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JamesB
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 Posted: Dec 18 2007 Post subject: Something that really got me peeved... |
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OK, about the only time I'm ever in a Wally Mart is very late at night/early morning... so about 0100 this morning, I'm there getting some stuff... go to checkout... Short line is the one with the tobacco counter... In front of me is a women, probably in her late teens/early 20's with her infant in the cart. She has an assortment of groceries, milk, cereal etc... pays for it with her WIC card (think food stamps), then she proceeds to purchase a carton of cigarettes with CASH! WHILE TALKING ON HER iPHONE!!!!!!!! I somehow managed not to say anything... Something is so very wrong here...
Sorry, just had to vent!
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| What really sets me off is to have people come into my shop & offer to sell stamps for .50 on the $, or offer to sell meat-etc for the same. Then when I tell them to get the @#$% out they climb into a new Navgator...Our liberal tax $ at work! |
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Teleking
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I just doesn’t get any better no matter where you live. Having spent most of my life up here and traveled vast portions of the great state (and US) I have some observations to share in this regard.
It is common place to observe the run down trailer house or tar paper shack (Tyvek is a luxury!) with the toys proudly displayed in the yard. The 2 brand new snowmobiles next to the new 4-wheelers, accompanied by the new 5th wheel camper (bigger than the house). Not to mention the new F-350 to pull it and the new sports car (for summer use of course). Did I mention the weekend warrior race car and accessories? In most cases this is an exaggeration but not unheard of. Usually a mix and match of 3 or so of the above toys on the list.
They then drive down to the store and pull out the WIC card because they can’t afford it (yeah right).
Stepping down from soap box.
Sorry back up;
Don’t even get me started on the sub-prime bail out the Feds are considering. Just because some jack a$$ didn’t read the fine print and signed on the dotted line to buy a house they could never afford and then have the Feds bail them out. What about my mortgage???? I think every home owner should be treated equally and entitled to whatever low interest refi they offer or lump sum payment issued.
Ok now I’m really done this time!
Really 
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Sa-Mokin
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I totally agree with what you all are saying, and now for my soap box...
Last Friday morning while I was on my way to work, my wife calls me in a panic saying she was in a bad car accident on I-44. I go immediately to the scene and there are two other cars involved in the accident. My wife and the driver on one of the other cars start telling me how this guy in a car a ways behind them was racing around other cars darting in and out of traffic till he comes up behind them. He's riding right on their bumpers and flashing his lights. In the process he clips the back of my wife's car and sends her spinning down the expressway. Another car hits her throwing her into the concrete retaining wall and when she comes to a stop she is facing the oncoming traffic.
The best part of this story is that my wife and the other driver were not badly injured. However, my wife's car is totaled and this prick that caused the wreck only has minimum insurance coverage, which is quite a bit short of the value of my wife's car. From the research I have done, there is slim to no chance of getting the difference from the guy either. I had another car totaled about 5 years ago by a guy that had NO insurance and absolutely no assets either.
To make a long story short, I'm getting a little pissed paying for these deadbeats drivers that jeopardize other people's lives and trash their property and walk free to do it again to someone else! Something needs to be done about uninsured and underinsured drivers... like serious jail time and many months of community service!
Okay, I'm off my box now.... NEXT.....
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I'd be willing to vote for a law to make it legal to shoot them.
It just might pass here in Oklahoma! 
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Sa-Mokin
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| cultofnobody wrote: | I'd be willing to vote for a law to make it legal to shoot them.
It just might pass here in Oklahoma! |
Well I wasn't going to go THAT far Cult', but now that you mention it.... 
It just might pass here in Oklahoma, but you would have to buy a tag first.
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OKBBQEA
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Well I've always said that bullets were cheaper than judges.
So why bother taking it to court when it could be settled so much quicker this way.
Officer: May I see your license, insurance, and vehicle registration please.
Driver: I'm sorry officer but the insurance company wouldn't accept my WIC card as payment.
BLAM!!!!
Officer: Dispatch. We have an uninsured motorist on I-44. Send out a crew to clean it up.
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| How about my daughter takes her son 3yr. old to the emergency room for a broken finger. She goes thru 30 mins. of B S with insurance paper, 20% co-pay etc.. In the meanwhile 3 others come in - no english, no ins. take them right back & fix em up! |
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OKBBQEA
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I say we shoot them too!!!
I sure am in the Christmas spirit today...
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| cultofnobody wrote: | Well I've always said that bullets were cheaper than judges.
So why bother taking it to court when it could be settled so much quicker this way.
Officer: May I see your license, insurance, and vehicle registration please.
Driver: I'm sorry officer but the insurance company wouldn't accept my WIC card as payment.
BLAM!!!!
Officer: Dispatch. We have an uninsured motorist on I-44. Send out a crew to clean it up. |
Now we have to pay somebody to clean it up!!! Can't we figure out a way to make them into fertilizer or something.  |
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OKBBQEA
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Well we could always go the Soylent Green route.
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Can't speak for other states but here in MO, they have a program where not only do welfare recipients get food stamps in the form of a debit card, they also get a CASH advance card which is just like the food stamps card, only they can purchase anything with it. Liquor, cigarettes, anything they want. I only know this because I worked at a retail place for a while in the hood. Sure enough, all the thugs and tramps bought all their tobacco and liquor on the STATE issued, STATE run, cash advance program while all the normal tax paying citizens of the state are paying for.
At one point, a thug got pissed off because he ran his cash advance card dry and was trying to buy his liquor and carton of cigs with the food stamp card and it wouldn't take it. I told him, I might as pay for it out of my pocket, because I pay for all his other sh!t as well.
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JamesB
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| Sa-Mokin wrote: | | I had another car totaled about 5 years ago by a guy that had NO insurance and absolutely no assets either. |
First of all, I'm glad that your wife and the other's involved are OK...
You could say that I have no use for un-insured drivers as well... Thanks for bringing it up... now I need to vent again! 
First of, I should say that I have no issues with people wanting to move to a better country to improve their standards of living, but there are legal ways to go about certain things... One of them is carrying valid auto insurance!
I've only been involved in three accidents in my life. All of them involving, um... um... people who originally lived to the south of this country... Each time I was found not at fault and each time it ended up costing me!
First one was back in the mid 80's. Had to work on a Saturday and had my car parked in the empty parking lot outside the office where I could see it from the front door... Walked by the door and NO CAR! Went outside and saw my car pushed about 20 feet over and another car perched on the front steps of the building. Drunk lost control barreled into the parking lot and into my car...
He was still in his car and when he noticed me, he tried to make a run for it, but his car would not start. He got out of the car and tried to walk/stumble away... nope not going to have that... The building had a 'porch' to it. On the outside of the 'porch' was a metal security gate that you had to swipe your ID badge to open. When he tried to leave on foot, I told him he had to stay and was told what I assumed to be Fark Off in spanish and he kept going... A punch square in the jaw dazed him enough that I just grabbed him and threw him up on the porch and closed the gate... he was caged in between the gate and the locked front door to the building...
I went in another door and called the police. Fortunately, my insurance covered the damage.
Number two was in 1994. Thanksgiving day headed to my in-laws for lunch. Turning left on a green arrow when another car blew the red light and hit me... knocked me clear across the intersection and against a bridge support. Witness said he going about 55 (in a 35) and verified that I had the green light. Perfect T-bone wreck which was probably a good thing as the car caving in on the passenger side probably took a bunch off the impact. He gets out of the car runs over to mine asking if I'm alright, in english... I banged my head on the window, but was otherwise OK.
Now someone had already called the cops. When the cop gets there, this guy suddenly can't speak english! Well, turns out he does have an insurance card and cop gets all the info, tow truck arrives etc... First biz day after, I contact his insurance company only to find out that he only paid for first month on his policy and it had been terminated months earlier... Since he still had 'proof' of insurance at the time of the accident the police would do nothing and told me it was now a civil matter.
I tried to call the phone number he gave me.... They answered with a hello then forgot how to speak english again... two days later, the number was disconnected and they had moved... car totaled and my insurance had to cover it...
Number 3 was just last winter. Sitting in a parking lot at the local Blockbuster. Another, non-english speaker, turning into the parking spot next to us plowed into my Wife's Tahoe... She called her husband who arrives just before the cops. He produces an insurance card. Cop says that she verified that it was a valid policy. I guess they have a way of checking that now...
Called the insurance company next day only to find out that while it was a valid policy, it was only for the husband and that she was not permitted to drive that truck per the policy. Claim denied. $4,000 damage to the Tahoe... again my insurance. Last I heard my insurance company was going after their insurance company...
Sorry I got so windy... I must have a lot of peeves... 
James.
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| cultofnobody wrote: | | Well we could always go the Soylent Green route. |
I think I would need some bbq sauce for that.
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adolpho
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On second thought, I guess it's best I don't make a comment. Post deleted.
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| adolpho wrote: | | On second thought, I guess it's best I don't make a comment. Post deleted. |
I was thinking the same thing, but I agree with most everything said above. We are allowing our country to go down the tubes by not enforcing the laws we have on the books.
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