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Old Apr 1, 2025 | 02:37 PM
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As much as I/we hate potholes, I wish there was a defense against birds and the bombs they drop. I'd pay good money for something like that. 🤣
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Old Apr 1, 2025 | 02:42 PM
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Originally Posted by L1Wolf
As much as I/we hate potholes, I wish there was a defense against birds and the bombs they drop. I'd pay good money for something like that. 🤣
I heard certain paint colours birds are more attracted to, any truth to that?
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Old Apr 1, 2025 | 02:44 PM
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As much as I/we hate potholes, I wish there was a defense against birds and the bombs they drop. I'd pay good money for something like that. 🤣
That was the joke being told after the 2008 stock market crash --
Q: What's the difference between a pigeon and a Wall Street banker?
A: The pigeon can still make a deposit on a Mercedes.
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Old Apr 1, 2025 | 03:07 PM
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Originally Posted by streborx
That was the joke being told after the 2008 stock market crash --
Q: What's the difference between a pigeon and a Wall Street banker?
A: The pigeon can still make a deposit on a Mercedes.
That gave me a chuckle 🤣
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Old Apr 1, 2025 | 03:10 PM
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Originally Posted by W205C43PFL
I heard certain paint colours birds are more attracted to, any truth to that?
I've heard that too and blue is what I hear is what they are attracted to most. Something about resemblance to water. I saw a show (may have been myth busters) where they laid out different color tarps in a field to test it. Don't recall the actual results. I'll have to search now.
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Old Apr 1, 2025 | 03:17 PM
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Originally Posted by L1Wolf
I've heard that too and blue is what I hear is what they are attracted to most. Something about resemblance to water. I saw a show (may have been myth busters) where they laid out different color tarps in a field to test it. Don't recall the actual results. I'll have to search now.
I see, apparently they say red is a threat to birds as well so they deposit more ...
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Old Apr 1, 2025 | 03:18 PM
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Originally Posted by streborx
That was the joke being told after the 2008 stock market crash --
Q: What's the difference between a pigeon and a Wall Street banker?
A: The pigeon can still make a deposit on a Mercedes.
That's a good one.
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Old Apr 1, 2025 | 04:33 PM
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Originally Posted by L1Wolf
I've heard that too and blue is what I hear is what they are attracted to most. Something about resemblance to water. I saw a show (may have been myth busters) where they laid out different color tarps in a field to test it. Don't recall the actual results. I'll have to search now.
That explains my "nautical" blue as their target zone 😃
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Old Apr 1, 2025 | 06:10 PM
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The warning saved me this morning. I got the “Caution Pothole” warning and started looking ahead. About a half a block ahead I came up on three successive round holes in the road that were basically sink holes about nine inches deep and fifteen inches across with sharp edges all around. If not for the warning I probably wouldn’t have seen them. I feel sorry for whoever smacked into them.
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Old Apr 1, 2025 | 06:29 PM
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The warning saved me this morning. I got the “Caution Pothole” warning and started looking ahead. About a half a block ahead I came up on three successive round holes in the road that were basically sink holes about nine inches deep and fifteen inches across with sharp edges all around. If not for the warning I probably wouldn’t have seen them. I feel sorry for whoever smacked into them.
Yay for Car-to-X : )
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The warning saved me this morning. I got the “Caution Pothole” warning and started looking ahead. About a half a block ahead I came up on three successive round holes in the road that were basically sink holes about nine inches deep and fifteen inches across with sharp edges all around. If not for the warning I probably wouldn’t have seen them. I feel sorry for whoever smacked into them.
It would be really cool if at night the digital lights could project an image to tell you where the pothole is.
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Old Apr 1, 2025 | 08:55 PM
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It would be really cool if at night the digital lights could project an image to tell you where the pothole is.
Or a spotlight points right at it.
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Old Apr 1, 2025 | 11:08 PM
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Or a spotlight points right at it.
Exactly
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Old Apr 2, 2025 | 08:23 AM
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Originally Posted by L1Wolf
It would be really cool if at night the digital lights could project an image to tell you where the pothole is.
Send that feedback to MB : )
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Old Apr 2, 2025 | 10:58 AM
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Originally Posted by W205C43PFL
Send that feedback to MB : )
Yeah, they could charge $200 as an add on…😉
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Old Apr 2, 2025 | 12:06 PM
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Originally Posted by Hicksra
Yeah, they could charge $200 as an add on…😉
I guess that too : (
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Old Apr 3, 2025 | 05:50 AM
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Originally Posted by MB2timer
You are growing into a manhole ...
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Old Apr 3, 2025 | 12:00 PM
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I wouldn't be surprised to see an alien climb out of that hole. 🤣
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Old Apr 8, 2025 | 01:04 PM
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New to the forum, here is my first question:
How do you turn off the warnings?
Any help would be appreciated.
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Old Apr 8, 2025 | 01:31 PM
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Originally Posted by BillC-NYC
New to the forum, here is my first question:
How do you turn off the warnings?
Any help would be appreciated.
Turn off car-to-x
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Old Apr 8, 2025 | 01:32 PM
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Here, they talked about it here: https://mbworld.org/forums/gle-class...i-warning.html
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