OK, I must be getting old, but I just don’t get it…
For some time now we’ve seen cars with a cd hanging from the mirror. Yesterday I saw one with one of those annoying “free aol trial” cd’s of all things!
Is it supposed to mean “hey, I’ve got a cd player you can steal” or “I can spend a day or two salary just like you can to buy a cd player” or is it something I’m totally out of touch with?
Either way, it looks geeky to me.
Cheers Mike30, with too much coffee today
Some think it will defeat police laser speed checks. I have my doubts, myself.
I saw a couple of TV interviews in Afghanistan, and both times you could see a CD hanging from the mirror of the old jalopy they were in. Maybe they think it will confuse radar guided weapons, etc.
In any event, I always thought of it as a rumor, and passed on the word to Snopes.com, but they didn’t think it was a big enough rumor to warrant any attention.
Who cares what their purpose for hanging it there is! It’s just plain annoying! Bad enough that I have to deal with the sun, up in the sky blinding me, now I have to have donut shaped refelections flying around ever intersection trying to get me??
Oh, and that whole “block out police lasers” junk… that’s just nonsense! Until someone proves it works. Cuz if that is true I should have hung one up years ago!
Disposal of free AOL CDs has become a world-wide problem that we all need to address seriously. It is estimated that an area the size of the amazon rain forest is filled by these insidious objects every year.
The poor individuals you speak of have probably plain run out of places to put them. If you have space for these CDs you should offer to take them off their hands. You’ll will be saving the planet and will make a grateful and lifelong friend.
If we all stand together we can beat this, people.
Everyone knows, that only works when hung in conjunction with a little Puerto Rican flag :rolleyes:
Anyone who knows will tell you that when a pig, er…police officer gets you with his radar its ususally bounced off the license plate or lights from the front of the car.
For oodles and oodles of cash you can buy a package that can attempt to radar proof your car. All they sell you is a reflective type of material that covers your front license plate and headlights. I cannot vouch for their effectiveness, so YMMV.
No, no, no. You have to take a green magic marker and color the edge of the disc; then it will work.
And not just any green marker will do, you need a specially formulated green marker, only $30 each, how many would you like?
OK, no, no. The crown-shaped perfume bottle deflects police laser and the faded stick-on Garfield absorbs the radar. The hanging CD does nothing.
What do my mother’s Beanie Babies do? They just sit there om the dashboard, staring with their cold, plastic eyes. Do they warn her of approaching cop cars, so that she may slow down? Does she intend that they leap out and gorge themselves on police-officer-flesh? WhatwhatWHAT?!?
I’m not gonna let her take me to school again unless I get some answers.
How come nobody has suggested the use of the cd supplemented by the use of the dreaded aluminum foil hat to thwart police radar?
Either way, I still maintain that the hanging cd looks stupid.
Cheers Mike30
Has it occured to anyone that maybe the people who hang them just think that they look nice and sparkly? Just because you dislike them, doesn’t mean that everyone does.
And where does the plastic Jesus fit into this?
This has been done before.