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Or you could put a small stone in the valve stem cap and twist it on just enough to slowly leak.
Takes a bit longer but it’s going to hit a while from now, maybe while they’re driving.
Read that on the internet, did you?
I believe I am, for all intents and purposes, the actual originator of that trick (in terms of publishing it on the internet, anyway). You have no idea how much it warms the cockles of my twisted little black heart to see that someone else posted this before I was able to.
Does it actually work, or is it one of the hundreds of internet tricks that keep getting reposted because they sound like they would?
It does, if performed correctly. You can tell by giving the stem a listen. The escaping air will be quite audible.
So our independent lab testing on our own private vehicles in controlled conditions reports, anyway. My lawyers told me to add that last part.
I have the best results using BBs. Metal BBs, not airsoft pellets.
As a fellow internetor, I find this extremely hard to believe, but if it is accurate, hell yeah, keep fighting the fight
I feel like this kind of trick, and so many other goodies, were all on totse.
I'm positive it was. At one point in the good old days I moderated the "Bad Ideas" subforum on Totse, before the redesign and subsequent crash and burn of the forums.
Exactly. I'm going back to maybe 2000, 2001. I was 13, going on 14, so it was the perfect website for me unfortunately.
Superglue the stone into the cap. That way it'll keep deflating the tire until the cap is replaced.
Buy a pack of valve caps. Super glue stones in them and carry them around. When you see ICE vehicles, replace their valve cap for yours. Repeat as necessary.
I bet if you bought real nice ones they’d let you do it.
You want the generic black ones that you can find anywhere. That way they can't trace the purchase down to you.
And remember to bleach your tracks. If they figure out what's going on, I guarantee they'll try everything from fingerprints to DNA on the caps, and even if the majority of the time the heat/vibration/dirt of the cap's environs is enough to remove your traces, you don't want to be on the long tail of that curve.
That's some big brain shit right there.