Well, it worked for *me* on my Nissan Micra and my brother's high-powered Merc.
We tested it and it worked first time.
Next on the bench: the anti-theft wheeze of punching in your PIN *backwards*.
It's meant to give you your money (thus staying the thief from whacking your head in and allowing him to think he knows your number), but lock the account thereafter and signal the fuzz the whereabouts of this use of the card.Sinbad's kool kommentical konspiracies kwote (and delivered at such a better hour than 2:55am.)
Snopes is good on urban myth
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...and despite David Aaronovitch's Voodoo Histories some conspiracies happened
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