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coorslt4u2
08-16-2005, 05:35 PM
This is from a Journal of the Retired UAL Pilots Assn.
If you lock your keys in the car and the spare keys are at home, call someone on your cell phone. Hold your cell phone about a foot from your car door and have the other person at your home press the unlock button of your key fob (clicker) holding it near the phone on their end. Your car doors will unlock and save someone from having to drive your key to you. Distance is no object you could be hundreds of miles away, and if you can reach someone who has the other remote for you car, you can unlock the doors (or the trunk!) (kim and I tried it and it works ) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :)

Jordy
08-16-2005, 05:42 PM
Right from Snopes:
Remote Possibility
Claim: Cars equipped with remote keyless entry systems can be unlocked via cell phone.
Status: False.
Example: [Collected on the Internet, 2004]
This only applies to cars that can be unlocked by that remote button on your key ring. Should you lock your keys in the car and the spare keys are home, and you don't have "OnStar," here's your answer to the problem!
If someone has access to the spare remote at your home, call them on your cell phone (or borrow one from someone if the cell phone is locked in the car too!)
Hold your (or anyone's) cell phone about a foot from your car door and have the other person at your home press the unlock button, holding it near the phone.
Your car will unlock. and it works. Saves someone from having to drive your keys to you. Distance is no object. You could be hundreds of miles away, and if you can reach someone who has the other "remote" for your car, you can unlock the doors (or the trunk, or have the "horn" signal go off, or whatever!)
Origins: A familiar form of jape applied especially to newcomers in a social group is something known as a "fool's errand": a prank in which the victim is lured into attempting to complete a ridiculous task that to the uninitiated sounds just plausible enough to be valid. Quests to find non-existent objects are a common form of fool's errand — when I was in the Boy Scouts, tenderfeet on their first campouts were typically sent off to borrow a "bacon stretcher" (an implement supposedly used to prevent one's breakfast meat from curling up in the frying pan) or a "left-handed smoke-shifter" (a device reportedly employed to prevent campfire smoke from drifting into one's tent). All the other scouts were, of course, in on the gag (having been through the same process themselves) and would merrily send the hapless tenderfoot from one location to the next in quest of something he could never find. Likewise, an innocent new employee at an airfield or dockyard might be asked to retrieve "a bucket of prop wash" or "50 feet of shoreline."
The message quoted above might be considered a type of fool's errand, a joke created to see how many people are gullible enough to call friends and try opening their car doors with cell phones.
Many new cars now come equipped with "Remote Keyless Entry" (or "Keyless Remote" or "Keyless Entry" or "Remote Entry") systems (also known as RKE systems), a mechanism which allows automobile owners to lock and unlock their car doors remotely (from up to about 300 feet away) by pressing buttons on transmitting devices small enough to be carried on keychains. RKE systems are handy for a number of reasons: they enable drivers to unlock car doors without having to fumble around for keys (a great advantage in darkness, during inclement weather, and when one's hands are full), they enable car owners to give someone else access to their vehicles without having to hand over ignition keys, and they provide a means by which motorists can open their cars to retrieve keys that have been locked inside.
But what if you accidentally lock your remote entry device in your car along with your keys? (A plausible scenario, as many people carry them together on the same keyring.) If you own a car equipped with a system such as OnStar you can contact an operator and have OnStar unlock your vehicle remotely through a signal sent via a cellular network, but otherwise you have to call a locksmith or get a friend or relative to bring an extra set of keys out to you.
Enter the idea of the poor man's OnStar. No need to pay for a fancy car-unlocking service: just use a cell phone to call someone who has access to your spare RKE device and tell him to point it at the phone and press the "UNLOCK" button. You simultaneously point the cell phone at your car door, and voilÃ* — you're in! A nifty solution . . . at least it would be if it weren't completely implausible, the equivalent of a fool's errand for our modern technological age.
Relaying remote entry system signals via telephone might work if the signals were sound-based, but they're not. An RKE system transmits an encrypted data stream to a receiver inside the automobile via an RF (radio frequency) signal, a signal that can't be effectively relayed via cell phone. (In any event, RKE systems and cell phones typically operate on completely different frequencies; the former in the 300 MHz range and the latter in the 800 MHz range.)
We don't know whether whoever created this message was deliberately joking or earnestly mistaken, but the vision of stranded motorists vainly holding cell phones up to their cars in the hopes of unlocking them is an amusing one. One might as well suggest that a spare piano key could be used to gain entry to a locked automobile.
(More than a few people have inadvertently fooled themselves into believing the cell phone method of unlocking car doors actually works because they tried it and achieved the desired results — not realizing their cars were still within range of their keyless remote devices, and the signals that unlocked the doors were transmitted the usual way [i.e., through the air], not via cellular phone connections.)
As a recent purchaser of a new vehicle equipped with an RKE system, I've found that it has reduced the likelihood of my locking my keys in the car in an unexpected way: Since I quickly became accustomed to always locking and unlocking the car with the RKE device, and I carry the RKE device on the same ring as my keys, I have to be standing outside the vehicle with my keys in my hand in order to lock it. Now if I only had something to keep me from losing my cell phone . . .
:D :D :D

Rexone
08-16-2005, 05:46 PM
Anyone interested in purchasing some billet bacon stretchers.
:D

Jordy
08-16-2005, 05:58 PM
Anyone interested in purchasing some billet bacon stretchers.
:D
Do you have any in a lefty??? :idea: :D

mirvin
08-16-2005, 06:01 PM
Bacon Stretchers :wink:
I feel a new slogan coming on.
Thanks Rex :wink:

Nord
08-16-2005, 06:15 PM
Yeah, I don't think it works!
Refer to Jordy's Jargin!!! :D

Rexone
08-16-2005, 06:27 PM
Do you have any in a lefty??? :idea: :D
Yes we have them. Would you like the stainless scrambled egg scratcher option attached or just the billet stretcher? Also need to know the thickness of the bacon you intend to stretch. Different bacon sizes require different size slots in the stretching anchors. If your using name brand bacon like Farmer John or Oscar Meyer just include the bacon product code with your order. If you're buying some cheap off brand crap from the Phoenix general store you'll need to supply a demensional breakdown of the bacon so we can supply the correct anchors to fit your offbrand crap bacon.

LHC30Victory
08-16-2005, 06:29 PM
Yes we have them. Would you like the stainless scrambled egg scratcher option attached or just the billet stretcher? Also need to know the thickness of the bacon you intend to stretch. Different bacon sizes require different size slots in the stretching anchors. If your using name brand bacon like Farmer John or Oscar Meyer just include the bacon product code with your order. If you're buying some cheap off brand crap from the Phoenix general store you'll need to supply a demensional breakdown of the bacon so we can supply the correct anchors to fit your offbrand crap bacon.
We know who's been driinkin' tonight now don't we :squiggle:

Jordy
08-16-2005, 06:40 PM
The only way this would work is if you locked the keys in the car in your own driveway and called your wife inside the house.
And there is the Cliffs Notes version. :D :D :D

Riverkid
08-16-2005, 07:01 PM
And there is the Cliffs Notes version. :D :D :D
lmao. You are ON FIRE tonight... :D