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My one friend and I have been leaving odd gifts on my friend's car with notes like "I think this fell out of your car" nothing of value. Nothing that can damage the vehicle.

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[–] moody@lemmings.world 21 points 1 week ago (1 children)

A gallium coin

This could be quite harmful though. Gallium reacts with metals like aluminum and steel in strange and destructive ways.

[–] MossyFeathers@pawb.social 5 points 1 week ago (2 children)

That's true, but if the car is cheap plastic, then it might be fine.

(For those not familiar with gallium, it's basically mercury but safe; so it's a liquid at room temperature but a solid just below that, depending on where you live, without the risk of Mad Hatter's disease)

[–] moody@lemmings.world 7 points 1 week ago

That’s true, but if the car is cheap plastic, then it might be fine.

Until it leaks out of their pocket inside the warm car and drips onto the seat rails, or something similar.

[–] BoxOfFeet@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Once in their pocket, if they are some kind of madman that doesn't have a dedicated phone pocket and they have a phone with an aluminum frame, that's a recipe for disaster as well.

[–] intensely_human@lemm.ee 2 points 1 week ago

Yeah I say we just scrap this whole gallium coin thing