I have been doing some empirical research ever since I bought a white car and the evidence is in; I can categorically state that birds love 'opening the pod bay doors' on white cars.

Why is this?

I look forward to your theories...

Dunno, but I do know that is grade A innuendo material.
By the way - WHITE car man,if you are white, why do you feel the need to rub it in our faces, some of which might be black. WHITE car, what's wrong with a black one?, 'opening and closing the pod bay doors' in your WHITE car. Are you saying white birds are easy?

(I have the Daily Mail on speed dial for scum like you )

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I've no idea why but I switched to a white one a couple of weeks ago (Not my choice. It's a company car and, since I wrote my red one off, this one was available after somebody left and it was a good spec). White is second only to black in being a pig to keep clean. When I picked this one up it had been stood in the car park for a couple of weeks and it was covered in droppings, many of them from birds. The good thing about white is that on the motorway people catch sight of you in the mirror, think its a police vehicle, and get out of the way sharpish.

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When I picked this one up it had been stood in the car park for a couple of weeks and it was covered in droppings, many of them from birds.

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I think we're onto something here. Perhaps we can get a government grant for further research.

You don't to park overnight under a tree that has squirrels... Eeugh!

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The good thing about white is that on the motorway people catch sight of you in the mirror, think its a police vehicle, and get out of the way sharpish.

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Most of the police cars near me are black ones like this:



I think they look cooler. Harder to spot though, I suppose.

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Edited by Jennifer Jones (29/05/12 10:57 AM)

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The good thing about white is that on the motorway people catch sight of you in the mirror, think its a police vehicle, and get out of the way sharpish.

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I used to get that with my car, which is not white. For reasons I'd rather not go into it's a grey Volvo S60. Which is actually fairly quick if you want it to be. When it was new it looked exactly the same as some of the unmarked police cars they were using on the M4, M3 & M5. The thing is with 'Swedish' cars is you can't turn the headlights off. All I had to do on a busy motorway was drive it fairly purposefully up the outside lane and everybody just got out of the way. It was like magic. It's nine years old now so obviously not an unmarked police car and that effect doesn't work anymore. But it was a revelation when it did. The other thing about it was whenever I got sopped for speeding the police always seemed to go easier on me because they seemed to feel a sympathy with the car. Weird!

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Now that I drive a Mazda 2, I don't find myself in the fast lane very often these days :P Zoom zoom indeed! Seems to be the domain of Audis and Beemers anyway, except for the occasional lorry pulling out to overtake very s l o w l y .

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The good thing about white is that on the motorway people catch sight of you in the mirror, think its a police vehicle, and get out of the way sharpish.

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...and they won't dare overtake you at more than 70 if there are chevrons on the back like this!



It makes me mad when you see a regular white van with chevrons on the back trundling along in the slow lane on a motorway, with a queue of cars carefully making sure that they don't overtake at more than 70. You know it's not a copper, but no one else seems to!

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I know that seagulls will 'drop bombs' on anything they regard as a threat or intruder. Maybe a large white object triggers some alarm circuit in little bird brains?

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I know that seagulls will 'drop bombs' on anything they regard as a threat or intruder. Maybe a large white object triggers some alarm circuit in little bird brains?

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That's a very kind interpretation! I had an ice cream literally taken from my hand by a seagull on the wing once. On the beach at St Ives it was. Being as it ate it I have reason to believe it didn't see it as a threat so much as food. I have no idea about the size of its brain but it wasn't exactly a little bird (hardly surprising if it was going around eating dairy products all day). Flying thugs if you ask me!

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I was told once (I think) that white paint is the strongest chemically, as there are fewer additives..also yellow is the safest colour....so there! Dave

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A short while ago there was a Coca Cola billboard I passed which looked like birds had been bombiing it on purpose. It was plastered with poop, but not in a way that they could have done it by sitting on the top. They must have taken offense at the image on the advert.

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A short while ago there was a Coca Cola billboard I passed which looked like birds had been bombiing it on purpose. It was plastered with poop, but not in a way that they could have done it by sitting on the top. They must have taken offense at the image on the advert.

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Target practice?

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A short while ago there was a Coca Cola billboard I passed which looked like birds had been bombiing it on purpose. It was plastered with poop, but not in a way that they could have done it by sitting on the top. They must have taken offense at the image on the advert.

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Target practice?

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I thought it was the real thing?

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