Truck washes do it all the time. Yes, it's illegal to leave it there. I love how every posting of this brings out new "experts" to comment on it.

A system that requires a 10-second wait between attempts changes those numbers considerably. One that adds a 30-minute delay after 3 failures is even better. My bank accounts lock after 3 failures and require that the password be reset by the bank. Using three simple words, five or six letters each, even if lowercase only, pushes the length of time to years because of the added length.

...and the moral is, if you're out with an elderly person who wants coffee...take the time to take 'em inside and help 'em remove the lid.

Most people can read...it's a shame so few people do before they comment.

The only way to understand any video rendition of "2001: A Space Odyssey" is to read the book first over and over until you fully comprehend the book. The only way to comprehend the book fully is to study all of the technical and scientific subjects covered in the book until you fully comprehend those subjects. The only way to fully comprehend those subjects is to have been born in the late 50's with at least "superior" intelligence and having grown up with an insatiable "NEED TO KNOW EVERYTHING" and the resources to satiate that need. Otherwise, the movie was incomprehensible. Once you fully understand the book, the movie seems extraordinarily stupid...this video is much better. The original music was nice though.

I don't know about Chinese cars, but most modern cars in the U.S., Europe, South Korea, and Japan produce very little carbon monoxide, which is the product of incomplete combustion in an oxygen poor atmosphere. The higher ratios of air to fuel found in modern fuel-injected cars cause them to produce more carbon dioxide instead. Many new cars produce so little carbon monoxide that you can't commit suicide by locking yourself in a garage with them running any more (don't try it if you don't know your car). So-called ultra-low-emission gasoline engines are available that produce only carbon dioxide and water as exhaust. As a side note: diesel emission controls that cut down on soot production may increase carbon dioxide production. In any case, growing plants love it. Maybe we just need more plants.

I think the point is the coolness of its existence and of building it, and the absolute uselessness of its function, while being absolutely beautiful in its form. And I thought Neatorama contributers were true Geeks. I've said it before and I'll say it again...some people just don't understand the show. Its absolutely perfect old-school Geek.

As the previous poster said, it's for digging holes...more specifically, I believe it's for digging water wells. It would be lowered into a well on a rope and a worker or workers at the bottom would step on the tabs to press it into the soil to get another bite. When pulled up with the rope (tied to the center loop) the bottom closes together pulling the soil up with it.