And yeah, I noticed the couple on the bottom, but that ain't enough
My mailbox from a few years ago. This one wouldn't buff out, but it did total out a BMW.
He hit it so hard, there were pieces of brick against the garage door you see across the street, but, according to him, he was only going 20.
Is that Laurence Fishburne?
Clarence Williams III
From the TV show the Mod Squad
Years ago one of my buddies here in VT got tired of his mailbox getting trashed by kids with bats, plows, retards who couldn't drive... he was losing one every 6 months on his road.My mailbox from a few years ago. This one wouldn't buff out, but it did total out a BMW.
He hit it so hard, there were pieces of brick against the garage door you see across the street, but, according to him, he was only going 20.
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So he took an old canoe and sank it half way into the ground on end. Then filled it with rebar and built a mailbox in the middle. Made a form... and filled the canoe with about 2 yards of concrete.
You could have hit that with a dumptruck and not moved it. Kids with bats... got a shock! One car hit it... no more car.
I think it is still there. He sold the house. But would have taken an excavator to get it out of the ground.
I'll post a picture of my neighbor's next time I run by. It is the most redneck thing you ever saw... because as it rots, he just keeps adding more wood. I can drag it into the road to mow around it (it's on the edge of my field.) It is brilliant woodchuck engineering!
Cheers,
Sirhr
Sirhr
My mailbox from a few years ago. This one wouldn't buff out, but it did total out a BMW.
He hit it so hard, there were pieces of brick against the garage door you see across the street, but, according to him, he was only going 20.
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I forgot to post this wheelbarrow full of free BMW parts.
Don't mess with me or I'll get that amnesia shit, like Link on Mod Squad....
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Armenian Men Beat the Crap Out of Antifa and Far-Left Protestors Outside Glendale, CA School Board Meeting Over Pride Events (VIDEO) | The Gateway Pundit | by Cristina Laila
Armenian men beat the crap out of Antifa thugs and far-left protestors outside of a school board meeting in Glendale, California Tuesday evening.www.thegatewaypundit.com
Why they want a pride month; they want these confrontations.
Many years ago, a coworker, Bill, told me of his mailbox saga.
He lived at the entrance to a cul-de-sac. One night he was letting his dog out in the front yard for one last relief before going to bed.
Some kids in a car drove by and gave his mailbox a whack with a baseball bat.
He knew they would have to turn around in the cul-de-sac so he went back inside his doorway and retrieved a 5-iron and let fly at the windshield of the car.
The cops were called and the person that owned the car that the little darlings were in was the father of the driver. He was also an attorney.
The father sued Bill. The judge ruled in the plaintiff's case but chewed out the attorney for his little darling's actions. Bill was out $2500. AFAIK, he didn't get reimbursed for the damage to his mailbox.
It turned out that Bill and the butt-hurt attorney belonged to the same country club. Bill broke into the attorney's locker and stole everything. He walked out of the locker room and passed the shoe-shine boy with everything in his arms.
This was in the days before surveillance cameras were everywhere like they are now. Local law enforcement was called to investigate the theft and Bill was accused of the heist.
The shoe shine boy also hated the attorney. So he lied for Bill. The case is still unresolved.
Later on the attorney and his family went on vacation for a couple of weeks. Bill put Operation Flood Water into action.
He busted in the basement window to the attorney's house. Then fed the water hose in through the broken window and turned the faucet on.
AFAIK, nobody has messed with Bill since then.
I live in a rural area and several years ago a local ex-con junkie returned to the area and was breaking and entering houses and barns and selling the stolen items at pawn shops. Sheriff's wouldn't do anything since he was an informant. One local farmer who will remain unnamed had enough. One night he drove his tractor to the individuals mobile home hooked a chain to it and dragged it into a large drainage ditch with the perp still inside. When the perp emerged from his now destroyed mobile home he was informed by said unnamed farmer that he would kill him next time. I have known this said unnamed farmer for many years and there is little doubt in my mind that he would have no qualms about doing so.
Meanwhile someplace in Sunriver, Oregon.
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Fuck yea soap on a rope.
Always kept one around for my jail bird friends.
All that ballast needs to get up on the rail where its useful.
Or down below making sammichs and passing up chill pills.
Well no. We are having a long discussion on why sailing is dying (over on a board where Joe biden is considered a member of the John Birch society. I walk softly but good sailing stuff).All that ballast needs to get up on the rail where its useful.
Or down below making sammichs and passing up chill pills.
So, the point I made is that we need to get people involved, or better yet, having fun. My concern is that when you have one pro steering, one pro trimming and the rest jsut hanging on the side of the boat all day, only two are having fun and the rest are jsut a poor excuse for lead. And, Not Having Fun!
So, seeing every one relaxed on Windward Passage, returning back to the west coast after the finish of the Transpac in 1979, I thought this was the picture of where we need to get back to sailing. Back to having a party…such as when my father and uncle sailed in the 1930’s.
This photo reminds of the story of the Battle of the Rufiji river in 1915. Here's a video about that battle. The narrator doesn't go into a lot of detail about the Germans camouflaging the SMS Konigsberg.
The video also leaves out the inestimable contribution of Major PJ Pretorius. More on that badass after you watch the video.
One other detail that the video also leaves out is how the British intercepted messages from the relief ship SMS Kronberg to the Konigsberg. The relief ship was sent to help out the Konigsberg in 1915. A year prior to this, the Russians sank the SMS Magdeburg.
On the sunken Magdeburg, the Russians retrieved a treasure trove of codebooks and handed them over to the British. With the codebooks and the newly created cipher department, the British managed to decrypt just about all German messages to their ships.
The video leaves one with the impression that the Germans would have sent plain text messages for everyone to read at their leisure. The messages would have been encrypted. It wasn't until after the war that the Germans found out about the captured codebooks on the Madgeburg.
Churchill couldn't resist bragging about that, in a book he wrote after the war, and the Germans weren't going to let that happen again. Enter the Enigma machine but that's another story.
So the video is just a primer on this fascinating story of determination and resourcefulness on both sides and now lost with the sands of time. Watch the movie then read about badass Pretorius.
Now that you have watched the video read the three part story about how one man became pivotal in the giant chessboard known as the Rufiji Delta.
Cruiser Killer — An Elephant Hunter Stalks the German Commerce Raider Königsberg — Part I - Frontier Partisans
For P.J. Pretorius, the Great War was just a continuation of his personal war with the Germans, whom he considered bullies to the core.
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Cruiser Killer — Part II - Frontier Partisans
Phillip Pretorius had his mission: locate the commerce raiding cruiser Königsberg in the labyrinth of the Rufiji Delta in Tanganyika and fix its location for British naval guns. To help him in his reconnaissance mission, Pretorius hired six natives, reported by a Colonel Mackay of the King’s...
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Cruiser Killer — Part III — Chief of Scouts - Frontier Partisans
If there’s a Valhalla for frontier partisans, there is surely a seat by the roaring fire for Major P.J. Pretorius, DSO.
frontierpartisans.com This movie was supposedly made based on the story about PJ Pretorius and the Battle of the Rufiji Delta. It stars Lee Marvin and Roger Moore. Just like a lot of Hollywood productions, they get a LOT of facts wrong. Other than being a great work of fiction it's an entertaining movie to watch.
Yeah I hear it’s really bad. I’m headed back Friday sometime.
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