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Watchman

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  1. I honestly don't know how to react to that. It's entrepreneurship and opportunistic at its finest, but kind a$$hole-ish. I guess this is the "warm and friendliness" that tourists see in sri lankans. On the contrary I see it as exceptional customer satisfaction. In this instance, I bet the villagers would wade into the water, rescue the tourists in distress, give them a king-coconut and shelter them till they can get back on their way. All with the expectation of a generous 'tip' that the rich-white-man is bound to give. In the end everyone leaves happy Then again the van driver was a dumb-ass going into unknown waters to begin with. The least he could do is wait till the pickup goes through and see how deep it really is.
  2. After 12 years on Autolanka you think you've heard everything.. and this gem of a brain teaser comes along! OK, yes, I too was thinking along the lines of lightning striking the ground and being conducted to the car through the grass/weed. But if THAT's the case, the electric charge still needs to leave the car. It wont shoot back upto the sky, and it already came from the ground. Which would mean the lightning took the path of sky > car > Weed > ground > house. But if the car was parked in the garden, i presume in very close proximity to the house, the lightning wouldn't have hit the car to begin with. If recall my Grade 10 science, a high point that attracts lightning forms shields everything under a 45 degree umbrella of sorts (aka the typical lightening rod). So how..................... And just sharing..
  3. Not a very good thing to do if you have a relatively modern car... everything from the ECU mapping to the proximity based keys will go bonkers..
  4. Yeah I think you're referring to the older guns which were detected by those Cobra XXX series detectors. My dad was busted speeding on the southern expressway and they showed him the photo/video of him (which is stronger evidence than a speedgun that shows only the speed, and has no way of identifying the vehicle it clocked). There were some similar photos of a car/suv caught speeding circulating on FB. He asked them for the model which was a truCAM and I was reading up online and apparently there' no way of getting around it.
  5. Agree. A friend bought some solar powered trickle charger in the US and kept it plugged into a HC motorcycle. He claimed it was effective and the battery had sufficient charge for a startup even after a few months.
  6. speed guns have been discussed in the past. And I think the last I heard; the expressway cops now use a camera/gun combo. So by the time you detector beeps that you have been targeted, they would already have a photo of you speeding. Google up truCAM LIDAR
  7. You are wrong again. The OP is not the one looking for a car. It's his cousin. And even so, no-one told him/cousin not to go for a Presea. Franking this thread is redundant and stupid. The OP is asking for our opinions on a moo-point. And frankly i think if the cousin is not mechanically competent and not willing to put the effort to start a thread himself, he maybe better off going with one of the more conventional options.
  8. Actually, I dont think anyone here told you NOT to go for a presea. We just told you not to be very picky on what color you buy; and not be a drama-queen or narrate every instance you saw a Presea and had an erection.
  9. there's a LOT of info on the presea. Please do a search
  10. That's bullshit. You clearly didnt look, cos if you did you'll fine 2 or 3 threads that are EXTREMELY well detailed. Magnum, Instead of entertaining him, why dont you just share your other thread?
  11. Have you been told by people you know that your decision making process, may it be buying a car or adopting an orphan kitten, is a bit "different" from normal people..
  12. I was thinking the same thing.. If it's a bank or a high value business where the investigations could actually catch the criminals and retrieve sizable stolen assets, a CCTV system, may be worth it. But if you can't expect the police to waste resources on looking for your stolen vezzel mirror based on CCTV footage. In which case I think a motion sensor that automatically turns on the porch lights is more likely to scare away the common cat-burglar.
  13. Clearly you don't have a need for two CARS. You just need to have 2 DRIVERS. Overall, I think it might be cheaper to get a full insurance for your 141 and tell your wife to familiarize herself with the car. The Insurance premium and the cost of any additional fixups is gonna be less than the price of a small car.
  14. Watchman

    Motor Tricycle

    That trike was some serious stuff... It maybe beyond the everyday newbie's capability to do a DIY trike with a hayabusa engine (financially and technologically).
  15. Watchman

    Motor Tricycle

    You can try contact this guy (I dont know him personally, just came across this on the internet) he may be able to tell you where to find one..
  16. Are you aging pre-maturely? From a 300zx to a "honest diesel with history" in under a decade..
  17. Watchman

    Motor Tricycle

    Motor tricycle? Like a three-wheeler? Or a trike?
  18. Really? Production wise, I dont see anything special. And there's no catchy jingle or phrase that sticks in your mind. In fact they are continuing to play on their "athi wishishtai" phrase from their way more successful navy-line-up advert.
  19. Yes; to pick up PAYING customers/patients who request it. Unless the accident happened right outside the hospital, I doubt a private hospital would allocate resources (ambulance/staff) to go fetch a patient who didnt ask for it (meaning wont/cant pay for it)
  20. Well, that's a VERY different case isn't it A private ambulance will take not only a doctor but the hospital's chairman anywhere in the country for the right price
  21. Don't be unreasonable! They need to focus on car permits, c#*cblocking private medical colleges, stopping overseas educated doctors, demanding privileged (kids) admissions into schools and at times attending to patients. Do you expect them to take time off their private clinic sessions to teach first-aid to the public!
  22. Actually you maybe right.. I dont think there's any trained EMTs that come with the ambulance. From the youtube/news coverage I've most cases look like they loaded the first hospital attendant they found into the ambulance and sent him off to the accident to fetch the wounded.
  23. Whatever said and done Sri Lankans are empathetic people and our first instinct is to rush the patient to the hospital. But the best medial practice is to NOT move the injured without trained medical supervision. In fiatLife's example, the deliver rider would have been in a lot of pain yes, but 3-4 adults manhandling someone like that into a three-wheeler could do MORE harm. A broken bone isnt going to break any further if the victim is just lying on the ground. But improperly moving him could cause the bone splinters to damage blood veins or break further complicating the resetting and healing. A friend of mine had an epileptic fit at a party once and fell to the floor. People around him tried to help by carrying/lifting him and in the process broke one arm and dislocated the other shoulder But in Sampath's scanario yes, spending a few hours and few thousand bucks at a doctor is better than your family wasting a whole week organizing your funeral and spending even more money on your coffin.
  24. Watchman

    Nissan Presea

    hehehe so much confusion right now on what happens... why dont you maybe record a small video and upload on youtube.. My first guess would be a starter motor issue, cos the cranking "drags" and stops.. As long a the battery is good, the starter motor should crank at the same speed irrespective of if there's petrol coming in or not.
  25. I have not imported anything worth more than a few thousand rupees at most to be taxed. I've ordered (on ebay, seller in India) some photography related items (camera filters) worth Rs.6400, and paid about Rs.300 as tax IIRC. I once sent my dad (personally posted) a 1:24 scale model as a birthday gift and he didn't know it was coming. Upon unwrapping it in front of the customs officer, and having a friendly chat, they set him off with no tax. This was presealover's theory of smiling and being humble.
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