This reportedly is a videotape of Adnan
G. El Shukrijumah giving a presentation regarding how to jump start
a car for a class on "English as a Second Language". He
is in a classroom, standing in front of a blackboard which shows drawings
of two car batteries. He has a real set of jumper cables in the classroom
for display.
The following is his presentation:
"My name's Adnan. Uh...I'm wanting to show story in the beginning
and then I'm going to start my...uh...introduction. Uh...One day
you're driving your car and a man standing in the road and he has
his hood open and you're driving and he has two things in his hand
that looks like snake, like two snakes so you appear, approach very
slowly then you come to him and stop your car. You shut your car
off and then you come up/come down, open your hood and play with
some wires and then he's/the man is happy and he leaves. You go
back to your car again and drive. You are happy that you help this
man. You send your hands towards your radio, your brand new 97 Honda
Accord, trying to listen to your music, but suddenly nothing appears
on the screen of the radio, the only thing/the only thing you see
is the word code. You are trying and you're so upset, maybe you
want to cry because your brand new radio is not working anymore.
Don't be upset, everything could be
fixed, I'm going to teach you what's the reason of that today. What
do you think happened on that day? What did he do wrong? Does anybody
know? Okay, it's the way you jump started the man car and the two
snakes were nothing but the two cables that he had requesting you
jumping his car.
First, is it wrong to jump a person
car because I always had the impression that it is very bad for
your car and the answer is no, it's the way you jump start a car.
First thing, I'm going to show, when we are jump starting a car
we have two things: We have the good battery in your car, which
is smiling here; and the dead battery in the dead car, which is
angry here. Then we have two cables which is like this one two red
sides and one/and the other side two black sides.
There are some way/wrong things you
could do in jumping a cable, but I'm going to start with showing
you the right way of jump starting a car. First thing, you keep
your car running which is this when you have battery you keep your
car running and don't uh shut it off. Then you come to cable and
you plug the positive part first to the positive part in your battery.
How do you know? How can you identify the positive part?
There are two ways: First thing you'll
see the positive part on it sometimes it is too small an easier
way of identifying that/that usually the cable that comes from the
car to the/the battery has a cover on it so the plug has a cover
on/covering everything for protecting it from oxidation. After you've
done that you take the next piece of the positive part---be careful---the
other red piece also to the dead battery---so you have the red one
here and the red one here. Then you do the same thing with the negative
part which is one here and the neg/the black which is the black
usually to the dead your battery then to the dead battery and then
you go ahead and start the car that has the dead battery and you
are ready.
Some wrong things that you could do
while jump jumping a car is shutting your car off then plugging
in the wire even though it is the right way. Then you start your
car. That sends a strong shock to the next car and causing some
problems which I'm going to tell you right about now and which some
of us think is not that important.
The first thing that you could do
wrong is plugging across the wires by mistake which means you take
the red side and put it on the positive and then you take the same
red end and put it on the negative. What is going to happen then
I'm going to tell you in a little while. The results of wrong jumping
can be as follows: if you do as I said, crisscross the wires you
can blow the fuse inside of the engine, inside of the car, under
the hood. This is the hood, the fuse there is the main fuse inside
of the engine that is going to blow and if this fuse does blow all
your appliances, all your parts inside the car will blow so that
fuse/that fuse will blow. A second thing could happen that you could
burn the PC, the computer in your car. All of new cars now have
computers to run the fuel injection system in the car, and if that
burns one computer average between 800 hundred dollars and 1200
hundred dollars just by doing these simple procedures which everybody
thinks that they are professionals in. The second thing that could
happen is what happened to you when you jump started the man, the
word code comes on the radio, which is a security code comes to
your/to the car because a shock comes to your car and that what
happens.
Afterwards I'm going to teach you
how to take care of all of these problems. The fuse inside/most
of the fuse inside of it becomes like a small box and it has 100
on it, that's the way you know that this is the man/the main fuse
in the car. Usually it's like a bridge, a white bridge that pops
up. You open and find 100 fuse and then you push it down with/with
a screwdriver, and then you can start the car. But if, the computer
blows, which is the next problem of wrong jumping, the only thing
you can do is go and buy a brand new computer and put it and don't
try getting it from the junkyard even though if it's hundred and
fifty dollars because it will never work and I have a lot of experience
with that/with this. The second thing, the code in the radio you
need to get the open the radio and get the serial number and call
the dealership and they will give you the code.
In conclusion, let's review all what
I said, that jumping is not bad, it's good, as long as you do it
the right way. Then I told you the right way of attaching the cables
and do/and jump starting a car. I gave you the result of wrong jump/jumping
and then we took the way of correcting the mistakes that happen
through wrong jumping.
So whenever you see a man don't be
scared, or a woman, waiting for you to help them, stop and help
them, but help them the right way. Maybe one day you will be the
one holding the two snakes."
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