Lobster Boy gets Powned!

This is choice. Might even be the best case of ownage in the 2000s. Yep, You heard it here first. From the boys at beyond.ca

Comes the tale of Lobster Boy. Remember these guys don't play. Here is a logo of sorts:


In Calgary, a 1991 right hand Skyline was stolen off a dealers lot. For those not in the know, the Skyline is the performance hero of the Asian Import scene. These cars are rare, and in North America, rarer still.





So, we have the vehicle, but who was the thief? You would think it was a syndicate. Perhaps they steal rare cars, and quickly transport them afar. Say...Mexico, or Columbia. (Please do insure that when you say Columbia, you say it CUL-UM-Bha. Thats outta respect for Juan Pablo.)

Nope. Enter Lobster Boy. Lobster Boy used a fake id to get a test drive and never returned the car. While this stupidity seems arrogant, it gets dumber...Lobster boy parks this rare gem outside of his house!

The car owner posts up on www.beyond.ca, a car site for the Canadian performance enthusiast. You'll recall that these were the boys that brought you the RSX ownange of the kid who left the scene of an accident. So instantly the Calgary car community is on the look out for the car. In a day, it is spotted outside of a Canadian shopping mall. In that same day, another user spotted the car on the road, and took this picture.



Within hours, the community of Beyond enthusiasts had tracked down Lobster Boys facebook, name, address, and his unique physical feature. Seems the young buckler was in an accident that cut off two of his fingers. Heck, they even found his girlfriends facebook info.

Meanwhile, Lobster Boy is feeling the heat of the encounters and decides that if he covers the license in mud, he won't be caught.



So, four Beyond.ca users got together, and waited for Lobster Boy's arrival. Upon seeing, him, the police were called, and the car was boxed in. Apparently it took 2 hours for the Canadian police to show up.

Here is the You Tube video of his arrest.



Nice Heckling. Inside of the car, the thief leaves the owner 20 bucks Canadian, a full tank of gas and this crap wanna be gangster/twangster hat.



Here is the CTV news report


Ohh, and the back line story. Apparently Lobster Boys girlfriend changed her Facebook profile.

5:31PM: Listed as Single
5:32PM: Changed Profile Picture

Love on the rocks....

Big package, small car

So I had bought a Supersprint muffler some two years ago, and waited for my stock muffler to take the piss. Finally after some 157k miles, it was rattling so bad I couldn't take it.

I proudly took my muffler to a muffler shop and found that it wouldn't fit.

I placed it in the classifieds over at MBWorld.

Within 24 hours I had secured a buyer and payment. Not bad? I sold a system that retails well over $1,200 for $425 plus shipping.

I had initially thought I didn't want to ship at all, but a good guy on the board quickly stepped up and we came to a price agreement.

The muffler started out looking like this:


I kind of like process oriented work. You can see a beginning, middle and end. Sometimes in working for yourself, you can't tell when you are at the beginning or end. Really sounds silly, but so true. You finish a marketing/sales drive, and soon began another, or you create a new product that you think is ready for market, and it is not. So, manual labor is a welcome respite for me.

I figured that protecting the stainless steel of the muffler was job one, and insuring a square fit to the box was job two.




I built up a squaring system using styrofoam boxes.




Doesn't look all that impressive, but I was able to have the muffler assume a square shape. And no matter the angle of a potential drop, the muffler would never hit the sensitive bits like the mounting flange or tips.

I pieced together the best aerospace grade cardboard boxes to make a long box, and started the insertion.


After filling the empty space with starch peanuts and old issues of the Wall Street Journal, I sealed the boxes with German Aviation tape, and sealed her up.


Now the issue was to deliver her to Fedex.


After seeing it like this I decided that any self respecting Fiat buddy would Bitch slap me for this act of treason, and I decided to go ahead and wait one more day for Fedex to come pick up the box. Sorry John. But she is on her way.