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Scruit

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  1. "Stop playing on my lawn!! y'damn kids!"
  2. Unless I sit around and wait for his parents to pick him up (a 2.5 hour window) I have no way of contacting them. I'll talk to the camp counsellor again tonight and see if anythign was actually done. If not, then I'll go to the person in charge of the camp.
  3. I should tell the little scrote that we Brits used to banish theives to Australia. Even children were "transported" for petty theft back in the later 1700s.
  4. I've had similar issues in the cage (random acting-like-dead-battery) and traced ti to correded battery terminals. Unhook the cables, lightly sand the contacts and put it back together. Don't forget to do the battery side AND the frame (-) / starter (+) connections.
  5. Nice, nice. Wait, you mean like "verbal skills". Ohh, rihgt. That's what I was thinking. Yup. For real. I think some kids are just wired wrong and you need a very good parent to keep them straight. Some kids are naturally good, but a bad parent can louse that up too.
  6. I'm blessed in that my kid is never a brat. He has never thrown a tantrum in his life and if his mother or I ask him to do something he does it. He doesnt have a malicious bone in his body and is very logical. He'll do things he doesn't like to do (chores etc) without hesitation if I explain to him why it needs to be done. I look at other kids throwing tantrums, back-sassing and acting mean to other kids and I really wonder if it's the kid or the parent. Maybe I just got lucky.
  7. Went to pick up my 7yo son from his YMCA summer camp yesterday evening. I walked into the room and immediately noticed another kid had my son's distinctive baseball cap. As I looked closer I could see this kid had crouched down over my son's book bag, removed the baseball cap, rolled it up and was trying to tuck it under the back of his shirt. He was looking around the room very nervously, and when his eyes met mine he knew he was caught. (And I arrived in full ATGATT getup (minus helmet) so I looked even more imposing than in street clothes) I walked over to him and asked why he had my son's cap. He said he was going to take it over to my son. "Did he ask you to bring him the cap?" "no". I asked the boy to give me the cap, which he did, and then he kinda snuck off into the crowd of kids. My son came over and I pointed the kid out and asked if he'd been given permission to take the cap out of my son's book bag. My son had no clue that the boy was touching the cap. So, not an innocent misunderstanding then. So, how do you deal with that? If I caught my boy taking someone else's stuff then he'd be in for an corrective discussion that he would not remember fondly (I don't hit my kid, never had to). But you can't really do anything when it involves someone else's kid. Best I could do was report it to the teacher there (who said she would talk to the kid, but never asked me which kid it was. ) Then I told my son to look after his stuff better and let him know he nearly lost his cap. It P's me off and saddens me that an 8yo kid is stealing stuff. Someone needs to take better control of their kid.
  8. Keep a diary of your pain and other health symptoms. I'm not the suing type myself, but the fact that she didn't report the accident to her insurance would P me off. Is your own insurance helping you? Are you claiming on your own collision coverage and letting them go after the girl's insurance? I wouldn't want to go up against her insurance company alone in a case where there are injuries. If you are liability only then I'd be looking for some kind of representation. Does your employer offer a legal aid service? Bear in mind if the case is small you could wind up paying a lawyer more than the extra money the lawyer could recover. Ie if the insurance only offers you 8k and then hirirng a lawyer gets that up to 10k then you're gonna wind up giving the lawyer 3,333 and winding up with 6,666 (less than you would have gotten alone).
  9. 1) When I was young I accidentally dropped a cinderblock on my older brother's hand, leaving him permanently disfigured. 2) I knew exactly what career I wanted when my dad bought me a computer at age 13. 25 years later I'm still in that same career. 3) When I was young my family was very poor and in overwhemling debt. Now my wife and I are doing great financially, but I'm pathalogically paranoid of anything that threatens that. 4) I suck at selling vehicles because I'm too honest and have been known to list all the scratches in the auto trader ad. 5) I am far too logical and legal-thinking. My opinion on a subject can change from one extreme to another based purely on the precise wording of the question / the law, etc. 6) I emigrated from the UK to the US when I was 22 to get married. I do not want to ever go back. 7) My hobbies include designing and building camera systems. I have a CCTV system more advanced than any private citizen should have. Every vehicle I drive must have a dashcam. Bikes / cars / anything. I have a portable dashcam I install in rental cars. 8) I once backed into a dumpster in my own driveway, and the incident was caught on 8 different cameras. It's on youtube. Same account name. 9) I am obsessed with the physical security of my house and family. The window in my front door is reinforced with enough lexan to stop a 22LR. The locks are frames on every door are reinforced using custom made 1/4" steel plates to resist kicks, sledgehammers, hydraulic frame spreaders etc. They are so strong that it would be easier to cut a hole in the wall to gain entry. Anyone who sets foot on my property causes my CCTV ystem to alert my phone and I can watch them remotely until they leave, or call the police before they even get to the door. 10) I'm obsessed with fire safety. My family have emergency plans for fire, home invasion and natural disasters. Every room has a fire extinguisher and a networked smoke detector and every window can be used to exit the house without having to jump, even the top floor. My son was trained to use a fire extinguisher at age 6.
  10. 01) I know binary 10) You probably don't
  11. He still go off lightly. Like drunk-banging some really nasty-assed skanky ho and NOT getting the clap.
  12. If it was a safety lockout (kickstand / clutch etc) then you'd think it would it even try to crank? ECM fuse? Does the bike display error messages in the FI has problems? Can you get error codes from a bike like you can from a car? Do you have access to the testing process for the crank sensor and TPS?
  13. A bad battery that is only spitting out 6v itself can sink enough external power to prevent even a wall-powered jumpstarter or external bettery from starting an engine. Ask me how I know.
  14. Well, at least she doesn't need an ashtray. As I recall she didn't have any eye protection either. Here eyelids were just a-flappin' in the breeeze.
  15. Or ride with no gear and no helmet while talking on the phone and smoking?
  16. Bikes can deputize a nearby semi to do the honors...
  17. Please rewrite to show order of precedence for multiplication versus addition, or specify MDF
  18. Answer = Ben has too much time and need to get back to work.
  19. Dunno if he even could jump. Depends on the orientation of the cabin under the blimp - did it tilt/shift or move in a way that made it impossible for him to get out. I wouldn't expect the passengers to know that the pilot must account for their weight by adjusting ballast. The pilot would though. Would be interested to know if he told them jump. If he did he he must have know the blimp would rise after they jumped. If he did, then God bless him. I'm not surprised that the airship rose after losing that weight. It would depend on what % of the total weight theose 3 passenger accounted for. And I wouldn't trust adjectives like "shot up" because to some people that means launched like a rocket, to others that might mean "climbed faster than it did when we were on board".
  20. Obviosuly he hasn't shovelled enough minced squid off the road to know any better. Drunk? Flip Flops? Shorts? No helmet? Lost contorl when he saw a cop minding her own business? And he gets a couple scrapes. Not that I would wish worse on him, but he's gotta realize that he just dodged a bullet there.
  21. ^^ THIS. Your insurance company will advise you to never communicate anything that makes it look like you are at fault. No apologies, no admissions of traffic violations, etc. Truck driver could be fired if he does anything that makes it difficult for their insurance company to defend the claim. Of course his claim sounds to be indefensible anyway, but that's beside the point. It's all very stupid, I mean if you rear-end someone at a red light then they judge won't say; "He never said sorry, it can't be his fault." Nor will he say; "You said sorry after you got rear-ended, therefore I blame you". In cases where a driver changes his or her story hours or days after the accident an uttered apology might make a judge suspect that the driver knew he or she was at fault at the time of the accident and before thinking up a BS story... But that kind of statement would be heresay anyway (And a good lawyer will shoot down that testimony in a heartbeat). The truck driver could easy say that you were doing 150mph and then tell the insurance company that you apologized for speeding. It's all BS. That's why I run a camera on the bike all the time.
  22. Could it be a bad new battery? A bad battery will sink enough power to prevent a jumpstart. If the fuel pump doesn't kick in when you turn the key / engine switch on, then I'd check the fuse first. In fact, fuses are easy to check so get that out the way first. And you're sure you have gas in there, right??
  23. New law: If you see a driver with no hands on the wheel, you should be allowed to PIT them.
  24. He didn't say "GIRLS involved in solo sex acts."
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