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- Path: sparky!uunet!gatech!asuvax!ncar!csn!boulder!sherod
- From: sherod@newton.Colorado.EDU (Scott Herod)
- Subject: Gas in fuel tank: From rec.autos.tech (long)
- Message-ID: <1993Jan3.060828.9291@colorado.edu>
- Sender: news@colorado.edu (The Daily Planet)
- Nntp-Posting-Host: newton.colorado.edu
- Organization: University of Colorado, Boulder
- Date: Sun, 3 Jan 1993 06:08:28 GMT
- Lines: 69
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- I post a question on rec.autos.tech concerning what to do about a sweetened
- car. I implied that it was a long strange story and a couple of people
- suggested I tell it. I will try to be honest in this and I am afraid that
- I am not entirely blameless.
-
- My wife and I live in a duplex near campus. Until a year ago we had
- some nice undergraduates in the other half. They even at one time
- watched our daughter when we needed a favor. When they left a friend
- of theirs and his girlfriend moved in. Apparently they were having
- trouble with the rent and got another guy as a roomate in their second
- bedroom. The household there also included two large, noisy dogs.
- Things didn't go well there. The first guy liked to give his dog
- pizza boxes to chew on and was not particularly prompt at cleaning them
- up when they were scattered around the house. The second guy had a
- problem with this. (Wonder why?) We know this because the first guy
- would come and tell us the problems. Well things got worse and guy
- number two picked up the trash and put it in guy number ones bed.
- The girlfriend came home and sees this and calls guy number one who
- comes home and starts yelling at guy number two. A fight insues.
- (My wife was at a rehearsal and I was watching the baby. I figured,
- "Oh well they are just yelling at the dogs and chasing them around.")
-
- My wife comes in about 20 minutes later and tells me that there
- are four police cars outside and they are worried about standing
- in view of the windows. Apparently guy number two had told guy
- number one that he is not worried because he has a loaded gun in
- his room. Well the gun is eventually confiscated and guy number
- two is issued a restraining order. He moves his stuff out immeadiately.
- We hear the whole story from guy number one and he confesses that
- that night he snuck out and poured a quart of bottled water into
- guy number two's gas tank. Like a fool I say, " Oh water isn't
- bad. You probably have that much in there from condensation.
- What is really bad is sugar."
-
- Well a month or so later guy numbers 3 and 4 move in. Guy 4 really
- lives with his girlfriend and just stores stuff there. They throw
- a big NOISY party to celebrate. We complain. We call the landlord
- and he comes over to discuss it with all of us. We complain again
- when it gets loud again. At 2:00 am we say we are going to call the
- police if it doesn't quite down. It finally does.
-
- A few days later Beethoven's 9th comes on very loud during the day.
- My wife tries to get guy number one to turn it down. He won't answer
- the door or phone. The landlord comes by to try to collect rent that
- is late and he get no response. Finally he and my wife decide to
- flip off the breakers to the other side. (This place is probably
- not legal in that all of the breakers are only accessible from our
- side.) A couple of month long battle of this type occurs. For
- long periods of times things are fine, but then the stereo comes
- on loud enough to shake the walls. Niether the phone nor door is answered
- and the breaker goes off. (The rent we are paying is a steal. Being
- poor graduate students makes us take a lot.)
-
- Finally there is another party, wife decides that she will practice
- French Horn for first time in house. Yelling insues, but the noise level
- improves. The next morning our phone does not work. I am walk around
- back and see footprints in the fresh snow under the phone box. It is easy
- to open and the plug there is disconnected. We call the phone company
- and they say it is illegal but can we prove it. Of course not, I recoonected
- things. The landlord says "Oh well they are moving out at the end of the
- week." I race off to the auto parts store to but locking gas caps for the
- car remembering a conversation of a long time ago. I hope the car is only
- running poorly because it needs a tune up.
-
- The good part, I'm phded now and we decided to buy a house in a nice
- neighborhood out of Buoulder.
-
- Scott
-
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