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FZRMatt

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  1. I was told by an ex-LEO teaching my MSF that if after a reasonable amount of time, if you have come to the conclusion that a sensor is not registering your bike, that you could proceed on the justification of a "malfunctioning traffic signal," being that the correct procedure for a "malfunctioning traffic signal" is to treat it as a four-way stop. Of course while reasonable amount of time is discretionary, I usually figure it out when the intersection has gone a whole cycle without giving me a green. If there is a car behind me I will usually try to inch up and get them to hit the sensor rather than look like "that guy" running the light.

    I was also told to put my front wheel right on the corner of the cutout in the pavement and have rarely ever had this problem.

    The above advice has actually been more useful in my truck than on my bike - I have had several occasions where stopping in the wrong spot on a snow-covered road has failed to activate a left-turn arrow where there is a separate left-turn light.

    I always sit through 2 full cycles then run it on the third. One thing you need to keep on mind is that you know the light is malfunctioning but the cars with the green don’t. You are better off being inconvenienced and alive than justified and dead. The cars with the green light still has the right of way. Also, make sure to report the light to the city to get it fixed.

  2. Shoot me a PM with exactly what you need or your address and times available and we can come take a look at it. Best prices you will find, and excellent work. Concrete is our specialty!

    Include your phone number in the PM please so we can give ya call and set it up to come take a look. Estimates are free.

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  3. I have a 2004 Yamaha R6 that is running a little rough at stop lights "when it wants too"... What happens is when i come to a stop light my RPM's fluctuate from 1000 down to 200 and almost wants to stall (only every now and then). I am being told maybe i need my valves adjusted? Talked to the people that took over Hines MotorSports on 23 and they told me about $300. Anyone have any ideas if this is where i should start, and if it is, is $300 a fair price?

    I don't know about the problem, but I was at Ohio Motorcycle in Hilliard yesterday and I was told a valve adjustment on my '94 FZR would be about $360.

  4. Yeah. Were doing that. I can't believe they have a special court for this kinda shit. I basically have to sue ODOT. 670 is a state road I guess. Hit it about 6am. Bottomed out the car and put a 6inch flat spot on my rim. The hole is about 5feet long,3-4 inches deep and 6-10 inches wide. It was still there a week later after I reported it. Fuckers!!!

    If the state is like the city of Columbus, you have to have a certain number of people hit the same pot hole and destroy their wheels/tires/car to be able to make a claim. If not, they don't pay for a thing.

  5. Thats why anyone who breaks into my house will have a gun on them period. I work with a older guy who was all over the paper here in cleveland awhile back for shooting a guy in his house. He had his property broke into like 3 times. the forth time he was met face to face with a large perp with a pry bar in his garage. he was attempting to steal tools again. He confronted the perp and the guy ran at him. He shot and killed the guy. No charges were filed and the family has no right to damages due to the fact he was shot while involved in criminal activities. I say shoot the dirt bag if he breaks in to your house and you are there.

    It was a clean shoot because the bad guy was armed and charged the victim. It's all in the articulation of the events. Break into my house unarmed and there will be a 911 call saying that there is an unidentified person laying in my front yard that looks like he was beat half to death with a baseball bat. Of course all of my property will be back in my house like it had never been touched before said call is placed. ;)

  6. Breaking into your house I don't think in its self is consider instigating an altercation that might result in bodily harm. The stance is probably something along the lines of 'let them have the TV and call the cops, it's not worth killing over.'

    In my opinion, breaking into my house with me home is an offense of violence against me and my family. If you only wanted our stuff, you would wait until we weren't home before breaking in. And, they brought a gun! Like someone posted before, they weren't there to make him a continental breakfast. They brought the gun to kill him if necessary.

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  7. yeah i did. i did not think that dude was pbj though. from the look of his work they showed in the dispatch, he only wishes he was lol. i mean it looked seriously amateur.

    honestly, the majority of the guys i know only do legal walls now. there is still a lot of old stuff thats still up though.

    there are a couple that still will go out and try to get up, but most of them have grown up and have kids and stuff... or maybe its just not the same thrill when you are 32 as it is when you are 19 and climbing up on a roof.

    this is my favorite in columbus tho

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    He claimed to be one of them. Then he gave up a lot of information like starting points, paths traveled, real names, etc...in attempt to avoid jail. Didn't work so well for him. Never underestimate the power of pissed off citizens.

  8. I was offering you an example of why they cheered, and the (predictable) administrator's reaction was to threaten to cancel prom.

    Sorry, thought you were asking why they cheered. That was simple, she was a BITCH! They made the threat because we had several students die from alcohol related accidents over the course of my 4 years there and were pissed that the students were treating it as a joke.

  9. hahaha our school did something similar only they made a god damn play out of and reenacted the events of a car crash. They even got city cops, firemen and EMS in on the deal...gotta love sleepy small suburbs

    Our school took the juniors and seniors to the stadium and did the same thing in. We had one girl who played the part of the dead person laying on the hood after being partially ejected through the windshield. When they uncovered the car, the stadium erupted with cheers. The next day at school, the threatened to cancel prom over the P.A.

  10. check out that article i posted above. that's exactly what he does.

    I will, thanks. Part of me really likes to read about this type of stuff. However, another part of my gets pissed that people print this stuff. The reason being, law abiding citizens read this type of thing and say "look how screwed up this system is". But the turds read this and say "look at how we can exploit their security". I get that there will not be a fix until it is exposed, but unit it is fixed, we (as a people) are exposed which puts innocent people potentially in peril.

  11. i think its funny your phone recognizes "fap" as a legit word :lol:

    Apparently, I fat fingered the phone and hit the F instead of the R and it changed it to another word that I didn't mean to type. I must have noticed that it changed to what ever it changed it to, and hit the backspace (automatically changes it back to whatever I typed). But I didn't check to see that I spelled it wrong to begin with.

  12. I'm just going to stop you right here. For someone who put up as his airport security protocol knowledge that you fly "at least once a year with family", you know fuck-all about the current security system.

    You can either print out your boarding passes online or get them at the gate. Once you're in the airport, you still need to check-in with the gate agent so she can print off your checked luggage tags and, oh yeah, CHECK YOUR ID. This ID check is to make sure you match the name on the boarding pass, which has already been checked with the no-fly lists and has cleared you for flight. If you were going to be flagged in the system, you would have done so already. Right before you get to the TSA checkpoint, you show your ID to the TSA guy.

    The only thing the TSA person does when you show them your ID is duplicate the same thing the gate agent did except the TSA guy has no access to the no-fly, no access to any information that may be useful to screeners to handle you if you have special needs that have been previously documented (like implants that mean you can't go through the scanner), none of that. He stares at your ID for 30 seconds to make it look like he's giving it a CSI examination, lays down some chicken scratch scrawl on your boarding pass, and waves you through.

    This is a COMPLETE waste of time, and I'm willing to bet was the entire crux of this man's argument. I'm not willing to say that showing ID isn't necessary for flights, but I'm damn well willing to say showing your ID to the TSA guy is.

    Since 9/11, the only place that I have ever had to show ID is security. Prior to 9/11 I always made it a habbit to try and get on a plane without showing ID (made it every time in Detroit and Atlanta most times). Now, once through security we have only had to show our boarding passes at the gate, with no ID (because you are already in a secure area and have been checked). Also, before I became an officer, I was in sales and flew more than I ever care to again. As far as checked bags, we check nothing! A family of 5 flying is expensive enough and we are not adding to the cost by checking bags when one suitcase each meets the size requirements and will hold clothes for the trip.

  13. This whole thread goes back to one thing, and that is yes, you should have to show ID to get onto a plane. The whole issue was that a man refused to show the TSA his ID. The security check point is the ONLY place that you show your ID when you get on a plane. You can print your boarding passes online, no ID required. You go to security and show your ID and boarding pass to show that the same person on the boarding pass is the person trying to get on the plane. You then proceed to your terminal where you board the plane by showing only your boarding pass and no ID.

    So, your photo ID is the only way they have of proving you are who you say you are (and yes, I get that they can be faked). I guess if you don't like that, we can always implant a chip in each and every child at birth. That way, there will be no question who is getting on.

  14. If you think the TSA will prevent this you are fooling yourself.

    Again, I'm not saying it is the answer. But, I would say it is a deterrent. I just saw a picture of a sign on the home page saying something to the effect of: bad guys, if you have the intention of robbing us, know that employees and or patrons may be armed. This is the same thing. That sign doesn't do a thing to actively prevent bad guys from robbing the place. However, it does make them think "holy shit, I may get caught or dead if I try this."

  15. Sorry John, for some reason it won't let me reply to you. Taggers have a lot of people pisses off right now. I assume you saw that Clintonville applied some pressure and helped get "Seed" from "PBJ" sentenced to 18 months.

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