Completely useless Christmas gifts: ERP IU cashcard cover

On December 15, 2007 · 8 Comments · In Living, Toys

Rwp00132

I have never under­stood the pur­pose of this car accessory.

This site says it "hides cashcard to prevent theft", and is available for $6.95

There's no lock on this device, so if anyone wants to take a cashcard out of your IU, they simply lift the cover.

This is how it works: you keep your cash­card inserted in your car’s IU so that you don’t drive under an ERP gantry and get fined for not hav­ing a cash­card in your IU. So, you’re afraid peo­ple might break into your car to steal your cashed up cash­card, so you put a cover on the IU so that you screw with any would-be thief’s head:

Hmmm… got cash card inside or not? So hard to tell, with this stu­pid cash card cover.

Hmmm… I think got. Because if don’t have, they won’t put the cover. OK, I’ll smash his window.

Hmmm… then again, maybe don’t have. He’s try­ing to make me sec­ond guess my deci­sion to smash his win­dow. So maybe bet­ter don’t smash his window.

Hmmm… then again, how would I know if I don’t smash his win­dow? OK, I’ll smash his window.

Hmmm… if I smash his win­dow and there’s no cash card, damn wasted effort right? OK, maybe bet­ter don’t smash his window.

Hmmm… then again, if I don’t smash his win­dow, and there’s a cash card inside, damn wasted right? OK, I’ll smash his window.

Hmmm… OK, if I smash his win­dow, and there’s a cash card, but the cash card got very lit­tle cash inside… OK, maybe don’t smash his window…

Arrrrgh! Fuck! I think I go rob some old lady first, then come back and smash his window.

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  • http://uzyn.com uzyn

    Nice. I was approached today on this use­less device too and I was won­der­ing how it works. I thought I missed some­thing in the 10-sec pitch by the sales­man that it has some kind of lock but wasn’t clearly vis­i­ble. So looks like there isn’t any lock at all.

    Totally use­less indeed.

    And I remem­bered the sales­man said: It’s invented in Sin­ga­pore. Do sup­port Sin­ga­pore invention.

  • http://uzyn.com uzyn

    Nice. I was approached today on this use­less device too and I was won­der­ing how it works. I thought I missed some­thing in the 10-sec pitch by the sales­man that it has some kind of lock but wasn’t clearly vis­i­ble. So looks like there isn’t any lock at all.

    Totally use­less indeed.

    And I remem­bered the sales­man said: It’s invented in Sin­ga­pore. Do sup­port Sin­ga­pore invention.

  • http://www.exampaper.com.sg Miss Loi

    Believe me, this makes it much, much harder to remove the cash­card from the IU.

    Not nice when you encounter an old-skool carpark gantry that still requires you to insert your cash­card into the slot — with a line of impa­tient ah beng dri­vers behind you.

    And not to men­tion that it ruined my new man­i­cure once. Tsk.

  • http://www.exampaper.com.sg Miss Loi

    Believe me, this makes it much, much harder to remove the cash­card from the IU.

    Not nice when you encounter an old-skool carpark gantry that still requires you to insert your cash­card into the slot — with a line of impa­tient ah beng dri­vers behind you.

    And not to men­tion that it ruined my new man­i­cure once. Tsk.

  • Jason

    it might actu­ally work. till date i have lost 3 cash­cards from the IU of my motor­cy­cle because i had for­got to remove them. how­ever after i stuck black tape over the trans­par­ent cover. there have been sev­eral times when i for­got to remove the cash­card and was sur­prised to find it still inside when i came back (before that, it would def­i­nitely be gone). i would think that most cash­card thefts are com­mited in the spur of the moment and not planned. so if the cash­card is not seen, per­haps theres a lower chance of the would-be thief open­ing the cover/smashing the win­dow. hope im mak­ing sense here.

  • Jason

    it might actu­ally work. till date i have lost 3 cash­cards from the IU of my motor­cy­cle because i had for­got to remove them. how­ever after i stuck black tape over the trans­par­ent cover. there have been sev­eral times when i for­got to remove the cash­card and was sur­prised to find it still inside when i came back (before that, it would def­i­nitely be gone). i would think that most cash­card thefts are com­mited in the spur of the moment and not planned. so if the cash­card is not seen, per­haps theres a lower chance of the would-be thief open­ing the cover/smashing the win­dow. hope im mak­ing sense here.

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