Posted on 11/28/2006 12:51:16 PM PST by FLOutdoorsman
Electrical device is likely behind the interference.
A mysterious "dead zone" in Oakland Park has rendered dozens of remote-control car locks impotent over the past several weeks.
In a five-block area of warehouses and small businesses near Dixie Highway and Floranada Road, nobody can explain why the gadgets fail to work.
Motorists have had to get into cars the old-fashioned way -- with a key.
"It worked at home, it worked at church, it worked everywhere else but here at work," said Lynne Masters, whose attempts to unlock her car by remote have been stymied in the so-called dead zone.
Masters discovered the problem in late October when she took her husband's Buick to work. She aimed the remote but couldn't lock or unlock the car. She thought it must be her remote control, so she borrowed her husband's. She pushed the buttons. Nothing.
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That's because Area 52 is below ground. Alien technology has at this time been flaky. We're sorry for the inconvenience.
A+Bert ?
Is Raytheon her employer?
Ever wonder how many other cars you've opened with that keyless thingy? Huh?
Sounds like a bad romance novel.
Or the script from a bad locksmith porno.
hey, does anyone here remember that piece of ground they discovered a few years ago that had a temperature above 480 degreesF about 6 or 10 feet underground?
Anyone ever figure out whats up with that?
We've got one of these dead zones not far from where I live. It's at the Long Gate Shopping Center in Ellicott City, MD, on the corner of the parking lot closest to the armory on Rt 103. Beware!
After the house behind me was sold I began noticing that my garage door was opening and closing on its own in the mornings and some evenings; my solution was to circumcise the antenna lead on the power unit.
We have the opposite problem. The ceiling fan in our bedroom is operated by a remote, and at odd times it just spontaneously turns itself on. Electrician says it's probably on the same frequency as a neighbor's baby monitor or garage door opener, something like that.
The U.S.S. Eldritch is rumored to have been seen...briefly.
Someone's beeber is set to jaam...
Anyone ever figure out whats up with that?
Yes.
No idea.
You've got me curious.
There were coal mine fires that burnt through to the surface in the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton area that easily got that hot.
Same thing on the east side of a parking structure roof at Wayne State University here in Detroit.
The west side works fine. Strange.
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