In reply to Snowdoggie (Forum Supporter) :
Dude, glad you and the dogs are ok. I think you win this thread. Watched a tree limb fall off the oak in my front yard and take out the back window of my work hooptie Saturday morning. Covered by insurance, but the deductible is probably worth more than the car at this point.. At least it didn't hit my truck.
Mr_Asa said:In reply to Snowdoggie (Forum Supporter) :
My friend, if this is all a minor rant I'd hate to see what would be a major rant
Glad you and the pups are ok
Did I tell you about the time my mother died of COVID after getting infected by a nursing home employee a few years ago. Then two of my dogs died two weeks and a month later?
The weather has been a total clusterberk in Dallas. Nothing but rain, high winds, tornados and flooding. Power outages are in the hundreds of thousands. Trees breaking everywhere. 911 takes messages. Better not have a heart attack and need an ambulance.
And just when you thought it was over it starts all over again. When I woke up this morning it was raining.
jimbob_racing said:In reply to Snowdoggie (Forum Supporter) :
Wow. That's some messed up E36 M3. Where are people's manners and compassion? I wish that I was closer so I could offer some help.
Don't get me started on the house flippers around here. One of them conned a sweet little old lady out of the house that she and her late husband lived in for years for $37,000 when comperable houses on the street were selling for $250,000. The house at the end of the block has been flipped from one investor to another for six years while it sat empty. The investors kept dumping money into it until they got the price over $300,000 and nobody but another cash buyer could get it because it is too overpriced for a mortgage. This is a working class neighborhood full of 1,000 square foot brick homes built after World War II. These are NOT mini-mansions.
The real estate people here have gone crazy.
My race car needs a new windshield
NickD said:Some berkeleying scumbag rode up on a bike, stole my camera and my hat out of my car, and rode out of the parking lot at my work. In broad daylight. At 8:30 in the morning. Un-berkeleying-real. The hat is whatever, although the fact that he put his old hat in my car and rode off wearing my Cleetus Macfarland hat is pretty wild, but the $800 camera with 2 years of photos from my adventures is what really frosts my pumpkin.
Found the camera listed on marketplace, had my tripod mount on it and everything, for $150. Shoulda just gone and bought it back for that little, but instead tried to do the right thing and the safe thing and called the police and told them the guy's name and location, gave them the serial number for my camera and told them what photos would be on the memory card. Aaaaand they did nothing and now the listing has been removed from Facebook.
In reply to NickD :
Several years ago my car was broken into and some items stolen. I did the same as you; found the items on Craigslist (okay maybe quite a few years ago), gave info and serial numbers to police, aaaaaaand nothing. Infuriating. Few things irritate me more than theft and vandalism.
In reply to budget_bandit :
I'll bet they'd suddenly become interested if someone met up to sell those items and got their ass savagely beaten.
In reply to Appleseed :
They would, and they'd take the person who beat the thieves ass in for assault and leave the non felony level theft amount dickhead to continue doing his thing.
Useless berkeleying tax collectors with badges.
In reply to RevRico :
Plus, the dickhead would sue you for damages.
It ain't worth it.
In reply to budget_bandit :
What was really frustrating was that the sheriff's were really interested when they came and made the initial report (my boss called the police and they dispatched a sheriff) and I gave her as much information as I could and she seemed really fired up about handling it. Then, when I discovered the ad, I tried to call the sheriff's office, but their office hours are only 8-4:30 and you can't get ahold of it after that. My boss had gotten her e-mail address when sending her the camera footage, so we e-mailed her the ad, and then I called Rome PD and told them everything and just got a "Yeah, we'll send someone over" and then never heard from them. Then, a sheriff showed up at my house and was like "Deputy so-and-so was off-duty but got the e-mail and asked me to come out and follow up" and I gave him all the info and he was otherwise pretty helpful, but by that time the listing removed, although I had screenshots of it all. I'm hoping even if the Rome PD doesn't do anything, the sheriffs might follow up at least, since they seemed a bit more on-the-ball.
In reply to budget_bandit :
What was really frustrating was that the sheriff's were really interested when they came and made the initial report (my boss called the police and they dispatched a sheriff) and I gave her as much information as I could and she seemed really fired up about handling it. Then, when I discovered the ad, I tried to call the sheriff's office, but their office hours are only 8-4:30 and you can't get ahold of it after that. My boss had gotten her e-mail address when sending her the camera footage, so we e-mailed her the ad, and then I called Rome PD and told them everything and just got a "Yeah, we'll send someone over" and then never heard from them. Then, a sheriff showed up at my house and was like "Deputy so-and-so was off-duty but got the e-mail and asked me to come out and follow up" and I gave him all the info and he was otherwise pretty helpful, but by that time the listing removed, although I had screenshots of it all. I'm hoping even if the Rome PD doesn't do anything, the sheriffs might follow up at least, since they seemed a bit more on-the-ball.
The only two things that really made me bristle with the sheriff's was, when I showed the receipt for the camera to the first sheriff she said "It's only $800, are you sure you want to pursue this?" My tempered response was "Well, I have no tolerance for this kind of stuff." But I was thinking "Only $800, that's more than I make most weeks."
Then when the second sheriff was at my house he looked over at my Impala and went "Your temporary inspection is expired on that car." Is that really pursuant to what we're discussing? And yes, I know the temporary inspection is expired, because I've put 500 miles on the sonuvabitch and it still hasn't set one of the last two monitors it needs to pass.
In reply to NickD :
The difference being, the inspection expiration is a violation of the state, the theft is a personal crime. The police make zero money chasing down thieves, but they can write some nice tickets for automobile registration infractions.
In reply to NickD :
i would have been seeing red at the $800 comment. I've definitely paid more than $800 in taxes to fund that useless department, so you're damned right I want my E36M3 back.
In reply to volvoclearinghouse :
Well, fortunately once I said I was trying to set OBD-II monitors, he went "I was a mechanic, I get it."
And then after he left, I noticed that the Impala had also blown out a power steering cooler hose literally as I pulled in the driveway. So add that to yesterday's tribulations.
I'm starting to realize why, after working for GM for 12.5 years, I've never owned a GM product. I really don't like this Impala so far, in the three weeks I've owned it.
RevRico said:Useless berkeleying tax collectors with badges.
They don't pursue property crimes because there is no money in it. A cop looking for a thief brings in no funds. A cop writing traffic citations pays his salary.
The only reason clearance for murders is above 50% is the bad press that goes with them.
I have spent the last 13 months running development on some parts that are culminating for a delivery in late August. It's been a ton of work the whole way through.
Yesterday, leadership changed direction completely, with zero change to our August delivery. We cannot meet that, likely won't even have the paperwork done at that point. Unbelievably frustrating.
A few weeks ago I had to replace our garbage disposal after the old one finally died. I was relatively easy since I bought the updated version of the same model, so all I had to do was transfer the wiring and swap them out.
Unfortunately it seems that I didn't get the flange between the disposal and sink seated quite properly because as I was running the water for a good while this morning I saw a HUGE puddle of water at my feet and traced it back to coming from the top of the disposal. So I had to spent half an hour (in the middle of the workday) cleaning up the water and contorting myself under the sink to get it adjusted so it wouldn't leak.
EDIT: *sigh* And it apparently is still not sealing properly... so I'm going to have to just pull the whole disposal out after work and see if I can figure out the problem.
This is now $279.48 worth of groceries, apparently.
In reply to volvoclearinghouse :
I posted something about that a while back.
I made a very rare appearance in the grocery store this morning to get a few things. The woman in front of me had what looked like a normal amount of groceries for a small family. It came to $370. Once she was gone I asked the cashier if that was normal. She said yes, then told me about a woman this morning with a couple of kids who opted for all the fancy organic stuff, and her bill was $700.
Ouch.
In reply to Peabody :
A good chunk of what's in those bags is organic, or at the very least minimally processed. So I guess it could be worse. I do pretty much the same grocery run every week, for our family of 4. Back before the stupid times, that would have been less than a $200 basket of food. And, there wasn't a single piece of fruit in there (our berry bushes are putting out right now, so we have way more fruit than we can eat at present) nor any eggs (as we have chickens) and the only meat is some chicken thighs, ground turkey, and turkey lunch meat.
Yeah, food is a berkeleying disaster.
No one on the planet cares less about doing their job than a cop looking into a property crime. As others have said, they're revenuers above all else.
I was a kid and my dad and uncle had soda routes. One afternoon my uncle's truck got stolen. There was a group going around so he and my dad had an idea where to look for it. They found it and called the cops. PD's advice was to contact the insurance company and consider it lost. If they really wanted to they could wait until it was empty and see where they dump it but if things went bad PD may not come to help because they have a lot to do.
Twenty or so years later, I impounded a car for the towing company I worked at. Unloaded the car, locked the car and truck in the yard. The next morning both are gone. Cops come out, take a report. This time cops take a slight interest because my boss spends a lot of money in the community. Find out the car's owner flips a lot of Maximas. They want to talk to him because they deduce he may have stolen his car back to rebuild one of the many others the see at his property. Once the find he's related to a detective he's clear. My boss mistakenly questioned this, and they pick me up for stealing the truck and car. The detectives spend a copy hours giving me scenarios and motives that I could agree to so we can all go home. Being an shiny happy person I just keep asking to be charged or let go until my boss's lawyer shows up to get me out.
I move upstate and my house gets broken into. They take a bunch of my Lionel trains and Jodi's jewelry box. Local sheriff takes a report. A couple weeks later Jodi sees my train on Craigslist at a pawn shop. We call the sheriff back thinking they'd be interested. They weren't, that apparently only happens on tv.
ACVWs are up to where 911s were ten years ago.
Some ACVWs are up to where 911s are NOW.
Every time I drive one I realize how crappy they are. But they look cool!
This is what my hotel room is like right now. The a/c runs almost constantly because I have it set to 70°F. If not, it turns into a swamp in here. You can feel the warm moist air pouring in through the a/c unit when it's not running.
The bedding and carpet are damp to the touch. This is the worst hotel I've ever stayed at.
In reply to stanger_mussle (Supported by GRM undergarments) :
I don't know where you are, but yesterday I had to turn the heat on in my car because the windshield was fogging up. On the outside.
Turning the A/C to defrost just made it worse, of course.
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