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Baltimore, Maryland Usa. Across the street from the firehouse.

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well, thats well very interesting.

maybe a prank?

There's probably balloons stuffed inside with a bunch of packing peanuts .

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Critical Fertilator: The Micromanager of Macronutrients

Is that a car partially wrapped in cling film????

If so, probably a prank. However, collectors of vintage and classic cars sometimes do this intentionally. For presevation purposes, if the car is to be stored for long periods of time, the procedure is to drain all fluids from the vehicle, then encase it in cling film and exchange the air inside the car for oxygen-free air to prevent corrosion. But of course, that car in the pic isn't being stored ...


Panda Catfish fan and keeper/breeder since Christmas 2002

oh...why?

Inky

if that's not a prank, then there's no telling what's going on there. i tend to agree with matty though, there *better* be something else stuffed inside or else it's just a minor annoyance

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"That's the trouble with political jokes in this country... they get elected!" -- Dave Lippman

totally a prank, i've seen and done things many times. usually its done because of a wedding, someones retiring, or the reached a milestone birthday, like the over 50 parties or something.

Fish tanks are an expensive addiction

Hi,
I suspect that it was done over night by the crew of the
fire house to the proud new owner, a newly named
captain or chief.

Frank

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Oh, it's a fire brigade vehicle?

In that case moondog is probably spot on. Firefighters in the UK as well as the US are known for such pranks. High jinks of this sort are a means by which they relieve the stresses of spending long hours sitting around waiting for a call, then suddenly find themselves springing into action and facing the very real possibility of a life threatening situation. When you've just earned your pay cheque by carrying a little girl over your shoulder through three floors of a blazing building, you NEED some light relief afterwards. I'm sure anyone here who IS a firefighter will agree with that sentiment ...


Panda Catfish fan and keeper/breeder since Christmas 2002

It was done to my car during the reception of my first wedding. Not a big deal except that the car was new and the shrink wrap left some scratches

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We have done this at work before too. Yep, be careful opening the doors...we filled one car with over 100 of those plastic pink flamigos, another with hay.

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If at first you DO succeed, try not to look astonished.

Light_Bright

How in the UNIVERSE do you manage to fit 100 flamingos in a car ! !

I just hope whoever did it brought the sran wrap from home and not used my hard worked for tax money to do it with. When you earn your paycheck working 72 hours in 4 days saving the world you don't appreaciate others wasting your money

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I did this on April Fool's Day this year (can't let the day pass without doing anything...). It only took a couple minutes, which is good because that's all the time we had.

However, I have to critique that it appears they didn't do it right.

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I'll be sure to stop by and pass along any proper instructions you care to give

We cant be having the city of Baltimore not be number one in everything (we've never made it past #2 in murders after all )

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Well, it appears they only did a couple times around in the proper direction which is under and over the vehicle - after doing a thorough job that direction, it is possible to proceed by doing a couple layers around the sides, so as to make it more difficult to remove. It's best to have a team to do it, and LOTS of saran wrap.

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Superlion, quite the expert. Been team leader on a sting.... or had to unwrap your own ride.... don't answer that!..... unless you want to of course

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Surely it's better with that industrial clingfilm you use for pallet packing. I know it's much better than normal clingfilm for wrapping forklift trucks

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I like to think that whoever designed marine life was thinking of it as basically an entertainment medium. That would explain some of the things down there, some of the unearthly biological contraptions

Wish - Option #1 (although we were on a very limited schedule, so we didn't do nearly as good a job as I would have liked)

Tiny - I don't think I've seen this industrial cling film. Perhaps it is better. I'd love to get my hands on it to test it out

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Weeeellllll


Seems googles helping us out. Plenty of links for cling film

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