Yeah I know... Our old Middle School barely had a heating system that kept up. Let alone Air Conditional wasn't invented when built. It was the High School when my parents went to school.

The Elementary School was quite new, but didn't have air. We open Windows when it got that stuffy.

The High School was the same thing. The down side there were interior room with no window so these rooms could become quite unbearable during the year. This building now the Middle School, and they have a new High School in which I am sure they have central air. I wonder if they have Pool....lol

I gather you didn't go to school in Tasmania then? Lemme tell ya, Perth summers are both long and hot.

So why'd you move to Tassie Leg? Did you think there needed to be more mania in Tasmania? :devilsmil

Correct, spent the first few decades up north and drifted south for a few years ending up here in 2001.
Main reason I came here was the cheap houses. Getting away from the damn heat was another MAJOR factor.

Well, being in the Deep South, it is not so much the temp as the humidity that has the tourists and snow birds dropping in thier tracks!

In other news, a local charter fishing boat, all 25-tons of her, tried to dispute the right of way with a 10,000 ton bananna boat. Said bananna boat was in the correct shipping channel and moving at the correct speed when the fishing boat tried to beat the (much) larger ship.

The result, the fishing boat lost (REALLY big surprise there, no?). Three people are missing and presumed dead.

And the fishing boat captain claimed that the bananna boat rammed him on purpose!

Needless to say, the Coast Guard is not amused. Especially when they surveyed the wreck...in the main shipping channel...in an area that is marked as "No Fishing"

Criminal charges are pending.

Just caught this news flash;

It seems that a family decided that the recent news of Judgement Day falling on May 21st was true. So the mother decided to kill her two kids and then commit suicide.

Okay, I know this thread is a bit old, but I do have one to share:

One day several years ago, me and a coworker were taking a break and chatting in a parking lot. A middle aged woman in a car nearby was trying to get it started, to no avail. A much younger man, slightly scruffy who decided to be a good Samaritan pulled his car up next to hers and offered to help jumpstart her car using his battery, and got out and connected a pair of jumper cables. After running his car for a few minutes (as me and my coworker watched) she tried to start her own car again, still with no success.

Well, the lad unfortunately had the rather bright idea then to switch the cable leads around on the woman's car battery ONLY. You can guess what happened next...

The battery's of BOTH cars began to smoke, and the cables themselves burst into flame and hot melting rubber oozed over both cars. The man is just standing there, rather dumbstruck with a "duuhhhh" expression on his face while me and my coworker are looking for something long and nonconductive to knock the damn cable leads off the batteries, and the woman is going into shock screaming her head off.

"Do something!!!" She's screaming as we're knocking the leads off the batteries.

"Lady, we've got a damn electrical fire here, we gotta disconnect the leads first!"

The lady: "Throw some water on it!!!"

:rolleyes:

This one left me a little concerned....

Knocked off work early today and met with some friends to do a little pistol shooting at the local police range.

We had to sit through the usual 15-minute safety briefing that we've heard a few thousand times. The police officer in change of the range decided that he needed to fire a few magazines for his monthly quota.

He walks up to the firing line, pulls his Glock and promptly fires a round into the table in front of him. He then turns around with his pistol pointed at waist level, I'm guessing to see if anybody had observed what he had just done, only to see a dozen government employees promptly dive for cover while screaming "SAFE THAT WEAPON!!!!"

I can sleep safe tonight, knowing that he is out there, with a loaded weapon....:rolleyes:

Wait, you're saying that this was the police officer IN CHARGE OF THE RANGE? Please tell me there will be some kind of official consequences to this incident?

I was flipping through an old journal and came across this...

We had a West Point "Third Lieutenant" join us for his summer training. Since we were about to go through the machine gun tables and our ringknocker had proved himself to by an utter pissant, so some NCOs decided to make an example of him.

It involved a M-2HB and a little creative work with the timing mechanism.

Our stud jumped up onto the cupola and, true to form, "forget" to check his headspace and timing. Range goes hot, he slaps a belt of API in, racks the bolt and fires.

A single round.

He looks at the weapon and then holds the trigger down, nothing happens. He racks the bolt, fires again.

And another single round goes off.

He opens the feed cover, removes the belt and proceeds to strip a dozen rounds off and then reloads the belt and tries again.

And once again a single round goes off.

By this time, everyone in the range tower is howling with laughter. Our future officer breaks down and radios in that his machine gun isn't working. Our Captain radios back advising young Westie to have his loader inspect the weapon.

The PFC, who had been carefully briefed before hand, proceeds to clear and disassemble and then reassemble the .50...in the process restoring the timing mechanism to its correct setting.

He then slaps a belt in, racks the bolt and fires off 75 rounds.

Our PFC turns to the future officer who asks, "what was wrong?"

The answer...

"You had the bolt in upside down sir!"

;)

Gotta love lieutenants!

Sadly most cops here are not gun enthusiasts or veterans. They are graduates of a criminal justice degree.

So a firearm is another piece of their uniform. Used for that one qual a year.

A friend of mine I loaned tools to for a summer M1911 class is a firearms instructor for his sheriffs department. Wears the big red Instructors Class IIIA vest when instructing.

Likely that Officer was transferred to the Range as a Mercy to others that had to work and rely on him.

This was the Sergeant in charge of the range! It happened yesterday and it was reported to his lieutenant, as to what happens...I live in the Deep South and the Good Ole Boy Network is in full swing, especially in the Police and Fire Departments. He should be disciplined, but more likely he will simply get the 2-minute "never do that again" lecture.

The police department in question has its officer shoot qualification twice a year and they have to fire a minimum of 100 rounds a month or so I have been told.

Going by some of the accidents/incidents that have happened in recent years, I'm inclined to believe that they really shoot a single bullet a year at a paper target 2 meters in front of them.

Barney Fife Commandos is just one nickname for the local police.

Yes, isn't it so reassuring to know you are safe from attacks by furniture with cops like him around.

Well, here is what our favorite cop got...

Three day suspension,

with pay!

And a verbal warning!

And since we have Tropical Storm Lee coming in...

His suspension was waived, all the cops need to be on duty to prevent public disturbance.

Yup! The Good Ole Boy Network is alive and well!!!


All police officers have been recalled

3 day suspension with pay = 3 days of bonus vacation time.

Wow. If he'd accidentally shot someone maybe they would have given him an all-expenses-paid visit to Disneyland.

Don't know about the trip to Disneyland, and by no means do I agree with the "punishment" this officer received. But it a perfect example of what is wrong in police departments, at least in my part of the country. Officers have a great deal of responsibility, and it is certainly not a profession that I would ever want to have, but should police officers not be held to a high standard of ethics and behavior?

An accidental discharge is just that, an accident, but it also warrants a more serious examination of what happened. Did it deserve a suspension? Probably not, but administrative duty and retraining sessions, possibly even have his Lieutenant write him a warning letter would have been warranted IMHO.

But suspension with pay and then recall back to duty, in effect canceling out the "punishment"?

But it was a bit more than an accidental discharge wasn't it? It was an accidental discharge immediately followed by the officer turning around from the firing line and pointing a loaded, chambered firearm with the safety off at "a dozen government employees" who "promptly dive for cover while screaming "SAFE THAT WEAPON!!!!".

To me that's not an accident, that's a series of mistakes that suggest poor concentration or poor training, probably both. At the very least someone else should be the sgt in charge of the range.

Sometimes my co-workers here in the civilian world can be astoundingly dumb.

Ok we all work from two or shared folders. One is on the desktop of my workstation and another is on a shared machine.

Recently a position was deleted and on weekends to cover down everyone works in another part of the building.

So to recap during the week my office is the focal point and the shift supervisors work there. There are more drones during the week. The weekend one less on staff now. My office is then closed and workstations are turned off to conserve electricity.

For a month now I am getting complaints that I am not doing things right, and the desk top short cuts won't work.

I work M-F, but since I was going to be in the area I brought my work thumb drive and stopped in to see the problem first hand.

So yeah the short cuts don't work. I am baffled the same exact short cuts work during the week. Trying one essentially locks up the machine for a minute until you get an error code. I re-install the short cuts twice re-booting each time. No Joy.

Then my co-worker casually mentions that working here is ok, but restarting the workstations in the main office it can take twenty minutes for the remote monitoring to acquire everything.

Me = What!.

Of course the short cut to a file in a shared desktop file doesn't work if that PC is turned off.

Dazed expression is returned. Arrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrgh.

Have to agree with you, but IRL...I reported his punishment. It wasn't right but it is indicative of the standards of the local police departments where I live.

If you want real horror stories, you simply have to travel westwards and visit the New Orleans Police Department. To give you an idea of how bad the NOPD is...the FBI has maintained over 50 agents in NO since the 1970s, investigating police midconduct by the NOPD. No other city in the US can make that claim!

Or as the locals semi-joke, the New Orleans Police Department, the best law money can buy!

This quote from "Chesty" Puller has always brought a smile to my face.
"They are in front of us, behind us, and we are flanked on both sides by an enemy that outnumbers us 29:1. They can't get away from us now!"

There's no way these could possibly get published in today's PC world...

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Check out those prices!!!

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That's one hell of a tall curb!
 

OOO RAHHH Chesty is awesome.

Q. How many Marines does it take to push a knife-wielding thief off a kerb?
A. None, he slipped.

Serves the idiot right for stabbing a military man :p

Too right. He's lucky they didn't kill him.

My wife works as a paralegal....she dropped this on me earlier today...WARNING!!!

PUT THE CUP DOWN BEFORE READING!

Top Ten Silly Sex Laws In The United States

1. Oral sex is illegal in 18 states.

2. In Virginia, it is illegal to make love with the lights on.

3. It is illegal for husbands in Willowdale, Oregon to talk dirty during intercourse.

4. Sexual intercourse between unmarried couples is illegal in Georgia.

5. Engaging in any sexual position other than missionary is illegal in Washington D.C.

6. In Connorsville, Wisconsin, it is illegal for a man to shoot off a gun when his female partner is having an orgasm.

7. In Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, it is illegal to have sex with a truck driver inside a toll booth.

8. Having sexual relations with a porcupine is illegal in Florida.

9. It is illegal in Utah to marry your first cousin before the age of 65.

10. Sex with animals is perfectly legal for men in Washington state, as long as the animal weighs less than 40 pounds.

After reviewing this list, one is left with the impression that local governments have waaaayyy too much free time on their hands; that some of the special interest groups really need to get a life; and that somewhere, in some police department, some poor shmuck has to investigate these "crimes".

And I'm sure he immediately tried to place the blame on someone else!

These aren't sex laws, but...

1) In San Antonio, it's actually legal to own an alligator as a pet. But it's illegal to walk him downtown, and when you walk him in your neighborhood or a public park, he must be leashed.

2) It's illegal in Texas to hunt with a sword, a sword being defined as being a weapon with a blade of more than 15 inches or a total length of 24 inches or greater.

The heat must do weird things to people in Texas, that's the only logical explanation I can come up with. :confused:

Oh, and was stuck in Texas at both Lackland and Sheppard for close to a year just for training way back when....not too anxious to go back, no offense. :p