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As a tech. i can say one thing i found was roaches in a customer’s mazda. the ironic thing about that situation is that she cleans houses for a living.
I remember a 1965 Mustang that came through one time, it had a dead rat in it that had been there for so long that all you could find was a bit of fur and a skeleton. the cool part is that the skeleton was untouched from the day it died and even the tail bones were still in alignment.
Chick brought me an Escort once that the driver’s seat was jammed up on. Car had a bunch of trash and such in it, so I already wasn’t pleased but she was cute so I went to look. Shined a light under the seat and start moving various trash out until I got to a…….. used…….tampon. What the fuck! No longer thought she was cute and sent her down the road in the SS Massengill.
Had a guy bring a car to me and when I got in there was a fat sack of weed and a pipe right in the open. Car smelled like is was washed in bong water. That bag must’ve been a solid 2 ounces. Pulled him to the side and let him know what the rest of the world I thought already knew, if you are going to smoke weed don’t display it for the whole world to see!
Trunks and glove boxes have yielded many an interesting item, some of which I wish I could erase from memory. Like a rather homely guy in his 50’s that weighed a good 300 pounds and had blinker issues. Perhaps it never dawned on him that I would open the trunk in the process of diagnosis to see (and smell) an unwashed but well used fuck doll. Ugh.
Had one woman come running out to stop me when she saw me about to open the trunk. Wouldn’t tell me why but said she did not want that trunk opened. Looked quite red in the face. I explained that the only way I could access the fuel pump on her car was through an access hatch in the trunk. She left. To this day I do wonder what was in there. Could be anything from dirty panties to a dead body for all I know, but the look on her face was awesome.
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A vehicle is a pile of plastic and metal. WHY would roaches, bees, hornets, or other insects want to be in them? I mean first of all, for a non-flying bug to make it’s way from the ground to the cabin would not be easy.Second – so what does the tech do when they find drugs? What are they suppose to do? Report it? Pretend it doesn’t exist?[/quote]
A vehicle makes great shelter from the weather. Bugs and rodents can get in and predators cannot. Smart animals would seek out a car. Its not about convenience for them, but survival. A vehicle may just be plastic and metal, but the humans in it are messy creatures. Always spilling sugary drinks and dropping crumbs of food so from an insect point of view its like the penthouse suite at the Hilton.
Your second question is really up to the tech and the shop. Lot of grey area here. I’ve never worked at a shop that had a policy about what we find. I think the general implied rule is what is in our customer’s property is to be left alone, it isn’t our business. Just like if you were an appliance guy installing a new washer in someone’s house, what they have in their home isn’t your business. It’s certainly a taboo to take any of it, so generally you ignore it.
Also, it kinda depends on what and how much you find. For instance, pot is becoming more and more legal or in other areas decriminalized. I’m all for legalizing it myself even though I don’t smoke it as I do not feel it to be any more harmful than other legal venues people have to get messed up. I do make sure to point out discreetly to people who leave it in plain sight that they need to be concealing it so as not to get arrested, and they have thanked me for that. Its not like someone who is transporting a fresh load of cocaine is going to stop in for some work on his car, right? They do not stop anywhere or let outside people near the car. Now I have seen needle rigs on occasion, but most addicts are paranoid enough to keep their stuff on them. Drugs like coke, meth and heroin are quite expensive after all.
Now if someone had a vehicle where it was obvious to me that they were cooking meth in, and there was clear proof of such a thing in front of me, that would pose a dilemma. I do not wish to be subject to retaliation from junkies or drug dealers, I would be not only losing a customer but not being paid for the repair bill, I would have cops to deal with at my shop, and since not everyone would know the details of the story there may be people in the general public who think I just like to get my customers arrested. That in turn is all sorts of bad for business. Yet I also have 4 kids and I have personally seen in other people just how terrible a drug like meth is for all of humanity. What if the local accountant, a middle aged businessman who pays his bills and is a loyal customer, hears I got someone arrested when I found drugs in the car? Say that accountant likes to smoke a little weed on his off time? So can he trust bringing his car to me, as being arrested would be very damaging to his career? Just as Eric mentioned that you would be surprised who out there is packing a gun, you’d be surprised just how many people out there smoke weed. Getting them busted could be bad news for your shop and that will be bad news for your job.
Makes sense about “just leave it be”.
I guess just cauze someone has drugs or whatever is no reason to get involved in a mess.With critters in a car –
considering they have to make their way through a greasy mess AND risk death (should the car start moving while they walk the brake lines, suspension, manifolds, etc) before they get in the cabin – now I would feel bad about killing them.
We all know the underside of a car is all kinds of nasty.
UNLESS it were wasps or hornets – I would massacre them no matter what.Funny about the penthouse suite at the Hilton –
Last summer I get in my car and some spider had build the finest looking web I had ever seen in the passenger window (it was down overnight) And there he was, just chillin in the center of his own suite. I know my 99 cougar is kick-ass but I cannot have spiders constructing homes. Not without a builder’s permit anywaysA 150lbs Mastiff in the back of a VW Rialta. (small motorhome) Apparently, when I hopped in to move it out of the service drive I disturbed his nap and he wasn’t at all happy. I noped the hell out of there and told my service writer to send them down the road. Nobody was going to touch that van after they neglected to tell us about the giant angry dog they left in it.
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