DeWalt introduces the big-city car owner's best friend

[jmowreader]

In November, the DeWalt Demo Truck paid a visit to our store. They had a fun game where you were to drive ten three-inch deck screws into a piece of pressure-treated lumber; the fastest time in America wins a cargo trailer with $2000 worth of DeWalt tools in it. They had the new battery-powered finishing nailer. They had a big stack of 18-volt batteries they were selling for half off if you played the deck screw game, so lots of people played it.

They also had their latest innovation: the 18-volt Angle Grinder. Me being a little slow on the draw sometimes, I'm looking at this thing thinking "why?" I always buy cheap angle grinders because I can wear one out in a couple months anyway no matter how nice it is, so I just get the ten-dollar throwaways.

(The 18-volt Angle Grinder...)

"Is there a demand for this product?"
'You wouldn't believe the demand. We figured it would just be popular among fire departments, but a lot of regular people buy these. They don't sell very well in small towns, but we ship 200 a week to Chicago and 300 a week to New York.' At this point there's an evil grin on the guy's face.

Ah-hah! So if you just happen to live in Chicago, and Mayor Daley's Revenue Enhancement Squad just happens to boot your car, and you just happen to have an 18-volt Angle Grinder in your trunk...

...so when does Simple Possession of an 18-volt Angle Grinder become a felony?

[BlueEyedSon]

1. If I'm not mistaken removing the boot is an additional crime (on top of

your parking tix) and destroying a boot is yet another.

[BiggJawn]

2. Not really...

Getting CAUGHT removing and destoying the boot, however....:evilgrin:

[Kingshakabobo]

4. I alway wonder about that. I guess you could say:

What boot? I never saw a boot. You must have booted the wrong car.

In this city, I'm sure a boot mistake would be par for the course.

[EC]

3. Yeah, I thought of the Boot

before you even got that far....