February 11, 2010 • 15 mins
Parking is usually a hassle -- and parking tickets are even worse. But wait, there's more: Have you heard about the parking boot? Listen in as the guys take a look at the process of getting booted in this podcast.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Go behind the wheel and under the hood on everything
automotive with high speed stuff from how stuff works dot com. Everybody,
welcome to the show. I'm Scott Benjamin, a auto editor
here at how stuff works dot com, and my name
is Ben Bolin. I write some videos here. Fantastic Yeah, yeah,
(00:24):
well they're good stuff. Yeah, I don't don't sell yourself short.
Thanks man. Hey, we got another listener request that I
think we should talk about. And this might be a
quick one, I think, okay, I think, all right, we
jinks it with that usually well or something exactly. This
one is is from Evan, and Evan is from and Over, Massachusetts.
And Evan says that he's a big fan of show,
(00:46):
likes to make likes to listen to us on road trips.
That's it. And m says that he has a question
for has a suggestion rather for a podcast alright. He
wants to know how the parking boots work. Parking boots,
parking boots. I hate those things. I'll tell you how
they work. They make your life crappy for a few minutes.
You sound did you want to talk about this now
(01:08):
or not? And they sound like you may have had
some parking boot experience, you know what I have now,
as you know from listening to our other podcasts, which
we also hope you enjoy. We cannot reveal the exact
location of the secret of Studio one A, but I
can tell you that I've had an experience parking in
a nearby parking lot. Um and lo and behold, and
(01:31):
it wasn't parked there for days. I was parked there
for a few hours, and uh, I came back and
I had a boot on my car, and it took
me a second to realize what was going on. Didn't
didn't register. It didn't register. You know, that's something that
you think happens to other people, you know. I'll admit
I had no idea that they did this in parking lots.
I thought this was like a city street thing, right right.
(01:52):
I thought it was for more severe crime than that.
I guess I just didn't know that parking lots were
targeted for this type of thing. Yeah. So there I am,
and this is I think they did this because it
was in the midst of the holidays, and this is
about two thousand eight or something, And so there I am,
and I get the boot, and I'm looking around and
I'm near this sort of strip mall area, and I
(02:14):
just think somebody's watching me. People aren't just going to
boot your car and drive away if it's in a
parking lot like this. And sure enough, this guy, who
to his credit was very nice, uh, comes driving up
and charges me upwards of sixty dollars to take it off.
Sixty sixty the most expensive parking space I've ever had. Really, yeah, six?
(02:37):
Now what would have the cost have been if you
had just paid for parking there? It would have been
twelve dollars, Scott, But we all learned from our mistakes
big enough to admit it five times as much to
to park illegally. But okay, got it. You look a
little bit embarrassed. It wasn't illegal, man, It was just
I was all right, I understand. I don't have any
(02:58):
experience with the boot, but I don't know what the
boot is. I mean, it's a piece of hardware really
that that locks to your wheels and it prevents you
from driving away, and just simple as that, as simple
as that. Um, Really, what it is is just a
major inconvenience. Like you said, Um, the metal device has
usually got a ramp of some kind or something that's
designed to go in front of the wheel that that
(03:18):
keeps it from spinning or it would destroy your body,
the body in the car um and it just doesn't
allow your wheels to spin. That's what it is. Now.
I have seen I have seen online, uh, some people
trying to defeat the boot. Yeah, and I don't recommend this,
by the way, but to take the boot off themselves.
I'm talking about like, I'm talking about taking it off
(03:40):
like via different methods. Yeah, Like one guy had a
I believe it's a metal cutting chainsaw. Um. Not a
good idea, no, not terrible idea, but um, there are
a couple of you know, strangely enough, there's a couple
of advances in this too. And I don't know if
you wanted to mention anything else about the hardware, since you're,
(04:00):
you know, so intimately familiar with it, I would say
that I have I have post boot stress syndrome. Making
me laugh. No, I think we should go into it.
And of course a little bit of a caveat. This
episode is not going to show you how to break
the law, and anything we talked about is only something
(04:21):
that we think is interesting exactly, So it's definitely not
not recommended to try to take this thing off. Just
pay the fine and be done with it, because otherwise you're,
I don't know, you're at risk of damaging or hurting
yourself or damaging your vehicle or you know, just breaking
a law by it to begin with. Um, so better
pay up. Okay, So we did, we did, all right.
(04:43):
We can understand that it's a it's a major inconvenience
because here's what happens most of the times when you
get this boot. Now, if you're in a parking lot
like you were, someone kind of watches for you to
return because you may be the only one in the
parking lot at the time that they have that device on,
so they can kind of just camp out and see
what you're doing. Because I looked happy when I was walking.
That's what it was, all right. I'm sorry, I swear
I'm not going to talk about it. Right. Sounds better. Um.
(05:05):
The The thing is that if you get this in traffic,
or if you're in a downtown city area where you
know it's crowded, congested, they're putting these on several cars
and large areas. You have to find a way to
get down to down to like maybe the downtown area
where they have the city offices. You have to go
there during business hours. You have to pay the fine,
(05:25):
prove who you are, come back to your vehicle, find
you know, find a way back to your vehicle, wait
for somebody to arrive your vehicle, and then take this
thing off for you so that you can you can
be on your way. Major inconvenience, um, more so than
just paying the sixty dollars like you had to. Um.
You still have to pay the fines, of course, but UM,
there's a there's kind of a new advance uh in
(05:46):
the in this area, which I thought was kind of interesting.
And this is really about the only advanced to this
type of thing you could really think of. Lay it
on me, man Anita heads up electronic boots with the
keep head release system. Yeah, this is kind of cool. Um,
as a phone number on the see what it does
require you to have those as a cell phone and
a credit card available to make the payment over the phone.
(06:07):
And there's a there's a phone number on the boot device.
You call the phone number, give them your information and
tell them who you are. Giving them your information, you
pay these sixty dollars or whatever it is. That you
said it. It costs via the credit card of the phone,
and they give you the code to release the boot
from your vehicle. Now I don't know what you do
with the boot afterwards, if there's a drop off location
or what, but can you imagine they make you drop
(06:28):
it off? I think I think people, you know, if
they know what's good for them, they'll just leave it
right where it is, but don't do anything malicious with it.
But um, I thought that was pretty interesting that there's
at least one advancement this Because you think of it
just as a chunk of metal that you're attaching to
someone's wheel. What can you really do with it? But
this is a good example of something you know makes
it easier for everybody involved. And I want to be
fair and be uh. I wouldn't say the bigger man,
(06:52):
but I'll level will you Scott? At this point in
the show, we both know that I'm emotionally about six
years old, so I was irritated. But to be fair,
when people get these boots, a lot of times it
is from a city service, it may be from private company,
but there's a reason unless you are friends with incredibly
calculating a malicious super pranksters. You're only gonna get a
(07:16):
boot if you park in a place you're not supposed
to park, like if you double park in a handicap
zone and you are not handicap, if you park in
the fire lane, uh, and you're not a fire engine.
You know, often this is repeat offenders as well. I've
heard that. I've heard that if you know that this
is the third strike, you're out type of morning, and
they get the paper ticket on the window twice. Yes,
(07:37):
the third time you get the boot, or maybe it's
the fifth time. It's not just it's usually typically not
the first offense that you get something like this, but
I suppose that varies from district to this and uh,
I want to tell you before we uh end up
with this. I actually looked up before we did this
the most expensive parking space because yeah, because you know,
(07:59):
I told Grant I ended up paying you know, sixty
bucks lit over sixty Yeah, I thought so until I
heard about the most expensive parking space in the world,
which is actually in Back Bay, uh, upper class area
of Boston. How much. Let's play the guessing game. Okay,
(08:23):
come on, I'll tell you it's more than it's more
than a thousand dollars. It's more than a thousand, but
you knew that. I figured it would be more of
a thousand. Okay, So parking is it a premium in
Boston because it's extremely crowded, this is an upper upper
class area. I'm gonna say fifteen thousand dollars. The average
cost of a parking spot in these areas in Back
(08:45):
Bay and Beacon Hill is a hundred and twenty seven
thousand dollars seven thousand dollars. How long do you get
that spot for? I yeah, no, I'm assuming if you
pay for it that much money and it should be yours. Yeah. Okay,
well if it has that much. If it's that much,
I'm building in a you know, like a small apartment
(09:06):
on the property there. That's yeah. Is that illegal? Well? No, no,
I that's not too far out of bounds. I was
gonna say, because some people are buying, not just in
Boston but in New York. If people are selling parking spaces,
what a great idea it is to buy one as
an investment. And somebody doesn't want to pay for a
whole year of parking, but they say, hey, how much
(09:26):
would it cost me to park rental property. Uh, fantastic.
Gre You could buy a you buy a camper or
a van and just live, just live there. Yeah, there
might be someone doing that. I'm solving problems today. You
were solving problems and building bridges. That's what I like
about you. Uh So that is only the median and
asking price. Um, the most expensive parking space ever sold.
(09:49):
The asking price for it was two dred and fifty
thou dollars. That was before the bidding war. You're causing
me physical pain. I'm sorry, it's is how dollars was
the starting price? Yeah, that was the asking price. And
so these folks got in a bidding war. And if
you're familiar with things like eBay or real life auctions,
a lot of times people end up paying more than
(10:10):
they should because they want to win. Sure, and I'm
not going to say whether or not it was a
good idea for these people to spend. Are you ready? Oh? No,
three hundred thousand dollars to park here? Oh my gosh,
I know. Does it say what kind of car they
parked there? No? I think if you pay three un
adopt three d thousand dollars for parking space, you kind
(10:31):
of get privacy. Check this out, man, what do you think, uh,
comes with a three thousand dollar parking space? Two painted
lines on each side or one on each side? You're good?
Do you own this parking space? It's outdoors, it's uncovered.
What Yeah, it's entirely the location. You're saying, three hundred
thousand dollars uncovered parking so the birds can land above
(10:52):
it and the tree can drop its whatever on it. Yeah, sap, yeah,
pollen whatnot? So yeah, you would think it would be carpeted. Yeah,
I would think it would come with a Car's a
very expensive car hopefully Yeah not not you know, wow,
not my normal car. Well, I thankfully. That's that's all
(11:16):
I got on to bring it back to full circle.
In Boston, and especially in that parking space, you will
definitely get towed. You won't get booted. You might get
booted by the owner. You might get booted by the owner. Yeah,
but now we're going we could probably go into uh
we we just want to do this listener suggestion because
(11:38):
you know, I have some personal skin in the game
when it comes to the booting cars, and uh we
could do an entire episode on the crazy parking conundrums. Um,
but I guess, really this this is kind of a
true and I guess we even have time for listening
to mail. Sure, let's do it, all right. We got
a bit of a listener mail here that confirms that
(12:00):
not crazy. Wait what you're looking at me like, I'm
not sn right? So do you recall a few episodes
ago and this was talking about the car survival Kit.
We had a question from a listener um about freezing
water on northern road trips. Remember that? And I suggested,
suggested and I'm still laughing about it. I you know,
(12:21):
I thought about that afterwards and I almost almost said,
let's not air that one. It almost sounds too goofy
and it's just ridiculous, right, And I've I've honestly thought
this several nights. I'm gonna pull that one from the air.
I'm gonna say we can't. We can't air it because
it's it's a little crazy. It just felt a little
weird about it. Ever since I thought you were thinking
outside well, I am thinking outside the box. And someone
(12:42):
else thinks that as well. Um Jake Jake wrote in
and said, Um, Heyle was listening to your podcast and
you're talking about various ways to store water and freezing temperatures.
I think the idea for using the freeze pop juice
things is actually a better idea than it seems exactly.
The reason they don't freeze solid is because of the
sugar count. That so it lowers the freezing temperatured liquid,
(13:03):
you know, etcetera. But he says, he said, you know,
not as crazy as I think I am. It's good.
Huh yeah, I mean again, you're gonna have to up
the anti he says. He says, but what you could
do if you wanted just water to to not freeze,
you could you could add a large amount of sugar
to the water to keep up and becoming solid. And
he said that if he mentioned is going to the
(13:24):
local health food store to buy a certain type of
sugar fruit sugar fructose. And I said that, you know,
a survival situation, you need all the energy you can get.
So he doesn't think that fruitos would hurt you one
bit in that type of situation, because you just need
energy to be able to maintain whatever you're doing until
someone can come rescue or you can get out of
the situation. That's a really good point. So he took
(13:44):
it a little bit further. Um, he says he's going
to run it past his dietitian girlfriend to see if
it's a solid idea, but he will he'll get back
to us later about it. So that was my affirmation,
Ben And now I feel kind of justified, and I
think that I can finally get some sleep. Yeah, no,
no more are staying up at night. I honestly was
thinking about it that you know, this is magg give
(14:04):
them some bad advice, but I think maybe maybe it was.
It was good. Yeah, and hopefully it's advice that uh,
nobody will have to write in and tell us about
a situation where they did have to do this, because
of course, we hope that everybody takes good enough care
of their vehicle that they don't end up breaking down.
But sometimes you can't help it, alright, folks, So you
(14:25):
heard it here first, Scott the deuce. Benjamin is legally
again a member of the same population of the world.
I feel Scott, I feel pretty good. Welcome back, oil
can Bowling. I forgot about our nickname thing. We gotta
get back on that. Yeah, we've got some good suggestions.
We have got some listener suggestions. Which I am. I'm
(14:45):
making a list. We're making a list. Keep sending them
in and uh you can of course send them to
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(15:07):
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Go behind the wheel and under the hood on everything
automotive with high speed stuff from how stuff works dot com. Everybody,
welcome to the show. I'm Scott Benjamin, a auto editor
here at how stuff works dot com, and my name
is Ben Bolin. I write some videos here. Fantastic Yeah, yeah,
(00:24):
well they're good stuff. Yeah, I don't don't sell yourself short.
Thanks man. Hey, we got another listener request that I
think we should talk about. And this might be a
quick one, I think, okay, I think, all right, we
jinks it with that usually well or something exactly. This
one is is from Evan, and Evan is from and Over, Massachusetts.
And Evan says that he's a big fan of show,
(00:46):
likes to make likes to listen to us on road trips.
That's it. And m says that he has a question
for has a suggestion rather for a podcast alright. He
wants to know how the parking boots work. Parking boots,
parking boots. I hate those things. I'll tell you how
they work. They make your life crappy for a few minutes.
You sound did you want to talk about this now
(01:08):
or not? And they sound like you may have had
some parking boot experience, you know what I have now,
as you know from listening to our other podcasts, which
we also hope you enjoy. We cannot reveal the exact
location of the secret of Studio one A, but I
can tell you that I've had an experience parking in
a nearby parking lot. Um and lo and behold, and
(01:31):
it wasn't parked there for days. I was parked there
for a few hours, and uh, I came back and
I had a boot on my car, and it took
me a second to realize what was going on. Didn't
didn't register. It didn't register. You know, that's something that
you think happens to other people, you know. I'll admit
I had no idea that they did this in parking lots.
I thought this was like a city street thing, right right.
(01:52):
I thought it was for more severe crime than that.
I guess I just didn't know that parking lots were
targeted for this type of thing. Yeah. So there I am,
and this is I think they did this because it
was in the midst of the holidays, and this is
about two thousand eight or something, And so there I am,
and I get the boot, and I'm looking around and
I'm near this sort of strip mall area, and I
(02:14):
just think somebody's watching me. People aren't just going to
boot your car and drive away if it's in a
parking lot like this. And sure enough, this guy, who
to his credit was very nice, uh, comes driving up
and charges me upwards of sixty dollars to take it off.
Sixty sixty the most expensive parking space I've ever had. Really, yeah, six?
(02:37):
Now what would have the cost have been if you
had just paid for parking there? It would have been
twelve dollars, Scott, But we all learned from our mistakes
big enough to admit it five times as much to
to park illegally. But okay, got it. You look a
little bit embarrassed. It wasn't illegal, man, It was just
I was all right, I understand. I don't have any
(02:58):
experience with the boot, but I don't know what the
boot is. I mean, it's a piece of hardware really
that that locks to your wheels and it prevents you
from driving away, and just simple as that, as simple
as that. Um, Really, what it is is just a
major inconvenience. Like you said, Um, the metal device has
usually got a ramp of some kind or something that's
designed to go in front of the wheel that that
(03:18):
keeps it from spinning or it would destroy your body,
the body in the car um and it just doesn't
allow your wheels to spin. That's what it is. Now.
I have seen I have seen online, uh, some people
trying to defeat the boot. Yeah, and I don't recommend this,
by the way, but to take the boot off themselves.
I'm talking about like, I'm talking about taking it off
(03:40):
like via different methods. Yeah, Like one guy had a
I believe it's a metal cutting chainsaw. Um. Not a
good idea, no, not terrible idea, but um, there are
a couple of you know, strangely enough, there's a couple
of advances in this too. And I don't know if
you wanted to mention anything else about the hardware, since you're,
(04:00):
you know, so intimately familiar with it, I would say
that I have I have post boot stress syndrome. Making
me laugh. No, I think we should go into it.
And of course a little bit of a caveat. This
episode is not going to show you how to break
the law, and anything we talked about is only something
(04:21):
that we think is interesting exactly, So it's definitely not
not recommended to try to take this thing off. Just
pay the fine and be done with it, because otherwise you're,
I don't know, you're at risk of damaging or hurting
yourself or damaging your vehicle or you know, just breaking
a law by it to begin with. Um, so better
pay up. Okay, So we did, we did, all right.
(04:43):
We can understand that it's a it's a major inconvenience
because here's what happens most of the times when you
get this boot. Now, if you're in a parking lot
like you were, someone kind of watches for you to
return because you may be the only one in the
parking lot at the time that they have that device on,
so they can kind of just camp out and see
what you're doing. Because I looked happy when I was walking.
That's what it was, all right. I'm sorry, I swear
I'm not going to talk about it. Right. Sounds better. Um.
(05:05):
The The thing is that if you get this in traffic,
or if you're in a downtown city area where you
know it's crowded, congested, they're putting these on several cars
and large areas. You have to find a way to
get down to down to like maybe the downtown area
where they have the city offices. You have to go
there during business hours. You have to pay the fine,
(05:25):
prove who you are, come back to your vehicle, find
you know, find a way back to your vehicle, wait
for somebody to arrive your vehicle, and then take this
thing off for you so that you can you can
be on your way. Major inconvenience, um, more so than
just paying the sixty dollars like you had to. Um.
You still have to pay the fines, of course, but UM,
there's a there's kind of a new advance uh in
(05:46):
the in this area, which I thought was kind of interesting.
And this is really about the only advanced to this
type of thing you could really think of. Lay it
on me, man Anita heads up electronic boots with the
keep head release system. Yeah, this is kind of cool. Um,
as a phone number on the see what it does
require you to have those as a cell phone and
a credit card available to make the payment over the phone.
(06:07):
And there's a there's a phone number on the boot device.
You call the phone number, give them your information and
tell them who you are. Giving them your information, you
pay these sixty dollars or whatever it is. That you
said it. It costs via the credit card of the phone,
and they give you the code to release the boot
from your vehicle. Now I don't know what you do
with the boot afterwards, if there's a drop off location
or what, but can you imagine they make you drop
(06:28):
it off? I think I think people, you know, if
they know what's good for them, they'll just leave it
right where it is, but don't do anything malicious with it.
But um, I thought that was pretty interesting that there's
at least one advancement this Because you think of it
just as a chunk of metal that you're attaching to
someone's wheel. What can you really do with it? But
this is a good example of something you know makes
it easier for everybody involved. And I want to be
fair and be uh. I wouldn't say the bigger man,
(06:52):
but I'll level will you Scott? At this point in
the show, we both know that I'm emotionally about six
years old, so I was irritated. But to be fair,
when people get these boots, a lot of times it
is from a city service, it may be from private company,
but there's a reason unless you are friends with incredibly
calculating a malicious super pranksters. You're only gonna get a
(07:16):
boot if you park in a place you're not supposed
to park, like if you double park in a handicap
zone and you are not handicap, if you park in
the fire lane, uh, and you're not a fire engine.
You know, often this is repeat offenders as well. I've
heard that. I've heard that if you know that this
is the third strike, you're out type of morning, and
they get the paper ticket on the window twice. Yes,
(07:37):
the third time you get the boot, or maybe it's
the fifth time. It's not just it's usually typically not
the first offense that you get something like this, but
I suppose that varies from district to this and uh,
I want to tell you before we uh end up
with this. I actually looked up before we did this
the most expensive parking space because yeah, because you know,
(07:59):
I told Grant I ended up paying you know, sixty
bucks lit over sixty Yeah, I thought so until I
heard about the most expensive parking space in the world,
which is actually in Back Bay, uh, upper class area
of Boston. How much. Let's play the guessing game. Okay,
(08:23):
come on, I'll tell you it's more than it's more
than a thousand dollars. It's more than a thousand, but
you knew that. I figured it would be more of
a thousand. Okay, So parking is it a premium in
Boston because it's extremely crowded, this is an upper upper
class area. I'm gonna say fifteen thousand dollars. The average
cost of a parking spot in these areas in Back
(08:45):
Bay and Beacon Hill is a hundred and twenty seven
thousand dollars seven thousand dollars. How long do you get
that spot for? I yeah, no, I'm assuming if you
pay for it that much money and it should be yours. Yeah. Okay,
well if it has that much. If it's that much,
I'm building in a you know, like a small apartment
(09:06):
on the property there. That's yeah. Is that illegal? Well? No, no,
I that's not too far out of bounds. I was
gonna say, because some people are buying, not just in
Boston but in New York. If people are selling parking spaces,
what a great idea it is to buy one as
an investment. And somebody doesn't want to pay for a
whole year of parking, but they say, hey, how much
(09:26):
would it cost me to park rental property. Uh, fantastic.
Gre You could buy a you buy a camper or
a van and just live, just live there. Yeah, there
might be someone doing that. I'm solving problems today. You
were solving problems and building bridges. That's what I like
about you. Uh So that is only the median and
asking price. Um, the most expensive parking space ever sold.
(09:49):
The asking price for it was two dred and fifty
thou dollars. That was before the bidding war. You're causing
me physical pain. I'm sorry, it's is how dollars was
the starting price? Yeah, that was the asking price. And
so these folks got in a bidding war. And if
you're familiar with things like eBay or real life auctions,
a lot of times people end up paying more than
(10:10):
they should because they want to win. Sure, and I'm
not going to say whether or not it was a
good idea for these people to spend. Are you ready? Oh? No,
three hundred thousand dollars to park here? Oh my gosh,
I know. Does it say what kind of car they
parked there? No? I think if you pay three un
adopt three d thousand dollars for parking space, you kind
(10:31):
of get privacy. Check this out, man, what do you think, uh,
comes with a three thousand dollar parking space? Two painted
lines on each side or one on each side? You're good?
Do you own this parking space? It's outdoors, it's uncovered.
What Yeah, it's entirely the location. You're saying, three hundred
thousand dollars uncovered parking so the birds can land above
(10:52):
it and the tree can drop its whatever on it. Yeah, sap, yeah,
pollen whatnot? So yeah, you would think it would be carpeted. Yeah,
I would think it would come with a Car's a
very expensive car hopefully Yeah not not you know, wow,
not my normal car. Well, I thankfully. That's that's all
(11:16):
I got on to bring it back to full circle.
In Boston, and especially in that parking space, you will
definitely get towed. You won't get booted. You might get
booted by the owner. You might get booted by the owner. Yeah,
but now we're going we could probably go into uh
we we just want to do this listener suggestion because
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you know, I have some personal skin in the game
when it comes to the booting cars, and uh we
could do an entire episode on the crazy parking conundrums. Um,
but I guess, really this this is kind of a
true and I guess we even have time for listening
to mail. Sure, let's do it, all right. We got
a bit of a listener mail here that confirms that
(12:00):
not crazy. Wait what you're looking at me like, I'm
not sn right? So do you recall a few episodes
ago and this was talking about the car survival Kit.
We had a question from a listener um about freezing
water on northern road trips. Remember that? And I suggested,
suggested and I'm still laughing about it. I you know,
(12:21):
I thought about that afterwards and I almost almost said,
let's not air that one. It almost sounds too goofy
and it's just ridiculous, right, And I've I've honestly thought
this several nights. I'm gonna pull that one from the air.
I'm gonna say we can't. We can't air it because
it's it's a little crazy. It just felt a little
weird about it. Ever since I thought you were thinking
outside well, I am thinking outside the box. And someone
(12:42):
else thinks that as well. Um Jake Jake wrote in
and said, Um, Heyle was listening to your podcast and
you're talking about various ways to store water and freezing temperatures.
I think the idea for using the freeze pop juice
things is actually a better idea than it seems exactly.
The reason they don't freeze solid is because of the
sugar count. That so it lowers the freezing temperatured liquid,
(13:03):
you know, etcetera. But he says, he said, you know,
not as crazy as I think I am. It's good.
Huh yeah, I mean again, you're gonna have to up
the anti he says. He says, but what you could
do if you wanted just water to to not freeze,
you could you could add a large amount of sugar
to the water to keep up and becoming solid. And
he said that if he mentioned is going to the
(13:24):
local health food store to buy a certain type of
sugar fruit sugar fructose. And I said that, you know,
a survival situation, you need all the energy you can get.
So he doesn't think that fruitos would hurt you one
bit in that type of situation, because you just need
energy to be able to maintain whatever you're doing until
someone can come rescue or you can get out of
the situation. That's a really good point. So he took
(13:44):
it a little bit further. Um, he says he's going
to run it past his dietitian girlfriend to see if
it's a solid idea, but he will he'll get back
to us later about it. So that was my affirmation,
Ben And now I feel kind of justified, and I
think that I can finally get some sleep. Yeah, no,
no more are staying up at night. I honestly was
thinking about it that you know, this is magg give
(14:04):
them some bad advice, but I think maybe maybe it was.
It was good. Yeah, and hopefully it's advice that uh,
nobody will have to write in and tell us about
a situation where they did have to do this, because
of course, we hope that everybody takes good enough care
of their vehicle that they don't end up breaking down.
But sometimes you can't help it, alright, folks, So you
(14:25):
heard it here first, Scott the deuce. Benjamin is legally
again a member of the same population of the world.
I feel Scott, I feel pretty good. Welcome back, oil
can Bowling. I forgot about our nickname thing. We gotta
get back on that. Yeah, we've got some good suggestions.
We have got some listener suggestions. Which I am. I'm
(14:45):
making a list. We're making a list. Keep sending them
in and uh you can of course send them to
our email address along with any topics, any suggestions, any
bad jokes, any recommendations of a good restaurant, anything. Yep.
You can reach us at high Speed Stuff at how
stuff work dot com. For more on this and thousands
(15:07):
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