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Man steals construction excavator and drove it into a Florida Walmart, police say
FOX 35 Orlando ^ | September 12, 2023 | FOX 35 News Staff

Posted on 09/17/2023 6:13:26 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks

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To: cyclotic

I’ve always thought a popular adult amusement park idea (and I don’t mean pornographic!) would be to have a raw land site where regular people could rent an excavator and run it (or try to) and dig ditches or otherwise shove piles of dirt around with bulldozers, etc. Most boy kids (there I go) are pretty fascinated by this kind of gear and watching people use them. I’m sure plenty of guys would like to do this and probably some womyn. But the liability would be huge and those machines have to be making pretty serious money to justify their upkeep and maintenance. Would some random guy pay $250 an hour to run an excavator around?

I myself have never operated any such gear, but I’m modestly interested in it. The guys who are good can perform frickin open heart surgery or flick the top off a bee bottle. That of course requires tremendous experience. There are lots of YouTube videos with guys running this type of gear. As fun/interesting as it looks, much of the work in the real world is clawing up a bucket of dirt, turning to the side and dumping it, then repeating that fifty or 100 or more times.


21 posted on 09/17/2023 7:37:25 PM PDT by Attention Surplus Disorder (The Democrat breadlines will be gluten-free. )
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Walmart has self checkout and self check-in


22 posted on 09/17/2023 7:39:59 PM PDT by bunkerhill7 (Don't shoot until you see the whites of their lies)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Man steals construction excavator and drove it into a Florida Walmart, police say

Corrected headline:

Florida Man steals construction excavator and drove it into a Walmart, police say

23 posted on 09/17/2023 7:40:51 PM PDT by Disambiguator
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To: Antihero101607

If I had a bulldozer

https://youtu.be/R8B6P7M7WMg?si=tST4VzSCu0c3WclI


24 posted on 09/17/2023 7:40:59 PM PDT by hardspunned (Former DC GOP globalist stooge)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

No matter how much damage he did with that excavator, he couldn’t f**k up Butler Plaza worse than it already is. That place is a soup sandwich and whoever designed it should be flogged in the public square for their crimes against aesthetics, traffic engineering and humanity in general.


25 posted on 09/17/2023 7:46:15 PM PDT by lump in the melting pot (Believe nothing until it is denied by the Kremlin)
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To: EEGator

Unless that’s a sword or dagger instead of a cross.


26 posted on 09/17/2023 7:51:11 PM PDT by skr (Righteousness exalteth a nation: but sin is a reproach to any people. - Proverbs 14:34)
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To: Attention Surplus Disorder

See Diggerland.com


27 posted on 09/17/2023 7:56:27 PM PDT by cyclotic (It's a great time to live in America. It's like the collapse of the Roman Empire except with wi-fi)
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To: EEGator

Among others. For decades, rural legislators in Florida vied for state prison facilities and the jobs they brought to isolated small towns. Some years ago, a friend who worked for a long-serving Florida state senator who was chairman of the Corrections Committee described a large part of his boss’s job as being to mediate and keep a balance between the families who effectively controlled the Florida state prison system.


28 posted on 09/17/2023 7:57:58 PM PDT by Rockingham
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To: skr

That’s possible but highly unlikely. I was mocking him, not Christianity.


29 posted on 09/17/2023 7:59:05 PM PDT by EEGator
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Thank goodness he didn’t forget his machete.


30 posted on 09/17/2023 7:59:12 PM PDT by pax_et_bonum (“Killer rabbit jokes have a long tradition in medieval literature.“ - Dr. James Wade)
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To: Rockingham

Interesting, I had no idea it was a thing to control.

I will say when you leave the area near the coast, Florida gets “interesting”.


31 posted on 09/17/2023 8:01:37 PM PDT by EEGator
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To: Governor Dinwiddie

He looks pissed off at something.


32 posted on 09/17/2023 8:13:36 PM PDT by Delta 21 (If anyone is treasonous, it is those who call me such.)
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To: EEGator

Not to worry, didn’t think otherwise.


33 posted on 09/17/2023 8:22:07 PM PDT by skr (Righteousness exalteth a nation: but sin is a reproach to any people. - Proverbs 14:34)
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To: skr

Gotcha, just clarifying.


34 posted on 09/17/2023 8:26:23 PM PDT by EEGator
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To: cyclotic; Attention Surplus Disorder
> See Diggerland.com

And stateside in New Jersey: https://diggerlandusa.com/

35 posted on 09/17/2023 8:51:11 PM PDT by dayglored (Strange Women Lying In Ponds Distributing Swords! Arthur Pendragon in 2024)
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To: Attention Surplus Disorder

The problem with your idea is that a person with no experience can do a lot of damage to an expensive machine.

I have a compact tractor with 120 hours on it.
I am still learning.

I hired a guy with an 30m# excavator once.
His business card said 40000 hours experience and counting. He was amazing to watch.


36 posted on 09/17/2023 8:55:06 PM PDT by woodbutcher1963
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To: Attention Surplus Disorder

Cat used to have a deal they called “Day in the Dirt” you could sign up for and go run equipment in a test area somewhere in Arizona. Not any more.


37 posted on 09/17/2023 9:47:46 PM PDT by Sequoyah101 (Procrastination is just a form of defiance)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

A really good operator could have made a much better showing before he got shot. Walmart’s just aren’t that strong.


38 posted on 09/17/2023 9:48:51 PM PDT by Sequoyah101 (Procrastination is just a form of defiance)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

This sorry retarded bastard needs to be locked up and the key thrown away. This maggots who live life like they are in a movie are dangerous to other people. LOCK THEIR GOATSMELLIN’ ASSES UP.


39 posted on 09/17/2023 10:02:35 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer ("Try That In A Small Town" - Jason Aldean rules!)
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To: EEGator
Florida's population variously derives from the migration of Southerners seeking land for agriculture, of Northerners and Midwesterners looking to resettle where winters are warm and land and taxes cheap, or of the foreign born looking for refuge and opportunity. Add in local economic and geographic factors, and the result is that Florida's towns and cities tended to have a wide range of histories and identities.

In the years since WW II, the explosive growth on Florida's coasts often left small towns and cities in the interior with an old and stagnant feel by comparison. Yet even that is passing as the Interstate and other roads knit the state together through better internal communications and massive population growth and development give most of the state a new and shiny feel, or at least a feel of having been renovated, repurposed, and updated.

40 posted on 09/17/2023 10:23:25 PM PDT by Rockingham
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