OT Big trucks w/crip plates

[Harry K]

got where I am need to using winter tires. I also heat with wood (6 cord or more/yr) cut my own, Every _needed_ 4x? A couple times. Had to call a tow to get me unstuck once, thought I would have to again but after 1/2 ho urs work packing brush got out. Othere than that once.

Which is why I don't use my truck, unless some very overriding reason exist s doesn't move in snowy conditions. Always took the wife's car which have a lso all been 2x.

Stuck my truck today. Hauling brush to the neighbor's brush pile, backed h alf way across the pasture to the brush pile and hit a rock stopping me. Y ep, in 2" of snow on almost level ground I couldn't move either way. Walke d home (1/4 mile) for the car and set of chains, laid 'em in front of the w heels and drovre right on out, came home with my brush. I'll mount the cha ins tomorrow and make the trip - got 2 more loads after that.

If I have to buy another car I'll probably HAVE to go to 4x. 2x in a car h as become almost as rare as 2x and stick in a truck.

Harry K

[Kurt Ullman]

You left out the best part.,.. smiling and waving (grin)

[(PeteCresswell)]

Per Kurt Ullman:

Could that be a textbook example of Schadenfreude?

I didn't want to admit to it... but it's true..... -)

[BurfordTJustice]

Do you work at rule.com or just like them getting SPAM?

[BurfordTJustice]

Do you work at rule.com or just like them getting SPAM?

[CRNG]

On Tue, 4 Feb 2014 09:48:50 -0500, "BurfordTJustice" wrote in

Maybe he bought something from them and didn't like the customer service.

[Terry Coombs]

We had an older couple last night in a 2wd pickup trying to get up the hill to get out of The Holler . Couldn't make it on their own so one of the neighbors hooked up to them with his 4X4 Chevy truck and was moving them right on up the hill - when for no apparent reason the woman driving the P/U put her brakes on . I got kinda pissy , as I was on my way out to pick the wife up from work ... told the people they had no damn business out there in those conditions with a 2WD truck . They ended up backing it down and to the side so we could all get out . Got a call from the Good Sam neighbor just before we left town that the road was clear , apparently the woman did the same thing several times before they basically forced her to let someone else drive her truck up to the flat on top . Good thing they made it when they did , by the time I got back out here it was slick enough that I slid a little coming in . Probably that slick in part because of all the attempts to get those fools out . (I heard later last night that they were leaving because of a family dispute , not because they really wanted to .)

[Lab Lover]

Or maybe it is just a way of saying "Labradors Rule".

[BurfordTJustice]

Or maybe it is just a way of saying "Labradors Rule".

[Robert Green]

Agreed. But in DC there are guys (mostly) who grab their elderly parent's placard and park free at the meters all day, often to work at construction jobs. Those kinds of miscreants really make it hard for everyone else and take unfair advantage of the system meant to help the disabled.

While I agree it's not good policy to have cops perform "on the spot eligibility checks" based on how well someone appears to walk, I think that some enforcement is required.

I think it's OK for the cops to at least stop someone who's so obviously able-bodied that they're carrying a toolbelt and a large toolbox. If they just parked in an HP spot it's not unreasonable for a cop to ask them for proof that they're actually the handicapped person that the tags were issued to. The law allows them to do that now in DC - don't know if it was always so. In addition to having a placard or HP tags, you also need to carry a separate HP registration card indicating who the tags/placards were issued to. If they're not around or can't be readily produced, out comes the multi-hundred dollar ticket. (It was $250 last time I looked, but that was years ago.)

Of course like all well-intentioned laws, it's going to cause at least one guy to leave his disabled mom in the car all day to immunize himself from getting a ticket. )-"

[The Daring Dufas]

I remember reading somewhere that handicap placards were one of the hottest selling items at flea markets in California. ^_^

TDD

[The Daring Dufas]

Waky Zaky a punk kid. I wish I was 45 again, back then I would often put a compressor for a 5 ton AC unit on my shoulder then take it up my

24 foot ladder to a rooftop in order to swap out a burned up compressor. A couple of years ago I was still working and I changed out a compressor in a 7.5 ton rooftop condenser but I used a winch to slide it up my 24' ladder. I still had to wrestle it in and out of the condensing unit but was able to it. I can't even work on my own vehicle these days and it's quite frustrating to have trouble with stairs or uneven ground. o_O

TDD

[Kurt Ullman]

I have no problem with this as part of regular patrols as long as they do it like most similar tickets... when they are bored (grin).

But then we have abuse of elderly, etc., to fall back on which is most cases would be a felony.

[Kurt Ullman]

He was talking about parking free at nearby meters.

[Robert Green]

Selective enforcement won't go away until all cops/parking enforcement people are robotic. If you've ever watched "Parking Wars" pieces of that puzzle are already well in place. The enforcement units in big cities have camera/software platforms that allow them to drive up and down city streets scanning all the tags on parked cars and signaling the driver when they get a hit on a scofflaw. The Google driverless cars are already here. Do the math. All we need is drones on steroids to come in and lift the car off to an impound lot and the humans can be dropped out of the equation*. (-;

Just because it's a possible felony doesn't mean some dipwad doesn't already have his elderly mom sitting in a car all day. It might be a hard case to make if the parent says "I enjoy knitting while sitting in the car" and indicates she was there of her own volition. After hearing stories of guys trying to drag away ATM's with a chain around their bumper and leaving their bumper (and their license plate!) behind for the cops, I never underestimate the ingenuity (or lack thereof) of the common criminal idiot.

[Robert Green]

Oh, what a tempting straight line. (-:

I thought that was as plain as the nose on my face, but you live and learn. Thanks for interpreting for me, Kurt. (-:

[Kurt Ullman]

Dirty job, but somebody's gotta do it. '