Electric Shock on Car?

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Grampa Han

Hi! My car was vandalized again last night by my neighbors. Although I don't have evidence but I know it's them. Just the same, they first made deep scratches on my car, then, a few weeks later, maybe kicked the plastic cover of my plate number causing it to crack big time, then just a couple of weeks ago, punched a concrete nail on the wheel, and last night, made two very deep and long scratches on my doors. Its irritating but we can't do anything as we don't have any garage in the place we're renting at. And relocating is definitely out of the question and the budget. Security alarm has already been installed but it doesn't help much. When I was a kid, I touched a jeep my uncle was repairing and got zapped a little.

Question, is there such a way to do this on my car wherein the "zapper" gets activated when I set my alarm on? If you could point me to a DIY site to do this or any suggestions to do this will be highly appreciated.
Thank you! I think installing that camera might work long term. Could you point me to a website that has it or, what do you call that kind of camera? Thanks!

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You could rig up a transformer to go from120v ac to 12v dc and run wires out to your car. If properly connected, anyone that touches metal on your car gets zapped. The video camera option is better though. If the person(s) are caught, you can take them to court and force them to pay for the repairs.

Can you help me find the appropriate heater for this area?

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We will be doing some DIY projects in our garage this week. It will be anywhere from 20-40° outside. The house is all brick and fully drywalled but is not heated. It's a larger 3 car garage; our house plans say it's 750 sq ft. It is insulated just like the house and has 2 west facing windows, so it does stay several degrees warmer than the outside temperature w/o any heat.

I am not needing it to be toasty warm, though that would be nice, just wanting to knock off the chill, so that when we are using the tile wet saw, etc. our fingers don't get numb and we are not miserable.

I also definitely do NOT want anything I have to fill with kerosene and prefer not to have to buy propane cartridges for one. So I guess that leaves electric and oil filled sealed units? Also on a budget and would like it to be $75 or less. Obviously I want a safe unit as well, as we will have it on while working for several hours in another part of the house. No kids to worry about so it does not have to be a cool to the touch unit or anything. Also, I once knew someone that had one of those bullet/ tank shaped heaters that blew MAJOR air. Are those expensive?

Any help w/ a heater for this area would be greatly appreciated! Thanks!
Thanks to the first two answers. Where can I get a milk house heater? Is that what is shown on that Wal Mart link?

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I answered a similar question last night so I copied and pasted it down below. You'll get the point:

Almost all electric heaters will turn off if you tip them over, but I'd still be nervous to leave one on. If you don't live in a very cold location like Minnesota, I think a heater like this will be good. I have used one for years, and I would be comfortable leaving the house with it on.

http://www.walmart.com/catalog/product.do?product_id=7768641

Read the reviews at the website.

It's called a utility heater or a milkhouse heater because they were originally used in barns. The wires don't get glowing really red like with some heaters. Because the heating coil and fan are inside of a tin box, it doesn't have to turn off if it is knocked over. It won't start a fire. That's why I like it. You could kick it around if you wanted. It's not noisy at all. Certain heaters will rattle loudly and irritate you although others are nice. It doesn't blow a great amount of hot heat so it wouldn't be super great if it was 0 degrees outside. You might want to buy two. It has a thermostat so it will cut on and cut off if you want (unless you turn it all the way up). Go for it; you won't regret it.

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How do you deal with an unhappy neighbor?

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TimorousBe

Everytime we see her, she critisizes something about our house (which is very well kept and has been nominated for gardening awards in the past).
Examples: she wants us to take care of leaves that have fallen from our tree into her yard. (However, they were maple leaves and our tree is a walnut)
-we left for a week with the AC running and she called the cops because she was worried it would catch her house on fire. (she was ignorant of the fact that we had all new electric put in the house.)

There are dozens of stories like this.

We have tried ignoring her, but she's taken to sitting in her back yard and catching us when we go to the garage. I'm starting to wonder if we should try a different approach (should I bake her cookies or something?) Or just keep ignoring her and pray that she has a fatal heart attack sooner rather than later? Or should we start getting agressive and commenting on the little things she does that annoy us?
I want to add that we have been very nice to her (shoveled her sidewalk when her kid doesn't come over, etc.)
Other neighbors have had the same problems. They've all moved, citing her as a major reason.

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You could take several approaches here, but being nice clearly will not work in this case. These are some strategies that I'd consider.

1. Shock & awe) Always keeping it legal, start doing the same but several timesfold. She doesn't like your garden? Call a neighbor meeting to discuss hers and how it is affecting your property value. She called the cops bacause she was woried of fire hazard? Call the because she's old and you haven't seen her and think might be dead (you may even call that boy of hers and say you're worried). Leaves have fallen...? Rake yours and "forget" them in a mount right beside her yard on a windy day. Do a lot of out door cooking. If you have kids, ask them to play out side and invite their friends over, if you don't, use your grandsons, if you don't have any in the family, borrow from someone. NEVER do anything nice for her. No baking, no shoveling, no nothing! And, if you can - within your right - do any thing to make her life harder, please do so: like leaving the car parked in a way she has to do that extra something to get in; get the paperboy to throw her newpaper out of reach or in the rosebed etc. Be agressive!

2. The Shining Gaze) Start acting a little crazy. Rent some Nicholson DVDs and practice the looks in front of a mirror. If you happen to talk to her, tell some made up story about some situation in which you were commited with road rage and drove some SOB biker right off the road. If you or your husband are a war vet, talk about some horrible stories and killings (be graphic) and start screaming at night. Display sudden outburst of rage and alternate them IMMIDIATELY with extreme softness. Oftenly, let her see you gaze at her, lost in your own thoughts and with a very subtle smile.

3. Legal Up) This is boring and not fun at all, but... contact a layer, by having called the police, she has already supplied you with one evidence of her harassment. Now you have to start collecting more.

4. Black Magic) Okay, this probably won't work, but you might be able to scare her enough to give her that fatal heart attack.

5. I know you are, but...) Everything she does to you you do it back.

No matter what means you chose to deal with this hag, it is important that you enjoy yourself doing it.

What Food Did People Eat In The 1950's For BreakFast? And What Were Their Standards Of Living?

Q. I Have To Write A Report On the 1950's and i need to know how they lived (average size of house, Cars or no Cars, Etc.) And What They ate, and did for jobs.

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You need to watch Leave it To Beaver:)

Yes they had cars
They lived in the suburbs in modest size homes 3 bedrooms living room dining room 1 bathroom nice yard with a garage. TV was around the garage door opener had been invented. Dad worked and mom stayed home and had a plate of cookies ready for the kids after school. It was the American Dream time. They had electric washers and dryers.

There were beehive hairdos, nylon stockings, poodle skirts, saddle shoes, denim jeans were becoming popular, leather jackets, letter highschool jackets, scarfs and berets, cats eye glasses, pencil skirts, pony tales with bangs, slicked back hair for guys.

Young people were called youths not teenagers

Music was just beginning to branch into Rock and Roll but there were still people like Perry Como and Frank Sinatra and Nat King Cole but there was Elvis, Chuck Berry, Jerry Lee Lewis, Johnny Cash

There were drive ins, diners, and drive in movies, and soda fountains, and car hops

There was James Dean, Marilyn Monroe, Frank Sinatra, Marlon Brando , Tony Curtis, Cary Grant * Charlton Heston, Grace Kelly, Jimmy Stewart, and Elizabeth Taylor in the movies

TV dinners were popular and trendy and acceptable in the 1950's Basically they ate what we eat now. Lots of packaged food started coming out around this time.
http://www.thepeoplehistory.com/50sfood.html

Cars were a really big deal they tricked them out and raced them and they were muscle cars and made them cool to the teens
They were status symbols to the grown folk
http://www.nationwidepicturecars.com/50.html
http://www.thepeoplehistory.com/50scars.html

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