Hey Ben, Ditto. You're d man. Look forward to your next pics, Joe P.
Oh yeah, I finally won, the arb. judge ordered my job back. No back pay though???????
Rene Schweitzer
Classic Toy Trains/Garden Railways/Model Railroader
Ya'll 2! Have some good ole tea with lime/lemon and which ever pie you like.
Shout out to the Guys and Gals (mostly gals) in the Armed Forces. Keep your behind down!
Toad
I HOPE every one got to run trains ???? it rained FRIDAY , SATURDAY , AND TODAY , i didn't get to run any trains . so it was a wash out at my rail road .BEN
Have fun with your trains
Vic, very surprized to see you have fireworks there! With all this banned stuff I read about in CA..
Toad, They ARE banned, completely, but that doesnt stop my idiot nieghbors from buying them, and I'm not talking your garden variety "safe & sane" fireworks like you can buy at the booths, I'm talking the "unsafe & insane" type, M-80's & skyrockets, the kind that come with morter tubes. I'm not kidding when I describe it as a reinactment of a battlefield. This year the cops seam to focus on our area, the helicoptors quickly buzzed some of my idiot neighbors houses and I could see the police cars and officers having a nice chat with some of them, I think it had a chilling effect as this year ended up being nowhere near as bad as it has been in the past, either that or people just had less $$$ to fork out for the illegal kind. Luckily only a couple of fireworks started brush fires this year around the SoCal area according to the news.
I have my own theory how to discourage illegal fireworks use, fit our local police coptors with the waterdrop tanks they use on the firefighting choppers, so that when on patrol on the 4th, when they see fireworks going off on a certain street, swoop in and drop a hundred or so gallons of cold water right down on top of them, dousing the firework users, I think they would begin to "get it" then.
Vic
with the rain that helped to keep the fire works noise down , except 2 houses down from me , that lasted only 1/2 hour. i hope your dog is ok . Ben
This is what happened in our neighborhood (only 1.5 blocks away, yikes, it was scary to watch!). Can't believe people are so careless using fireworks! $100,000 worth of damage because of a smoke bomb.
OK Rene, I think you win, thats got to be one of the stupidest things I read being done on the 4th. Beats the "rockets red glare" arcing over my house, at least I was standing by with the hose!
PS, Ben, dog is a-ok now, he just hates all that noise.
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