peejman
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Glad you're here to tell the tale. Prayers for a good recovery.
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The black tooth grin, of course. Crown and Coke, heavy on the Crown.
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My older boy likes Lego kits. I kinda think of them as cheating as I just had blocks (lots and lots of blocks) and had to use my imagination to build stuff.
He's got Darth Vaders helmet, the Apollo lander, the Charger from F&F, a Vette, and a few others.
Guy I used to work with had the Millennium Falcon.
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My boys and I are working on fixing this up. It's taken a lot longer than I'd hoped but we're getting there.
My wife's granddad bought it new. While I was able to drive it across town to our house, we've had to do a lot of stuff to get it running reliably. Almost there. Trying to use it to teach them about wrenching. I'd love to put an LS in it, but just trying to get the 4.3 running well for now.
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6 hours ago, deerslayer said:
Damn, what did the #1 ugliest in HS look like?
This.
Yes, this is what I drove all through high school.
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3 minutes ago, OLDNEWBIE said:
This is more about scaring parents away from passing on firearms use to their kids. One generation and no one will want to or know how to use a gun they are thinking.
Or maybe they'll stop having kids they're too selfish to bother to parent.
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49 minutes ago, OLDNEWBIE said:
Not so sure of timeline, did he actually ask/beg for mental health or just showed signs of a need? Seems he deteriorated quickly though and the pic in the school warranted a backpack check at a minimum. School had some responsibility there too. Perhaps if I watched entire trial Id agree with you somewhat but it didn't seem so black and white from what I saw. Parents were definitely distracted and ignoring him alot but perhaps more often than not this is the case in the US. Again no lock up laws at the time, it wasn't stored in his room or kept with him. Perhaps they truely believed he was a reasonably good, sane kid with a few little problems who followed rules. The other thing that bothers me is the parents of gangbanger punks. Certainly this more often happens with these cases but just not in schools. Why these two parents now? Believe me, next is a gun owners stolen gun will get the owner jail time.
Lastly,I have to go there....your kid has anxiety meds, adhd, depression but begs you to drive. You make it happen, learner permit then he steals the keys one day and purposely runs down a bunch of kids.
Kids, people who do these awful crimes dont always broadcast their plans and sometimes hide their problems. The shooter scratched out the bad parts of the picture he drew for instance before the parents saw it at the school.
Sure, the DA decided to make an example of these people. It's a pretty egregious example of bad parenting. The conviction of both makes it pretty clear they knew their son had some problems but couldn't be bothered to act like parents. Their behavior toward each other is quite telling of how broken this situation was.
Liability for the actions of your children is very different from the actions of strangers who've stolen property.
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4 hours ago, OLDNEWBIE said:
Just heard on radio the Judge went beyond recommendations and gave the parents 15 years!
As for knowing everything your teen is up to or capable of? Plenty of cases out there of parents being murdered by their kids. They obviously didn't know. Normalcy bias of years of living together makes you oblivious.
I've watched some trial coverage now and feel the parents were not horrible but definitely had lost interest in actively being involved with the kid. The marriage was bad apparently and alot of teens these days are hard to be close to anyway.
What I'm saying is I guess 15 years is weirdly harsh unless the parents let the kid know this is your gun, keep it in your room, mess with it anytime unsupervised and btw here's some ammo. I don't think anything like that was in the trial. Gun was in parents room unloaded, hidden?
Not great, a little stupid with a teen boy interested in guns but no law on storage at the time was broken I believe. So why 15 years?
The kid begged for mental help and they bought him a gun instead. These people couldn't put their own problems down long enough to pay any attention to their kid. That's absolutely pathetic. They got off easy, though 15 years in prison as his parents likely won't be easy time.
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I've always wanted a big basso profundo voice, but I'm a terrible singer. These guys are awesome.
https://youtu.be/f1Vkh1Iy5IA?si=4l8-vDa9n3gMLAHi
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12 hours ago, Garufa said:
That .308 AK was probably what set off the uptight neighbor. Without a doubt one of the loudest guns I’ve ever heard.
Yep. The fireball was visible in bright daylight.
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On 3/23/2024 at 7:36 PM, Garufa said:
I was there. Good time!
On 3/23/2024 at 8:10 PM, Garufa said:Was that the one outside Murville where the guy from a new subdivision next door came out hollering about his kid taking a nap at 2 o’clock in the afternoon? Then the law showed up and told us to have a good time.
Yep, both of those were fun. I remember a .460 magnum, a .338 Lapua, and a .308 AK.
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While you may not be very interested, the next generation might like some tangible reference to a relative they never knew.
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They make a thing you can rent called a landscape trencher, it's a mini ditch witch and works great for the wire. I did my 1/2 acre lot in less than an hour. If you have several sections that make the wiring difficult, the fully wireless type is probably better.
Be sure to work with the dog to make sure it understands where the boundary is (marking flags) and what the warning tone means. We spent several days walking the boundary with the collar. Hear the tone and pull the dog back, then reward her when she'd back away on her own. The only time she ran through it she was chasing a critter of some sort.
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3 hours ago, papa61 said:
Older sisters maybe. Check the median age on here. there's a topic on here somewhere regarding that. With some of y'all, it'd be wives.
Yeah, my grandma was in her 60's then.
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We had pretty good luck with the invisible fence. Our previous dog went bonkers inside a privacy fence. She'd dig and then climbed an 8ft fence to get out.
She didn't feel trapped with the invisible fence. She did run through it a couple times but she would sit just outside the warning boundary and wait for us to bring her back in.
The current dog hadn't shown much interest in wandering off and is also happy to stay in a crate when we're gone.
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One of the perks of having a regular dentist. My wife and I have gotten in same day with urgent problems at our dentist. Hope they get it fixed.
I'll add that letting it go and just trying to live with it is a really bad idea... nearly killed a friend's mom. She had a bad tooth but wouldn't get it looked at. She collapsed and the ER doc discovered she had a defective heart valve. Cardiologist said the tooth infection messed up the valve. She was in the hospital for several weeks as they had to get the infection under control before they did surgery to replace the valve. She made it, but it was rough.
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1 hour ago, Jamie Jackson said:
Mom's are a devious bunch!
Meh, Dad had a wooden paddle. Didn’t necessarily make me stop, I learned not to get caught.
And thinking about it, my high school assistant principal had an aluminum paddle with air holes. Kids who got paddled had to "take a walk". He'd make them walk the halls with him following, paddle in hand. All the classroom doors stayed open then so everyone knew who was gonna get paddled. After strolling around to his satisfaction, he'd say "assume the position", which was hands on your knees and head a couple inches from the lockers, so every whack banged your forehead into the locker.
You had to count licks. If you started blubbering, he'd keep going until you got to the number. So 3 licks could easily become 5. The more you blubbered, the faster he'd go. Good times.
I got sent to his office once, but didn't get paddled.
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8 hours ago, Jamie Jackson said:
My mother grew a mimosa tree. Always. No matter where we lived. Said she like their looks. I think it was specifically for the incredible durability and flexibility of the switches she would make me go and break off.
She had a remarkable grip for a small woman and no matter how hard and fast I ran in a circle as she gripped my wrist, she never lost her rhythm.
I cut down every mimosa tree I run across still to this day
I loved her...but she had that Southern woman "don't mess with me" thing going on...
We had Forsythia bushes.
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Good luck, hope the rehab gets you back in good shape.
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1 hour ago, Will Carry said:
Throw those barking dogs a raw hot dog. Soon they will be wagging their tails at you instead of barking. It worked for me. There was this German Shepard down the road I lived on and evey time I walked by he would bark furiously. I threw him a raw hotdog and he kept barking as I walked by. The next time I walked by at night, he came out wagging his tail and never bothered me again.
Rewarding their barking and aggressive behavior usually only reinforces it.
We had a neighbor who rode around on a Segway. He had a pouch full of dog biscuits and would give one to every dog he came across. He'd tease the dog a bit to get it barking, then give it a treat. It wasn't long before he had every dog in the neighborhood barking at him as he rode around. It was especially irritating when you've got a toddler and he comes around at nap time every day.
It took a couple conversations, first polite then less so, to convince him that while his intentions were good, the result wasn't.
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Unfortunately you have both lazy neighbors and lazy cops. Get video of all the interactions both people and dogs chasing you, cars, and/or bicycles. Get enough to show a pattern. If the cops won't do anything, go to the media. Aggressive dogs have become something of a hot button recently.
I'd avoid the guy with the gun and his dog named Aryan. Too many red flags there. I'm guessing the cops may have been trying to do you a favor. I'll bet they know him.
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My cover crop of field peas is doing quite well. I was considering pulling them up this weekend but I'll wait since it's getting cold again.
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Barnwood Builders? I don't see any big old beams that would have significant value, but they might be able to recommend someone.
Local craftsmans guild who would use the material?
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17 hours ago, Jeb48 said:
I'd argue the reverse is more likely. My sister-in-law had twins. They had to induce because the girl had pinched the boy's umbilical cord and his vitals were degrading. My comment was... "so it begins". It wasn't well received.
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Yugo 8MM Mauser Preduzece 44 Model 98 Rifle
in Firearms Classifieds
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Not necessarily. The German marks may have been removed and refinished over. It has the communist Yugoslavia crest on the receiver so it's most likely post WWII.