Magic disappearing van keys trick
A few years ago I was locking the back doors of a Mercedes Sprinter Van I was using for work. After locking the door, I accidentally dropped the keys and immediately looked to the ground to pick them up. Only thing was, they weren't there! I looked under the van thinking they may have ricocheted off my foot but no keys under the van. I went into the (still unlocked) cab to release the handbrake thinking they may have gone under a tyre. After pushing (with help) the van forwards and backwards, no keys were found. Remembering that I had heard the noise of keys hitting something I looked at the back bumper but no keys there either. The van was parked in a large hotel car park with no other vehicles nearby, no kerbs or drains, just tarmac as far as the keys could have gone. It felt as if Jeremy Beadle was going to appear as part of some new weird gag show and I walked off actually hoping he would be there as the alternative was that I had slipped into a parallel universe where the only thing different was that those van keys didn't exist. I went for a cup of tea in a nearby cafe, troubled but determined to solve the mystery. After half an hour of ringing work mates explaining my problem and worrying that I'd gone mental, I walked back to the van with a view to searching everywhere again one last time. As I traced the route the keys would have taken from door lock to ground, my eyes passed a dark object halfway down the door (otherwise known as the magnet that hold the door to the side of the van when it is fully open) with the keys firmly stuck to it.......

I tried (and still do try) to recreate the 'mid air door magnet key snatch' with no success whatsoever and I challenge anyone with a 1999 Merc Sprinter to do it also.
(byevad Bored sig:, Thu 13 Oct 2011, 14:32, 9 replies)

THAT'S BETTER

(men boles Benea, Thu 13 Oct 2011, 14:34, closed)

"iPhone typing error 3200"

(byevad Bored sig:, Thu 13 Oct 2011, 14:39, closed)

I used to have a sprinter when I delivered papers for Dawson News,
I had my keys stolen out of the ignition and thrown into a field by some chavs at 4am, I saw them run off and throw something into the field, I thought "hmmm i wonder what they're doing" then I walked to the cab of the van and realised it was my keys. It was all kinds of a nuisance. mine didnt have a magnet though :(
(men boles Benea, Thu 13 Oct 2011, 14:48, closed)

It's about time Sprinters came with side mounted 'Chav Magnets' so they can mysteriously disappear too.
(byevad Bored sig:, Thu 13 Oct 2011, 14:52, closed)

I had
a Mercedes Sphincter van. You had to poke the keys in a big shitty hole.
(username failed moderation, Thu 13 Oct 2011, 15:24, closed)

surely that would fail an emmisions test

(men boles Benea, Thu 13 Oct 2011, 15:32, closed)

It's also
really difficult to get women to take a ride in it.
( ousgg is not seeking approval, Thu 13 Oct 2011, 19:51, closed)

Aye
A rust hole
(AndyC4m Eject Eject [><], Thu 13 Oct 2011, 17:01, closed)

my original post disappered ....
which is kind of ironic .
( bane, Thu 13 Oct 2011, 20:52, closed)