Aliens? The government? Solar flares?

Please tell me why this happened, and please make it very very amusing.

In fact, let's make a little contest out of it. That will be fun...

Entries must include:
1. Somewhat logical explanation for what happened, and
2. Lots of amusement for me.

Winner(s) will be decided by me, and prizes will be knitted by me.

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Forums: The Bar,

It's the aliens....

I find it particularly hilarious that symptoms include:

-Forced manipulation of airways, including externally controlled forced speech,
-"Transparent eyelids",
-and here's my favorite... Wild flailing, sometimes followed by short periods of "Rigor Mortis"...

By very definition periods of rigor mortis tend to be, um, PERMANENT.

Yeah, I think a wildly flailing stiff person with transparent eyelids might attract some attention,...& probably has more to worry about than the car door not opening.

It's fleas. A relatively rare breed of ickle mini-flying-flea is attracted to the peculiar heat that the tiny key transmitters emit. They crawl into the workings and mess up the signal. It takes a lot of them to cause any really notable trouble, but very occasionally a massive cloud of fleas will hatch in the desert, and then waft into the suburbs, barely detectable to the human eye. Sometimes they get kinda statically charged in the dry desert climate, and if you get enough of them blowing in they can even mess up tvs and computer monitors. What's really cool is at night you might see a kind of funny static wave whiz through an extra big cloud of minifleas; obviously this phenomenon is responsible for a few UFO sightings.
It's true. It's all the fleas' fault.

Spot the girl that spent the weekend liberally spraying, and chasing bits of lint around shouting RAAAAAAID!

Actually Heather, I think you are correct & Jo below is seems to have fluked the answer as well.
The Flea you refer to is the "Stephanocircidae" or Craneopsylla minerva.
The effect of the heat in the transmitters is enough to release gases in the devices adhesive & thus attract these tiny flea's that have not been seen since the bubonic plague in Rio.

Dang, I knew it was them goddamned fleas!

Man, that'd be, like, the coolest fluke ever recorded.

yeah, hard to believe I know, but I googled & found the flea reference in teh wikipedia.

It's the Rods
Blame the Rods
Definately sounds like the Rods

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i haven't got time to read your link Velocity, but I blame Stefan.

This is great. I'm going to start blaming Stefan for everything!

Damn you, Stefan, for dirty laundry!
Damn you again for stupid people at the grocery store!
Damn you three times for upstairs neighbors getting it on loudly, making it difficult for me to read!
Damn you Stefan!!

oh god that's right I had totally forgotten that stefan was to blame for everything

especially when nzm is broken.

y'know, there is some very strange things happening in the world. there's some town in Italy (i think - was reported on Stuff.co.nz) where the town's electrical appliances are all bursting into flames for some strange reason. no surges reported ... no electrical storms ... no one can work it out, but a few locals reckon it's the devil and his famous hatred of lean mean grilling machines.

as i write, it feels as if Dunedin is being blown out to sea. rooly strong winds. Civil Defence are counting cans of spaghetti. and i broke an A string on my bass. the end is obviously nigh.

solar flares
cos flares are bad taste