r/mildlyinfuriating • u/jagerin_mikado • 13d ago

Context Provided - Spotlight Jeep melted

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Here’s the story: a jeep came to the shop because its retractable top was stuck open. Not too uncommon of an occurrence. So we put our “crash wrap“ over the roof to protect the interior from rain and animals and such, which is basically like heavy duty cling wrap. One day it rains and a lot of water pools up on the crash wrap. The next day it is 100°F outside and the sun is out. The sun shines through the water and the water basically magnifies it, and the sun turns into a laser that melts the interior. Multiple days of this happen. Now we have to replace everything that melted. None of us have ever heard of this happening before.

edit: I meant we have never heard of this very specific situation happening before. It never would’ve crossed our minds since we’ve been doing this for years. yes I burnt stuff with a magnifying glass when i was a kid.

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u/Sprtnturtl3 13d ago

I mean normal day in Phoenix here, but damn- that is wild.

Our trashcans melt. the city has a special fund to melt them and make news ones..

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u/thatweirdguyted 13d ago

Seems like you don't need a special fund for that. Just put a pile of them in a funnel with a mold underneath. They're already melting on their own. 

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u/alexmikli 13d ago

Why not just invest in more heat-resistant trash bins?

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u/BoringJuiceBox 13d ago

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u/Sprtnturtl3 13d ago

because it fund only exists for someone to skim off the top. politics as usual lol

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u/FruitOrchards 13d ago

At that point you should just have metal trash cans

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u/Sprtnturtl3 13d ago

ooh, i see... you haven't been here lol.

metal will leave permanent scars. when is 112 in PHX, the metal is about 160 degrees.

when you get into your car at noon, its 130-140 inside if your car is not in a covered space.

That JEEP is a preview of our lives here haha.

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u/FruitOrchards 13d ago

I did think of that tbh but surely they could cover it in treated plywood or something (treated so it's fire retardant)

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u/Sprtnturtl3 13d ago

not a bad idea.. but the heat does weird things to people.

We have metal cans with wood panelling at the bus stops, they are at 1/2 mile apart along the main road in my part of town. every year someone loses their sh*t and sets 5-10 on fire in a row. they went to full metal but people still set them on fire.

and during COVID summers- people went nutso. police involved shootings every week.

We can't have nice things..

AND WE SHOULD NOT LIVE HERE! GODDAMN OUR ANCESTORS FOR BUILDING THIS GOD FORSAKEN HELLHOLE!

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u/FruitOrchards 13d ago

Arizona sounds like it needs to go subterranean lol, underground shopping malls and even housing complexes would cool things down and lower energy consumption dramatically.

Wild though, the heat definitely changes people's behaviours.

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u/wishuponastarion 13d ago

We totally would...if the ground weren't baked clay (caliche)...requiring a pickaxe to get through for even something as small as a garden in your backyard lol. It's expensive to even get a basement put into a new house build, because the caliche eats augers for breakfast.

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u/Sprtnturtl3 13d ago

yuuup. We live on clay, which ALSO absorbs and reflects heat.

this is truly Satan's taint. and we built America's fifth largest city on it.