Re: Re:YOU WON'T BELIEVE,,,[with pictures]

Ok - I'm lost.  Bling bling??
(remember I don't get out much)

---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
From: EvaTEsq@aol.com
Reply-To: gardenchat@hort.net
Date:  Sun, 22 Feb 2004 21:06:52 EST

>That is FUNNY!  And according to Snopes.com, it's TRUE!
>
>http://www.snopes.com/photos/carwash.asp
>
>Eva
>Long Island, NY
>Zone 6/7
>
>"We don't do enough to exploit renewable energy resources."
>Me
>
>In a message dated 2/22/2004 5:51:39 PM Pacific Standard Time, 
>judybrowning@lewiston.com writes:
>I can't take credit, a friend passed it to me. One of those stories that I'd
>like to know the origin. As for glittery stuff, seems to work for many
>females. The group of nurses I work with delight in displaying "bling bling"
>from their guys.
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "james singer" <jsinger@igc.org>
>To: ".Chat" <gardenchat@hort.net>
>Sent: Sunday, February 22, 2004 3:17 PM
>Subject: [CHAT] Re:YOU WON'T BELIEVE,,,[with pictures]
>
>
>> Judy, those pictures are priceless!
>>
>> Early in my participation in CHAT I reported my experience with
>> continual loss of white plastic stakes giving planting dates of seeds,
>> botanic names, and so on, only to discover a family of Florida Brush
>> Jays were pilfering them.
>>
>> I recall an old PBS "Nature" program that featured a bird of the low
>> desert that decorated his nest with all sorts of glittery stuff--broken
>> mirror pieces, broken glass, bottle caps, plastic stuff--to attract
>> females.
>>
>> Can't help but think there is some sort of mating ritual that is
>> enhanced by the glitter [or whatever] that nickel-plated coins produces.
>>
>> But the pictures are really great stuff.
>>
>> On Sunday, February 22, 2004, at 05:11 PM, Judy L Browning wrote:
>>
>> >
>> > Here it is.
>> >
>> > "YOU WON'T BELIEVE THIS ONE!"
>> >
>> > Bill owns a company that manufactures and installs car wash
>> > systems.     Bill's company installed a car wash system
>> > inFrederick,Md.  Now understand that these are complete systems,
>> > including the money changer and money taking machines.
>> >
>> > The problem started when the new owner complained to Bill that he was
>> > losing significant amounts of money from his coin machines each week.
>> > He went as far as to accuse Bill's employees of having a key to the
>> > boxes and ripping him off. Bill just couldn't believe that his people
>> > would do that, so they setup a camera to catch the thief in action.
>> > Well, they did catch him on film!
>> >
>> >
>> <image.tiff>
>> >
>> > That's a bird sitting on the change slot of the machine.
>> >
>> <image.tiff>
>> >
>> > The bird had to go down into the machine, and back up inside to get to
>> > the money!
>> >
>> <image.tiff>
>> >
>> > That's three quarters he has in his beak!Another amazing thing isthat
>> > it was not just one bird -- there were several working together.  Once
>> > they identified the thieves, they found over $4000 in quarters on the
>> > roof of the car wash and more under a nearby tree.
>> >
>> <image.tiff>
>> >
>> >
>> > And you thought you heard of everything by now!!!
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> Island Jim
>> Southwest Florida
>> Zone 10
>>
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