WHAT A BLOW!
Driver pranked by surprise gift in his second hand car’s air con – and he’s NOT impressed
Previous owner left a hidden present as a prank in the Ford Focus ST
A driver was left with a face-full of confetti in his second hand car thanks to a prank from a former owner.
Chris Linnane, from Manchester, bought the Ford Focus ST three months ago from a second hand car dealership and had not noticed any issues.
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But during the sunny weather, Chris turned the air conditioning on only to be greeted by a hidden gift.
The 29-year-old was left covered in a shower of paper from the stealthily planted 'confetti bomb'.
He soon discovered the previous owner had craftily emptied the small circular paper cuttings from a hole punch into the air vent.
Unable to get to the paper to retrieve it, now Chris has to accept a blast in the face every time he switches the air con or heating on.
He said: "I only realised the other day that the vent had been filled with confetti when I turned up the air conditioning to full.
"It suddenly sped out all over my car. Obviously the air pressure from having it on low previously hadn't been enough.
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"Now every time I want to cool down or warm up my face, I face the inevitability of feeling like I'm part of a confetti celebration."
What makes it worse is that Chris even spoke to the previous owner before being the car but he kept quiet about the prank.
Chris added: "It took me a long time to clear them up and they've not all come out yet.
"I'd been finding one or two around since I bought the car and couldn't work out where they came from.
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"I can't exactly get the hoover in there to get them out."
Chris has now penned an open letter to the previous owner ";thanking" him for his efforts.
In the Facebook post he said: "Dear the previous owner of my car.
"What we're all looking at here is the driver's side vent for the A/C and heating. What you're seeing inside that vent is a large handful of the little circles of paper that belong inside the catch tray of a hole punch.
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"The reason they're in there has now become painfully apparent. When I put the A/C on full blast, I now get a face full of the little b*****d pieces of paper!
"Bravo old owner, bravo."
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