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! The Fine Art of Phlasher Phinding !
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! Written by: !
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! ________________ !
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! \Cheap/ \Shades/ !
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! \___/ \____/ !
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! !
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\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\ 3/8/86 /\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/
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First of all the information contained in this file is for your information
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only the actual use of any of this information is illegal and it's your problem
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if you get caught. (In other words do this at your own risk!)
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For the past few weeks me and the other local BBSers have been passing the
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time on weekends before the parties start by phlasher phinding. For those of you
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unfamiliar with this practice it's basically going out, getting buzzed and
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stealing those little yellow flashing lights off the tops of construction
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horses. These little flashers are just about useless for most people (including
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us) but hey sometimes you gotta have some fun. Before you go out phlasher
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phinding you will need to prepare.
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You will need:
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1: A car (very important for fast get-a-ways)
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2: Needle-nose vise grips (to take the flashers off the saw horses)
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3: Blade screwdriver (to open up the flasher after you find it)
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4: Pocket knife (to make a larger hole in the flasher so it can be
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turned off)
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5: Electrical tape (to cover the light sensor)
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6: Lots of beer (at least enough to get everyone drunk)
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7: Lots of people (at least 3 but the more the better)
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Now that you are all prepared for phlasher phinding you need to of course
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find flashers. This shouldn't be too tough, just drive around sub-divisions at
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night and look for the familiar yellow flashing. Once you find one time to go
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to work. Park the car about 100 feet past the flasher. At least two people
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should go back to get it. Use the needlenose vise grips to get the bolt off.
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(These vise grips are definitely the best tool we've found to do this so far.)
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The reason that you want at least two people to head for the flasher is one of
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them has to be a look out, while you are getting the bolt off there is no way
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you can tell if someone is watching. Once you get the flasher tuck it into your
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coat and run back to the car. If this is your first time phlasher phinding you
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should just dump the flashers into the trunk so the flashing doesn't draw cops'
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attention as you drive by them. If you are already adept at taking the flashers
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apart just bring it into the car and turn the batteries backwards so they don't
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make contact. (Also if you see flashers that aren't flashing grab them anyway
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most likely they are just turned off)
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Applying flashers to home use:
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Like I said earlier these suckers are just about useless but once you have
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them you can at least make them less useless than they were when you got them.
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To do this take the bottom off of the flasher (pry it off with a blade
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screwdriver). Now take out the batteries. You will now see a rectangular piece
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of plastic along what was the top of the flasher. (There might also be a box
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like piece of plastic sticking down between the batteries. Don't worry about
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this yet.) Pull the piece of plastic out of the flasher housing. The bulb will
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be at the end of a long plastic shaft. Now hold the plastic shaft up to the
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light and look for two thin wires going up to a small round disk inside the
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plastic. That's the light sensor (for you smart-asses out there it's a CDS
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cell.) Wrap some electrical tape around the plastic shaft so that it is always
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night to the flasher. Now you need to do something about the switch so that you
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can get to it easily. The best thing to do is to cut a hole in the plastic case
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outside the switch. (Some flashers have slide switches so if you have one of
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those be sure and cut a hole on each side so that you can turn it on and off.)
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At least that's the most general way to do it for all flashers. You might prefer
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running wires out of the case and putting your own switch on the thing.
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Things not to do while phlasher phinding:
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DO NOT take your beer to the flasher out of the car. If someone starts
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Chasing you, you might leave it there.
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DO NOT play "The Ultimate Sin" till its blowing your speakers as you stop
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the car to go get the flasher. (once you have the flasher turn Ozzy back up)
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DO NOT let other people that you do not know observe you taking the
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flasher.
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DO NOT take flashers from big construction sites or from the McDonald's
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parking lot.
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DO NOT skip a flasher because it isn't flashing, you can fix it.
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DO NOT buy new batteries for a flasher whose batteries have gone dead.
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(Just find another one!)
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DO NOT turn in your friends if you get caught.
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DO NOT get caught.
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I hope this has benefitted you more than it has me. I really still have no
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idea what I should do with all these flashers laying around my house. But it's
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a good way to waste some time on a Saturday night until your girlfriend gets off
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work or whatever...
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Later,
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________________
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