Posted on 12/28/2011 1:46:20 PM PST by cableguymn
It's been building.. No one opens doors for anyone any more, thank yous are few and far between. But today.. I am just blown away.
I am sitting in my van, enjoying some white castle while reading FR.
I hear a loud BANG on the side of my van. Look over and out the passenger window to see a 20 something kid who looks like he is a LONG way away from the beach. We lock eyes. He had banged his door in to the side of my van.. So I wait for him to walk around to the drivers side of my van.
and wait..
I look in my rear view mirror. He's headed for the door to the restaurant.
I open my door, and ask "hey, aren't you going to at least say sorry?!?!?"
"it's just a little paint man, my car is ok!"
(WTF!!)
It's a old work van, one more door ding is not going to kill me or it. However, his statement just floored me!
And yes, his stuffed Honda Civic had a Zero bumper sticker on it. Both 08 and 12.
On second thought, I like the hot pepper (habanero)on the door handle idea...hard to drive with your eyes puffed up like a blowfish.
Coming from a complete stranger such as yourself who's opinion doesn't mean jack shit to me, why thank you!
Jackass.
Funniest Bumper Sticker ever:
Picture of Obummer. Text reads: Does this Ass make my truck look bigger?
GMTA. I had an old lady ding my door rather badly and proclaim, “That’s YOUR fancy car, not mine, sweetheart.”
Time for some “Minnesota Nice”.
Take a picture of his car and license, and report him for hit and run.
If the cop gets there before he leaves, he “got some ‘splaining to do.” If not, he gets to do the ‘splaining to his insurance company.
Of course that presumes you have time to spend reading even more FR.
Yesterday:
Just at the drugstore to make a small purchase. Two teenagers in front of me in the check-out. Clerk requires them to open their backpacks for inspection. Minor objection by the teenagers, but they comply. Clerk says it is to check they don’t have any alcohol in their bags! They check out and leave. I am next and am so upset by the violation of those kids rights I am speechless. Get to the car and can’t drive away...I have to say something. I go back inside and speak with the floor manager. Who I know on sight. She is just as surprised as I am and reiterates the clerk can’t do that.
I hope the matter gets taken care of. There is a standard retail protocol for stopping shoplifters, which the clerk and store did not follow, plus these teenager’s bags were clean. While they were long gone as the rest of the story went down, if we dont’ stand up for our Rights or the Rights of others then we just give them away.
Save your gas.
A quick check to make sure the coast is clear, then a regular pair of pliers to pop out all his valve stems.
You got it right. Coax cable depends on high resistance/impedance between two conductive shells to permit waves of many (high) frequency to propagate at the same time. The pin cuts the resistance to nearly nothing...
thats where the potato-potato sound comes from...
No violation of Constitutional rights occurred whatsoever. It is surprising how little we actually know of what "rights" actually are.
BTW these pranks would be a lot less problem later before a judge than some I’ve read here, were this to become a docket number down the line..
Unbelievable!! I’m sorry you had to experience that.
Note: there are two brake circuits, so a pin hole in one screws up one. Normally design requires a single circuit to meet brake requirements.
In large commercial trucks and trains, brakes are on, unless air pressure turns them off. a pin hole would prevent the vehicle from moving, thus the system is ‘fail-safe’ in addition to having two circuits. I kind of like the truck approach better, but there is a slight delay for the ‘reduced air’ signal to propagate to the brake. When driving, commercial drivers have to antici....pate.
I think you mean antagonist...
Eh... Leatherman plier meets tire air valve. Leatherman for the win.
No more air in tire, too. Plus, no fingerprints.
Sorry, I would differ with you. A person being asked to have their personal affects inspected in the store is being detained for shoplifting. This is where it gets a little odd...if the boys had been detained for saying No and the police called...the store would need to present probable cause.
There is a distinct reason for the retail shoplifting protocol.
http://www.crimedoctor.com/shoplifting2.htm
Amazing, I posted the same idea, only using a Leatherman plier to pull it out.
Okay, I’m not saying I ever did this but I will let you in on an old Baltimore “love message”. Many people in Baltimore will carry sugar in their cars. When something like you described occurs, they will place some of the sugar in a cup and relieve themselves in that cup. The “tinkle” dissolves the sugar. The sugar/tinkle mixture is then placed on the windshield and the handle of the car door. FROM WHAT I AM TOLD, this is best done in the Winter since the liquid freezes. In order to clean up the sugar, they actually have to scrape it off. As soon as the mixture comes back to room temperature... well, they know it wasn’t sugar and water. (I know some very passive-aggressive people with interesting ideas, don’t I ?!)
Should have called the cops and reported a hit and run. That’ve fixed him but good. Law requires drivers to exchange or leave their info before departing. In FL even paint transfer is considered proof of hitting the other vehicle.
It would have been a LOL disruption for his meal -or more likely dish washing shift.
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