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Many years ago I actually went into a Safeway and bought several large packages of heavy duty garbage bags, a roll of duct tape and a large kitchen knife. No comments but priceless looks. I'm suprised the clerk didn't have the police meet me in the parking lot.
Ceri- hahahahaha that is awesome!
People here in the US overreact about EVERYTHING (of course not all but you know...) I know you heard about the woman who sued Mcdonalds over cofee being hot? What? Like she is going to order coffee cold?
This is the oldest chestnut in the book.
Those people didn't sue McD's for selling hot coffee, they sued because the coffee was excessively hot. There are guidelines in place for how hot liquids should be when sold in order to avoid severe burns should it be spilled, and the coffee in question was considerably hotter. It's equivalent to selling a product with loose electrical connections and getting sued when the user gets an electrical shock.Just to play Devil's Advocate, better that the authorities check out and clear the person innocently outside a school with a camera than they miss the molester because no-one bothered to get involved.
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This is the oldest chestnut in the book.
Reminds of the Seinfeld episode where Kramer sneaks a cafe latte into the movie theatre
and spills it over himself when trying to sit down!So...what were you 'taking care of'?
It was actually for use on a range, which I was on my way to. If the police would have come, the also would have found (legal) guns and ammo in my car as well. Would have made for a great night!
Tonight on COPS.......
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Yep, it's got so bad here that you can't even take photos of your own children at the beach without some self-appointed busybody calling the cops, thanks to all the hysteria about "stranger danger". This despite all the evidence that molesters overwhelmingly are people known to the child, frequently family members. Voluntary organisations like the Boy Scouts are in crisis because the supply of volunteers has dried up since most men are not prepared to put up with the intrusive police checks and suspicion.
Do they still put photos of missing children on the milk cartons in the US? Back in 1985 when I was working in the US my buddy's wife was worried that some stranger would steal her baby, thanks to those photos. It was all bunkum. As an FBI agent put it in a radio interview "People go around claiming that 50,000 children are abducted in the US every year. When we go to these people and ask them for the details so we can investigate, they haven't got any. Put it this way: 50,000 Americans died in Vietnam over a ten-year period and most people (at that time) know someone who lost a family member. Who do you know that has had a child abducted?" Most of those so-called abductions were actually disputed custody cases in divorces, and the number was grossly exaggerated anyway.
And if you think it's bad carrying cameras, just try it with binoculars. I've been abused by ignoramuses who see them as the mark of a pervert - we birdwatchers are an endangered species! (just like DE shavers)
The only strange looks I get are from SWMBO! She thinks I'm crazy...
ditto!! especially since she found out that my step daughter (6) helps with my cream and a/s decisions.
To all the people who went to an AoS store, and the sales person tried to sell you those expensive gillette monstrosities, there is an AoS store at the fashion mall in San Diego, and they still carry merkur DE razors, the whole line of them, as well as some straight razors from Theirs Issard, with the Art of Shaving stamp on them as well.
Lady there was nice.
Lady there was nice.
This is the oldest chestnut in the book.
Just to play Devil's Advocate, better that the authorities check out and clear the person innocently outside a school with a camera than they miss the molester because no-one bothered to get involved.
I didnt have all the facts then. I thought she sued from spilling coffee and thats it, and since then all the coffee cups had "caution contents hot" or similar. I do not know if it wasn't on there perviously or not. Belay my last.
To be fair I don't have problem with the police (PCSOs and security staff are another matter), but to take a photograph with the Sanderson I'd have to extend the tripod, open the camera, get beneath the black cloth to focus, fit a dark slide, set the shutter and aperture, open the slide, then make the ecposure
Parental overreaction I'd say.
To be fair I don't have problem with the police (PCSOs and security staff are another matter), but to take a photograph with the Sanderson I'd have to extend the tripod, open the camera, get beneath the black cloth to focus, fit a dark slide, set the shutter and aperture, open the slide, then make the ecposure
how many megapixels is it?
Pixels? I'm not even using a lightmeter
I do get funny looks at antique stores when I tell them I actually use the razors I am buying.
Could not disagree more. Do we really know any cases of molesters who advertised themselves with gigantic vintage cameras that cannot possibly escape detection? It beggars all forms of common sense. The sad point here is the extent to which people now permit law enforcement into the details of people's lives in the name of pointless security theater. At least that stop, unlike the TSA, didn't waste any money.
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I had a guy at an antique shop sell me a Krona. He asked if I was redecorating a bathroom. When I told him I was buying it to shave with, you'd have thought I had slipped and said "I'm buying it to to hammer into my skull, and I'll hold you liable and my brother is a top flight attorney" or somesuch.
He got very animated, and told me that it was foolish to try something that dangerous. It was funny, 'cause he was a little older than me, and quite possibly had been of shaving age before the DE vanished from the US market. He said that modern razors were much safer, and I volunteered that they certainly were designed for the lowest common denominator.
There were two older ladies shopping in the store, and they were mildly alarmed at how excited this guy was. I could tell they were listening to hear what was going on.
When I told him I shaved DE every day, he absolutely, flat out refused to believe me, as he knew that blades were unavailable. I told him I ordered them by the hundred on the internet, and my favorite was made in Egypt. With a cartoon shark on the label. He harumphed.
I then told him that since the thing was so damn dangerous and outmoded, he ought to offer me a discount, since eight bucks seemed a little steep, and I'd need some leftover money for a tourniquet and tetanus shots. He was pretty much glaring at me when I paid for it.
I took the little paper bag he'd put it in, and caught the two ladies sort of gawking...so I tipped my hat, winked and made a slashing motion with my finger across my throat. They both smiled but looked very confused.
This all took place in a little town we had stopped on while on vacation. When I met up with the wife (she'd taken the kids to a burger joint while I went razor hunting) she asked if I'd found any, and I told her yes, and we were probably going to be the talk of the town for a while.
She just sighed and drove on without asking for details.
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