sorry bud can’t help you, license suspended, why don’t you piss on it ?”
Well, you wouldn’t keep things unfrozen that way, but you could GET them unfrozen. For the opposite sort of tempature, it’s well-documented that urine was often used to fill water-cooled machine guns in WW1 and WW2. troops in North Africa did this quite a bit, since they had a lot of trouble getting water for the guns.
OMG tooooo funny…I will never look at one the same way again
I was telling my friend the story to a friend over breakfest this morning and she said…Next time her car doors freeze she just go up to some guy and say “Excuse me sir, do you have to pee…?”
How could a car door be bitten by a jellyfish? Car doors don’t swim well, as I recall.
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- Originally posted by Quonk * You mean locks can freeze? How does that work? Does the ice form inside the lock, and if so, how would peeing on it help?
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Moisture within a lock can cause internal parts to freeze together and thereby deny entry. Best prevention is to spray lock innards with a teflon based lubricant around the end of October.
He’s referring to the common wisdom (maybe true) that you can alleviate the irritation of a jellyfish sting by peeing on it.
How the fuck does peeing on a jellyfish alleviate the irritation? So much for fighting ignorance! :mad:
Ubiquitously useful urine! Adding to the list of its many functions, one can use it on berry stains in clothing before washing. Or if you’ve forgotten your gas mask, just pee on a handkerchief and hold it up to your face.
There was a story floating around a few years ago about a Russian airliner encountering hydraulics problems in flight. The crew poured every drink left on board into the system, and when that wasn’t quite enough, they began to ask for, ahem, gentlemen volunteers…
But about the unfreezing business, there’s another, apocryphal story from the spring of 1940. The king and crown prince of Norway are fleeing the country, with no clue where the Nazis are. The next leg of the escape is to be made by motorcycle - but one of the bikes won’t start. The mumblemumble in the engine is frozen! Well, it’s not safe to wait until it thaws, and they certainly don’t want to light a fire - no time and the smoke might give them away. What to do? The crown prince sighs and starts unbuttoning his fly: “Come on, lads, don’t be shy!”
Those of you who had never heard of these tricks before are obviously living sheltered lives 
“Where the heck are you people parking that the only alternatives are pissing on the car or freezing to death? Go back inside wherever you were before you discovered the frozen door! At home, with the car in the driveway or on the street? Go back inside your damn house. At work or the mall? Go back inside. Get hot water or coffee. Buy some de-icer. Call a tow truck. Bum a ride. Unless you live in your car, and it’s your only form of shelter, what’s with the freezing to death? And if you live in your car, how are you accessing the internet?”
milroyj - You have a point but there are some people who don’t live in urban centres or have jobs that take them out into the middle of nowhere. Why a person would lock their vehicle when they were the only person around for miles is another question but for some people, locking the car door upon exit is an ingrained habit that could have serious consequences.
My brother works servicing oil leases here in the great frozen north and is often the only person around for miles. Being stuck without shelter in this environment (it’s presently -27) is a life threatening situation. He works in areas where there is no cellular service, no heated buildings, and no people.
We experience conditions here where frostbite can occur in minutes. You wouldn’t have to be too far from civilization for this to become a problem in very short order.
I buy winter gear with the thought that it has to handle a minimum of -40 (where Fahrenheit = Celsius) winter temperatures. In the winter I don’t leave home without it.