Anyone have any really strange detailing calls or requests?

[davidc11291]

I had a guy call me yesterday that had a fire extinguisher explode in his work truck, I get to clean up this disaster next week. I forgot to ask him how the heck you get a fire extinguisher to explode

This will be a nightmare. When I was a teenager, my brother caught the stove on fire. I put it out with a fire extinguisher, and after emptying the rest of the extinguisher in the street (why pass up a chance to play with a fire extinguisher?) we set to cleaning up the kitchen. The extinguisher releases an ultra fine white dust that gets EVERYWHERE. As soon as you wipe a surface clean, particles that are floating in the air land on the surface and it's dirty again. You can bet that stuff is in the AC vents too, so if you clean everything else up first, then turn on the AC, it'll get everywhere again. Charge a lot, or charge him by the hour. Good luck.

 

[davidc11291]

I think someone here did a suicide car before. I don't think I could do something like that.

I just changed careers. I was a paramedic for 12 years, and now I've started detailing full time. Several years ago, I got a call for a suicide. Pistol. We pulled up to the house and went into the room to check him. There was nothing I could do except call the coroner and wait for them to come pick him up. As I was waiting on the coroner, I noticed a car, barely six months old in the driveway. I thought in passing, "Somebody's probably gonna get a good deal on that car." About six months later, my brother shows me the used car he just bought. Looks exactly the same. He tells me that he bought it off of a guy who was selling it because the owner died and he was clearing out his estate. I asked him what part of town he got it from, then what street. Yep..... It's the same car. Crazy. I've got it now.

 

[Mike PhillipsMike Phillips is verified member.]

When I lived in Oregon, there was a construction company that hired me to go onto the roof of a 2-story home and buff out the dome shaped sky light. Somehow the workers scratched it all up and none of them knew how to buff plastic.

I'm not normally excited to climb up ladders or crawl across roofs but with a little help and some safety equipment everything turned out clear and scratch-free.


Was hired by a logging company to buff out some windows on their helicopters.

Was hired by Channel 4 News, I think it's KOMO 4 in the Seattle, Washington area to buff out a helicopter window that they shot video out of after it became all scratched up.


Those three things came to the top of my head when reading the title of this thread...