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Typically when you think of a battle between a house and a Prius, you add a dose of a drunk driver and a garage and you are done… But not today.

It looks like that super efficient windows are reflecting so much energy onto a car parked in Southern California that it is melting the plastic exterior parts of a lady’s Prius parked outside of the building.

A SoCal woman says the energy efficient window installed in a neighbor’s condominium is melting the plastic components on cars parked in her carport. Heather Patron of Studio City was dealing with a mystery regarding her Toyota Prius.

“The side view mirrors were melting,” says Patron. “Anything that was plastic on the car was melting.” Patron then observed a powerful beam of light that was reflecting off the window of a next door condominium, casting a concentrated beam over her carport.

CBS2’s Randy Paige placed a thermometer in the pathway of the beam on a partially cloudy day. The temperature registered over 120 degrees in less than five minutes.

“I’m positive that this window is what is causing the damage to my car,” says Patron.

Patron is not alone. Reports across the country have alleged damages brought on by concentrated sunlight reflected off of energy efficient windows. The National Association of Home Builders is now conducting a study on the matter. via CBS LA

There is no regulations against these types of windows but it will be interesting. And it makes me wonder if we are going to see melting Prius’s around the country in the coming years.

Progress…

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House Windows Melting A Toyota Prius

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I have always felt that it is surprising that more instances of spy cams in rental housing are not happening more often. The latest incident that I have come across is pretty amazing though. Two Bulgarian students who came to Tampa found their apartment littered with spy cams after living there for a couple of months.

The cams were hidden as smoke and motion detectors that were attached to a wireless router and then sent to an unknown party. The thinking is that since these two girls were very attractive and did some modeling work the images may end up on some porn sites.

Late Monday, two Bulgarian women discovered the covert cameras in their apartment. And now the Bulgarian students are afraid their every move — from sleeping to showering — may have been broadcast on the Internet.

The Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office is investigating and says detectives have recovered some equipment and are following several leads.

However, between Tuesday night — when a report about the episode appeared on Bay News 9 — and Wednesday morning when detectives returned, some of the electronic equipment was removed, said sheriff’s spokesman Larry McKinnon.

The women didn’t answer their door Wednesday, but in an interview Tuesday with Bay News 9 said their landlord has a key to the apartment.

The Sheriff’s Office declined to name any suspects. via Tampa Bay dot com

My advice to those renting apartments is to do a walk through of the apartment occasionally. Check the smoke detectors and any other wired appliances in the apartment. The odds of this happening are fairly long but the reality is that the conversion of micro-tech and spy equipment is making these cameras much harder to detect.

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Tampa Bay Model’s Apartment Full of Spy Cameras

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