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Old Dec 11, 2006 | 07:29 AM
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Is your carwash losing money?

Bill owns a company that manufactures and installs car wash systems. Bill's company installed a car wash system in Frederick, Md. Now, understand that these are complete systems, including the money changer and money taking machines.

The problem started when the new owner complained to Bill that he was losing significant amounts of money from his coin machines each week.

He went as far as to accuse Bill's employees of having a key to the boxes and ripping him off. Bill just couldn't believe that his people would do that, so they setup a camera to catch the thief in action. Well, they did catch him on film!

That's a bird sitting on the change slot of the machine.

The bird had to go down into the machine, and back up inside to get to the money!
That's three quarters he has in his beak! Another amazing thing is that it was not just one bird -- there were several working together. Once they identified the thieves, they found over $4000 in quarters on the roof of the car wash and more under a nearby tree.

And you thought you heard of everything by now!!
 
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Old Dec 11, 2006 | 07:34 AM
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Geez, I work in Frederick, MD. I should have been out looking around trees and on the roofs of carwashes in town... could have paid for a lot of mods that way !

Funny story, Kurt !!
 
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Old Dec 11, 2006 | 08:04 AM
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I just checked back... are the pictures showing up for anyone?
 
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Old Dec 11, 2006 | 08:10 AM
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No pics. But if it makes you feel better, the text IS showing up in pretty colors.
 
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Old Dec 11, 2006 | 08:43 AM
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Rats! It was an e-mail, tried to cut and paste.
Anyway, it looks like a starling.
 
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Old Dec 11, 2006 | 08:53 AM
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Where do you get this stuff
 
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Old Dec 11, 2006 | 10:41 AM
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what were the birds going to buy with all that money?!!
 
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Old Dec 11, 2006 | 01:04 PM
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Originally Posted by mdsbrain
Where do you get this stuff
I have ONE e-mail person who forwards me car and political stuff (they're retired).

Wonder if one of those fake owls would help stop this?
 
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Old Dec 12, 2006 | 01:17 AM
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Originally Posted by kenchan
what were the birds going to buy with all that money?!!
Saving up for a MINI of course
 
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Old Dec 12, 2006 | 05:57 AM
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I bet they were working on an anti-cat force field or something of that nature!
 
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Old Dec 12, 2006 | 01:15 PM
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haha I've read this before. Probably in the "Peope, Places, and Things" section in Road and Track.
 
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Old Dec 14, 2006 | 11:21 PM
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Was the bird put on Trial?
 
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Old Dec 16, 2006 | 12:25 AM
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They must have been jailbirds!





Sorry could not resist would like to see pics though
 
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Old Dec 16, 2006 | 03:51 AM
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ha.....the magpies down here love shiny stuff....it's normal to find tinsel and metal and stuff in magpie nests.... :p
 
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