Posted on 12/13/2006 7:59:06 AM PST by blam
I'll just add you to the list of folks that get annoyed by clarity and the truth.
I don't get annoyed by clarity and truth. I do get annoyed by snide and condencending remarks when they are unwarranted.
So, I guess the moral to the whole story is if you are going to have hidden compartments in your truck, don’t carry cash, but fill them with really angry yellow jackets or bald head hornets. And spring load the top so once removed, no getting it back on.
In Volusia County, Florida, a few years ago(and maybe still) the police were targeting Cadillacs and Continentals with elderly drivers and Yankee plates because that category cincluded a certain number of people who put their life savings into cash to go to Florida and retire in a condominium. Police are legally authorized to confiscate ANY cash found in any stop. The owner does not get it back unless he has some powerful political connections. I understand that this has been upheld by the USSC. Also all or almost all $100 bills that have been in circulation have sufficient traces of cocaine that drug hounds will “alert.” Other bills are also likely to be so tainted by their contact with the 100s.
There is no minimum. Police don’t generally bother with smaller amounts but may legally confiscate any cash they find, no matter what the situation.
and carrying cash. But there seems to not even be a question of "guilt" when it comes to cash. The police(any variety") are empowered to seize any cash they find on the assumption that it might have been used at some point by someone in an illegal transaction.
I resisted credit cards for many years and refused to own one. I now use a card for nearly all purchases and never have more than $20 or so cash on me, enough to buy coffee and such. That amount will probably decrease as I notice that many coffeeshops and diners have card scanners now and the "$5 minimum purchase" for credit signs are not there any more.
Doesn't. Won't.
My buddy, a one-time handyman who bought a failing appliance repair shop has made it the biggest such shop in the area and spends most of his own time fixing $12,000 refrigerators and such up to a hundred miles ore sometimes a lot more, east or west from here in places like St George Island. He makes a better living than some top execs hereabouts.
The accepted spelling is fuc*
That's hilarious. Wouldn't mind that kind of job myself. By the way, this is the first time I have had someone reply to a post of mine from two and a half years in the past. Or have I just entered a time warp?
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