What are these ?

In the underground parking of my new apartment in Switzerland I've adopted these - anyone any ideas what they are ??

http://i180.photobucket.com/albums/x...c/IMG_2239.jpg

Haven't a clue.

Hmm, what do the sprung levers do? They look like they lock into place, perhaps clamping/gripping something?

Part of your weird neighbour's new hidden room dungeon facility?

Originally Posted by Nev

Part of your weird neighbour's new hidden room dungeon facility?

slightly less sick than my previous submission

To be fair to Josef Fritzl, the Austrian fella, he did put his daughter up for adoption, but the childrens' home in Jersey said their cellar was already full.

Originally Posted by Nev

Part of your weird neighbour's new hidden room dungeon facility?

I was trying to be slightly more tactful than that

The springs seem to lock the bases in position - don't know whether they're some cheap alternative to a jack for holding the car up when changing from summer - winter tyres (everyone else has a pile of 4 wheels in their parking space but all I get is these)

Bike rack?

Originally Posted by Telfordsteve

Bike rack?

Unlikely - galvanised metal, no padding and nothing to attach them to anything.

At this rate I'll just stock them on Ebay as 'unknown metal sprongy things' and see what they fetch.

Originally Posted by k3lvc

Unlikely - galvanised metal, no padding and nothing to attach them to anything.

At this rate I'll just stock them on Ebay as 'unknown metal sprongy things' and see what they fetch.

Anything to do with applying snow chains around yer tyres?

Had a closer look and they're covered in dog hairs and have a sticker on saying 'Radvoleger fur wohnwagen hund'.

Best I can get from Babelfish is that it's something to do with a dog caravan - anyone any ideas on what a radvoleger is ??

Originally Posted by k3lvc

Had a closer look and they're covered in dog hairs and have a sticker on saying 'Radvoleger fur wohnwagen hund'.

Best I can get from Babelfish is that it's something to do with a dog caravan - anyone any ideas on what a radvoleger is ??

According to the interweb it means wheel stops. Maybe the dog had wheels or something.

Originally Posted by Alfaspeed

According to the interweb it means wheel stops. Maybe the dog had wheels or something.

I'm now going to spend the rest of the day watching out for a dog with wheels

Assuming it's something like a wheel clamp for a caravan/trailer but wtf has that got to do with a hund/dog

http://www.swiss-dogbox.ch/shop1/klbox008.jpg

Something like this?

Originally Posted by gt74

http://www.swiss-dogbox.ch/shop1/klbox008.jpg

Something like this?

The mind boggles!

They look to me like some sort of leg which would be attached to the corners of a one axle trailer when it's not on the back of a car, to hold it level.

They are the bull bars off the new X6

Swiss guards?

Originally Posted by gt74

http://www.swiss-dogbox.ch/shop1/klbox008.jpg

Something like this?

Looks like the problems solved - they appear to have been 'retrieved' by the owner of the next door parking space who owns a big f**k off German Shepherd and has been away for the last couple of weeks. I know this because whilst I get threatened with the noise police if I so much as fart or p**s standing up after 10pm the aforementioned mutt can bark all night with no issues - this definitely needs to be moved to the Rant Room now