YauMan Chan
>A side note: I lived in an apartment complex then and ran the extension
>cord out my balcony into my car park outside below the balcony.  One
>morning, I got to my car earlier than usual and found another car with
>block heater parked next to my.  But this jerk had a 1-3 adapter plug and
>taped into my extension cord for power!  I don't know how long he/she had
>been doing that! Talk about being steaming mad..

Should have just hooked up the cord to 220- let them cook their block
heater!

(well, I probably wouldn't have done it either-maybe just left a dummy
cord hanging down not hooked to anything)
mh