Random Thought Thread

Nearly 40 years ago at Christmas-time in SoFla, a crazy old man got angry with me over a parking space at a Publix grocery store, and after I parked he approached my car and put a handgun into my car window on the passenger side where my girlfriend was seated and asked me how I would like it if "I blew your @$%ing head off and put you away, punk."

I promise you I was not brave. I kept my mouth closed and did not say one damn word.

He put the gun back in his windbreaker and calmly walked into Publix. But I couldn't stop thinking what if some old lady with 12 items got in front of him at the 10 item express line and he blew her away. So I called 9/11, gave them my name and number, and took my girlfriend to her home. The police called me a couple of days later and said they found him in Publix with the gun and arrested him.

Turns out he was a retired NYC cop who did NOT have a CCW permit in Florida, and he lied to the judge about it. Oops. He had a terrible temper, and his wife was so fed up that she made him sit in jail a few days over New Year's before she bailed him out. I was called to testify and his lawyers deposed me. But he pled out and was given a suspended sentence, ordered to surrender all firearms, and ordered to psychiatric treatment. AFAIK, he never killed anyone. And I never regretted what I did.
 
Unfortunately, there are a lot of loose cannons walking around free on the street. You absolutely did the right thing.

I could tell you a few stories from the days when I worked internal security investigations as my first job in sworn federal law enforcement.
 
Greetings from Santa Rosa!

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pease said:
If you take them ALL off no one will want to get to close😂
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It was 106° here in Texas Sunday. I'm just used to it. One time I was making a delivery in NYC during a heat wave. There were people passing away from the heat. I was walking around in a black t-shirt not even breaking a sweat, and everybody couldn't believe it. It felt like a warm spring day to me. :D
 
I finally got an old truck with air conditioning to get around in.

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A nice old F250 with a 7.3 diesel. 97 was the last year of the old body style, which I kind of like. Nothing fancy but having AC is nice and the manual transmission means it's mine (nobody wants to borrow it.)

...Nate is happy...
 
Nathan the Machinist said:
I finally got an old truck with air conditioning to get around in.

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A nice old F250 with a 7.3 diesel. 97 was the last year of the old body style, which I kind of like. Nothing fancy but having AC is nice and the manual transmission means it's mine (nobody wants to borrow it.)

...Nate is happy...
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Had 2 of those rigs, 96 and 97. Both 7.3’s. Frames rotted on both, thanks CT.
 
Nathan the Machinist said:
I finally got an old truck with air conditioning to get around in.

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A nice old F250 with a 7.3 diesel. 97 was the last year of the old body style, which I kind of like. Nothing fancy but having AC is nice and the manual transmission means it's mine (nobody wants to borrow it.)

...Nate is happy...
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Damn, that thing is in fantastic shape. Don't see many that age up here looking anything like that.
 
Nathan the Machinist said:
I finally got an old truck with air conditioning to get around in.

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A nice old F250 with a 7.3 diesel. 97 was the last year of the old body style, which I kind of like. Nothing fancy but having AC is nice and the manual transmission means it's mine (nobody wants to borrow it.)

...Nate is happy...
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That's one advantage you Southerners definitely have. Vehicles that old are barely held together by the flaking paint, up here in the salt belt.
 
bluemax_1 said:
That's one advantage you Southerners definitely have. Vehicles that old are barely held together by the flaking paint, up here in the salt belt.
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It's a diesel. It generates its own oil undercoat.

And it's a Ford. I don't know but I assume it didn't get driven much in the winter because (I assume) it probably didn't run
 
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