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Figgy1

Figgy1

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StarWarsGirl said:
So my fat cat learned how to open the cabinet where we keep her food and chewed through the bag of food. That cabinet is now rubber banded shut. 🤦‍♀️
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Lilofan

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donaldtoo said:
Watchin’ a ResortTV1 live stream and the Liberty Belle is broken down directly across from the TSI rafts. They’re now using the TSI rafts to evacuate the Liberty Belle.
Never seen or heard of this before.
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I just saw it too. Guests are on the side of the boat being crammed into a barge raft , still on the water , not yet back on land. Memories to take back home. Lucky its only 79 degrees in Orlando
 
Songbird76

Songbird76

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donaldtoo said:
Wow. Never heard of a loaded gun going off in a truck window rack here. Ever. Also, I don’t know what year you graduated from HS, but, I’m pretty sure it was well after I did.
What I posted was 100% true. Not one single gun incident over all those years.
However, a senior dude did ride his dirt bike through our student center naked with body paint on that said “Sansom Sucks” (our vice principal) on his back, and wasn’t allowed to walk for graduation in ‘79 (the year before I graduated)…!!!!! :hilarious:
And, I’ve posted about this before…
Two dudes in my sophomore PE class were not getting along, to the point where the coach (Coach Stewart - also my Drivers Ed teacher) had had enough. He stopped what we were doing and grabbed two sets of boxing gloves from his office. He marched us all way back on school property behind the baseball field and had them go at it until they were too tired to keep beating the crap outta’ each other.
Both drove pickups with full gun racks (ones last name was Tungate, and I can’t remember the other), and there was never an incident. Never.
Those two dudes even became friends afterwards.
I’m not sure what has happened in between, but, it sure as hell ain’t good.
I was around guns from a very early age. I was taught to never point a gun at anything you didn’t intend to kill. And killing another human being was never an option, unless it was in totally obvious self defense.
Fortunately, to this point anyway, I’ve never had that be the case.
I have theories on why everything has gone off the hinges since, but, my ol’ bad a$$ isn’t goin’ into that here.
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Yeah, I graduated in the 90s,so it was definitely after you. But I also grew up in an area where the kids in my school were extremely privileged. The majority had parents who worked at the mines, and the mines paid really well, so while I had to buy my own clothes or wear second hand, most of them were wearing brand name clothing, their parents bought them all cars, etc. They were all pretty spoiled and not used to having to take responsibility for anything, so that may have had something to do with it. The family whose gun went off in the truck had been involved in SOOOO many lawsuits. The mom tried to sue like a dozen different people in town, mostly for stuff her family did, like the boys were driving recklessly and the local sheriff ticketed them and she tried to sue him for harassing her babies. She tried to sue a substitute teacher because the youngest boy was injured and was excused from PE, but was disrupting the class, so the sub told him he could either sit there and be quiet or he could come participate, his choice. He chose to participate and then mom got mad that the sub "made him" participate when he wasn't supped to. She tried to sue my brother because her oldest was being a jerk and poured soda all over my brother's script at play practice, he shook a ladder that I was sitting on for a particular scene, he stole the volleyball my brother had brought for when he wasn't in a scene. My brother ran after him to get it back and the kid tried to run out the front doors, but the front doors had been pegged shut and they weren't supposed to be when there were people in the building, because of fire codes. So when he ran at the doors, they didn't open and he hit them at full speed and hit his head on the door and broke his front two teeth. She tried to sue my brother for "attacking" her son because my brother was chasing him and couldn't stop so he hit behind the kid. It was basically laughed out of court. No one would prosecute because it was so obviously his own fault for stealing the volleyball and all the other things, and the school's fault for having the doors pegged when they weren't supposed to. No one would take her cases because it was always their own fault and she tried to sue so many people. But people in my town were just really... Spoiled I guess and most of them weren't particularly intelligent. The kids were all irresponsible and immature, and most of their parents weren't much better. Accidents were bound to happen.
 
donaldtoo

donaldtoo

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Songbird76 said:
Yeah, I graduated in the 90s,so it was definitely after you. But I also grew up in an area where the kids in my school were extremely privileged. The majority had parents who worked at the mines, and the mines paid really well, so while I had to buy my own clothes or wear second hand, most of them were wearing brand name clothing, their parents bought them all cars, etc. They were all pretty spoiled and not used to having to take responsibility for anything, so that may have had something to do with it. The family whose gun went off in the truck had been involved in SOOOO many lawsuits. The mom tried to sue like a dozen different people in town, mostly for stuff her family did, like the boys were driving recklessly and the local sheriff ticketed them and she tried to sue him for harassing her babies. She tried to sue a substitute teacher because the youngest boy was injured and was excused from PE, but was disrupting the class, so the sub told him he could either sit there and be quiet or he could come participate, his choice. He chose to participate and then mom got mad that the sub "made him" participate when he wasn't supped to. She tried to sue my brother because her oldest was being a jerk and poured soda all over my brother's script at play practice, he shook a ladder that I was sitting on for a particular scene, he stole the volleyball my brother had brought for when he wasn't in a scene. My brother ran after him to get it back and the kid tried to run out the front doors, but the front doors had been pegged shut and they weren't supposed to be when there were people in the building, because of fire codes. So when he ran at the doors, they didn't open and he hit them at full speed and hit his head on the door and broke his front two teeth. She tried to sue my brother for "attacking" her son because my brother was chasing him and couldn't stop so he hit behind the kid. It was basically laughed out of court. No one would prosecute because it was so obviously his own fault for stealing the volleyball and all the other things, and the school's fault for having the doors pegged when they weren't supposed to. No one would take her cases because it was always their own fault and she tried to sue so many people. But people in my town were just really... Spoiled I guess and most of them weren't particularly intelligent. The kids were all irresponsible and immature, and most of their parents weren't much better. Accidents were bound to happen.
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Woof. Sounds like Crazytown from some bad movie.
Things weren’t all perfect around here back in the day, of course, but I don’t remember a single gun incident. There were plenty of brawls at parties and stuff like that, but, no shootings.
One crazy incident did happen in No Cal shortly before we moved back to Texas. This 8th grader threw a party at his house with his folks out of town. I wasn’t there, but, he and another kid got into an argument. It ended with the kid whose folks were out of town grabbing a rifle from a gun rack above the fireplace mantle and shooting the other kid. He shot him from the side. The bullet went in through one shoulder, through the top of his chest, and out the other shoulder into a wall.
The kid actually survived, and was back at school about 6 weeks later.
Back here in Texas, we lost a few students to car wrecks and stuff like that, but, never to any gun violence. And again, I don’t even remember any gun-related incidents.
 
Goofyernmost

Goofyernmost

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donaldtoo said:
Woof. Sounds like Crazytown from some bad movie.
Things weren’t all perfect around here back in the day, of course, but I don’t remember a single gun incident. There were plenty of brawls at parties and stuff like that, but, no shootings.
One crazy incident did happen in No Cal shortly before we moved back to Texas. This 8th grader threw a party at his house with his folks out of town. I wasn’t there, but, he and another kid got into an argument. It ended with the kid whose folks were out of town grabbing a rifle from a gun rack above the fireplace mantle and shooting the other kid. He shot him from the side. The bullet went in through one shoulder, through the top of his chest, and out the other shoulder into a wall.
The kid actually survived, and was back at school about 6 weeks later.
Back here in Texas, we lost a few students to car wrecks and stuff like that, but, never to any gun violence. And again, I don’t even remember any gun-related incidents.
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My first year in High School was in a very Catholic boarding/local school in a very quiet town where the only thing to do was watch the grass grow down by the courthouse. I was local! That was in upper, upper New York State just 20 miles from the Canadian Border.

Anyway, two seniors got bored one weekend and called the Buick Dealership and made an appointment to see a car they were interested in on a Sunday when the place was otherwise closed. The details of what they used for a reason has either escaped my memory or I have buried it real deep in my mind, but after they got there they grabbed a spare tire wrench from the garage, I guess, and proceeded to kill the salesman with it and take the car for a joy ride in the area. It took a while for this to be discovered, but they never left the area and abandoned it just a couple of blocks from the high school. It isn't necessary to say just how dumb they were. Other kids in the dorm noticed that they had blood all over their clothing and didn't seem to think that anything would come of the whole incident. They both received life in prison with NO bail. You could feel the shock and disbelief in the city and school for many months after that happened. Apparently the Religion part of the school had no affect on them at all. That was in 1962, just before Christmas
 
donaldtoo

donaldtoo

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Goofyernmost said:
My first year in High School was in a very Catholic boarding/local school in a very quiet town where the only thing to do was watch the grass grow down by the courthouse. I was local! That was in upper, upper New York State just 20 miles from the Canadian Border.

Anyway, two seniors got bored one weekend and called the Buick Dealership and made an appointment to see a car they were interested in on a Sunday when the place was otherwise closed. The details of what they used for a reason has either escaped my memory or I have buried it real deep in my mind, but after they got there they grabbed a spare tire wrench from the garage, I guess, and proceeded to kill the salesman with it and take the car for a joy ride in the area. It took a while for this to be discovered, but they never left the area and abandoned it just a couple of blocks from the high school. It isn't necessary to say just how dumb they were. Other kids in the dorm noticed that they had blood all over their clothing and didn't seem to think that anything would come of the whole incident. They both received life in prison with NO bail. You could feel the shock and disbelief in the city and school for many months after that happened. Apparently the Religion part of the school had no affect on them at all. That was in 1962, just before Christmas
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Yes, you’ve posted about that craziness before, but, no worries, as I’ve done same with repeating stories for context/to make a point.
Note that they didn’t even use/need a gun for that.
There have always been one-offs here and there throughout the years, but, anyone who thinks too many people these days aren’t outwardly (and I stress the word outwardly) crazier than in decades past is livin’ in La La Land.
I guess it all kinda’ started here in Austin with the UT tower shooter (Charles Whitman) back in ‘66, but, it was still so extremely rare, almost unheard of. These days it seems like there’s a mass shooting happening at least twice a week or more, with some loon shooting up a school, business, etc.
I just don’t understand, and never will.
 
donaldtoo

donaldtoo

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Been sick to my stomach the last few hours and couldn’t sleep.
Finished watching the rest of the ResortTV1 live stream at 11p when they signed off (I watch on TV and watch and post from my phone), only to then turn on the news and find out there was yet another mass shooting in Allen, Texas.
What the MF’ing hell is wrong with people these days…?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!
I can’t even come up with anything beyond that…what the MF’ing hell…?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!
 
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Lilofan

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donaldtoo said:
Yes, you’ve posted about that craziness before, but, no worries, as I’ve done same with repeating stories for context/to make a point.
Note that they didn’t even use/need a gun for that.
There have always been one-offs here and there throughout the years, but, anyone who thinks too many people these days aren’t outwardly (and I stress the word outwardly) crazier than in decades past is livin’ in La La Land.
I guess it all kinda’ started here in Austin with the UT tower shooter (Charles Whitman) back in ‘66, but, it was still so extremely rare, almost unheard of. These days it seems like there’s a mass shooting happening at least twice a week or more, with some loon shooting up a school, business, etc.
I just don’t understand, and never will.
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Another mass shooting in an outdoor mall near Dallas. 8 innocents killed but law enforcement eliminated the evil shooter. Prayers to the families and all affected. I recall a movie Full Metal Jacket with the DI training his men to shoot just as accurately like the former Marine mass shooter Charles Whitman in that dark day at UT Austin .
 
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