Rain Event Starting 9-6-11

VigIIPeaBurner · Post by **VigIIPeaBurner** » Sun. Sep. 25, 2011 10:56 am

Richard S. wrote:*censored* story number... 5, 6?

This guy is looking over the bicycle stuff...8<...The last straw was him making a comment to another customer we were trying to sell at retail...... Walked right over and told him to leave. Then he started mouthing of to me from his car and I picked up giant dowel........ That was the end of the mouth.

Richard - can't you open carry in PA? Sell the big dowel. If you'd rather not OC, hang real holster on your belt with a toy gun in it. A picture says a thousand words and works before a dowel would be needed

It's still a disaster zone, right?

Post by **Richard S.** » Sun. Sep. 25, 2011 8:56 pm

VigIIPeaBurner wrote:
Richard - can't you open carry in PA? Sell the big dowel.

Yes, PA is very gun friendly state I but don't need/want too. I'm not a fan of open carry, not interested in showing my cards.

If I'm carrying no one is going to know but me. Truthfully it's not needed especially at this point, if I was down there at night I'd be walking around with a shotgun.

It's still a disaster zone, right?

AFAIK it is, it's felony for stealing.

Post by **Richard S.** » Mon. Sep. 26, 2011 6:29 am

You can file this story under, "that was one the funnest things I've seen". This guy is running up the parking lot towards Jeff yelling and I couldn't see what was going on. He brings him over to me and says cut this thing off his finger, at first I thought he said something was stuck in his finger and I was going to tell him take it to the emergency room. What it was is the star shaped top to one one those baby wipes or other wipes. It was a round hole with 4 pointy plastic things sticking out just big enough to get a finger in it but not much bigger. This guy had somehow managed to get his finger into the hole and now it's acting like one of those Chinese finger traps.

He said and I quote "you have no idea how painful this is", I just don't see it but I'm not going to test it to find out either. I didn't even see any blood and his finger looked fine as far as color. At most I would guess when he got it in there and tried to pull it back he embedded the points a little. When he couldn't get it off he must of panicked. This guy was working on a house a few blocks away and remembered we had tools, he jumped in his car and drove there like it was a ER. I grabbed a pair of tin snips and started cutting, when I got to the curve of the top it kind of jerked a little and the guy jumped a foot..... He cut the rest of it off himself.

Even he was laughing afterward and then my Buddy Jeff goes "Good thing it wasn't on your dick" ROFL.... After he left we were really cracking up, I haven't laughed that hard in a very long time.

SteveZee · Post by **SteveZee** » Mon. Sep. 26, 2011 8:40 am

Ha,ha,ha,ha.too funny. I've seen those dang things and in fact when the moist wipes fall in have actually done the same thing. In my case I just yanked my finger out. It was a bit like pulling off duct tape. As the points get fully extended on the way to reversing the pressure they do dig in. Grit your teeth and yank.

Of course the kershaw I had in my pocket would have been a much better alternative.

SMITTY · Post by **SMITTY** » Mon. Sep. 26, 2011 11:50 am

That's great!! I'm trying to figure out why he stuck his finger in there in the first place ....

Yeah I had this one guy come up here to buy a kids bike - a Honda 50. Pulls up in a top of the line Toyota Sequoia, all leather interior - had to be over $50K, & gets out in a suit & tie ..... then proceeds to wheel & deal like he just left the bread line. After I cut him the deal of the century (because I got the bike with another which I had already sold, I almost doubled my profit, so it didn't matter to me) and he pays, he starts telling me how much the bike is worth -- like I'm stupid & he just ripped me off. I felt like punching him in the jaw ... but he had his rugrat with him. What a piece of *censored*. Probably goes around like that buying things, then trying to make people think he ripped them off to make himself feel good. Must be lacking something in life ....

CoalHeat · Post by **CoalHeat** » Tue. Sep. 27, 2011 10:12 am

Listening to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid or reading The New York Times yesterday gave the impression that disaster relief victims were suffering from a lack of government aid.

http://links.heritage.org/hostedemail/email.htm?h ... CEBB515F27

Post by **Richard S.** » Wed. Sep. 28, 2011 4:44 am

I'm going to have say this disaster was prime example of where you need assistance from the government. Probably the most important thing they have done is removal of debris. There is no way it could have been done privately if every citizen had to get their own private hauler, money issues aside there was barely any room for one contractor on our street, I couldn't imagine what a nightmare it would have been if everyone had their own private hauler. I just went by the house yesterday and apparently our lot has become the the local dump. There must of been pile of crap 15 feet wide, 30 feet long and 10 feet high. Doesn't matter to us and actually better for everyone because they have one place to throw it instead of a bunch of little piles screwing everything up.

From the article Johns linked too:

"Without additional funding," Reid warned, "thousands of people who have lost literally everything they owned will be forced to go without food and shelter."

That's just fear mongering. I'd imagine some people may find themselves in some pretty dire situations down the road but presently there is no one starving. I've been asked each and every day if wanted a hot meal being provided by local churches, The Salvation Army and the Red Cross. The one group going around had meals that were catered from very nice local establishment, stuffed peppers yesterday. We were talking to the one lady that was passing them out and they were actually having trouble getting rid of it all, she was begging us to take it.

Housing may be an issue for some but most people in this area are going to have plenty of family to fall back on.

Dann757 · Post by **Dann757** » Wed. Sep. 28, 2011 8:46 am

Richard,
Thanks again for keeping us informed and reminded. I was thinking about my relative's place in Owego this morning. If they got 3' up into the first floor, I was thinking what it might have been like to stand on Fox St. at the peak of their flood. It would have been chest deep at least. I need to find out how they are doing.

I saw there's a big lot in Binghamton where they're piling huge amounts of flood debris, those close by are complaining, but I guess they'll get to it. a lot of people regionwide are complaining about scrappers rifling through their curbside discards for metal and restorable stuff.

My customer/neighbor here said what we went through was just an inconvenience. She has a brother someplace in Conn. that's working on an off-the-grid compound. I have to tell her that she needs to have me prep her new generator for storage or the same thing is going to happen to it that happened to her Coleman. I haven't even prepped our gen. for storage yet! Thinking how spoiled and or stupid I am, I have not stored any drinking water or canned food, etc.

Done a lot of work here to improve grading and drainage, still have to make a better french drain.

To the guy with the baby wipe container problem: suture self.

Post by **Richard S.** » Sat. Oct. 01, 2011 5:17 am

Caught yet another one stealing, just about the same description. Older man, nice car, nicely dressed and a pile of cash in his pocket and both of them were operating the same way. They'd walk around buying a few small things and paying for them as they were going trying to negotiate for real good deal. They were stealing as they were going. This guy had the balls to have a bag that he was filling up and then tried to say he owed us $3... wasn't $3 of merchandise in it but instead a $5 screwdriver extra. Last straw was he picked out 3 broom sticks....... $2.50 each. My Buddy went to get his change because he didn't have the 50 cents and comes back out to find him trying to stuff 4 of them in his trunk. This guy paid for it dearly and there was no cops involved except the cops we called after he left just to make sure there was record of it.

coal berner · Post by **coal berner** » Sat. Oct. 01, 2011 3:28 pm

Richard S. wrote:*censored* story number... 5, 6?

This guy is looking over the bicycle stuff, there is lot of bicycle stuff in this pile that is really old and actually valuable. In any event he knows exactly what he's looking at and the value, he picks up a bunch of brand new but old Park bicycle wrenches which is big name in the bicycle business. These are all specialized wrenches specifically for bikes like spanner wrenches for the bottom bracket, they are sealed in plastic and have nothing but a little mud on the plastic wrapping. I told him half price and to top it off they were 80's prices. "Too much..." he says. Fine so I set them down. Next he's looking at this big garbage pail of bike stuff and wants a price on the whole garbage can, this was stuff we set aside to look through later. I told him him he could look through it but I wasn't going to sell him the whole garbage can, one reason being there was tools in their for the bike shop that weren't for sale. The last straw was him making a comment to another customer we were trying to sell at retail...... Walked right over and told him to leave. Then he started mouthing of to me from his car and I picked up giant dowel........ That was the end of the mouth.

It's unbelievable the idiots, like the guy who offered $2 for $200 worth of lag bolts.

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coalkirk · Post by **coalkirk** » Wed. Nov. 09, 2011 12:03 pm

coalkirk wrote:Quite a mess. But the damage continues. All that muck, silt, pollution, tree trunks, propane tanks and dead bodies have washed down from the Susquehana into the Chesapeake Bay where it now covers bay grasses critical to the health of the bay. The bay has never fully recovered from Agnes is '72. This is a devastating event for the bay. Fish, crabs, etc. depend on the grasses and the oxygen they create to thrive. Fertilizer and sewage also washed into the bay from the river in huge amounts and cause algae blooms that make the problem much worse. Besides these problems just the physical presence of submerged hazards just below the water line make boat travel in the bay hazardous. All and all a real giant mess whose impact will be felt for many years.

Never posted before by quoting myself but there's a first time for everything. I hope everyone up north along the Susky has recovered and rebuilt. The devastation to the bay as predicted is severe and will be felt for decades. Crabbing in the northern bay just pretty much shut down after this event. Now all of the oysters are being found dead. With the silt comes low oxygen levels, dead bay grasses, fish kills, etc. A whole industry is out of business.

http://baltimore.cbslocal.com/2011/11/07/some-wat ... r-die-off/