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Why would the police be interested in a prank? Violation of a restraining order? What law was broken?

1) Gather items to donate 2) Make a list of what is in there 3) Donate (Ask for receipt) 4) Save receipts until tax time 5) When filling out taxes, use the list of items to come up with a dollar figure of what the charity will sell them for (hence, the amount of value you gave to the charity). TurboTax will let you look up values for common items. 6) Comeplete taxes with total dollsr figure of all donations 7) Save receipts in case you are audited. Don't send them with your taxes. It is up to you to come up with values - be warned that you could trigger an audit if your donations are disproportionately high. If you donate a car the new rules are that the charity must send you a letter by the end of the year telling you that they either sold/disposed of the car (and how much they got in the sale / scrap value) or stating that they are using it for their charity work. If it needs repairs before it can be used then they will tell you how much that cost. If they keep and use the car then you can claim the value of the car (I used NADA book value) - cost of repairs. I donated a car about 4 years ago. They kept it, put new rotors on it and send me a letter saying as much. I claimed the NADA book value - $200 for the rotors. I donated to Goodwill becuase they have their GoodWheels to Work program that loans cars to people who's only barrier to getting a job is not having a car. This means that if the car is a runner then you know it will be used by the carity and you can claim book value. Whatever money you "claim back" on taxes is subtracted from your income before the tax rate is figured out. If you are in the 25% tax bracket and you donate $1000 worth of goods then you don't pay tax on that $1000, saving you $250. Sometimes it can drop you a tax bracket so you save that @250 plus a little more (maybe it drops to you 24%, etc) Don't look at donations as an investment unless you are, or have, an accountant. For normal people it's just a way of motivating donation rahter then throwing old stuff out.

Meh, wasn't me so I don't care. Know what you mean though - those horror stories of CL postings saying; "House abandoned - take all the property". The police woudl definitely want to talk to the poster in that case.

I use this for theft tracking on my bike. Plus I have it dormant on my droidx so I can find my phone if I lose it by sending an SMS message to make it start tracking. Battery life is about 4-6 hours when running constantly so find a way of plugging the phone in. I installed a couple of 12v sockets under my seat for this kind of thing.

I had some guy start texting me random stuff at ngiht a while back. It happens, rarely more than two messages from one number though. At 5 messages I responded "Wrong number" "Who is this" "Not who you think it is" Couple days later more texts; "ur l8" and "Get some beer on ur way" I called the number. It was a short conversation where he accused me of texting him, refused to believe he ever texted me. "How woudl I get your phone number if you never texted me." H eyelled at me to never call him again. I replied; "Ok - I never call you again, you never text me again, deal?". He swore at me then hung up. Two days later; "Come over after ur homework" Complained to a frined of mine who, without my permission/knowlegde/approval or any form of liability on my part, posted an online personal in M4M. Number was posted as "Fore sicks nein" etc so you couldn't google it. The ad also said; "If my bf is in the room I will pretend I don't know what you're talking about, will probably tell you not to call again - but call back later anyway. Don't mention this ad or my bf will dump me." There were replies galore; "Your BF must have been in the room - I'll try again in a couple of hours sweetie."

"Wait, was he shaking a ketchup bottle, or...?"

Or we're gonna bump into each other off the bike one day and he's gonna say; "I wanna wave to you, but if my harley-riding doctor and accountant friends see me then they'll kick me out of the '(Midlife) Crysys Boyz' biker gang..." Either that or he so new to riding he's scared to take his hand off.

There's this one bike that I pass at least once a week on the Cheshire Road bridge over Alum Creek. Never waves. Should've figured he's not a waver - no helmet/harley riding guy. Looks like a dentist going through a midlife crisis, opened up his checkbook and bought himself some youthfulness. There's me, commuting every day rain or shine on my japanese bike, geared up for the zombie apolcalypse in highlighter-pen dayglo green. Anyway, I still wave at him. Every time. He never waves back. I'm sure he's a nicer guy than the tough helmetless rider persona he portrays. But I don't care what you ride - if you're on less than 4 wheel then we share a common enemy. And the enemy of my enemy is my friend, right? So I still wave. But I wave with a little more enthusiasm each time. At first it was the two fingers pointed down thing. "Keep the rubber on the road". Wishing him safe riding. NOTHING. Soon after that it was the Enzyte Bob wave. Still laid back but with that little bit extra... Over time I progressed to the Fonzie "Aaaaayyyyy!" wave (one handed of course). Time has passed. His heart is still of stone. So right now I'm stuck at the "Special needs kid just saw his parents in the audience at the school play" wave. Where to go from here? Maybe I could use the Naval Semaphore flags wave? I keep thinking that one of these days he's going to crack and wave back at me, after all these months. And when he does, I'm gonna flip the b@st@rd off.

Gotcha.

Modern phones implement text messing so much more easily (full keyboards etc) that abbreviations are no longer needed. Even if you were brought up on crappy phones where texting meant hitting "9-9-9 6-6-6 8-8 0 6-6 3-3 3-3 3 0 2 0 4-4 6-6-6 2-2 2-2 9-9-9" then you still have no excise for typing that crap on a computer keyboard.

I'm thinking abotu a situation like joining a backed-up main road from a sidestreet. "Downtown" Dublin gets liek that during evening rush - you either get waved out or you wait until the rush is over. Did I mention I was watching a thing on staged accidents for insurance fraud? Apparently the "helpful wave" followed by the "ram you" followed by the "I never waved!" is common. Although I trust and give waves on a case-by-case basis, it just was a thought exercise for me to determine if a wave could hold weight in court, if proven. The answer is apparently NO.

There IS... 2011-10-07 16:08:08 899 ft 47 mph 2011-10-07 16:08:43 895 ft 30 mph 2011-10-07 16:09:14 856 ft 41 mph My theft recovery GPS tracker allows me to download data... It's about a minute off the camera time. ie 16:08 on the GPS track is 16:09 on the camera. I did 47mph approaching the roundabout and 30mph leaving it. 50mph limit. The camera adds to the sense of speed - the loud wind noise, lean angle and vibration make it seem like you're going much faster. Car drivers simply don't understand. They think "45mph is smooth as silk in my car so noisy/vibration much be 90!"

Live in Delaware, work in Dublin. This is Sawmill Parkway @ Hyatts.

Wait... Shit... Got my titles mixed up. Could be worse - apparently I just put put up a Craiglist M4W Personal entitled "Installed new audible warning devices on my motorcycle"...??

Do you have even the slightest clue how much tail I could get with this accent? Neither do I. I'm married.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=71U5HFbci5M

The last ADT guy who visited here had nothing good to say about his job. He was under constant pressure to upsell and it took him longer to do the 4 pages of paperwork than it took him to do the work itself. He said he wasn't going to try to upsell me but he was dreading the ration of shit he was gonna get from his boss for not getting the upsell. He was talking about getting another job, not happy where he was. I had called an asked for an alarm panel to be added to my system and placed in the workshop. He said he would have been expected to try to get me to buy fire or carbon monoxide protection. Sounds like a job, not a career. Understand you are a commodity not a person. You will be expendable. Quickly replaced by the next guy who thinks "ADT, cool!"

Bleach in the eyes can blind you permanently, no?

The only way a rider can eliminate deer accidents is to ride at 20mph. Seriously, though, slower is better at dusk and dawn in deer country. Deer whistles are a scam and DO NOT WORK and the only study that ever showed them to be effective was done by a fake "research group" run by the man who invented the deer whistle who observed that driving snowmobiles with deer whistles attached directly at a deer will make the deer run away.

I am fully aware that people break the law. I was also prepared to avoid them, as I did.

Anyone save the avatar pic?

I was actually thing maybe just installing a pair of paintball gun firing paintballs full of paint stripper.

My brother is an ambulance driver (training to be a paramedic) and England and he told me of a scene they arrive on where a 10yr old boy had been ejected from a car in a freeway crash, and subsequently run over by other cars on the freeway. Apparently he was belted but the car was ripped open by the first crash and he was still ejected. They got him to the hospital in 7 minutes - and he survived.

146 @ 586? My previous boss lives about a mile from there, on Obannon Road. Can't find any news reports about the accident. The SUV wasn't a newer blue durango was it?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5CMERub7jbc Comments?