8/17/08 Captain Jack's Repossession Repo Cruise to PC thru TPC Part 17

[captaincrash]

Six Flaggs cant burn , I love that place have ...the coasters are the best ...just wish the crowd was better ...

Agreed Todd....

I grew up loving the coasters at Magic Mountain. And for most of the time I thought that was a better place to have fun then .... Disneyland... when I was a teen and college. However, on the last occasion we were there when in college - I remember being in line for the Collossas coaster and all at once EVERYONE in the the line was surging in a panic and running away... jumping over the snake line railings and running like it was their life on the line. I joined the exodus as best I could and later found that someone in the line had pulled a gun out. No shots fired - nor did I see it (obviously)... however, out memory of this had changed our impression of the place.

As previously mentioned - we had passes for the water park and visited - the first time in over a decade to visit the place. And the general appearance looked improved - certainly more coasters and such - but also the security, metal detectors, and general crowd looked rougher then I usually prefer.

We still have 6 free passes for Magic Mountian to use before the year ends - and I'm only mildly motivated to use 'em. We have a wonderful time at Disneyland with our passes so I see no need to confuse the issue with our kids. Besides, most of the coasters have height requirements which forbid our young ones from rideing them. I'd get the best use from the passes b going with just my spouse... but we're unlikely to that anytime soon.

 

[micmse2003]

I thought everone could use a good laugh on how stupid people really are!!

The 2007 Darwin Awards

Yes, it's that magical time of year again when the Darwin Awards are bestowed, honoring the least evolved among us.

Here is the glorious winner:

1. When his 38-calibre revolver failed to fire at his intended victim during a hold-up in Long Beach , California , would-be robber James Elliot did something that can only inspire wonder. He peered down the barrel and tried the trigger again. This time it worked.

And now, the honourable mentions:

2. The chef at a hotel in Switzerland lost a finger in a meat-cutting machine and, after a little shopping around, submitted a claim to his insurance company. The company expecting negligence sent out one of its men to have a look for himself. He tried the machine and he also lost a finger. The chef's claim was approved.

3. A man who shovelled snow for an hour to clear a space for his car during a blizzard in Chicago returned with his vehicle to find a woman had taken the space. Understandably, he shot her.

4. After stopping for drinks at an illegal bar, a Zimbabwean bus driver found that the 20 mental patients he was supposed to be transporting from Harare to Bulawayo had escaped. Not wanting to admit his incompetence, the driver went to a nearby bus stop and offered everyone waiting there a free ride. He then delivered the passengers to the mental hospital, telling the staff that the patients were very excitable and prone to bizarre fantasies. The deception wasn't discovered for 3 days.

5. An American teenager was in the hospital recovering from serious head wounds received from an oncoming train. When asked how he received the injuries, the lad told police that he was simply trying to see how close he could get his head to a moving train before he was hit.

6. A man walked into a Louisiana Circle-K, put a $20 bill on the counter, and asked for change. When the clerk opened the cash drawer, the man pulled a gun and asked for all the cash in the register, which the clerk promptly provided. The man took the cash from the clerk and fled, leaving the $20 bill on the counter. The total amount of cash he got from the drawer . . . $15. (If someone points a gun at you and gives you money, is a crime committed?)

7. Seems an Arkansas guy wanted some beer pretty badly. He decided that he'd just throw a cinder block through a liquor store window, grab some booze, and run. So he lifted the cinder block and heaved it over his head at the window. The cinder block bounced back and hit the would-be thief on the head, knocking him unconscious. The liquor store window was made of Plexiglas. The whole event was caught on videotape.

8. As a female shopper exited a New York convenience store, a man grabbed her purse and ran. The clerk called 911 immediately, and the woman was able to give them a detailed description of the snatcher. Within minutes, the police apprehended the snatcher. They put him in the car and drove back to the store. The thief was then taken out of the car and told to stand there for a positive ID. To which he replied, "Yes, officer, that's her. That's the lady I stole the purse from."

9. The Ann Arbor News crime column reported that a man walked into a Burger King in Ypsilanti , Michigan , at 5 A.M., flashed a gun, and

demanded cash. The clerk turned him down because he said he couldn't open the cash register without a food order. When the man ordered onion rings, the clerk said they weren't available for breakfast. The man, frustrated, walked away. (*A 5-STAR STUPIDITY AWARD WINNER)

10. When a man attempted to siphon gasoline from a motor home parked on a Seattle street, he got much more than he bargained for. Police arrived at the scene to find a very sick man curled up next to a motor home near spilled sewage. A police spokesman said that the man admitted to trying to steal gasoline and plugged his siphon hose into the motor home's sewage tank by mistake. The owner of the vehicle declined to press charges saying that it was the best laugh he'd ever had.

In the interest of bettering mankind, please share these with your friends and family ... unless of course one of these individuals by chance is a distant relative or long-lost friend. In that case, be glad they are distant and hope they remain lost.

*** Remember ... they walk among us! ***

 

[LITTLEKID58]

No rolling on the floor alllowed!!! These were pictures taken at my DGD 3rd Birthday party Saturday.

This is a picture of my DGD but she even looks beautiful with black hair.You can see her blonde hair peeking under the wig.

Love it............

 

[captaincrash]

I thought everone could use a good laugh on how stupid people really are!!

The 2007 Darwin Awards

Yes, it's that magical time of year again when the Darwin Awards are bestowed, honoring the least evolved among us.

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In the interest of bettering mankind, please share these with your friends and family ... unless of course one of these individuals by chance is a distant relative or long-lost friend. In that case, be glad they are distant and hope they remain lost.

*** Remember ... they walk among us! ***

Cheryl....

.... you had my sides aching from the chuckling. I just finished listening to The Darwin Awards on CD with my new little toy - that MP3 player I gor recently. But these 2007 awards are a real hoot! They're all so unblievably DUMB... it just gives one pause to shake your head in disbelief.

Off the Darwin award CD - it cited the case of an honorable mention in the case of the body found in the aftermath of a forest fire. This occurred several years ago in the coastal mountians near the ocean. Curious was how the body was found ... this person was wearing a partially melted scuba diving outfit with diving tank! It was noted that there were no lakes near by - until someone proposed that this unfortunate scuba diver must have been scooped up by a fire fighting aircraft making a high speed reloading from the ocean! The Darwin awards cited this might be a case of urban legend as opposed to truth. <wink>

 

[yargrnhoj]

Cheryl....


Off the Darwin award CD - it cited the case of an honorable mention in the case of the body found in the aftermath of a forest fire. This occurred several years ago in the coastal mountians near the ocean. Curious was how the body was found ... this person was wearing a partially melted scuba diving outfit with diving tank! It was noted that there were no lakes near by - until someone proposed that this unfortunate scuba diver must have been scooped up by a fire fighting aircraft making a high speed reloading from the ocean! The Darwin awards cited this might be a case of urban legend as opposed to truth. <wink>

Yes, the Mythbusters showed how this could never really happen.

 

[winotracy]

Yes, the Mythbusters showed how this could never really happen.

Didn't CSI have a similar case once?

 

[tom31b]

And now for your Tuesday morning ponderance, I give you this:

Discuss...​

1) Slow day for M.
2) Some sort of post-Cleveland depression musing

 

[winotracy]

No rolling on the floor alllowed!!! These were pictures taken at my DGD 3rd Birthday party Saturday.

This is a picture of my DGD but she even looks beautiful with black hair.You can see her blonde hair peeking under the wig.

You all are so cute!!

Loved the Darwin awards! My favorite was the guy you tried to set a land speed record by attaching a jet engine to his car. The lengthy description of what happened to the car when the jet engine kicked in and how he impaled himself in the side of a rock cliff when he ran out of road is priceless.

 

[captaincrash]

Yes, the Mythbusters showed how this could never really happen.

I guess it was fairly improbable.... as originally cited... it was an urban legend and suspicious in origin.

OK...

... gotta run. I'm bringing in Chinese take out lunch for one of our daughters' school teachers. A token of appreciation what they do for our kids.​

 

[tom31b]

Yesterday when I read of Governor Schwarzenegger was cited as committing $5 million (+$5500 per hour operated) to secure exclusive use of the 2 DC-10 jet water bombers I paused to think... do we really need to have that? And now - it is obvious that this expense is nothing if not a BARGAIN compared to the loss of property and potential loss of life that could be occurring if we did NOT have these aircraft. Add to that the risk of loss these pilots face by flying low through the fires in trecherous wind conditions with cris crossing fire fighting aircraft and it sounds even more extreme to me. I recently saw "Always" for the first time - even though it's an older movie - and I was amazed by the dramatic depicition of fire fighting pilots flying through the fires. Now I can see certain aspects of the hazards are real - while other aspects may be dramatized.

Think of it this way. A "fast" moving wildfire is usually at 2-3 miles per hour. If you went out for a stroll, that's how fast you walk, so a fire would overtake you fairly quickly. These California wildfires are fed by 60-100 mile per hour winds, so they move exponentially faster (where did all those math geeks go), so you couldn't out-walk the fire.

It is virtually impossible to extinguish the wildfire until you can stop it from spreading. It moves outward in multiple directions (again exponentially ??) so the longer it burns, the larger it becomes and harder it is to contain.

These tankers slow the spread to help the teams on the ground get ahead of the fire and stop the spread.

Also, wildfire firefighting is completely different than residential firefighting. As such, you can't just take a New York City firefighter and put them on a wildfire without instruction and assistance.

I would encourage all of you to keep a bag packed by the door or in your car with medications, a few days clothes, copies of your insurance policies, Tom's digital picture storage device, some cash/credit cards and any special foods needed (e.g. baby formula). Be prepared.

 

[Andrew DEREK UK]

Think of it this way. A "fast" moving wildfire is usually at 2-3 miles per hour. If you went out for a stroll, that's how fast you walk, so a fire would overtake you fairly quickly. These California wildfires are fed by 60-100 mile per hour winds, so they move exponentially faster (where did all those math geeks go), so you couldn't out-walk the fire.

It is virtually impossible to extinguish the wildfire until you can stop it from spreading. It moves outward in multiple directions (again exponentially ??) so the longer it burns, the larger it becomes and harder it is to contain.

These tankers slow the spread to help the teams on the ground get ahead of the fire and stop the spread.

Also, wildfire firefighting is completely different than residential firefighting. As such, you can't just take a New York City firefighter and put them on a wildfire without instruction and assistance.

I would encourage all of you to keep a bag packed by the door or in your car with medications, a few days clothes, copies of your insurance policies, Tom's digital picture storage device, some cash/credit cards and any special foods needed (e.g. baby formula). Be prepared.

They say the winds are hurriciane force, Take care.

 

[bellelinus]

Yes, to everyone in southern California . . .

 

[yargrnhoj]

Didn't CSI have a similar case once?

Don't believe everything you see on CSI. They tracked a guy using his IP address of 359.33.9.234.

It is impossible for any octet of an IP(v4) address to be higher than 2^8-1 or 255.

http://www.uploadgeek.com/uploads456/1/ipv45.png

 

[Andrew DEREK UK]

Don't believe everything you see on CSI. They tracked a guy using his IP address of 359.33.9.234.

It is impossible for any octet of an IP(v4) address to be higher than 2^8-1 or 255.

http://www.uploadgeek.com/uploads456/1/ipv45.png

They say if you get banded from here they block your IP address to stop you having a new DISNAME.

 

[tom31b]

Don't believe everything you see on CSI. They tracked a guy using his IP address of 359.33.9.234.

It is impossible for any octet of an IP(v4) address to be higher than 2^8-1 or 255.

http://www.uploadgeek.com/uploads456/1/ipv45.png

Prosecutors are having difficulty getting convictions in relatively simple cases because the juries expect them to introduce evidence from sophisticated (or non-existent) technology that is featured on NCIS, CSI, etc. alphabet shows. The jurors expect this evidence and the defense attorneys are smart enough to plant seeds "why didn't you send the blood out to a lab for dna analysis and cross matching...."

 

[micmse2003]

Yes, to everyone in southern California . . .

And some prayers would not hurt either.

 

[Downrivermama]

No rolling on the floor alllowed!!! These were pictures taken at my DGD 3rd Birthday party Saturday.

This is a picture of my DGD but she even looks beautiful with black hair.You can see her blonde hair peeking under the wig.

My Grandma & Grandpa, what huge hands you have!!
You two are soooooo cute! I bet your granddaughter loved it.

 

[micmse2003]

Thanks for the photos guys! They were great

Congrats on the Paula!!!

I have 18 more days til I get cable hhok-up. Maybe then I can help wenches get a pirate.

 

[PBader]

After three trips to the post office in the town next to us, our Pirate Mickey Christmas Tree ornament finally arrived. The company put the wrong zip code on the package and the package kept getting sent back to the regional post office.

Instead of using the ornament for the tree, we are going to leave it sit on our entertainment center next to the Captain Mickey figurine we received a few months ago.

Andy, mine came the other day too!! He is really cute.....smaller than I thought he'd be.........but cute!

 

[GoofyontheHiSeas]

Update- winds have died down today, 15-20mph range instead of the 40-50 the last couple of days. Humidity is still around 5% and it is very warm here today 90+.
Below is the latest fire map with the red areas indicating active fires yellow areas that have burned.

And the NASA photo of the smoke. So far today the wind is blowing the other day but every afternoon it shifts and we get inundated.