Always check under the seats...

From Pelican:

http://forums.pelicanparts.com/porsche-911-technical-forum/596198-i-found-glock-30-under-my-seat.html

Anybody who's glad it "didn't fire when [he] was driving it" doesn't deserve the Glock.

Kind of like saying, "I'm glad my 930 didn't spontaneously back itself into a tree at high speed while I was minding my own business."

I assume that could've got rather nasty if the buyer had been pulled over?

wow that could really have berkeleyed him if it wasnt him that found it but his friendly neighborhood officer.

i'll take either thing he brought home please.

WOW All I found in my latest car was a 2GB iPod

You never know.... I cut open a rear fender just above the rocker panel for rust repair on a '64 Fairlane Sport Coupe and an ounce of weed rolled out.

EricM wrote: WOW All I found in my latest car was a 2GB iPod

Any good music on it?

Did he look down the barrel to see if it was loaded?

EricM wrote: WOW All I found in my latest car was a 2GB iPod

all we got in our challenge e30 was an expired credit card and an open tube of tanning oil

Oh and when I bought my RV for my trip to Alaska last summer I called and the police came over for a curtisy inspection. The had one of the (retired) drug sniffing dogs and sniffed all over the RV.

They couldn't do it with a currently working dog for some reason, but they had a retired one. It seemed to me the dog was very happy to be working again.

They found nothing, but I didn't want to cross boarders in a rig I didn't know what was in it.

BoxheadTim wrote:

EricM wrote: WOW All I found in my latest car was a 2GB iPod

Any good music on it?

No it had a bunch of "independent artist" crap.

Ah. Independent for a reason, right?

alex wrote: Anybody who's glad it "didn't fire when [he] was driving it" doesn't deserve the Glock. Kind of like saying, "I'm glad my 930 didn't spontaneously back itself into a tree at high speed while I was minding my own business."

Apparently you've never been shot at by a Glock, I have. Stupid ass neighbor was "cleaning" it and it went off and the round came through my apartment and bounced around the cabinet breaking a ton of dishes. Dude claimed he never touched the trigger and the cops believed him. I've heard similar stories from others, shake the f-er juuuuusst right and BLAMMO. I also found it interesting later on in life in the military when Glock's were the only personal firearm not allowed on the range.

Javelin wrote: I also found it interesting later on in life in the military when Glock's were the only personal firearm not allowed on the range.

do you think thats because the safety on a glock is the little part in front of the trigger that must first be depressed?

Javelin wrote:

alex wrote: Anybody who's glad it "didn't fire when [he] was driving it" doesn't deserve the Glock. Kind of like saying, "I'm glad my 930 didn't spontaneously back itself into a tree at high speed while I was minding my own business."

Apparently you've never been shot at by a Glock, I have. Stupid ass neighbor was "cleaning" it and it went off and the round came through my apartment and bounced around the cabinet breaking a ton of dishes. Dude claimed he never touched the trigger and the cops believed him. I've heard similar stories from others, shake the f-er juuuuusst right and BLAMMO. I also found it interesting later on in life in the military when Glock's were the only personal firearm not allowed on the range.

Know exactly what happened, to take down a Glock you must first pull the trigger to release tension from the striker, pull on two small levers in front of the trigger and jimmy the slide off. That first part is where people mess up. Its amazing how easy it is to forget to clear the gun before the first step. It is next to impossible to get a modern handgun to "go off" unless you willingly modify the trigger down to a stupid low trigger pull and disable all the safeties built into a gun. None of this is a easy as it sounds. As for no Glock's on the range that's odd as they are probably the most popular semi auto around. It just means someone running the place doesn't like them. Glock's are very safe and have about 3 safeties to keep them that way. I personally don't like them because of the redundant safeties and the trigger lever safety in particular.

I found a retainer case under the seat of my recently purchased Infiniti last Saturday night.

Yeah, not that interesting, I know.

most I ever found was nasty corroded change.. mostly pennies

Buy any station wagon. Fold up the rear seat. Find masses of cheerios.

I found some little girl's wonder woman underoo's in a friends recent purchase ford fairmont.

I found a pair of large REAL diamond earrings (~70 points each) in the MX6. I supposed i could get creative with the Challenge budget accounting and recoup the purchase price down to $1 with those, but i didn't feel right about it.

(Yes, i did ask the previous owner about them, he said they weren't his. With the location they were in, they'd probably been there for at least a decade.)

I purchased a car from a local police officer (this is 25 years ago now)

I found a revolver under the dash about 6 months after I purchased it (yes loaded) when I was installing a new stereo. I called the officer and he was quite relieved upon its return. He had reported it stolen about 6 months prior to me purchasing the vehicle.

When we opened up the door panel on my old Pontiac, we found some 1966 UAW's lunch sack, complete with cardboard sandwich and a banana that looked like a vanilla bean.

Man, all I've ever found is cars in a Snap-On 1/4" flex head ratchet. And I'm the on who dropped it.

Javelin wrote:

alex wrote: Anybody who's glad it "didn't fire when [he] was driving it" doesn't deserve the Glock. Kind of like saying, "I'm glad my 930 didn't spontaneously back itself into a tree at high speed while I was minding my own business."

Apparently you've never been shot at by a Glock, I have. Stupid ass neighbor was "cleaning" it and it went off and the round came through my apartment and bounced around the cabinet breaking a ton of dishes. Dude claimed he never touched the trigger and the cops believed him. I've heard similar stories from others, shake the f-er juuuuusst right and BLAMMO. I also found it interesting later on in life in the military when Glock's were the only personal firearm not allowed on the range.

I've NEVER heard of a shaken Glock being discharged. And being a bit of a Glock hater, I'd know about that. Glock's strikers aren't under tension until the trigger is pulled. Also have never seen a range with a ban on Glocks. Hell, I mostly see Glocks at ranges!

Now, "Glock Leg" user-error like your stupid ass neighbor had isn't uncommon...

A gem from the Pelican thread:

At the BMW/PCA Instructors clinics a couple weeks ago the CDI for BMW was telling a story of why its a good idea to make a cursory check of the car prior to hitting the track, he said that in one case he was coming into turn two (hard braking) and heard something slide, then hit his foot... reached down and pucked up a gun - he holds the gun and asks the student driver "Is this thing loaded?"

the student reaches under HIS seat and pulls out a second gun and say. "NO, but this one is!"

There was a guy here locally who bought an Explorer from a local used car dealer. He decided he wanted to upgrade the radio and speakers. When he pulled the door panel off, he found the door stuffed with bags of weed. Immediately called the cops, they came out and carefully pulled the car apart with the new owner helping. Confiscated over 500 lbs of weed if memory serves. It was stuffed in every crevice and body panel of the car. The guy didn't get in trouble, the dealer kinda did. There was a big news story about it locally. LOL