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Woman Claims Neighbor’s Energy Efficient Windows Are Melting Her Toyota Prius
http://losangeles.cbslocal.com/ ^

Posted on 01/25/2012 8:42:52 AM PST by jakerobins

STUDIO CITY (CBS) — A SoCal woman says the energy efficient window installed in a neighbor’s condominium is melting the plastic components on cars parked in her carport.

Heather Patron of Studio City was dealing with a mystery regarding her Toyota Prius.

“The side view mirrors were melting,” says Patron. “Anything that was plastic on the car was melting.”

Toyota told Patron nothing was wrong with the car. After having the mirrors replaced, she noticed the mirrors on the car parked next to hers were also melting.

(Excerpt) Read more at losangeles.cbslocal.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; US: California
KEYWORDS: bioplastics; headlineoftheweek; headlines; prius; priusmelting
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If this is true the irony is too good! HAHAHA
1 posted on 01/25/2012 8:42:59 AM PST by jakerobins
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To: jakerobins

Greenies having a tiff. *gets popcorn*


2 posted on 01/25/2012 8:46:02 AM PST by RushIsMyTeddyBear (A MUST WATCH: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=KeOLurcQaqI)
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She must have gotten hahold of some really “good” drugs. California...


3 posted on 01/25/2012 8:46:04 AM PST by achilles2000 ("I'll agree to save the whales as long as we can deport the liberals")
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To: jakerobins

The only car I truly hate is the Prius.

I despise it more than the Volt, because the Prius is the “status car” of the greenie-weenies.

May they all dissolve into puddles of viscous, gooey, plastic ooze.


4 posted on 01/25/2012 8:46:20 AM PST by Westbrook (Children do not divide your love, they multiply it.)
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To: jakerobins

Didn’t the Greeks concentrate reflected sunlight on the enemies fleet to burn them to the waterline?


5 posted on 01/25/2012 8:47:23 AM PST by Paladin2
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To: jakerobins

At first I misread it and thought it said peni$.


6 posted on 01/25/2012 8:47:23 AM PST by ImJustAnotherOkie (zerogottago)
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To: Westbrook

“The only car I truly hate is the Prius.”

I’m not a Prius fan, but at least it wasn’t pushed down our throats by marxist punk.


7 posted on 01/25/2012 8:48:21 AM PST by fishtank (The denial of original sin is the root of liberalism.)
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To: jakerobins

*grin*

*snicker*

*chuckle*

*snort*

*giggle*

BWAHHAAAHAAHAAAAAAAA!!!!!


8 posted on 01/25/2012 8:49:37 AM PST by Old Sarge (RIP FReeper Skyraider (1930-2011) - You Are Missed)
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To: jakerobins

I smell an upcoming episode of Mythbusters here...


9 posted on 01/25/2012 8:49:43 AM PST by Buckeye McFrog
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To: Paladin2

Seems I saw that busted on “Myth Busters” or something similar.


10 posted on 01/25/2012 8:50:10 AM PST by Magic Fingers
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To: Paladin2

Mythbusters looked into that. Busted.


11 posted on 01/25/2012 8:50:37 AM PST by stormer
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That’s the legend...Although the guys on Mythbusters had a hard time trying to recreate this feat. I wonder if the windows will be declared a public safety hazard after some Women who have had “enhancements” walk by them? AHHH my boobs are melting! LOL


12 posted on 01/25/2012 8:50:37 AM PST by jakerobins
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The image deserves the Salvador Dali treatment.


13 posted on 01/25/2012 8:50:37 AM PST by Dr. Sivana (May Mitt Romney be the Paul Tsongas of 2012.)
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To: jakerobins

The Prius Dali is supposed to do that.


14 posted on 01/25/2012 8:50:52 AM PST by cripplecreek (What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his soul?)
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To: Westbrook; ImJustAnotherOkie
I despise it more than the Volt, because the Prius is the “status car” of the greenie-weenies.

The Prius, also known as the Pious.

(Although Penis works too, I suppose)...

15 posted on 01/25/2012 8:53:14 AM PST by null and void (Day 1100 of America's ObamaVacation from reality [Heroes aren't made, Frank, they're cornered...])
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There was a hotel in Vegas which had to re-engineer its windows which were reflecting enough sunlight into a poolside area that guests were getting serious burns.

It could be that a similar thing is at work here. I’d guess that the law doesn’t allow folks to mount mirrors in ways to cause damage to the property of another, nor would the law allow the accidental harm of new windows installed by some way that caused similar damage to the property of others.


16 posted on 01/25/2012 8:55:31 AM PST by bvw
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To: null and void

I give them no respect in traffic myself. I cut them off when I get the chance, and change lanes in front of them whenever possible. I don’t expect any badass to pop out of one with a .45.


17 posted on 01/25/2012 8:56:27 AM PST by ImJustAnotherOkie (zerogottago)
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To: jakerobins
Easy solution: just buy a big mirror and use it to shield your Prius and set your neighbor's house on fire with light from his own high efficiency windows.
18 posted on 01/25/2012 8:57:06 AM PST by KarlInOhio (Herman Cain: possibly the escapee most dangerous to the Democrats since Frederick Douglass.)
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Don't laugh, and don't doubt. It happens!

Look here for article

19 posted on 01/25/2012 8:59:13 AM PST by China Clipper ( Animals? Sure I like animals. See? There they are next to the potatoes!)
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—After having the mirrors replaced, she noticed the mirrors on the car parked next to hers were also melting.—

I infer from this that the fact that her car is a Priuth is irrelevant. Rather, it is an issue with too much reflected solar energy coupled with the direct sunlight that is death to plastic car parts, regardless of the make or model.


20 posted on 01/25/2012 9:00:58 AM PST by cuban leaf (Were doomed! Details at eleven.)
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