Moonman
If your cave wasn't in Hell's Canyon, this wouldn't have happened. You
can't play around with the devil, you know. Don't believe he's behind
your faulty solder joints? Well, you see those white goats on the Canyon
walls... (Love that neck of the woods, by the way!)
Brian
Earl Moon wrote:
> Folks,
>
> This posting has technical merit and content but the underlying story is
> fun, or not, depending if you are you or you are me. I don?t think the
> latter is possible but use your imaginations. Getting right down to the
> technical merit ? this concerns automotive technology based on something Sir
> Werner brought up some time ago. He said some Ford models had under hood
> temperatures often exceeding 130 degrees. That?s it about technical. Now
> down to the story.
>
> An interesting thing happened to me on the way to the bank this morning. Let
> me say first that my morning started out pretty well here at the newly
> renovated MoonMan Cave, Rancho and Social Club.
>
> Werner starts it off and caught me by surprise ? just a little with his ILS
> stuff. Being an old airplane driver, I could only think of instrument
> landing system as ILS (approaching the outer marker inbound on the 260
> degree radial of the Phoenix VOR stuff). Anyway I responded to his, as
> usual, very terse questions while wondering if I really was competent to
> write a book at all in light of all he has done.
>
> I replied as best I could except for the near 45 degree stress vectors in
> conjunction with the xyz axis stuff. Anyway, I know he already had the
> answers in the myriad of articles and books he has authored but it was a fun
> thing for me.
>
> So I?m on my from my cave/resort to the next very dull Western town out here
> on the Oregon/Idaho border that?s boundary is the Snake River. I pull up to
> a red light knowing there is a car behind me. I?m stopped looking at
> something inside my car and very confident the car behind me is not moving,
> or so I thought.
>
> All of a sudden I am attacked from behind. As the MoonMan usually defies the
> law of impenetrability, I was shocked at the impact. I had been hit by the
> car behind.
>
> I pulled over and so does the attackers car. I get out with a pretty good
> headache and so does the other driver. I demanded what the hell happened.
> The lady driver responded saying my car often jumps into drive on its own. I
> prepared a Werner like terse response, while looking at her car with a crack
> in its windshield a big as the Grand Canyon. I do all the normal and
> abnormal stuff the MoonMan is known for doing in these type situations.
>
> I inspected damage and, but for my worsening headache, found it to be
> minimal and not worth the time of Oregon?s finest. Then I asked the driver
> how she could possibly drive a car in such condition. No comment was
> forthcoming. I asked about the windshield. No comment was forthcoming but
> her saying ?I need to get this car in the shop.? My response should not be
> posted here but it was something along the lines of no shit.
>
> I took down here plate number and she provided a driver?s license number.
> However, when I asked where is your driver?s license, she responded I don?t
> have one. Holy shit!
>
> I almost came unglued but was feeling sorry for this person and her son with
> her as they were on the way to court so he could explain some violation for
> which he had been arrested. Now I?m crazy but MoonMan cool.
>
> I told her I was going to call the police later just to have them make her
> cease and desist driving the car or driving at all. Understand, there is no
> excuse for her or her situation ? being on any road anywhere. Many folks,
> especially out here, have to get around somehow or they die. It?s just too
> damn far to the next water hole. I know, again, it?s no excuse as driving
> the way and with what she did, is going to kill someone or her.
>
> Anyway, her car has a technical problem and she, if the police take away her
> driving privileges and car, though not likely, she will be off the road.
> Also, she may not have to go to jail as in the case if I had called the
> police at the scene of what could have been a major accident.
>
> Getting back to the technical part of this little story, what makes an older
> car jump into drive? Did we really ever determine what made Audis do the
> same thing some years ago?
>
> Do printed circuit boards and assemblies come into play here? And, taking it
> a bit further in the MoonMan?s now totally demented mind, Is there a
> potential ILS failure here or some other MLB or plated hole anomaly
> responsible here?
>
> I need a life and thought I?d found it out here away from most civilization
> and crazy drivers. Wrong!
>
> MoonMan
>
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