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12/24/2009 03:06:30 PM · #51 |
Originally posted by DrAchoo:
Originally posted by scalvert:
Originally posted by DrAchoo:
I hope they saw me and my big white lens as they drove right by me. That might take care of the problem right there. |
Agreed. If you get another chance, be sure to use an external flash so they KNOW you took a picture of them. ;-) |
Good idea. |
Or they could decide to drive on YOUR lawn next. |
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12/24/2009 03:54:13 PM · #52 |
If your neighbor is ok with you going on his empty lot,
1; Make six or eight 30 inch long stakes out of 1X2 or something similar.
2: Set the stakes in the ground on the property, so that they look like survey stakes (targets).
3: To each stake, rubber band a plastic bag, painted white, and filled with 1/4 pint of florescent paint.
4: Put a couple of ft of florescent flag tape on each stake.
If they come and buzz the place again they should be easy to spot. If it is "mom's" car, they will have a time explaining what happened.
Surely they would not run over any of the stakes, because they are surveyor stakes.
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12/24/2009 06:38:05 PM · #53 |
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12/24/2009 07:45:40 PM · #54 |
| It is a 1985-88 AE82 toyota corolla... B11 Nissan Sentra & 5th generation chevrolet nova (which is built on Toyota's ae82 platform) have different tail lights. |
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12/24/2009 07:52:25 PM · #55 |
Originally posted by OpenMaTT:
It is a 1985-88 AE82 toyota corolla... B11 Nissan Sentra & 5th generation chevrolet nova (which is built on Toyota's ae82 platform) have different tail lights. |
Those Corollas didn't have popup headlights, as far as I can see. This car certainly does.
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12/24/2009 07:56:10 PM · #56 |
did it look like this?
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12/24/2009 07:59:28 PM · #57 |
Originally posted by drz01:
did it look like this? |
Nope......the trim between the taillights goes into the license frame recess on the one in Doc's pic.
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12/24/2009 08:03:46 PM · #58 |
Go back to this link and look at the taillights the way they wrap around, look at the seam down the side of the body, the way the mirror attaches at the door/window juncture, the trunklid opening, the trim/taillight/license recess configuration, the C-pillar/quarter light ratio......it's *that* car!
SR5
Message edited by author 2009-12-24 20:04:29.
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12/24/2009 08:19:57 PM · #59 |
| oh... didn't notice the pop-up headlights... then an ae86 corolla gt-s coupe. |
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12/24/2009 11:00:59 PM · #60 |
Originally posted by NikonJeb:
Go back to this link and look at the taillights the way they wrap around, look at the seam down the side of the body, the way the mirror attaches at the door/window juncture, the trunklid opening, the trim/taillight/license recess configuration, the C-pillar/quarter light ratio......it's *that* car!
SR5 |
Sure looks like it: here's a front view, showing it has pop-up headlights.
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12/24/2009 11:07:45 PM · #61 |
Originally posted by OpenMaTT:
oh... didn't notice the pop-up headlights... then an ae86 corolla gt-s coupe. |
Right. That's basically the same car as the SR5, at a different trim level, if I recall correctly. I think SR5 was entry-level? GTS had a much nicer interior and a few cosmetic/badging changes on exterior?
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12/25/2009 04:27:15 PM · #62 |
| When you call the police, give them the letters that you have. It is possible to run a search using partial plate numbers. The more you have, the better off you are. Plus, having a description (or better yet, a picture) of the vehicle is helpful, too. I hope you catch them! |
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01/01/2010 11:55:15 PM · #63 |
| And folks only think we know about photography... Careful or we'll start getting "My 1974 Ford won't start when it is 15F outside - what's wrong with it?" type questions... |
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01/01/2010 11:59:28 PM · #64 |
Originally posted by dtremain:
And folks only think we know about photography... Careful or we'll start getting "My 1974 Ford won't start when it is 15F outside - what's wrong with it?" type questions... |
Choke's stuck, it's a Ford thing. LOL.
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01/02/2010 01:06:00 AM · #65 |
Originally posted by MelonMusketeer:
Originally posted by dtremain:
And folks only think we know about photography... Careful or we'll start getting "My 1974 Ford won't start when it is 15F outside - what's wrong with it?" type questions... |
Choke's stuck, it's a Ford thing. LOL. |
Or perhaps a clogged fuel filter -- maybe with ice frozen in it. Someone I know with a Saturn recently had this problem ... or a dead battery if it doesn't crank over at all.
Message edited by author 2010-01-02 01:06:32. |
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01/02/2010 01:25:43 AM · #66 |
Originally posted by dtremain:
And folks only think we know about photography... Careful or we'll start getting "My 1974 Ford won't start when it is 15F outside - what's wrong with it?" type questions... |
Originally posted by MelonMusketeer:
Choke's stuck, it's a Ford thing. LOL. |
Best thing Ford ever did was going to EFI......they never could make a choke for sh*t.
F*ckin' Autolite carburetors!
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01/02/2010 01:37:09 AM · #67 |
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01/02/2010 03:41:16 PM · #68 |
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01/02/2010 03:52:11 PM · #69 |
DrArchoo, I understand someone doing this is annoying and wakes you up, but really, I would think twice about getting the cops involved. Like someone said earlier, they don't need a police record - just a lesson. Young people these days (and I know because I am one of them) don't have a great deal to do. Especially now that unemployment is so high. They are just kids having a bit of fun, sure, at someone else's expense, but you mustn't take it personally. The truth is their behaviour is a much bigger issue. Why do so many young people go out and get shit-faced drunk and do reckless things? Is it because they are all horrible and stupid people? Or perhaps because they are under a lot of pressure and don't have any other outlets for it?
Young people supposedly 'have it easy' these days. And yet they are living in a huge recession which has been compared to the Great Depression of the 1930s. They can't find work, they can't be independent. Therefore they respond in ways such as this.
Anyway, think twice about getting these kids arrested. They are probably suffering in some way, and the last thing ANY young person needs is a red cross against their name - for one it jeopardizes their chance of getting employment, and for such a minor offense, that is not just at all. |
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01/02/2010 04:21:05 PM · #70 |
Originally posted by CrazyDiamond:
Anyway, think twice about getting these kids arrested. They are probably suffering in some way, and the last thing ANY young person needs is a red cross against their name - for one it jeopardizes their chance of getting employment, and for such a minor offense, that is not just at all. |
Their actions seem to indicate your analysis may be flawed; while I agree that young folks today are facing a tough market, there are jobs. Not great jobs, but there are jobs. The fact that these kids have done this not once, but repeatedly, and the hour at which they have done it, suggests strongly to me that they have no real drive to get ahead, they are just bored kids who don't have a positive outlet.
I'm not saying they deserve to be prosecuted, but getting found out and being threatened with prosecution might be the push they need to get them headed in a better direction. At least one might hope. |
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01/02/2010 04:36:16 PM · #71 |
"Grown-ups never understand anything by themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.
I have lived a great deal among grown-ups. I have seen them intimately, close at hand. And that hasn̢۪t much improved my opinion of them."
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01/02/2010 05:02:50 PM · #72 |
Originally posted by Zigomar:
"Grown-ups never understand anything by themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.
I have lived a great deal among grown-ups. I have seen them intimately, close at hand. And that hasn̢۪t much improved my opinion of them." |
There is a concept called the "Parental Knowledge Curve." It's a plot of parental knowledge (as perceived by the child) on the Y axis, vs. the child's age on the X axis. From age 0 to about 10 or 11, the parent's knowledge is perceived as very great, however the curve soon starts to dip, and by age of 14 for female children (15 for male children) the parent's knowledge reaches zero. Through the remainder of the teens, the parent's knowledge actually descends below zero (!). The parent actually knows less than nothing, and is worthy of nothing but derision! Around the time the child turns 21 (a little earlier for some), the parent's knowledge slowly creeps positive again. By the time the child turns 30, they are old enough to realize the value of life experience, and they once again recognize the value of what their parents had to teach them. Too late, they had to learn a great part of it the hard way.
To put it much more succinctly, "Too soon old, and too late smart." |
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01/02/2010 05:08:49 PM · #73 |
It may also be worth noting that "grown-ups" have the benefit of the knowledge that comes from the experience of being a youth.
Youth cannot claim such experience of having been a grown-up.
:) |
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01/02/2010 05:09:55 PM · #74 |
Possibly a 1991 Nissan Stanza, there's my guess
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01/02/2010 05:12:42 PM · #75 |
| Chill out guys. I'm not trying to disrespect anyone, just to remind you that maybe you've gone too far? Police, hiding in bushes with zoom lenses, teaching lessons, 'value of sleep'? Calling bunch of kids doing donuts vandals is a bit too much in my opinion. |
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