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Yep. You're right.

See: The Tampa City Council voted 4-2 to confirm O'Connor, whose appointment by Tampa Mayor Jane Castor met with some opposition.

O'Connor, 51, who retired as assistant chief in 2016, had been fired from the department in 1996 after she was arrested after her future husband was stopped for drunken driving.

O'Connor kicked the windows of a patrol car and punched a deputy. She pleaded no contest to misdemeanor charges of battery and obstruction. She was fired, then later reinstated.

2 Thessalonians 2.

I'm more surprised the deputy who stopped her didn't simply turn off the camera, then let her go. Instead the footage was released to the public.

As someone wrote above, there might be some friction between the county and the city and the deputy decided to make an example of her.

She did. From the article:

Castor (Tampa Mayor) tweeted that she had asked for O’Connor’s resignation and now "Assistant Chief Lee Bercaw will serve as acting chief while a comprehensive national search is conducted" for her replacement.

V_TWIN wrote: Her action in resigning seems a bit draconian.

She was asked to resign by the Mayor. IOW, she was fired. But, because she was asked to resign and complied, she can tell the next department that she quit of her own accord. Pretty slippery.

Should be called, Jeremy Dim-witte

I lived in an HOA-controlled development that was formed in 1969. I lived there from 2015 through 2022.

The board was very lenient and fair in how they dealt with the homeowners on issues like tree removal, repaints, remodels, etc.

What a stupid line to include in this article.

How often do peace officers encounter bear dens?

How often do peace officers have a bear suddenly appear 10 feet away, then charge them at full speed?

In the 1930s-1940s it was musicals and gangster movies soaking the movie production dollars.

In the 1950s it was westerns and biblical epics.

In the 1960s it was war movies.

In the 1970s it was character studies.

YVW.

I watched the video again and the gasoline fuel tank is pressurized to about 65-70 psi. (Yikes!)

At that pressure any leak would be instantly vaporized and would probably turn into a pretty good size fireball should there be a spark.

In the case of steam cars, they use gasoline to fire the burner that heats the water to make the steam.

If you watch his older video on the White Steam Car, the one he was working on when he got burned, he says that the steam in that system gets to 600°-700°.

In fact, in that video he jokes about dangerous the fire system is on that car due to how much gasoline it leaks while getting the burner going.

See: 1907 White Steam Car, 30 Hp - Jay Leno's Garage

Look at his left hand.

Yeah.

Try that excuse with GMAC and see how far you get having them forgive your auto loan debt.

In our case, Arctic Blast Effect down from Canada.

But, powder snow is powder snow.

Anyone who's skied in fluffy powder snow understands the difference.

We got about 5" of snow last night. Fluffy powder. I was able to use my leaf blower to clean off my sidewalk and driveway. Took about 15 minutes.

2 Thessalonians 2

1 Now, brethren, concerning the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our gathering together to Him, we ask you,

2 not to be soon shaken in mind or troubled, either by spirit or by word or by letter, as if from us, as though the day of Christ had come.

3 Let no one deceive you by any means; for that Day will not come unless the falling away comes first, and the man of sin is revealed, the son of perdition,

4 who opposes and exalts himself above all that is called God or that is worshiped, so that he sits as God in the temple of God, showing himself that he is God.

5 Do you not remember that when I was still with you I told you these things?

6 And now you know what is restraining, that he may be revealed in his own time.

7 For the mystery of lawlessness is already at work; only He who now restrains will do so until He is taken out of the way.

8 And then the lawless one will be revealed, whom the Lord will consume with the breath of His mouth and destroy with the brightness of His coming.

9 The coming of the lawless one is according to the working of Satan, with all power, signs, and lying wonders,

10 and with all unrighteous deception among those who perish, because they did not receive the love of the truth, that they might be saved.

11 And for this reason God will send them strong delusion, that they should believe the lie,

12 that they all may be condemned who did not believe the truth but had pleasure in unrighteousness.

Yay! Someone gets the joke. Everyone else?

(In all fairness only long-time programmers would get the joke)

And, if Albertsons goes out of business while the AGs are reviewing the merger, then...

What?

Her character's name was Troi, not Troy.

Kind of hard to take an article seriously when they make this kind of bone-headed error.

Not so fast, pardner.

See my post #17.

A fellow in Pensacola, FL sold three homemade shotguns he called, "Boom Stick 1776" to the PPD at their buyback. Once he demonstrated they were functional, they paid him $200 apiece.

Because the buyback was "No Questions Asked" they couldn't charge him will illegally manufacturing to resale.

Needless to say, the PPD was not amused.