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Funny, but worst CCTV angle evar / staged.

And yell at the windows weenies to get off your damn lawn...

What is UNcommon is that a credit card stolen on one day would not have been turned off by the next day...

Don't start the OS holy wars again. Windows = Large mansion with a nice facade that is actually built like a garden shed behind the scenes. When something breaks you call an overpriced repair man who turns out to be an 18yo geek from a box store who knows less than you. Linux = Pile of lumber, nails, a hammer and lots of man pages. When something breaks you pick up your tool belt and fix it yourself. MAC = Artsy-fartsy studio apartment with no dishwasher, microwave or other normal useful features, and in a part of town that nobody lives in. When something breaks you write emo poetry and cry. Mainframe = Retirement home. Nice solid building that been there for decades and won't fall down but full of old people who don't like change, and nobody under 50 wants to live there. When something breaks you spend hours trying to fix it, then some old guy walks up and fixes it in 3.7 seconds before wandering away muttering something about "whippersnappers"

That sucks. How do you steal safety ger from someone? You might as well take the airbags out of their car. I always lock my helmet in the haard case, or take it with me. I don't leave my jacket on the bike until the bike stays in sight all the time. I have an older black HJC full-face helmet that's a Large. Yours for free if you want it. EDIT: Just saw you're in Cleveland. I'm in Columbus. Still, if you want to pay the shipping I can get it up to you.

Shhh! That's about 99% of server support. If it doesn't come back up then have the hardware gophers at NOC start replacing stuff until it's un-broked.

Meh. He'd just burn out the all the red pixels in my monitor. (I keeed, I keeeed! )

Casper has them cached.

Jealous. My busted ankle has ended my season so I spent the weekend putting my bike instorage and then doing a service and tune-up on the Gimpmobile. I swear my bike was crying when I started running sta-bil through the tank. Or maybe those tears were mine.

http://www.10tv.com/live/content/local/stories/2011/07/16/story-circleville-motorcyclist-killed-in-crash.html?sid=102

Wouldn't it be funny if you paid for it and got none? Tyler =

THIS is why I don't go in all-guns-blazing... More details emerge... There was not a line that he was turned away from... The kids all sat down to lunch (whether they ordered pizza or not) and names were called from the sign-up sheet (only the names marked as 'paid' were called out. His name was not marked as paid) After the pizza was handed out etc they checked all the kids and they all had food (because the girl gave my son a slice of pizza) so they didn't realize he had no other food. So it was a simple clerical mistake, and there was no "denying" of food - they just didn't call him up to get his pizza. So we used this as a learning experience: 1) Grown-ups sometime make mistakes 2) If he thinks he should get something and doesn't, speak up, ask why not 3) Pay it forward 4) There are two sides to every story 5) The first step to complaining to trying to understand - keep an open mind and don't yell and scream about something that may not have even happened. 6) A 7-year-old's recollection of NOT having pizza is much more traumatic then the real event

They will know. My boy is making her a thankyou card etc.

They said that. Apparently the girl stepped up right away so once the pizza was doled out all the kids were eating. Had he been sitting there with *nothing* then they;d have noticed. I'm not out for blood here - I just want to try to make sure it doesn't happen again. It's a simple breakdown of information flow that can be fixed by the changes they are making to their policies.

You change your processes and policies to make sure it can't happen again. Pizza day has come and gone and they can't retroactively feed him, but they CAN make sure it never happens again, to any child.

K, had the conversation. Got an apology and an unreserved mea culpa. The camp director called a meeting this moring and addressed it with the staff. No question is was their fault. Paying the money at the front desk WAS the right thing to do and as people pay their entry ont he signup sheed should be marked as paid, however his entry on the signup sheet was not marked as "paid" (that's why the denied him the pizza). Their process for a child thta has no lunch is to contact a parent for advice, or provide food if the parent can't be contacted. Apparently they weren't aware that he had no lunch (why would he get in the pizza lin if he had a lunch?) They promised to change their procedures to verify that a child has lunch if they are turned away from any food line, and really at any time. Finally, two things that my son and I have learned from this is that he has to speak up if he doesn't have lunch, to make sure the camp staff are aware. I'm sure that they didn't know he had no other food (or, more likely, were too busy to check - but that will now change) Secondly, from now on I will send him some shelf-stable food on any day that Camp is providing food. If he doesn't get the camp food then he can eat his own, or bring it back unopened and put it back in the pantry. And there's $2 waiting for me at the front counter.

I don't want to name them right now because I'm giving them an opportunity to make it right.

..but at the same time, it's heartwarming to hear of another child giving up half her lunch for a kid she doens't know. Had a long talk with my boy this morning about pay-it-forward.

My 7yo son goes to a summer camp (that will remain nameless for now). They recently organized a pizza lunch, and the email annoucnement said; "If you want your child to have pizza, bring $1 per slice..." That night when I picked up my son I signed him up for 2 slices of pizza and asked where to pay. I was told to pay at the front desk on the morning of pizza day. Pizza day arrives and I ask at the front desk if that was where I paid for pizza. They said yep, I gave them $2 in a baggie labelled with his name and "Pizza money". That night I picked him up from camp and he told me that they had refused him his pizza becuase He did not have the money *on him* when he got to the front of the pizza line. He told them that the money was paid at the front desk, but they still turned him away. In fact, because it was pizza lunch I didn't send him a packed lunch, so they sent him away from the food line with no lunch. Remember he's 7. Luckily another child saw this shared her lunch with him. I will be speaking with that child's parents tonight because that girl has a heart of gold. But none of the adults did that, that was a child who took it on herself to help him. So here's the thing... How annoyed would you be? I'm pretty mad about them turning him away with no lunch and not contacting me to give me an opportunity to bring him a lunch / explain the money thing or whatever. If not for the girl who shared with him he'd have had nothing to eat until I picked him up after work. Sure I'll get hte $2 back, and it was definitely their mistake, but that's not the point - How do you deny lunch to a 7yo child and not make any attempt to contact his parents to figure out a lunch for him? When I spoke with the front desk again this morning the manager herself (who was the lady who took the money yesterday) said she personally hand-delivered the money ot the camp director. I'm playing phone tag with the camp director. We'll see how that conversation goes.

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I got you covered: "Why would a wookie be on Endor? It just don't make sense." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chewbacca_defense http://www.southparkstudios.com/clips/103454/the-chewbacca-defense

Unlike the glove, this rim would FIT.

I just noticed this in the story: (My emphasis) This is the first time the story has said the rider was dragged. At first it was said that the bike was dragged. The van driver stopped, got out, removed the bike from his van, then drove off. If it is confirmed that the van driver dragged the RIDER for 1/4 mile then I think it's time to round up a posse.

It does suck, but I'm glad they caught the lowlife.

Looks like they caught the scumbag. http://www.10tv.com/live/content/local/stories/2011/07/13/story-columbus-hit-and-run-motorcycle-crash.html?sid=102