Quantum tunnelling?
One fine morning the GF and I get into her car. Unusually, the car doesn't seem to want to start. So I get out and go around to the front to have a quick look for obvious problems.

OK, so I wasn't expecting it to be THAT obvious: the distributor's rotor arm had been removed and placed on the bonnet [hood].

I like to think that an impromptu car maintenance class broke out on the way home from a pub the night before. Or, perhaps all the molecules in the distributor arm simply quantum tunnelled about 20cm vertically upwards. One of those two, anyway.
(moon monkey is busy making memories worth repressing, Tue 26 Apr 2011, 10:17, 2 replies)

I hate it when that happens.
Particularly since I don't even own car.
( Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Tue 26 Apr 2011, 10:26, closed)

I used to do that to a friend's Landrover
... except I'd put the rotor arm in various strange places, or swap the plug leads around.

I never did follow through the bright idea of posting it to him, just in case he needed to drive it in a hurry.
(gordonjcp, Tue 26 Apr 2011, 13:31, closed)