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Here are students who can do cool stuff with cars. Include good stories to illustrate.
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=08vko Valerie Owens]
 
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=09ras Rahul Shah] (who thinks automatic is for the weak and the infirm)
===Drive Really Fast In Reverse===
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=08tdm Thomas Miller]
 
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=eaw1 Liz Weinberg '11] Once got two flat tires within three weeks. Got good at changing them.
===Jumpstart a Car===
=== Parallel Park ===
[[Jonathan Landsman]], native New Yorker, has parked in spots so tight that getting in and out depended on using room provided by nudging cars parked in front and behind, counting on the flexibility of their shocks. His record in Williamstown was set when moving into his [[Morgan#East|Morgan East]] room for the [[Summer 2004|Summer summer of 2004]], when he parked at the top of [[Spring Street]], leaving enough room on either end of the car to fit one finger, but not two.
[[Macy Radloff]], native Bostonian, was proud of her three finger park -- three in front, zero in the back because she was bumper to bumper with the next car. It seems as though she has been outdone, by one finger. She can, however, parallel park the B&G 12 passenger vans in relatively tight spots, which she still considers an accomplishment.
[[Toby Hall]], yet another native New Yorker who never had the luxury of a parking garage. I got three words for you: "Alternate Side Parking"
 
 
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=09ras Rahul Shah], like a monkey can write Shakespeare
===Get Parking Tickets ===
[[Jonathan Landsman|Jonathan Landsman '05]] two in three days in Queens, NYC. Both while at the vehicle, one while inside it.
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=06dr David Rodriguez] accidentally left car parked illegally outside of [[Mission Park|Mission]] for days to find 4 tickets upon his return.
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=06lc Lucy Cox-Chapman] forgot that her car was parked at the end of [[Spring Street]] for four days and found 3 tickets when she finally remembered.
[[Charlie Giammattei]], who left his car in front of [[BryantHouse]] House in 2005 for four days, incurring TEN tickets from [[securitySecurity]]. He then claimed to [[Dave Boyer]] that the car was broken and he had taken it to [[Flamingo Motors]] for repairs. Dave Boyer knew Charlie's car was American-made and Flamingo only deals with foreign-made vehicles. Somehow, Charlie managed to graduate without ever settling up with Security.
[[Toby Hall]] 2 tickets at the [[Greylock Dining Hall|Greylock]] parking trap, 1 in NYC, from a meter-maid who was waiting by the car until expiration, 1 outside of [[Weston Language Center|Weston]] for being an idiot and parking overnight because he had forgotten where he left his car.
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=09dfk Dave Kleinschmidt '09] thought it would be cute to part a [[Junior Advisor|JA]]'s car as close to Fay as possible, which was inside the then-removed vehicle-blocking metal posts, thus earning a parking ticket upon emerging from the dorm less than 10 minutes later.
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=08tdm Thomas Miller] $190 doing 84 in a 65 somewhere on the Mass Pike. It was pretty much the best first speeding ticket ever.
 
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=09ras Rahul Shah] $450 for doing 70 in a short stretch of 35 at 2 am outside Pittsfield.