“Hit me. Make me some money.”
It’s a phrase that often comes up in arguments. It works well. Most of the time, it doesn’t escalate into a bigger fight.
Of course, it’s often because someone has too much money to control, but it’s not uncommon for someone to offer to pay someone to beat them up.
A typical case is the ‘meal money assault’. In 2010, Mr. Choi Mo, a second-generation chaebol, beat a tanker driver with a baseball bat for “1 million won per blow” and paid him 20 million won in “ransom”.
At the time, Mr. Choi’s company, M, was a Cadillac dealer, so there were calls for a boycott.
The case resurfaced five years later as the subject of the movie “Veteran,” starring actor Yoo Ah-in as a third-generation chaebol.
The movie Veteran [Image source=Movie poster capture].
Anyway, nowadays, hitting someone can cost you money and even a red line (criminal record).
Of course, when the punishment or reward is not commensurate with the severity of the assault, there are tantrums that ‘an eye for an eye’ retaliation laws like the Code of Hammurabi or Islamic law, Sharia, are preferable. That’s what’s happened with the recent trend of “perpetrator disclosure.
However, if you don’t dodge, you may find yourself in the unfortunate position of being ‘double crossed’. In South Korea, where self-defense is a tricky proposition, you can be hit 100 times and still be charged with assault. It’s a world where it’s better to be hit than slapped.
‘White terror’ ruining a pleasant outing
A family fleeing a bird [Photo credit: Hitchcock’s The Birds].
On the other hand, there are times when getting hit costs you blood. Even if you know who did it, you can’t get any money out of them, and identifying the perpetrator is useless – they’re not human.
This is the story that made Alfred Hitchcock’s reputation as the “master of the suspense thriller”. It’s the greatest disaster movie of all time, and it’s the one that conjures up goosebumps with no movie music, just pure bird sounds.
Birds can give drivers a taste of “real-life horror” that’s as good as anything in Hitchcock’s movie. To be precise, it’s not the birds themselves, but the bird poop that falls from the sky with a crunch.
Bird poop terror [Photo by Choi Ki-sung, reporter, Maeil Business].
Bird droppings, mixed with poop and urine, are “white terror” for cars. The uric acid in bird poop is acidic and corrodes concrete and even steel.
Naturally, it’s harsh on vehicles made of weaker metals. Bird droppings are even more deadly on ‘foamy’ vehicles. It eats away at the paintwork, which is so smooth and elegant that flies can sit and slide on it.
Even a Porsche (Porsche, Lamborghini, Ferrari), a man’s romance and a Kapoor’s idol, is instantly reduced to a ‘shit car’ by a bird poop bombardment.
It’s nothing compared to the dog poop you kick up on a walk – you’ll be laughed at for ‘pooping’ while foam-holding a poop-stained Porampe.
Worse, if you leave the bird poop on it long enough, it becomes a “poop car” that no amount of polish can fix. It’s a “junk car embarrassment”.
Even in the U.S. and Europe, the bird poop scare is serious. Even Ford, the “American shoe,” is working on technology to ease the bird poop scare for its drivers메이저놀이터. They’ve even created artificial bird poop to reduce the damage.
‘Worse’ in the hot sun.
A glossy scene [Photo by Choi Ki-sung, reporter for Maeil Business].
Bird poop is even worse in the summer because the evaporation of moisture in the hot sun makes it more acidic.
Within an hour of landing, bird poop has eaten through the layers of your car’s paint, and no amount of car washing can remove the traces. You can’t relax and enjoy your day out at a scenic cafe.
Haphazardly wiping dried bird poop off your car with a tissue or cloth will only make it stick. The sand and seeds in the poop will leave scratches on your car, and it’s not pretty.
You end up having to spend a lot of money to have it polished. If you partially polish the bonnet or trunk where bird poop or fruit often falls, you will have to pay about 100,000 won. Of course, this is for a domestic mid-sized car. If it’s an expensive import, it’s even worse.
Bird poop should be removed before it dries to avoid scratching the body paint, but most of the time you’ll find it after it’s dried.
Dried bird poop should be removed by first soaking it with water. If the area of contamination seems to be larger when you pour water on it, you should soak a tissue with water and place it over the bird poop. After about 10 minutes, you can steal it away with a clean tissue, rag, or sponge.
While not as bad as bird poop, it’s still a good idea to remove body-corroding insect carcasses by spraying them with water, letting them soak in, and then wiping them off with a dry rag, pressing down rather than rubbing.
Fruit Terror [Photo by Choi Ki-sung, reporter for Maeil Business].
Tree sap or berries are also annoying. They should be removed with a soft tissue or rag as soon as you spot them; if they harden, they’ll damage your car like bird poop.
You can use a bug carcass remover (bug cleaner), which contains proteolytic enzymes, from a large discount or auto supply store to get them off more thoroughly.
Bug cleaner can also remove bird poop, sap, and more. Many come in a sprayer, but there are also some that you can pull out piece by piece, like wipes. If your car is important to you, it’s a good idea to keep one in your emergency kit.
If you wash your car to remove dirt, such as bird poop or bug carcasses, you should use a self-serve car wash rather than an automatic car wash, which can leave scratches because it doesn’t remove the dirt first.
At a self-serve car wash, the water is sprayed downward from the bonnet of the car to prevent dirt from sticking to the surface. You can spray the water evenly, just like you would in a shower before soaping up, and then wipe the car down, using the detergent foam to remove dirt.
Keep in mind, though, that the foamy brush can leave micro-scratches on the car body that you can’t see. If you’re concerned about scratches, use a car shampoo with a coating and a car wash glove instead of a foam brush at the car wash.
Spray the car shampoo all over the car, then use a car wash glove to get into the nooks and crannies to create a rich lather.