What's hanging from yours?

[boxtops]

I've just heard on the Today programme about a survey of things hanging from rear view mirrors in cars. There is apparently an urban myth that you can deflect a speed camera by having a shiny CD hanging in your front window.... here's the article about it from the DM. http://www.dailymail....1-5m-car-mirrors.html

What's hanging from yours?

[sandyRoe]

A large teddy bear and a set of Rosary Beads.

[missnemesis]

Beanpod air freshener thingy-ma-bob

[rockyracoon]

A tree smelly thing in lavender flavour, well I think the smells all gone no though, so it's just an old tree smelly thing.

[tamborine]

sunnies, stops me losing them.

[boxtops]

LOL sandy, that was you, was it?! Is it the bear which is 12 ins high...?

[sandyRoe]

Yes. Aloysius, a Steiff bear, is probably worth as much as the car.

[boxtops]

O wow, a little gem of a bear!

[sandyRoe]

Well, at just over a foot long it's hardly little...

[boxtops]

LOL sandy - did you take part in this survey then? They reported on the radio that someone had a foot-long bear....

[TWR]

On a point of safety Boxtops, there are plenty of places to place the Air Fresheners etc within the car! Eg/ the coat hanger that is usually above the Passenger door ( Grab Handle) & yes, the can cause a blind stop in the windscreen Area.

[gingejbee]

Nothing - it's childish.

[Old_Geezer]

Nothing is hanging from mine, or course. It'd be a hazard.

[Toureman]

It's more than a hazard OG,it has been proved that having something hanging from the rear view is dangerous!

The continuous movement of the dangling rubbish is picked up by the brain and after a length of time is completely ignored by the brain, This means that the brain ignores any movement in the space that the dangly occupies so you do not see children, adults, cyclist, etc who are in that space. If you have any sense get rid of them.

[cazzz1975]

nothing as god intended..

[ummmm]

Nothing...

[craft1948]

If I forget to fasten his seat belt the dog's face is occasionally on the dashboard.................

[andy-hughes]

Nothing - my de-odouriser is always hung there by the car-wash guys, and I always take it off immediately and transfer it to the bottom of the gear stick, out of the way.

[paddywak]

When I first passed my test back in the '60's my mother hung a set of rosary beads on the mirror of my first car to "Protect". I don't believe in that sort of Sugar but those beads have hung in every car I've owned, but not from the mirror

[boxtops]

Interesting - you seem in general to be a law-abiding lot, I wonder how they picked the people for the survey!