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I lost my keys to my old Land Rover while camping. I was really hung over and trying to hot wire the thing to get home. I touched a wire from the battery directly to the coil and watched all this ancient wiring glow red hot and turn to ash. It was kinda surreal. Now I was stuck.
My Dad towed me home 200km's behind his Escort GT. We used a old tire to cushion the jolt as the rope had no stretch to it. He would accelerate and I would do the braking. Problem was we couldn't make a hole in the tire and every time the tire hit the ground it would cut the rope. Every stop the rope would be a foot shorter and by the time we got home the rope was only 10' long.
Of course when my head cleared the next day up I realized I could have just unscrewed the dash panel and held the tumblers in lock cylinder by hand. Months later the key fell out of the bulkhead onto my feet while driving.
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