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  • #61
    Originally posted by Legbreaker View Post
    Back when I was a lad (shakes walking frame), we were lucky if we had ceiling fans to cope with the 40+ degree (celsius) heat of the long summers.
    Air conditioning! Piffle!
    Yeah I know... Our old Middle School barely had a heating system that kept up. Let alone Air Conditional wasn't invented when built. It was the High School when my parents went to school.

    The Elementary School was quite new, but didn't have air. We open Windows when it got that stuffy.

    The High School was the same thing. The down side there were interior room with no window so these rooms could become quite unbearable during the year. This building now the Middle School, and they have a new High School in which I am sure they have central air. I wonder if they have Pool....lol

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    • #62
      Originally posted by Legbreaker View Post
      Back when I was a lad (shakes walking frame), we were lucky if we had ceiling fans to cope with the 40+ degree (celsius) heat of the long summers.
      Air conditioning! Piffle!
      I gather you didn't go to school in Tasmania then Lemme tell ya, Perth summers are both long and hot.

      So why'd you move to Tassie Leg Did you think there needed to be more mania in Tasmania
      sigpic "It is better to be feared than loved" - Nicolo Machiavelli

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      • #63
        Correct, spent the first few decades up north and drifted south for a few years ending up here in 2001.
        Main reason I came here was the cheap houses. Getting away from the damn heat was another MAJOR factor.
        If it moves, shoot it, if not push it, if it still doesn't move, use explosives.

        Nothing happens in isolation - it's called "the butterfly effect"

        Mors ante pudorem

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        • #64
          Well, being in the Deep South, it is not so much the temp as the humidity that has the tourists and snow birds dropping in thier tracks!

          In other news, a local charter fishing boat, all 25-tons of her, tried to dispute the right of way with a 10,000 ton bananna boat. Said bananna boat was in the correct shipping channel and moving at the correct speed when the fishing boat tried to beat the (much) larger ship.

          The result, the fishing boat lost (REALLY big surprise there, no). Three people are missing and presumed dead.

          And the fishing boat captain claimed that the bananna boat rammed him on purpose!

          Needless to say, the Coast Guard is not amused. Especially when they surveyed the wreck...in the main shipping channel...in an area that is marked as "No Fishing"

          Criminal charges are pending.
          The reason that the American Army does so well in wartime, is that war is chaos, and the American Army practices chaos on a daily basis.

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          • #65
            Just caught this news flash;

            It seems that a family decided that the recent news of Judgement Day falling on May 21st was true. So the mother decided to kill her two kids and then commit suicide.
            The reason that the American Army does so well in wartime, is that war is chaos, and the American Army practices chaos on a daily basis.

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            • #66
              Okay, I know this thread is a bit old, but I do have one to share:

              One day several years ago, me and a coworker were taking a break and chatting in a parking lot. A middle aged woman in a car nearby was trying to get it started, to no avail. A much younger man, slightly scruffy who decided to be a good Samaritan pulled his car up next to hers and offered to help jumpstart her car using his battery, and got out and connected a pair of jumper cables. After running his car for a few minutes (as me and my coworker watched) she tried to start her own car again, still with no success.

              Well, the lad unfortunately had the rather bright idea then to switch the cable leads around on the woman's car battery ONLY. You can guess what happened next...

              The battery's of BOTH cars began to smoke, and the cables themselves burst into flame and hot melting rubber oozed over both cars. The man is just standing there, rather dumbstruck with a "duuhhhh" expression on his face while me and my coworker are looking for something long and nonconductive to knock the damn cable leads off the batteries, and the woman is going into shock screaming her head off.

              "Do something!!!" She's screaming as we're knocking the leads off the batteries.

              "Lady, we've got a damn electrical fire here, we gotta disconnect the leads first!"

              The lady: "Throw some water on it!!!"

              "The use of force is always an answer to problems. Whether or not it's a satisfactory answer depends on a number of things, not least the personality of the person making the determination. Force isn't an attractive answer, though. I would not be true to myself or to the people I served with in 1970 if I did not make that realization clear."
              — David Drake

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              • #67
                This one left me a little concerned....

                Knocked off work early today and met with some friends to do a little pistol shooting at the local police range.

                We had to sit through the usual 15-minute safety briefing that we've heard a few thousand times. The police officer in change of the range decided that he needed to fire a few magazines for his monthly quota.

                He walks up to the firing line, pulls his Glock and promptly fires a round into the table in front of him. He then turns around with his pistol pointed at waist level, I'm guessing to see if anybody had observed what he had just done, only to see a dozen government employees promptly dive for cover while screaming "SAFE THAT WEAPON!!!!"

                I can sleep safe tonight, knowing that he is out there, with a loaded weapon....
                The reason that the American Army does so well in wartime, is that war is chaos, and the American Army practices chaos on a daily basis.

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                • #68
                  Wait, you're saying that this was the police officer IN CHARGE OF THE RANGE Please tell me there will be some kind of official consequences to this incident
                  sigpic "It is better to be feared than loved" - Nicolo Machiavelli

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                  • #69
                    I was flipping through an old journal and came across this...

                    We had a West Point "Third Lieutenant" join us for his summer training. Since we were about to go through the machine gun tables and our ringknocker had proved himself to by an utter pissant, so some NCOs decided to make an example of him.

                    It involved a M-2HB and a little creative work with the timing mechanism.

                    Our stud jumped up onto the cupola and, true to form, "forget" to check his headspace and timing. Range goes hot, he slaps a belt of API in, racks the bolt and fires.

                    A single round.

                    He looks at the weapon and then holds the trigger down, nothing happens. He racks the bolt, fires again.

                    And another single round goes off.

                    He opens the feed cover, removes the belt and proceeds to strip a dozen rounds off and then reloads the belt and tries again.

                    And once again a single round goes off.

                    By this time, everyone in the range tower is howling with laughter. Our future officer breaks down and radios in that his machine gun isn't working. Our Captain radios back advising young Westie to have his loader inspect the weapon.

                    The PFC, who had been carefully briefed before hand, proceeds to clear and disassemble and then reassemble the .50...in the process restoring the timing mechanism to its correct setting.

                    He then slaps a belt in, racks the bolt and fires off 75 rounds.

                    Our PFC turns to the future officer who asks, "what was wrong"

                    The answer...

                    "You had the bolt in upside down sir!"



                    Gotta love lieutenants!
                    The reason that the American Army does so well in wartime, is that war is chaos, and the American Army practices chaos on a daily basis.

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                    • #70
                      Originally posted by Targan View Post
                      Wait, you're saying that this was the police officer IN CHARGE OF THE RANGE Please tell me there will be some kind of official consequences to this incident
                      Sadly most cops here are not gun enthusiasts or veterans. They are graduates of a criminal justice degree.

                      So a firearm is another piece of their uniform. Used for that one qual a year.

                      A friend of mine I loaned tools to for a summer M1911 class is a firearms instructor for his sheriffs department. Wears the big red Instructors Class IIIA vest when instructing.

                      Likely that Officer was transferred to the Range as a Mercy to others that had to work and rely on him.

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                      • #71
                        Originally posted by Targan View Post
                        Wait, you're saying that this was the police officer IN CHARGE OF THE RANGE Please tell me there will be some kind of official consequences to this incident
                        This was the Sergeant in charge of the range! It happened yesterday and it was reported to his lieutenant, as to what happens...I live in the Deep South and the Good Ole Boy Network is in full swing, especially in the Police and Fire Departments. He should be disciplined, but more likely he will simply get the 2-minute "never do that again" lecture.
                        The reason that the American Army does so well in wartime, is that war is chaos, and the American Army practices chaos on a daily basis.

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                        • #72
                          Originally posted by ArmySGT. View Post
                          Sadly most cops here are not gun enthusiasts or veterans. They are graduates of a criminal justice degree.

                          So a firearm is another piece of their uniform. Used for that one qual a year.

                          A friend of mine I loaned tools to for a summer M1911 class is a firearms instructor for his sheriffs department. Wears the big red Instructors Class IIIA vest when instructing.

                          Likely that Officer was transferred to the Range as a Mercy to others that had to work and rely on him.
                          The police department in question has its officer shoot qualification twice a year and they have to fire a minimum of 100 rounds a month or so I have been told.

                          Going by some of the accidents/incidents that have happened in recent years, I'm inclined to believe that they really shoot a single bullet a year at a paper target 2 meters in front of them.

                          Barney Fife Commandos is just one nickname for the local police.
                          The reason that the American Army does so well in wartime, is that war is chaos, and the American Army practices chaos on a daily basis.

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                          • #73
                            Originally posted by dragoon500ly View Post
                            He walks up to the firing line, pulls his Glock and promptly fires a round into the table in front of him.

                            I can sleep safe tonight, knowing that he is out there, with a loaded weapon....
                            Yes, isn't it so reassuring to know you are safe from attacks by furniture with cops like him around.
                            "They couldn't hit an elephant at this dis...."

                            Major General John Sedgwick, Union Army (1813 - 1864)

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                            • #74
                              Well, here is what our favorite cop got...

                              Three day suspension,

                              with pay!

                              And a verbal warning!

                              And since we have Tropical Storm Lee coming in...

                              His suspension was waived, all the cops need to be on duty to prevent public disturbance.

                              Yup! The Good Ole Boy Network is alive and well!!!


                              All police officers have been recalled
                              The reason that the American Army does so well in wartime, is that war is chaos, and the American Army practices chaos on a daily basis.

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                              • #75
                                3 day suspension with pay = 3 days of bonus vacation time.
                                "They couldn't hit an elephant at this dis...."

                                Major General John Sedgwick, Union Army (1813 - 1864)

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