Shoot the Breeze With the Cooler Crew - Peoplesforum Edition

very unusual indeed, jt. i'm inclined to go along with shaggy's theory. the guy was probably strung out on 'cid. either that, or he was just trying to rob you. i'm curious. was it a minnesota license or out of state? as for me2, she probably heard the whole thing go down on her police scanner.

just checking.

btw, mornin' sam.

I have to admit, when I started reading it, I didn't think it was true. I kept waiting for a punch line. Sorry, j.t. That kinda sh!t is scary.

On a more positive note:

better safe than sorry. did the officer give you his card? if so, call him directly.

that sucks then. i guess the give out your card policy only applies to traffic stops.

Maybe the guy freaked out in the squad car, and the cops couldn't come back because they had their hands full.

one would think.

Scary thing about your story. We've been having a robber go around the neighborhood. So all doors get looked dead bolts also. Even the back gate.

In that story you pposted, why is it that the Payne woman wasn't arrested. Isn't failure to aid, against the law? I bet her statement made the PETA and Animal Right's acitvist s happy. "I thought they were beating an animal so I just kept going by. I say hold the parents responsible also.

in minnesota you have no obligation to aid a stranger (the exception being someone who has a job-related duty to assist, like a lifeguard, paramedic, police officer, while on the job). i'm not sure how it is with your own kids. if you do render assistance, you cannot be sued provided the assistance you were giving was within the scope of what you've been trained to do, and you didn't have a job-related duty to act. of course the first thing to remember is to make sure you're safe before giving any assistance to anyone, because no one wants to turn one problem into two.

i'm just curious, but how long ago was that, jt?

looks like we didn't get a real good samaritan law here until 1994. Minnesota Statutes 2001, 604A.01

Don't tell me I'm not.

I am dammit I am!

I will be parcticing as I take out my aggressions on Daffy, Donald, and Gosslin'.

Also I may make a few fishies mouths hurt.

basically everyone's obligated to call 911. nothing else beyond that though.

JT,

Just read about your harrowing experience. That is some definatley scarey shit. Seems to me that you handled it very well. I would agree with everyones guess that the guy was hopped up on some substance. Or the other guess is he was trying to get in to rob you or worse. That definately has to be a shitty feeling. Sadly i wonder how many people would have let him in as your grandmother did ? There are alot of nice people who can be a bit too trusting sometimes. It's sad we even have to be suspicious of people asking for help. I would have done the exact same thing as you did. Although I'm a bit surprised that being a crazed gun owner who shouldn't be trusted you didn't just ,,,,,,well you know as Dennis says,,,,,,,knock knock,,,,,,blam blam. Seriously though I'm glad you and the family are o.k.

BTW, I think it's time for that dog ;) Oh the cats of course can stay but golden labs or irish setters are great family dogs but very protective. Or of course there's the always cuddly rotwieler.

Yes of course I'm a hunter. But I hunt & fish for food (and the sport). I eat most of what I shoot. Some I give away others have been shot for the mere fact that they are a menace to something. Skunk, fox. Damn near shot a group of dogs once. Chasing deer out on the lake in winter.

Chem,

I am a farily avid hunter. Everyone I know has been asking me if I'm going to eat my vension this year (if I get one) and I tell them of course. I personally am not worried about it, unless I see a deer that has visible symptoms I think the media has way overplayed CWD. They have been living with this out west for years and there's no evidence people have gotten sick from elk. If you deer hunt will you or are you worried about it ?

BTW I gave up duck hunting a few years back, I eat anything I harvest with the exceptions as you noted above. But I have tried about 50 different duck recipies and still don't care for it so I gave it up.

As for duck, most of the ducks I shoot are given to others. I have had a few mounted. The duck hunting is more to get out with some friends, they always eat duck, and this one kid just started Taxidermy work a year or so ago so many of the birds we shot last year he used to practice on. He did a Lesser Canadian Goose for me. Not bad for an inexperienced person. I am going up this weekend to work out a deal for some more birds that he has done. Gonna try to trade him for drift wood that I got on a Superior fishing trip this summer. Hell between him and I we shot all the birds and a couple of them I spent a while in the boat chading them.

Goodmorning and as I read what happened to you THX -I am watching X-Files! How do you know it wasn't the police (aliens) that man was afraid of and now they got him and they all disappeared! There may be no record of it!

Did this guy look like the John Edward Physic on t.v.? Maybe he learned things he is not supposed to know or talking too much about the afterlife that he needed to be 'shut up'.

You better be careful - we don't want you 'disappearing' too!

Hey? Where is everyone? see? something seems awry.

you do realise, me2, that you showed up here a couple of hours too late this morning, right? ;) relax baby. i'm here for ya. i'm always here.

Well that sucks THX. I think it would of been pretty hard for me to control myself that long without getting an itchy trigger finger. It sounds like enough time passed and enough events occurred to warrant a justifiable shooting on your part. At least in the leg or arm. Good job on your restraint. It makes me wonder how thieves can even try and rob an occupied house with all the guns and veterans out there. I loved that story about the old WWII vet that shot the intruder before he even opened the door. Well at least that's one less door-to-door salesman to worry about. Glad you, Scribe and the kid are OK. The part about your Grandma just plain pisses me off. MFers! Bring 'em on!!

THX - WOW!!! Glad you are all okay!!

THX, Kinda sounds like the dude was having coke withdrawls. Yippee skippee, the more our population grows, the higher the number of weirdos.Take care, all

Do different colored M&Ms TASTE different?

hahahahahahahahahahahahaha - the subject of conversation sunday night...YES!

especially if you feed an M&M yogurt ;)

In ancient Israel, it came to pass that a trader by the name of Abraham Com did take unto himself a young wife by the name of Dot.

And Dot Com was a comely woman, broad of shoulder and long of leg. Indeed, she had been called Amazon Dot Com.

She said unto Abraham, her husband, "Why doth thou travel far from town to town with thy goods when thou can trade without ever leaving thy tent?"

And Abraham did look at her as though she were several saddlebags short of a camel load, but simply said, "How dear?"

And Dot replied, "I will place drums in all the towns and drums in between to send messages saying what you have for sale and they will reply telling you which hath the best price. And the sale can be
made on the drums and delivery made by Uriah's Pony Stable (UPS)".

Abraham thought long and decided he would let Dot have her way with the drums. The drums ran! g out and were an immediate success.

Abraham sold all the goods he had at the top price, without ever moving from his tent. But this success did arouse envy. A man named Maccabia did secret himself inside Abraham's drum and was accused of
insider trading.

And the young men did take to Dot Com's trading, as doth the greedy horsefly take to camel dung. They were called Nomadic Ecclesiastical Rich Dominican Siderites, or NERDS for short.

And lo, the land was so feverish with joy at the new riches and the deafening sound of drums that no one noticed that the real riches were going to the drum maker, one Brother William of Gates, who bought up every drum company in the land. And indeed did insist on making drums that would work only with Brother Gates drumheads and drumsticks. Dot did say, "Oh Abraham, what we have started is being taken over by others."

And as Abraham looked out over the Bay of Ezekiel,or as it came to be known, "eBay" he said, "We need a name tha t reflects what we are'' and Dot replied, "Young Ambitious Hebrew Owner Operators."

"YAHOO", said Abraham,

And that is how it all began, It wasn't Al Gore after all.

...OK, I'm rejoining you. ...To tell you a funny story. ...funny strange, and funny haha. A few weeks ago I got a letter from the City of Richfield water dept. The letter said, "Amount Past Due, Please pay immediately, to avoid a $25 service fee, and an 8% assessment on your property taxes." The amount past due was $0.00. I mailed them a check for that amount, feeling clever, and that this sort of thing would NEVER happen again, so I should go for the comedy factor. Well you would THINK this could never happen again, in a lifetime, but... last week, I got a letter from Qwest with "disconnection notice" written on the outside of the envelope, and opon opening the letter, found those vile words again, in bold red ink. The letter went on to say that my service was NOT up for disconnection at this time, but failure to pay the past due amount would result in Blah blah, reconnection fees, deposits, limits to my service... The amount due? $0.00. So after my Friday happy-hour cocktail, I called Reliant Energy, and asked them "If I don't owe you anything, and have never been late paying you, are you going to send me a letter saying that you will not interrupt my service? Leaving the rep totally perplexed, I hung up, and am still chuckling about it.

good thing i didn't have a coke in hand there, j. that one's pretty good.

um, i seem to recall making the determination that the orange ones did nottaste any different from the brown ones.

way too funny, kt.

The brown ones DO taste different - the worst ones are the navy blue. I am not keen on the easter mix either (the pink ones are the better in that bunch).

KT-along the lines of percentages... last week a friend of ours sent us a letter with about 6 already scratched off lottery tickets

...the note said "M&J get 80% of the winnings of these lottery tickets".

M and I go through them all and sure enough...80% of ZERO 0.00 is still ZERO...nice friend for thinking of us :)

where do the green ones fall on the me2 taste scale? cuz we all know they're the only ones that matter.

I don't lick myself! You tell me!

i already knowwhere youthey fall on the ares taste scale, i wanna know where they fall on the me2 taste scale.