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Well I've asked a colleague and he says he noticed it too, but says its good luck so your car isn't jinxed, I asked him about the crash n cash in, he says hes not heard of anything and also added - people like that ruin it for the rest of us, insurance is high enough as it is! Interesting!

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I think the good luck charm or the earth conductor which walkinman mentioned earlier in the thread is a more convincing argument than the one put forward by the thread starter, after all if there was an insurance scam involved, it would be arranged by parties in advance not just bumping into any Tom Dick or Abdul with black invite dangling from their boot

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The anti static/motion sickness strips I know about, but black cloth ? That's a new one on me & I've certainly not seen it while driving round in Europe.

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It looks like entwisi answered the original question and the answer is - No its not true.

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SURELY. someone knows the answer to this one posed by Sausage Butty ? I think I do, but dare I intimate the implications here ? Only hearsay though, I will wait awhile and see what transpires.....The truth will out..

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Intimate away.

Hardly a topical thread.

You might be in for a long wait, if you're expecting anything else to transpire in this thread, any time soon.

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Yes, I do.

Urban myth.

Bollocks.

Stuff and nonsense.

Call it what you will.

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see post #30,

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I heard that the black strip of cloth denotes that the driver is a Taliban sympathizer:confused:

A tartan strip that he is a Bay City Rollers fan.

Not seen many of them lately.:D:D

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If it's a green piece of cloth it means the driver is a leprechaun, and you should drive after him, to see where he keeps his pot of gold is.

If it's a stocking, hanging from the car, that signals the owners are swingers. Approach with caution.

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Better throw caution to the wind - at least the swingers won't disappear into thin air and leave you empy handed;):D

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I've actually been told that when you see the black material hanging from the rear of a taxi drivers car it is to alert other asians that they are racist, and don not like whites so they dont think bad of each other... my friend was told this directly from one of his non racist asian friends, so Im guessing its true!!

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and it just gets better...

how many explanations are we going to have before people realise that post 30 is correct.

and I will say its no secret that majority of insurance scams are from the bb10 area, my sister works for an insurance company in blackburn and she tells me that because of the high amount of fraudulent claims that are submitted daily is unreal and all of them are of asian descent.
she is currently investigating one claimant from bb10 who has claimed more than £6k in a crash but only paid in £2k..and this person has another 3 claims awaiting in the wings to be processed totalling £14k, this wont happen as they dont realise they are being investigated for other claims and will be done for it...
from my understanding the majority of fraud claims submitted for fake crashes in bb10 are done so by asians.
this is one of the reasons why our car insurances are sky high...

like someone said - you always get people who spoil it for others..

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Um that's strange really, because back in the 60s you regularly saw cars with "black" trailers hanging from the rear, whats even stranger is that back in those days there were very few Asians living in this area, they must have just been rehearsing for later years:rolleyes:

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I asked on another forum if the concentration of (false) claims nationwide could be related to areas where ethnic minorities lived - got no real answer.

I think legislation should be introduced so that a lie detector may be used to to test the validity of insurance claims. (No criminal implications - just an OK or a Sod Off!)