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And if you type your password into a thread here then the forum software wiill blank it out for everyone except yourself. Like this: My password is ********. EDIT: My password looks normal to me. You guys should just see a row of asterisks.

People will fall for this. I bet the next link said; "Please enter your credit card details for to be confirmings your cancellation."

The Clintons?

How far north? The bridge over the Scioto (at the zoo) was blocked by several fire/paramedics at 8:15 this morning

Can a Harley even reach the speed limit before all its oil leaks out?

Not worth following or trying to get him to pull over. I know a guy who was stabbed in the stomach when the moron driver responded to his "pull over" hand signal. My buddy pulled over, they both got out but it turns out the moron was concealing a knife. As soon as he was close enough my buddy said he thought he got "punched" in the stomach, until he looked down and saw his shirt turning red. Moron drove away and left him for dead. Nobody stopped to help. He was able to call 911 for help before falling unconscious - the only reason he is still alive.

Same here

When I got married I was unemployed and hadn't a penny to my name. Same with my wife. No prenup needed there.

Only North America? Only Nation?

That's the joke. Kakuna is the yellow character.

I have a leatherman on my belt and nobody has ever said anything about that. The only places I couldn't take that were on a plane and into a courthouse. The plane thing was when I had been dropped off at the airport to fly to DC and was putting all my metal in the basked for the security screening and I remembered I had it. The TSa dude grinned and shook his head like; "I know it was a mistake, but it ain't coming through". I stepped out of line and went to a mini post office at the airport and mailed it to my house. Problem solved. At both the Franklin courthouse and Delaware Courthouse I've just had the security desk keep it for me. I hand it to them, get a receipt, continue through the metal detector etc. On my way out I turn in the receipt and get the leatherman back. Having said that, I would consider courts and police stations off-limits to the taser - I'd just leave it in the car.

Then kick it sideways and get the hell outta there?

Got it. Duplicate threads - I only read this one.

A taser is not a deadly weapon under Ohio law. A handful of states (including Michigan - but they are working on that ) ban civilian carry of tasers. The only places that are off-limits to me are Mental Health Facilities, and the place I work (strict no-weapons policy). Beyond that, all the places that are off-limits for my ccw are back on the table.

The test fire was interesting. I did a spark test first (no cartridge, just bare electrodes) That spark is something else - jumps over about a 2-3" air gap. The cycle is 30 seconds and cannot be stopped unless you pull the battery out. The spark is loud. I set up the metal-backed paper target on the wall and installed the dummy cartridge. It is blue in color and is the same as a regular cartridge except for having fishing line instead of metal wires. I aimed using the laser pointer from 10' and the top dart hit right there - the bottom dart was about 15-16" lower than that. With the dummy cartridge the spark still jumps the gap between the drive-stun electrodes instead of going through the wires, so it's still loud. In actual use, I am warned, the loud sparking noise won't be present as the power is going down the wires. Loud sparking in real use means the dart tips are insulated (clothing too thick, one dart missed, etc) so on to plan B. The cartridge cannot be removed during the firing cycle otherwise you'll get shocked instead. Multiple discharges are possible if you want to keep a person down until help arrives, versus escaping. 30 seconds is quite a long time, but in order to make use of this time you must leave the taser behind. But then you are leaving an activated taser behind. It's the cartridges, not the body, that dispenses the tracking confetti, so a stolen taser won't be tracked back to you unless the police get hold of it. The taser is 6" long and weight about as much as a stapler. It points very naturally and the aim was dead on the red dot. Taser lists the Platinum kit (body, battery, 4 live cartridges, 1 dummy and a holster) for about $450. The basic model as no holster and only 1 cartridge for $350. New cartridges are about $35 each, but I'm not sure how you go about registering them. I shopped around and got the Platinum C2 for $370 shipped, so I'm happy with that. Overall, it will never replace my gun, but it's a great fill-in for places where it would be a felony to take my gun. It also could be carried in addition tot he gun to give an extra level of force option for situations where you are attacked with less than deadly-force.

It is shipped in a deactivated state. You have to register the it with taser international. They do a background check (felonies only, only took 2 minutes). The cartridges shoot out confetti with micro-printed serial numbers on them and they can tie it back to you so if someone ever robs someone with a taser they can go back to the registered owner. Once registered they give you a 5-digit code that you have to enter into the taser using a combination of trigger presses. Once activated the green led lights up, the flashlight and laser aim turn on and you're ready to go. As for carrying a gun... I have a CHL and I do carry a gun where I can. There are too many places off-limits (felony-level off-limits) to guns carried by law-abiding folks so the taser is a happy medium.

Who was the listed beneficiary on the insurance?

Got my Taser. Registered, activated and tested. That's one mean looking spark on drive-stun mode. Here's hoping I never use it, but it's one more option available to me if I'm ever attacked.

A (sadly) true tale of warning and woe.... Buddy of mine met a girl online. He was in a little bit of debt to begin with, about $15k maybe on credit cards. But while engaged he got a small inheritance and promptly spent it all on a nicer engagement ring. (About what I paid for my car, which was 2 years old). That money could have taken him out of debt. Once they were married he come to find out she was in about 100k student loan debt, among other things. They tried to find a way of helping her reduce that debt. In the meantime he co-signed on a brand new car for her ($55k car, $10k upside-down in her prior car, $65k loan at 9%) Then she suggested they refinance her debt into joint names and get a lower rate. They did, and got a huge break on the previously borderline-criminal rates - but to get the best rate she told him the refi had to be in his name only. Then she left him. Within months. Moved to another state with no warning, just gone. One her way out of the state she used his credit card (which she was an authorized user of, but not responsible for paying for) to buy her adult daughter a car, and prepaid her divorce attorney $7k. Finally, she said she was going to filed for dissolutionment and demanded half of the equity on his house (there was none, she came to find out, interest-only loan), half his 401k balance, and half the value of HIS car (worth $4k) while KEEPING the $55k car. Which she quit paying on, but the bank couldn't reach her so they came to him for the $900/mo back-payments and fees, after her skipping 3 months and him not being notified. When he got his own lawyer (a few more thousand $$$) and told her to pound sand she stopped responding to him. Her lawyer lost contact with her (kept the prepaid money, of course). SHE wanted to file in HER state and make him travel to each hearing (or hire a local lawyer) to make him fighting the divorce more costly and make him more open to compromise. His lawyer, though, advised him to file in Ohio first, for the same tactical reason. He got his petition files one day earlier than hers, so hers was later dismissed by the court in her state in deference to the Ohio divorce. She never responded to the Ohio divorce again. After some time the judge granted the divorce on his terms - buddy keeps everything that she didn't already take. The $55k car was repo'd by the bank and he wound up owing about $30k on that after the car was auctioned. He still had to pay her $100k in student loans because he refi'd them into his name, he owes on his credit cards and he never got the $20k ring back. He tried to file for bankruptcy, but found he $100k would NOT be discharged because they are student loans. His credit score is about 390 now, he owes about $150k. When she left the state it was to go be with a guy that she'd been seeing all the time she was married. Hint: Unemployed people don't go on business trips. This all transpired over 18 months. "I ain't saying she a gold digger...."

Explain.

Exorbitant = unreasonably high Absorbent = soaks up water

I can see how it looks that way because you only ever hear the bad stories. How many people tell you that their fiance/fiancee graduated and *didn't* leave? I had a fiancee that graduated college. This year we are celebrating our 15th wedding anniversary.

Hmmm. I can't find any post that says it was stolen at work. In fact as best I can tell (ctrl-F ) the word "work" does not appear in this thread until you say it. Was that detail originally posted, then removed when the OP edited his first thread to add the big pic?