Does anyone know what the significance of this is? I have seen it about for the last 10 years or so, excuse my ignorance if it is something obvious!
PH1

[http://i556.photobucket.com/albums/ss7/PHmerlin/RAT.jpg?t=1246055924]http://www.singletrackworld.com/common/logo.png

How the hell do you post and image?

Rat shit?

click the IMG button, paste you photo’s location into the pop-up (overwriting the http bit if you’re pasting that bit too), then click the IMG button (now “/IMG”)

(I think)

no idea what the pic is

(Edit – nope, that doooont work does it ? suppose you have to chop out a number or something from the location)

(re-edit: ah, seems you’re referring to a page, not the image. Oh, and Damn you, Ernie Lynch !!!)

http://i556.photobucket.com/albums/ss7/PHmerlin/RAT.jpg?t=1246055924%5B/img

this maywork now?

Rat shit???…could you tell me more?

Thats it. Still cant do it though!

your 1st post used the location http://s556.photobucket.com/albums/ss7/PHmerlin/?action=view&current=RAT.jpg

that’s a page that shows the image, but isn’t the image itself

If you right click on the image & look at properties, you get http://i556.photobucket.com/albums/ss7/PHmerlin/RAT.jpg

That’s what you need to paste into the “IMG” bit

Snigger! LOL!!! 🙂

**** it i give up!

Black Rats !

Do you live in the thames valley area?

Black Rats.

It’s a copper thing. Not sure if it’s a bit of a myth but if you stick one on your car number plate and a cop was going to pull you, the sticker would signal that you were a cop…or not as the case may be, and leave you alone.

I’ll let you speed past the police and see if it works 😉

MM

black rats are supposed to be the motorbike cops i think.

S0

how do you post pics from your own computer not from a web site ???

please help

you can’t.

you HAVE to upload your pics to a website like ‘photobucket’ and then paste in the image code that the site gives you for your picture.

The image code starts with

MM

aahhh

thats why i cant do it !!!

many thanks Mountainmutant

To echo fisha’s post, yeah, that’ll be motorcycle cops, though I’m not 100% convinced that it’s not an urban myth

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Police-Traffic-Branch-BLACK-RAT-tie-tac-pin-badges_W0QQitemZ360163586936QQcmdZViewItemQQptZUK_Collectables_Badges_Patches_MJ?hash=item53db6c3378&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14&_trkparms=65%3A1|66%3A4|39%3A1|240%3A1318|301%3A1|293%3A1|294%3A200

clicky

My old man (ex-police including bikes) knows nothing about this so I’m guessing urban legend.