Tonight I was made a victim...
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A few years ago I was held up at gun point while standing on the corner waiting for a bus in Maracaibo. The idiot wanted my money and my wedding ring, which I told him he'd have to shoot me to get. (I was told later I shouldn't have said that, but I really didn't think he had the guts to shoot and I was right.) Finally he grabbed the wallet out of my pocket and ran off. I lobbed a couple of rocks after him and hit him at least twice in the back, once on the back of the head and drew blood. I was pissed for a few minutes then laughed for half an hour. My wallet was still in my pocket. He grabbed my pipe tobacco pouch in his hurry. :-\ :omg: :laugh:
CQ de W5ALT
Walt Fair, Jr., P. E. Comport Computing Specializing in Technical Engineering Software
Walt Fair, Jr. wrote:
My wallet was still in my pocket. He grabbed my pipe tobacco pouch in his hurry.
Must be some damn good tobacco. :-D
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Garth J Lancaster wrote:
great - so can you explain 'topper' to the rest of us who are outside the USA given that wikipedia doesnt seem to have an entry that seems 'relevant'/close (or tell us where you looked it up)
Here you go.[^] :) Mildly NSFW toward the bottom of the page.
And above all things, never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is that in life people will take you at your own reckoning. --Isaac Asimov Avoid the crowd. Do your own thinking independently. Be the chess player, not the chess piece. --Ralph Charell
thanks Chris .. :doh:
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Garth J Lancaster wrote:
great - so can you explain 'topper' to the rest of us who are outside the USA given that wikipedia doesnt seem to have an entry that seems 'relevant'/close (or tell us where you looked it up)
Here you go.[^] :) Mildly NSFW toward the bottom of the page.
And above all things, never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is that in life people will take you at your own reckoning. --Isaac Asimov Avoid the crowd. Do your own thinking independently. Be the chess player, not the chess piece. --Ralph Charell
Haha, in psychology class we called that "story topping". You're supposed to let people have their moment in the spotlight, but it can be hard when you have such a better story ;P
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In Texas, we carry guns for just such occasions. In my case, I have a .40 caliber in a holster on the center console down by my right knee, and a couple of spare magazines in the center console - 36 rounds of hollow point goodness.
.45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly
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"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass..." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997
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"The staggering layers of obscenity in your statement make it a work of art on so many levels." - J. Jystad, 2001John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote:
a .40 caliber in a holster on the center console
John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote:
couple of spare magazines
John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote:
36 rounds of hollow point goodness
Yes! :D That'll take care of any smash-n-grabber :rolleyes:
"The clue train passed his station without stopping." - John Simmons / outlaw programmer "Real programmers just throw a bunch of 1s and 0s at the computer to see what sticks" - Pete O'Hanlon "Not only do you continue to babble nonsense, you can't even correctly remember the nonsense you babbled just minutes ago." - Rob Graham
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Garth J Lancaster wrote:
great - so can you explain 'topper' to the rest of us who are outside the USA given that wikipedia doesnt seem to have an entry that seems 'relevant'/close (or tell us where you looked it up)
Here you go.[^] :) Mildly NSFW toward the bottom of the page.
And above all things, never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is that in life people will take you at your own reckoning. --Isaac Asimov Avoid the crowd. Do your own thinking independently. Be the chess player, not the chess piece. --Ralph Charell
When I think of topper, I think of the Topper guy from Dilbert :laugh:
"The clue train passed his station without stopping." - John Simmons / outlaw programmer "Real programmers just throw a bunch of 1s and 0s at the computer to see what sticks" - Pete O'Hanlon "Not only do you continue to babble nonsense, you can't even correctly remember the nonsense you babbled just minutes ago." - Rob Graham
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A few years ago I was held up at gun point while standing on the corner waiting for a bus in Maracaibo. The idiot wanted my money and my wedding ring, which I told him he'd have to shoot me to get. (I was told later I shouldn't have said that, but I really didn't think he had the guts to shoot and I was right.) Finally he grabbed the wallet out of my pocket and ran off. I lobbed a couple of rocks after him and hit him at least twice in the back, once on the back of the head and drew blood. I was pissed for a few minutes then laughed for half an hour. My wallet was still in my pocket. He grabbed my pipe tobacco pouch in his hurry. :-\ :omg: :laugh:
CQ de W5ALT
Walt Fair, Jr., P. E. Comport Computing Specializing in Technical Engineering Software
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In Texas, we carry guns for just such occasions. In my case, I have a .40 caliber in a holster on the center console down by my right knee, and a couple of spare magazines in the center console - 36 rounds of hollow point goodness.
.45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly
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"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass..." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997
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"The staggering layers of obscenity in your statement make it a work of art on so many levels." - J. Jystad, 2001A friend of mine used to talk that way about riding his bike and getting dissed by cars. Until it happened to him, then he was too shaken up to actually do anything, and he didn't even have to put his bike down, he was backed into at a light. I believe in guns, I own two handguns and two long arms (my daughter is almost 13, so I am thinking of treating myself to a shotgun, as well) BUt from what I've seen, people don't rise to the occasion, they fall back to their level of training, and then only if they are lucky and have a lot of training. You never know how you will react until you have to.
Opacity, the new Transparency.
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When I think of topper, I think of the Topper guy from Dilbert :laugh:
"The clue train passed his station without stopping." - John Simmons / outlaw programmer "Real programmers just throw a bunch of 1s and 0s at the computer to see what sticks" - Pete O'Hanlon "Not only do you continue to babble nonsense, you can't even correctly remember the nonsense you babbled just minutes ago." - Rob Graham
At the risk of showing my age: When I think of Topper, I think of Leo G. Carroll and Cosmo with his ghosts.
CQ de W5ALT
Walt Fair, Jr., P. E. Comport Computing Specializing in Technical Engineering Software
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A friend of mine used to talk that way about riding his bike and getting dissed by cars. Until it happened to him, then he was too shaken up to actually do anything, and he didn't even have to put his bike down, he was backed into at a light. I believe in guns, I own two handguns and two long arms (my daughter is almost 13, so I am thinking of treating myself to a shotgun, as well) BUt from what I've seen, people don't rise to the occasion, they fall back to their level of training, and then only if they are lucky and have a lot of training. You never know how you will react until you have to.
Opacity, the new Transparency.
"you never know how you react until you have to" Richard, are you listening to what you just typed? YOU don't need the shotgun, your daughter does. Go see frontsight.com, yeah, I know, negative man points for figuring out the #$%%#$%$#% links. I am not a customer nor a proponent - I just believe in people taking responsibility for their own protection. and I have 4 daughters remaining :)
Charlie Gilley You're going to tell me what I want to know, or I'm going to beat you to death in your own house. "Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
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A few years ago I was held up at gun point while standing on the corner waiting for a bus in Maracaibo. The idiot wanted my money and my wedding ring, which I told him he'd have to shoot me to get. (I was told later I shouldn't have said that, but I really didn't think he had the guts to shoot and I was right.) Finally he grabbed the wallet out of my pocket and ran off. I lobbed a couple of rocks after him and hit him at least twice in the back, once on the back of the head and drew blood. I was pissed for a few minutes then laughed for half an hour. My wallet was still in my pocket. He grabbed my pipe tobacco pouch in his hurry. :-\ :omg: :laugh:
CQ de W5ALT
Walt Fair, Jr., P. E. Comport Computing Specializing in Technical Engineering Software
You bastterd! So, that was you?! :mad: :mad:
“Follow your bliss.” – Joseph Campbell
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...of a smash and grab. For those of you that don't know, a smash and grab is when the kaffer smashes your car window and grabs usually a handbag or what ever else is reachable. Me and my girlfriend were on our way out to go have dinner at a restaurant, just as I got off the highway at a red traffic light it happened. For my jozi people it happened as you get off the highway from benoni towards boksburg on the way to the east rand mall, i think its the rondebult off ramp. Right at the robot where your facing wild waters. Its so fast I can't describe it, not even to myself. It was all over in half a split second. The fucker came out of absolutely nowhere! I just saw a black hoodie and the next thing i saw was him jumping the barricade on the left and ran down towards the highway. My adrenalin was pumping so hard that I hyperventilated, after that I couldn't feel my body for a good 10 minutes, all my muscles contracted like mad. I couldn't even grip my steering wheel. then just pins and needles all over. I drove us home and we phoned the police Were both okay though
Harvey Saayman - South Africa Software Developer .Net, C#, SQL
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the kaffer
What's the kaffer?
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...of a smash and grab. For those of you that don't know, a smash and grab is when the kaffer smashes your car window and grabs usually a handbag or what ever else is reachable. Me and my girlfriend were on our way out to go have dinner at a restaurant, just as I got off the highway at a red traffic light it happened. For my jozi people it happened as you get off the highway from benoni towards boksburg on the way to the east rand mall, i think its the rondebult off ramp. Right at the robot where your facing wild waters. Its so fast I can't describe it, not even to myself. It was all over in half a split second. The fucker came out of absolutely nowhere! I just saw a black hoodie and the next thing i saw was him jumping the barricade on the left and ran down towards the highway. My adrenalin was pumping so hard that I hyperventilated, after that I couldn't feel my body for a good 10 minutes, all my muscles contracted like mad. I couldn't even grip my steering wheel. then just pins and needles all over. I drove us home and we phoned the police Were both okay though
Harvey Saayman - South Africa Software Developer .Net, C#, SQL
you.suck = (you.Occupation == jobTitles.Programmer && you.Passion != Programming)1000100 1101111 1100101 1110011 100000 1110100 1101000 1101001 1110011 100000 1101101 1100101 1100001 1101110 100000 1101001 1101101 100000 1100001 100000 1100111 1100101 1100101 1101011 111111Seems you were made the victim again. Somebody 1-voted you for no apparent reason. Nothing compared to your real ordeal, but I still fived you for sharing your story with us. :thumbsup:
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Harvey Saayman wrote:
the kaffer
What's the kaffer?
Simply Elegant Designs JimmyRopes Designs
Think inside the box! ProActive Secure Systems
I'm on-line therefore I am. JimmyRopesracial slur, its the equivalent of nigger
Harvey Saayman - South Africa Software Developer .Net, C#, SQL
you.suck = (you.Occupation == jobTitles.Programmer && you.Passion != Programming)1000100 1101111 1100101 1110011 100000 1110100 1101000 1101001 1110011 100000 1101101 1100101 1100001 1101110 100000 1101001 1101101 100000 1100001 100000 1100111 1100101 1100101 1101011 111111 -
A few years ago I was held up at gun point while standing on the corner waiting for a bus in Maracaibo. The idiot wanted my money and my wedding ring, which I told him he'd have to shoot me to get. (I was told later I shouldn't have said that, but I really didn't think he had the guts to shoot and I was right.) Finally he grabbed the wallet out of my pocket and ran off. I lobbed a couple of rocks after him and hit him at least twice in the back, once on the back of the head and drew blood. I was pissed for a few minutes then laughed for half an hour. My wallet was still in my pocket. He grabbed my pipe tobacco pouch in his hurry. :-\ :omg: :laugh:
CQ de W5ALT
Walt Fair, Jr., P. E. Comport Computing Specializing in Technical Engineering Software
This is the first good thing to happen out of smoking, AFAIK. :)
Cheers, Vikram. (Got my troika of CCCs!)
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"you never know how you react until you have to" Richard, are you listening to what you just typed? YOU don't need the shotgun, your daughter does. Go see frontsight.com, yeah, I know, negative man points for figuring out the #$%%#$%$#% links. I am not a customer nor a proponent - I just believe in people taking responsibility for their own protection. and I have 4 daughters remaining :)
Charlie Gilley You're going to tell me what I want to know, or I'm going to beat you to death in your own house. "Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
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A friend of mine used to talk that way about riding his bike and getting dissed by cars. Until it happened to him, then he was too shaken up to actually do anything, and he didn't even have to put his bike down, he was backed into at a light. I believe in guns, I own two handguns and two long arms (my daughter is almost 13, so I am thinking of treating myself to a shotgun, as well) BUt from what I've seen, people don't rise to the occasion, they fall back to their level of training, and then only if they are lucky and have a lot of training. You never know how you will react until you have to.
Opacity, the new Transparency.
RichardM1 wrote:
they fall back to their level of training
So for those of us with no training there is little hope. The VERY few times I have had to deal with this I know I have consistently risen to my level of training, lucky to be alive really.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity RAH
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At the risk of showing my age: When I think of Topper, I think of Leo G. Carroll and Cosmo with his ghosts.
CQ de W5ALT
Walt Fair, Jr., P. E. Comport Computing Specializing in Technical Engineering Software
Walt Fair, Jr. wrote:
When I think of Topper, I think of Leo G. Carroll and Cosmo with his ghosts.
It's Cary Grant and Roland Young film for me. (Saw it as a kid - TV - c1953 - I'm not that old.) Did you ever read any of the Thorne Smith novels farces?
Bob Emmett
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Seems you were made the victim again. Somebody 1-voted you for no apparent reason. Nothing compared to your real ordeal, but I still fived you for sharing your story with us. :thumbsup:
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racial slur, its the equivalent of nigger
Harvey Saayman - South Africa Software Developer .Net, C#, SQL
you.suck = (you.Occupation == jobTitles.Programmer && you.Passion != Programming)1000100 1101111 1100101 1110011 100000 1110100 1101000 1101001 1110011 100000 1101101 1100101 1100001 1101110 100000 1101001 1101101 100000 1100001 100000 1100111 1100101 1100101 1101011 111111Harvey Saayman wrote:
racial slur, its the equivalent of nigger
It is not appropriate to disparage a race of people here in the lounge. We are a racially diverse community here and everyone is respected for their knowledge not for the color of their skin.
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Think inside the box! ProActive Secure Systems
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This is the first good thing to happen out of smoking, AFAIK. :)
Cheers, Vikram. (Got my troika of CCCs!)
Well, I quit cigarettes in 1995, so that's why I had the pipe tobacco. But probably the best to come out of smoking was quitting altogether a year or so ago.
CQ de W5ALT
Walt Fair, Jr., P. E. Comport Computing Specializing in Technical Engineering Software
