See the 'Star of India,' decades after it was nabbed in a heist [NYC]

https://www.livescience.com ^ | JUNE 11, 2021 | By Mindy Weisberger - Senior Writer

[Tax-chick]

That story has a number of iterations in different environments.

The Wall Street Journal has reported on recent driving-death statistics that indicate that more deranged fools are out on the roads these days.

[Monkey Face]

Good Friday morning.

It’s gray and dismal here, and I need to go out in it later on. :o|

[ArGee]

Perhaps more people out on the roads are becoming deranged fools. The permission people think they have for being rude and abusive on-line might be translating into real life.

[JHL]

CONGRATULATIONS! “Star of India” Post has been selected by the Guinness Book of World Records for the longest off-topic thread in the history of Free Republic!

[Red Badger]

I am truly humbled.........😜

[ArGee]

Does somebody want to tell him about breaking the internet?

[Monkey Face]

Nah. That’s Nicknamedbob’s job...although JHL can be referred to Bob’s home page.

This thread is now in the hands of the Undead thread, JHL! We take whatever thread we want and mangle it until we find another that suits our purpose.

We couldntadunit without you Red Badger! Thanks again!
;o])

[Tax-chick]

Nah, let’s keep it a secret.

Hanging at the library briefly, but it’s time to resume the James Driving Adventure. We’re going to Publix next.

[Monkey Face]

I’m off to Walgreen’s and then the library, and it’s still ugly out. Warm and moist. I guess I’d better get used to it...

[Tax-chick]

We got some fried chicken at Publix, ate it at a picnic table on their sidewalk, then went to Nothing Bundt Cakes to get the “bundtlets” I ordered for the choir, and now we have arrived at home in one piece.

We ran into some friends at the library, which was an unexpected bonus.

[Monkey Face]

I picked up the prescription, then went to the bank to get quarters for laundry then went to the library and now I’m in a gray lint phase.

I want some fried chicken or a pizza or something else, but it looks like I forgot to buy food again and will have some chicken “salad” on crackers after I have my pills. :o|

Where is my brain? Anybody?

[ArGee]

We ran into some friends at the library, which was an unexpected bonus.

"Ran into" as in "the unpleasant outcome of a driving adventure" or "ran into" as in "met"?

[Monkey Face]

I’m glad you asked that question because I sure didn’t want to!

[Tax-chick]

Jolly jokers. Encountered indoors.

[Monkey Face]

I have my own Driving Adventures on the way to and from Walmart. This week, I decided to take the back way in and it was still mostly dark, but getting light behind me. I rounded a curve only to be met with a large pickup truck with halogen headlights, right in my eyes. I couldn’t see the side of the road, but it was a solid embankment so I wouldn’t have gone over the cliff.

Still, it wasn’t as much fun as it could have been. You know — like, Event Free?

[Tax-chick]

I feel much safer in the van than in a smaller car. There are a lot of big pickups around here, too.

[Monkey Face]

I’ve always liked bigger vehicles but this one was given to me at a time when I was in desperate need, and it’s given me good service for the most part in the almost eight years I’ve had it.

I’ll miss it when I leave, but I won’t complain. It’s fairly high off the ground, actually, but when one of those massive pickup trucks is coming the other way, then yes, I feel a little puny.

[Monkey Face]

And now, it’s time for me to toddle down the hall. Later...

[Tax-chick]

I hope you have a good night!

[Silentgypsy]

Why, thank you very much!