Is an empty crisp bag a Faraday cage?

soupdragon said:
My post number thirty six now makes me look like an illiterate retard.
Whilst that may be the case, I don't need help from a bit of code to prove it.
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You can always click on the edit function and change it... using capital letters this time as they're the names of cars! :exit:;)
 
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Nod said:
Although a mobile phone will still work inside one...
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That is down to frequency. A car is an excellent place to be if you are the target of a lightning strike!
 
john.margetts said:
That is down to frequency. A car is an excellent place to be if you are the target of a lightning strike!
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Was it Top Gear or another programme that put someone inside a car and created a lightning strike on it. Man inside emerged shaken but safe.
 
I've seen it elsewhere but Top Gear might well have covered it as well.
 
I've been hit by lightening in an old Vauxhall Viva HC many many moons ago. Scared the living daylights out of me and blew every fuse. One Cigerette packet liner and 10 minutes and I was up and running again.
 
ChrisH said:
I've been hit by lightening in an old Vauxhall Viva HC many many moons ago. Scared the living daylights out of me and blew every fuse. One Cigerette packet liner and 10 minutes and I was up and running again.
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So that's' what caused your problems!
 
Buy a disklok , they'll just move on to the next one
 
ianp5a said:
Or buy a crappy car!
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Stolen for joyriding by the youth. Just look at the crappy clio that 5 died in in Leeds.

We have our keys in a metal cabinet, purchased after locked 20 cars in the local roads had sat navs stolen from the glove boxes, including our mx-5 and two neighbours cars (Audi TT and mondeo) in a close of 6 houses. Police haven't said how they got in but we got them back after the thieves stole all the presents from a wedding reception the next weekend at a local hotel. They broke into the brides room where the presents were but were caught on CCTV. Their houses were an Aladdin cave apparently.

All the cars were still locked in the morning, just sat navs missing.
 
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Byker28i said:
All the cars were still locked in the morning, just sat navs missing.
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I doubt there'd be much chance of prosecuting them though, as the 'Witchcraft Laws' were repealed in 1951 in the UK! I knew that would be a mistake! ;)
 
Mr Badger said:
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I doubt there'd be much chance of prosecuting them though, as the 'Witchcraft Laws' were repealed in 1951 in the UK! I knew that would be a mistake! ;)
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The investigating officer refused to answer if they had some sort of code scanner, master keys etc. We wanted to know how they got in, so in the absence of info extra security measures are now in place and don't forget passive ones such as planting things with thorns in vulnerable areas. Berberis, rose bushes
 
Pyracantha is another good thorn bush (thorns on it like nails!) and the berries are attractive, and popular with the birds in winter too.

On the other hand, in a fantasy world of make-believe where no one could sue for trauma, injury or death perhaps one of these on the front lawn might act as a deterrent? No, don't try this at home! :eek:

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BOz8O9wCngk
 
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