Mystery of Windermere triangle solved

Published: 12:27PM GMT twenty-six February 2010

For around eighteen months, drivers parking up in one of the Lake District town"s busiest selling areas have found their electric key-fobs will not work.

Telecom watchdog OFCOM motionless to examine and sent margin operative Dave Thornber to Windermere with specilist scanning equipment.

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He detected that motorists" key fobs were being tangled since they were on the same wiresless magnitude as the compartment in the circuitously Lazy Daisy Lakeland Kitchen cafe.

Mr Thornber said:"People thought it was a spirit or a little newly commissioned trade lights but it is the compartment and the approach watchful onstaff imput dish orders."

He added: " We used what is called a spectrum analyser to have a brush of the locality."

"The source of the division was a wirless sequence taker in the cafe.

"The device used the same magnitude as complicated car key fobs that work executive locking."

"The key fobs make make use of of a really low energy source to strengthen the hold up of the batteries inside and so their make make use of of was drowned out by the energy of Lazy Daisy."

Some car owners complained that when they attempted to open their cars they activated electric windows instead, others simply got no reply at all. Motoring organisations were called in and batteries transposed but to no avail.

Cafe owners Tom Benton said:" Working with OFCOM we have practiced the compartment magnitude so it does not jam the thatch anymore."

Mr Benton added: " I am only blissful the total poser of the Windermere Triangle has been solved and there will not some-more people station around their cars incompetent to expostulate off."

"People have been articulate about it for months."