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Random Thoughts 18: The Year of Fire

cycloner29 said:
Doesn’t matter what direction you say, they always seem to move/turn in that direction.

Last summer a guy walking on the right side of the path, after I loudly addressed my presence, didn’t do anything, I keep saying loudly I was there and still nothing. All of the sudden he just turned to his left and I came within a fraction of an inch of hitting him head on. I was able to literally jump my bike to the side. He was very apologetic but yeah the head phone issue is bad. I even play music on my cell phone kinda loud to help people know there is someone around.

Don’t get me started on the 3 wide walk&chat people.
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A lot of times with the fat tire I just preemptively go off the trail if people aren't paying attention and ignoring my calls. But that becomes a lot more hairy when riding the road bike. Grass and packed gravel is no big deal but there are a lot of places on the trails I frequent where you might not want to do that with the road bike because of terrain, surfaces or obstacles.
 
CycloneRulzzz said:
My mom is going tomorrow to the police. She too ticked off to go up today. She found a couple of others bags of stuff hidden along the basement stairs. So she was probably here longer than I thought before I got here. Sure now she probably got away with some stuff.
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Stop me if you have already heard this story...

Mrs. Velo came home from work one day and left the garage door open because she was going to be leaving to pick up a kid from school in just a few minutes. When she went back out to the garage 5-10 minutes later she saw movement behind the car. She found a guy in our garage who had been rummaging around. She asked him what he was doing in our garage. He made up some lame excuse about looking for <some random name>. She told him that he didn't live here and even if he did he didn't have any business in the garage and called him a degenerate. He took offense and said he hadn't stolen anything (yet). She hollered for me to come outside and I saw him get in a car with a driver waiting in it and drive away.

We called the police and gave a description of the car and driver. We thought the police wouldn't do anything about it but they sent a couple of squads into the neighborhood and asked neighbors if they had doorbell camera footage. They said the car fit the description of a car that had been stolen the day before.

A day or so later they showed Mrs. Velo some photos of guys and she IDed him. They had caught him.

No guarantee that you will get that response from the police but it is nice to know that they sometimes spend resources even on petty theft. This one should be easy for them since you IDed the person, knowing who she was. There isn't a lot of leg work for them to do.

Push the issue.
 
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My 88 year old mom passed away Sunday night, only 32 days after being diagnosed with stage 4 cancer. The CNA's and staff who worked at the care center where she stayed, and the hospice people who helped my mother navigate her last few days were all amazing people. It takes truly special people to be able to do that job, and we were grateful for them.
 
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VeloClone said:
You will forever watch the original differently whenever PSH and JG interact.

It all starts to make sense...
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VeloClone said:
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You left her with Dusty, what's the matter with you?

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VeloClone said:
You left her with Dusty, what's the matter with you?

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VeloClone said:
Stop me if you have already heard this story...

Mrs. Velo came home from work one day and left the garage door open because she was going to be leaving to pick up a kid from school in just a few minutes. When she went back out to the garage 5-10 minutes later she saw movement behind the car. She found a guy in our garage who had been rummaging around. She asked him what he was doing in our garage. He made up some lame excuse about looking for <some random name>. She told him that he didn't live here and even if he did he didn't have any business in the garage and called him a degenerate. He took offense and said he hadn't stolen anything (yet). She hollered for me to come outside and I saw him get in a car with a driver waiting in it and drive away.

We called the police and gave a description of the car and driver. We thought the police wouldn't do anything about it but they sent a couple of squads into the neighborhood and asked neighbors if they had doorbell camera footage. They said the car fit the description of a car that had been stolen the day before.

A day or so later they showed Mrs. Velo some photos of guys and she IDed him. They had caught him.

No guarantee that you will get that response from the police but it is nice to know that they sometimes spend resources even on petty theft. This one should be easy for them since you IDed the person, knowing who she was. There isn't a lot of leg work for them to do.

Push the issue.
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It's the estranged daughter of our next door neighbor. I told her about how I should of kept her here, but she said I didn't want me to because of making waves with the neighbors. I should of at the least gotten pictures and video.
 
Die4Cy said:
My 88 year old mom passed away Sunday night, only 32 days after being diagnosed with stage 4 cancer. The CNA's and staff who worked at the care center where she stayed, and the hospice people who helped my mother navigate her last few days were all amazing people. It takes truly special people to be able to do that job, and we were grateful for them.
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It takes special people to do this job.
 
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VeloClone said:
Stop me if you have already heard this story...

Mrs. Velo came home from work one day and left the garage door open because she was going to be leaving to pick up a kid from school in just a few minutes. When she went back out to the garage 5-10 minutes later she saw movement behind the car. She found a guy in our garage who had been rummaging around. She asked him what he was doing in our garage. He made up some lame excuse about looking for <some random name>. She told him that he didn't live here and even if he did he didn't have any business in the garage and called him a degenerate. He took offense and said he hadn't stolen anything (yet). She hollered for me to come outside and I saw him get in a car with a driver waiting in it and drive away.

We called the police and gave a description of the car and driver. We thought the police wouldn't do anything about it but they sent a couple of squads into the neighborhood and asked neighbors if they had doorbell camera footage. They said the car fit the description of a car that had been stolen the day before.

A day or so later they showed Mrs. Velo some photos of guys and she IDed him. They had caught him.

No guarantee that you will get that response from the police but it is nice to know that they sometimes spend resources even on petty theft. This one should be easy for them since you IDed the person, knowing who she was. There isn't a lot of leg work for them to do.

Push the issue.
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I would never do it, but they say they used to shoot horse thieves.

I don't carry, and don't own a handgun, but if I did, was carrying, and found someone in my garage, I would certainly show my piece, and maybe shoot a couple of rounds into the ground to scare them the hell away.
 
My mom showed me where the fitbit app measures heart rate and probably at the time I pulled into the driveway sunday I was at a high of 148.
 
VeloClone said:
I'm going with Jami Gertz and Phillip Seymour Hoffman's characters' daughter...
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Thanks, I hate it.

DEJ's character has been given a name on imdb, which I know is unreliable, of Kate Cooper, which isn't Harding, or Davis (Dusty), or Reeves (Melissa), so the daughter theory is out. I'm guessing she's a meteorology student at Muskogee State College continuing Bill and Jo's work.
 
CycloneRulzzz said:
My mom showed me where the fitbit app measures heart rate and probably at the time I pulled into the driveway sunday I was at a high of 148.
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My new neighbors have moved several times, because thier daughter finds them and breaks into house their house and steals from them. They travel a lot and have installed new security system. They left us a list of all the people who would be taking care of house on thier last trip with a description of thier csrs so we could keep an eye on the house.
 
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t-noah said:
I would never do it, but they say they used to shoot horse thieves.

I don't carry, and don't own a handgun, but if I did, was carrying, and found someone in my garage, I would certainly show my piece, and maybe shoot a couple of rounds into the ground to scare them the hell away.
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I grabbed a knife when some clown was banging on my window. Scared the guy off but he was very close and would've gotten the blade if he didn't run away.

Was probably just a dumb kid, but in this world today there's no room to **** with a family like that.

If you're in my garage there's not going to be a lot of thought before I run at you. It's my rivertown blood. I can't help it.
 
cycloner29 said:
Doesn’t matter what direction you say, they always seem to move/turn in that direction.

Last summer a guy walking on the right side of the path, after I loudly addressed my presence, didn’t do anything, I keep saying loudly I was there and still nothing. All of the sudden he just turned to his left and I came within a fraction of an inch of hitting him head on. I was able to literally jump my bike to the side. He was very apologetic but yeah the head phone issue is bad. I even play music on my cell phone kinda loud to help people know there is someone around.

Don’t get me started on the 3 wide walk&chat people.
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The bolded is known here as the state fair walk.
 
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KnappShack said:
I grabbed a knife when some clown was banging on my window. Scared the guy off but he was very close and would've gotten the blade if he didn't run away.

Was probably just a dumb kid, but in this world today there's no room to **** with a family like that.

If you're in my garage there's not going to be a lot of thought before I run at you. It's my rivertown blood. I can't help it.
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Understood.

I'm not shooting anybody to kill, unless it's very threatening life or death. Just not something I would want to do.
 
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