having a gun with you in the car 3772
Sure, the strong safe box won't raise an eyebrow.... they won't be the least bit interested what might be locked up in there. Yeah right. It's not like that can't go...
having a gun with you in the car 3773
Let me point out the 1982 oldsmobile. This car could be entered with a coat hanger in about 30 seconds. Thief number one: Pryed out the driver's side lock cylinder...
having a gun with you in the car 3774
I do, perhaps Scout does, many people still do. In your original post, you made no differentiation as to whether your mower was a new model with a brake or was...
having a gun with you in the car 3775
In order to apply the grinder to the safe you first need clearance to get...
having a gun with you in the car 3776
Bo Raxo That is a VERY important consideration, Bo, and I am glad and not surprised that you take that seriously. I do have to say...
Designated decoy
Recently a routine police patrol parked outside a local neighborhood bar. Late in the evening the officer noticed a man leaving the bar so intoxicated that he could...
Cop gets probation for highway robbery at traffic stops
Former Elm Springs officer pleads guilty to taking money from motorists BY TRISH HOLLENBECK Northwest Arkansas Times Posted on Friday, February 3, 2006 A former Elm Springs police officer who had...
Clutch Replacement
N8N Oh, yes. Unless your car is "too old." Then the deal says "Tango Sierra, over." My '95 UrS6 is a joy to work on. Lots of those high-volume...
Clutch Replacement
Hi! Why focus on the clutch specifically? The clutch in my '87 VW Golf needed replacing lately, after 340,000 kilometres of service. The Golf isn't one of those cars with easy to replace clutches...
Woman Shot Inside Car on Washington State
Years ago but not too long ago a woman was driving her new car down a country road in...
Clear needless blockages from roads
Editorial from the Cincinnati Enquirer 2-06-05 Los Angeles, Chicago and other big cities have raised "quick-clearing" car wrecks off freeways to a high...
Japanese vs. American joke
A Japanese company and an American company decided to have a canoe race on the Missouri River. Both teams practiced long and hard to reach their peak performance before the race. On the...
Famed SciFi writer Ray Bradbury says L.A. needs the monorail
L.A.'s future is up in the air By Ray Bradbury, RAY BRADBURY is the author of...
Famed SciFi writer Ray Bradbury says L.A. needs the monorail
John S. They are becoming more popular. In a series of four votes from 1997 to 2002, Seattle voters directed the creation of a public monorail authority, which would have paralleled...
Commuting to NYC
Why not - lots of people do. Actually it's common shorthand and quite useful when parties to a conversation know which city is...
Another goddam psycho semidriver liquidates a boatload of people 3787
Elliott Plack My guess is that the guardrail did what it was supposed to do. The design was most likely flawed. Several ways a vehicle can get on top of a guard rail. Most common...
Another goddam psycho semidriver liquidates a boatload of people 3788
Doug Doug, you are correct. The guardrails should be there to protect the errant drivers. I don't know the evolution of...
My first accident....insurance and other hard questions
The adjuster said she's paying for the accident; and i get a rental car. That was fast. Some things i learned as...
Inflight dissolutiondealer torcher was Australian, had managed Pink Floyd
Pbuttenger hangs self on jet after arson bust By Sarah Langbein, Rocky Mountain News February 10...
Another nail in Ford's coffin
Hi! Pooh Bear Yes. Diesel Pbuttat estates-wagons are the ISO standard cop car here in North Germany: But that's different from region to region -- most federal...
well, it finally happened... 3792
Michael G. Koerner I agree its a good idea to keep un-necessary through traffic out, but that can be accomplished through other means, like traffic calming, so it will still be possible for...
well, it finally happened... 3793
I lived in a neighborhood like that. It has the standard two entrances to the main street, plus a "back" entrance to the adjacent neighborhood (which...
well, it finally happened... 3794
That's not the reason. Nobody needs to drive to the 12th street redline station. The red line is CTA 'L'. It doesn't make any sense what so ever to drive...
well, it finally happened... 3795
Brent P) Sure it does: how much does it cost to park your car downtown all day? Some people would rather park it for free and take the "L." I've lived in plenty...
well, it finally happened... 3796
Why drive all that way then park and take the 'L' that has been alongside you the whole time...
well, it finally happened... 3797
Give a real link. A google groups search only shows this string appearing in your post that I...
well, it finally happened... 3798
I'm not confused. I'm parking to the north of Roosevelt Rd (it's not called 12th St, by the way). And there is access to the Red Line stop...
well, it finally happened... 3799
Which is easier to type? It's 12th. I rutinely call the named numbered streets by number as...
well, it finally happened... 3800
Brent P) But if you have business in more than one place, it makes sense to park...
well, it finally happened... 3801
Brent P) Get a real newsreader. That's a valid link to a message in this thread. Someone sure is. LOL!!! Wanna see what that looks like...
well, it finally happened... 3802
Well, as of last night the phone line (guy across the street lost his phone but nothing else, so it's...
well, it finally happened... 3803
Proved planners have forced developers to do it? I live in a rural area so I don't know about your specific location...
My mind is more beautiful than John Nash's
Well, "Beauty is in the eye of the beholder," but I got good reasons to say so. He forgot that some in the group don't want the group...
SHARING, or putting the hungry lion on a diet
Adam Thanks! I think the solution is SHARING, rather than stopping consumption. In other words, putting the...
Should the lion be above the law
I see it all the time, and just confirmed it yesterday in a zone where parking spaces are...
Caution: the mayor is watching you
Well, usually it takes some participation in politics to know how to make big business in a perfectly legal way, but I'll clue you in in...
right or privilege
Mike Hunter Many people who shouldn't be driving are doing it, so I guess it's...
right or privilege or BIG BUSINESS 3809
Larry Well, everything got a bottom line, and so is this... That the prone to wandering is still thriving out there though is part of multi-million dollar industry that puts...
you can eat my banana
Ben Kaufman Maybe the lion wants the monkey to go and buy a rifle so he can throw him in prison without charges...
tired of being eaten by THE PREDATOR
Gene Cash Being stupid doesn't get you a ticket. Ask those drivers who talk all the time...
right or privilege or BIG BUSINESS 3812
No, tourist taxes do. At least here in Florida. I can't speak for other states. Nope. People driving like f***heads on the interstate justify the existance of the highway patrol. Yup...
right or privilege or BIG BUSINESS 3813
Gene Cash You mean only unsuspecting tourists get tickets? Well, anyone can fall for those speed traps where they hand out...
Police LOVE Violent drivers, They HATE safe drivers! 3814
Gene Cash OK, not on I-95 south of Ft. Launderdale (the busiest expresway around here) where you see everything including high speed races weaving around other vehicles...
Police LOVE Violent drivers, They HATE safe drivers! 3815
Hm. I've never lived in a city where parking was a problem, except when I was a student at UCF. One time they booted my car for having too many tickets. So...
Police LOVE Violent drivers, They HATE safe drivers! 3816
This is a follow up to the above quote. Notice the argument where the police is LAZY and...
right or privilege or BIG BUSINESS 3817
Exactly. University Blvd near UCF is a prime example. It's now a WITH THE SAME 45MPH SPEED LIMIT IT HAD WHEN IT WAS A SIMPLE 2-LANER 10 YEARS AGO...
right or privilege or BIG BUSINESS 3818
Tickets don't make people pay attention all the time though. That's the real problem. I witnessed two accidents today, and both were caused by not paying attention to your surroundings and...
Caution: Driver doesn't give a poo 3819
Vito Let me tell you, Global Warming will affect you in more than way, and not only in pajamas you wear. Even...
Caution: Driver doesn't give a poo 3820
On Tue, 21 Feb 2006 20:58:46 -0800, Timberwoof Faster than usual. Well let me see, approximately 10 to 20,000 years ago, we began the warming portion...
Caution: Driver doesn't give a poo 3821
DTJ Or maybe they weren't interested in getting promotions at the expense of the truth. It happens, you know... HOW THE LION BENEFITS FROM THE LITTLE ANIMALS' POVERTY One day all the little...
In Union there's Strength
Vito Congratulations, but how is it related to the actual life of the little animals? The lion and the owl who sold out to the...
Caution: Driver doesn't give a poo 3823
FONSI If you're referring to the bu$h regime's Liberal use of lies, terrorism, rest, destruction, war crimes, torture, tax payer theft, and record deficit spending to build the stock portfolios...
Caution: Driver doesn't give a poo 3824
One of the predictable effects is that forests will die. Most climate changes are slow enough that as the trees die off at one end because the climate becomes inhospitable, they...
Easter Island: a lesson to be learned 3825
DTJ There's plenty of evidence though of things getting worse. And it's not the first time... Easter Island example... "Greed and the desire for social prestige dictated decisions...
Easter Island: a lesson to be learned 3826
It is already too far gone - and it's not just the environment, it's people. Every creature, including people, evolves out of necessity - if there is no challenge there is...
When You Ride Alone
Vito ...You Ride With Bin Laden: What the Government SHOULD be telling Us to Help Fight the War on Terrorism" Always blaming someone else but...
Caution: Driver doesn't give a poo 3828
Oh, I wish you hadn't snipped the names of the other authors. You missed my...
Caution: Driver doesn't give a poo 3829
Venture Rider Well, I don't intend to get any more parking tickets. I'm feeding the lion big time...
Need ways to start a car with a dead battery. 92 Civic Auto. 3830
Sam Nickaby Drive a manual transmission. You can push start those. However, caveats: - unburned fuel-air mixture during the first few cycles can...
Need ways to start a car with a dead battery. 92 Civic Auto. 3831
Or the *ORIGINAL EQUIPMENT* cat on my carbed '82 Mazda 626 which, due to an uncooperative electrical fault that took the better part of a year of...
Need ways to start a car with a dead battery. 92 Civic Auto. 3832
If for some reason this device, or other similar devices, disconnects the power regularly it will reset the vehicle's computer, the clock and stereo memory-pbuttwords, especially when using this...
Need ways to start a car with a dead battery. 92 Civic Auto. 3833
Sam Nickaby You would have more chance of winning the lottery... without buying a ticket. :-) If you're that concerned...
Just witnessed an accident 3834
223rem IMHO, it was the semi driver's fault. From your description, the semi had been behind the Ryder for some time, meaning the semi driver had no excuse to travelling...
Just witnessed an accident 3835
Pooh Bear It would be nice if there were more roundabouts here. The problem is that people here don't know the difference between a traffic-circle and a roundabout (traffic...
Just witnessed an accident 3836
Arif Khokar Wow, that sounds really bad. What is the point of such a construct? Might be a good way of helping Darwin out. Especially...
Just witnessed an accident 3837
Old Wolf This may help explain the reasoning: Except that such roundabouts cannot be used for major intersections with higher speed...
Just witnessed an accident 3838
Arif Khokar Sorry, forgot for a moment that you drive on the wrong side of the road ;) Here's the rules in...
Just witnessed an accident 3839
Steady Yellow Signal This means that the signal is changing from green to red. Its purpose is to provide time for approaching...
Just witnessed an accident 3840
Yeah, but the way things are decided in this nation there is no legal responsibility with regards to...
Car insurance question
May be a dumb question, but I have never really been involved in a wreck before and have no experience with this. FWIW I was driving...
Car insurance question 3843
Most likely, all the way to getting the OP paid for his damages. Insurance companies back off and quit giving you a hard time if you tell them the other party was charged with...
Car insurance question 3844
Hate to tell you this, but you are 100% correct, the ins. co. will try to give you "book value" for your car...
Psycho in SUV hits Amish buggy Woman, granddaughter injured
Amish Woman, Granddaughter Injured In Buggy Crash POSTED: 9:44 am EST February 15, 2006 MECHANICSVILLE, Md. -- Police in St...
Man kills himself on United flight after torching car dealership
How would they have gotten him there? There's no easy access to the cargo hold from the pbuttenger compartment of an airliner. They could've let him cool his...
Driving through Minneapolis Minnesota
After the trip to Minneapolis and Bloomington. Seeing the Mall of America for the first time. I would have to...
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