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Fun watching a helicopter drive down the road.

I'm doing a bunch of construction at a DOD facility that includes security perimeter fencing. A moderately intelligent person could bypass or defeat most of the "security" measures for $0. They (we) are spending well north of that figure to put them in. It's a mixture of CYA, incompetence and...

I had a 6 speed 7.3L Ford that I put a clutch and flywheel in, both purchased new from Southbend. Within 6 months, it was exhibiting signs of teeth missing from flywheel or Bendix. Turned out to be flywheel. Dreading dropping that giant tranny again so soon, I got really good at finding "hills"...

I work for a big commercial construction management firm. 0500 is a little early for a standard start. We do 0600 and don't drive piles until 0700. We usually give notice of what's happening and anticipated normal work hours and any planned activities/closures that will occur outside of those...

I personally wouldn't hesitate to move it. If it's been sitting for months without use, might require a jump.

The quotes read like similar quotes from articles about various, usually accidental/negligent, shootings. "... And the gun went off." Nah, somebody pulled the trigger. Might not have meant to, but they did.

Local crop-dusting grass strip has a few hangars that I'd never really seen open... Other day a Mooney was taxiing away from one. Wouldn't have been my first guess on what was behind door #2.

A co-worker was doing one of the iron butt motorcycle rides from coast to coast, left Virginia and eventually fell asleep on his sport touring BMW motorcycle and ended up in a California hospital with no real recollection of how he got there. Story from witnesses sounded hilarious. Sitting...

My father in law flew Huey's. Have been having dinners at his table for 19 years now and the stories from him are extremely rare, and always shockingly terrible. He has a bracelet made out of a piece of one of the helicopters that was shot down with him at the controls, killing most of the...

I went to Virginia Tech, my wife went to Virginia Tech, and our vet went to Virginia Tech. We're all three great people and my vet hasn't yet killed any of my animals, therefore Virginia Tech is the answer. :D Aside from that biased bit of 'advice', I can only add that the wife is a people...

I'm married to a physician. She neither administers, nor profits from, in any way, influenza vaccinations. She doesn't view them as optional, nor do any of the other physicians we socialize with. I get them free at work. I don't personally know enough one way or the other to argue some of the...

Got a 10mm 1911, had failure to eject issues somewhere around round 4-6 out of every magazine. Called, was essentially told I was limp wristing it. Fine, pretty sure I'm not... Not my first 10mm... Not my first 1911. But I shot it more, had friends shoot it... Different ammo, got it around 300...

That appears factually inaccurate. I don't have a Facebook... And I just viewed that link and video.

I had a pretty bad experience with a not cheap Dan Wesson/CZ custom. Would recommend against, not that it was on your list.

But isn't the next layer of responsibility on someone working for the airline to ensure that things are ready for the next flight... You know, sky mall magazines restocked, trash picked up, dog crap removed from seats, etc.

I'm still currently in a position where digging into specifics would qualify as "****ting where I eat", but there's nothing that could be said to convince me to ignore what my own eyes have seen as far as waste by military and DOD. I'm only looking at a small facet of operations where I am, and...

They're painfully reliable. I've had to do a few things to my wife's (including put the front end back together after not one, not two, but three different animal strikes... It's a mess up there now. A body man, I ain't) but in general the thing won't die... And if it won't die, I can't justify...

Surfing, running boats in, and just generally being in or on the ocean. Have surfed since i was a kid and have ebbed and flowed on how frequently I surf over the years based on life, location, etc, but as someone mentioned, my attention goes away from other hobbies, but it always seems to come...

My neighbor sprays crops with his helicopter... Took me for a ride one day and first question from him after I got my head set on was "what kind of ride do you want to take?" Told him any damned thing but what I see him doing in the fields by the house. He complied, which was nice. Ag turns are...

And with a fleshed out rebuttal like that, now I completely understand how government pensions work! :D