not to be tangled with

[Scillypete]

Good job this lot washed up ashore before getting itself tangled in a prop, it would take some sorting out if it had.

 

[FishyInverness]

Searush had his beard cut?

 

[jimi]

Delfin's been wormed?

 

[DanTribe]

What on Earth is it?
It doesn't look as if it's been in the water long.

 

[A1Sailor]

What on Earth is it?

Its a tape worm

 

[Seajet]

What on Earth is it?
It doesn't look as if it's been in the water long.

Looks like the ribbon used in parcel binding machines.

 

[Greenheart]

Looks like the ribbon used in parcel binding machines.

Just what I was thinking. That stuff is virtually indestructible.

 

[Scillypete]

Looks like the ribbon used in parcel binding machines.

Thats exactly what it is and a massive bundle of it as well, although I wouldn't call it ribbon but not sure what they do actually call that stuff. suffice to say I doubt there is a rope cutter that would have dealt with that.

 

[SimbaDog]

It's the other 124 bundles you need to worry about

 

[FishyInverness]

I wouldn't call it ribbon but not sure what they do actually call that stuff.

Banding tape, usually. Hate it, used to have to use a lumbering ancient lever tool to band up empty volvo pallets with it for return after parts deliveries.

 

[marklucas]

Thats exactly what it is and a massive bundle of it as well, although I wouldn't call it ribbon but not sure what they do actually call that stuff. suffice to say I doubt there is a rope cutter that would have dealt with that.

And once I was cycling and such a band was picked up by my back wheel, causing a complete lock-up, near crash and 5 spokes getting broken - luckily I was on the way home then.

 

[Greenheart]

Unpacking boxes bound with that tape at Harrods in the '90s, I discovered you don't need a knife to break the stuff...

...just find the join where the two flat sections are glued or 'welded' together, flip it over to find the longish loose end, and drag that back on itself. Even the girls could do it. Otherwise, it was a knife or scissors job.

 

[Zen Zero]

A cop showed my friend how to use it to break into his car, he'd locked himself out. I tried it with a hire car I'd shut the keys in on a beach near Trafalgar and it worked a treat.

 

[AMCD300]

A cop showed my friend how to use it to break into his car, he'd locked himself out. I tried it with a hire car I'd shut the keys in on a beach near Trafalgar and it worked a treat.

They just break windows in Naples...lol