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Member Section => Down Range Cafe => Topic started by: TAB on June 25, 2018, 10:26:05 PM
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Started framing an addition today. Wood got there about 8 am. A little after 9, the pd showed up from a noise complaint. Turns out the lady across the street is well known too them calling in complaints. They said " you're good" then went over and explained the law too her. Fast forward too 11, code enforcement shows up, same deal, only this time add in the dumpster. Once again, she was well known too them. Said sorry for stopping me from working and have a great day. Fast forward to 3:30. The building department shows, says they have a complaint about unpermited work... ofc I have a permit, hand it too them and tell them about the other 2 agencies too show up. They say they are putting into the computer not too come out again.
I swear why do some people make things difficult
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Some people's lives suck so they try to make everyone else as miserable as they are.
P.S. I think she's a pre-internet troll.
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Maybe she's just lonely. Bring her a pie. [emoji868]
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Maybe she's just lonely. Bring her a pie.
Chocolate cream made with Ex Lax.
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Sounds like a progressive/commie/dimocrat/socialist. Gotta control everything and have their approval before you do anything.
She's the kind the kids used to leave a bag full of dung on fire on the porch......
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Maybe she's just lonely. Bring her a pie. [emoji868]
Some people just need a High Five...
In the head...
With a chair.
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Sounds like a progressive/commie/dimocrat/socialist. Gotta control everything and have their approval before you do anything.
She's the kind the kids used to leave a bag full of dung on fire on the porch......
Started at 7 this morning, she came out her front door and told me I was number 1. I think she is just mad she woke up before noon. It's now a little after 9, the deck( hoists and sub floor
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Some people's lives suck so they try to make everyone else as miserable as they are.
P.S. I think she's a pre-internet troll.
That's what I was going to say as well.
I've observed and dealt with a wide variety of folks and have discovered that people who are miserable want others to share in it. Like the saying, "Misery loves company."
My m-i-l can be that way at times (heck, maybe all of us can on occasion) and I once told her that if I gave her a brick of solid gold that she'd complain that the corners were too sharp.
My dad used to say that folks like that would bi*@h if you hung 'em with a new rope. ;D
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Get your favorite herbicide and use it to spell out your one word estimation of her on her front lawn....
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That's what I was going to say as well.
I've observed and dealt with a wide variety of folks and have discovered that people who are miserable want others to share in it. Like the saying, "Misery loves company."
My m-i-l can be that way at times (heck, maybe all of us can on occasion) and I once told her that if I gave her a brick of solid gold that she'd complain that the corners were too sharp.
My dad used to say that folks like that would bi*@h if you hung 'em with a new rope. ;D
My grandpa's saying was:
Some people would bi*@h if you hung them with a gold chain
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Take the high road, Tab. Have some flowers delivered. Maybe a little note saying sorry for the inconvenience but we'll be finished soon. Find some other little gifts to give her. You don't have to I know, but it'll feel good to do right by her. Who knows, she might adopt you and leave you her fortune.
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Some people just need a High Five...
In the head...
With a chair.
:o It's good to see you're still among us.
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Now she's calling parking Patrol. I was planning on being nice that just ended. I just called my attorney, all further harassment will result in a restraining order.
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There used to be a real A-hole living next-door to me. Once while I was plowing snow in my driveway a cop car pulled up. The cop walked over and told me someone called in and said I was flying up and down the road at a high rate of speed on my ATV. I told the cop all I was doing was plowing my driveway. Then I pointed to where all the tracks ended right in front of my driveway, where I backed into the street to plow the very end of the driveway. There were no tracks in the fresh snow going either direction up or down the street, or across the street either. Anyone could plainly see I hadn't gone anywhere at all, at any speed. That cop sat there watching me until I was all done plowing. I guess that was in case I did fly up and down the street at a high rate of speed when I was finished.
This guy was the only person on my street who didn't like me, and I knew he was the one who called. I plowed everyone's sidewalks on both sides of the street for free several times over the years, without being asked to, or thanked when I was done. When we had a really bad snow storm I plowed the street too, so we didn't have to wait a week for the city to get to it. But I had to quit because of him. He called the cops on me for things I didn't do several other times, but never got in any trouble for abusing 911 or filing false police reports. He sued me for ripping a fence out that he put up on my property. He couldn't prove I did anything or how much it would cost to put another fence up. I had a lawyer but he was too stupid to get one. I didn't get in any trouble, but the judge got mad at him when he lied and said I threw dog shit in his yard. You shouldn't say shit in court, but he wasn't smart enough not to. When I was measuring to see how far away his fence was from my house, he knocked my tape measure out of my hand and took it in his house. I didn't get it back until the cops came and told him to give it back. Of course he didn't get in trouble for any laws he broke doing that. When I measured from the side of my house I found out the fence he put up was entirely on my property. The police told me to talk to the zoning commission. The zoning commission told me to call the police. After going in circles like that with no one doing anything about it, I took matters into my own hands.
He climbed up on my privacy fence several times and a few times called me over to the fence where he took a swing at me. Apparently attempted assault isn't a crime, so he kept getting away with it. When I came home from a short vacation a car jack that was sitting next to my porch was gone. When I took another well deserved vacation, the vanity plate and metal license plate frame and its hardware had been ripped from the front bumper of my truck and taken. I couldn't prove they were in any of the loads of scrap metal he took to be recycled, but no one else would steal the license plate off my truck.
He kept piling things against my privacy fence which is several inches inside of the property line. I kept telling him I didn't want his junk on my property and if he didn't move it I would. So he jammed an extension ladder between my fence and his shed. He didn't say anything as he watched me move it, but he put it back, chained it down, and piled several concrete blocks on top of it. I was standing in his driveway looking at it, figuring out what to do with all that stuff when he came home. I told him I wanted his stuff taken off of my property, and he flew into a rage. He told me to get off his property, but when I tried to leave, he came up behind me and twisted my head around until my neck made a loud snapping sound and I fell to the ground. When I was able to I went home and called the police, who showed up 2 days later to talk to me about it. I was treated by the emergency room for strained muscles in my neck, and bruising where he grabbed my arm. He was charged with assault and got probation for a while, and had to go to anger management classes and drug counseling. When he finished his short probation period without getting arrested again, he had a perfectly clean record, and spent not one second in jail for what in my eyes was attempted murder.
His name is Richard but I started calling him Dick, because Dick is short for Richard, and because he's a complete and total dick. Then he started calling me Dick, too. I didn't know that Dick was also short for Frank. He's such a dick that he sat there and watched as 2 guys stole another neighbor's big screen TV and walked down the street with it. When she asked him why he didn't call the cops, he said he didn't want talk to them because he was smoking dope. As if the 911 operator could smell it on him over the phone. So if you think people like that lady across the street are bad to have for neighbors, remember, it could be much worse.
One more thing: When seconds count, the police are only a couple of days away.
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Wood putty in key holes is a nice payback...best if you can get it done while you have a valid alibi
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Wood putty in key holes is a nice payback...best if you can get it done while you have a valid alibi
I heard crazy glue and toothpicks works, even on car doors that have the little thing sealing the keyhole. Another thing I've heard of is to stick any old key or key blank most of the way in, snap it off, and push it in as far as it will go. Since so many house doors use the same style of keys, Kwikset and EZSet being the same, and mostly what I've seen, keys are easy to get. Even without crazy glue it's a pain in the posterior. A locksmith may be able to pull it out but it's highly unlikely anyone else will have a set of broken key extractors.
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I would never mess with some ones stuff. That being said, a little dab of antisieze works great.
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I heard crazy glue and toothpicks works, even on car doors that have the little thing sealing the keyhole. Another thing I've heard of is to stick any old key or key blank most of the way in, snap it off, and push it in as far as it will go. Since so many house doors use the same style of keys, Kwikset and EZSet being the same, and mostly what I've seen, keys are easy to get. Even without crazy glue it's a pain in the posterior. A locksmith may be able to pull it out but it's highly unlikely anyone else will have a set of broken key extractors.
Two-part epoxy from walmart in a syringe.... then you don't actually have to touch anything belonging to the pest... just snip the tip and squirt in the hole. Once it sets, it is set. I think JB Weld has some too.
Also, if you want to annoy the crap outta someone without doing damage to property, just get a valve stem tool and just loosen the stems for a slow leak.
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Two-part epoxy from walmart in a syringe.... then you don't actually have to touch anything belonging to the pest... just snip the tip and squirt in the hole. Once it sets, it is set. I think JB Weld has some too.
Also, if you want to annoy the crap outta someone without doing damage to property, just get a valve stem tool and just loosen the stems for a slow leak.
I have found playing older country loud really pissed off liberals.i will even sing when I want too be down right mean.
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I have found playing older country loud really pissed off liberals.i will even sing when I want too be down right mean.
Yeah, Porter Wagoner and Slim Whitman alternating for several hours could have extreme effects. ;D
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Two-part epoxy from walmart in a syringe.... then you don't actually have to touch anything belonging to the pest... just snip the tip and squirt in the hole. Once it sets, it is set. I think JB Weld has some too.
Also, if you want to annoy the crap outta someone without doing damage to property, just get a valve stem tool and just loosen the stems for a slow leak.
If you squirted the epoxy from the syringe into the keyhole, how would you mix it?
I read something that sounded made up, about a guy getting revenge on his neighbor. He let some air out of one car tire, and the next night aired it back up and let some air out of a different one. He kept that up until his neighbor went in for a wheel alignment because the car just didn't handle right.
If you have access under the hood, I read that a few ball bearings down a spark plug hole is really bad for an engine. You could buy a bottle of 1,500 BBs with the easy pour spout and dump some in every cylinder. Fill 'er up with unleaded. If you want to cause frustration instead of serious property damage just pull the spark plug wires and plug them in randomly.
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I think that just treating them nicely and not letting them get under your skin is the best revenge, They will stew for hours trying to figure out why you're not getting mad at them or retaliating against them, The longer they think about it the madder they get. ;D ;D ;D
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George Herbert, 1593–1633.
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If you squirted the epoxy from the syringe into the keyhole, how would you mix it?
The stuff we used mixed in the nozzle. It was in small double syringes and as you pushed the plunger the stuff came together in a single nozzle. It was a one shot deal once you cut the tip, regardless of how much you used it was useless after that. The kind you find in most areas needs mixing, but I bet squirting it into such a tight space as a lock tumbler would mix enough to gum up the works.
What we used was similar to this but an industrial grade from a different company.
https://www.amazon.com/Loctite-Instant-0-47-Fluid-Syringe-1365868/dp/B0044F9KFI
I think that just treating them nicely and not letting them get under your skin is the best revenge, They will stew for hours trying to figure out why you're not getting mad at them or retaliating against them, The longer they think about it the madder they get. ;D ;D ;D
All previous kidding and jesting aside, I have found this to be true from personal experience.
Makes me think of Proverbs 25:21-22
21 If your enemy is hungry, give him bread to eat, and if he is thirsty, give him water to drink,
22 for you will heap burning coals on his head, and the Lord will reward you.
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There is some support for the belief that folks will suffer for the wrongs they do....if not here on earth, then to a greater degree in the afterlife.
The decent thing to do is to help those who have wronged you atone, here, while on earth rather than endure more intense suffering later.
I know it might be hard helping those who have wronged you atone, but it is the decent thing to do.
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Deal with people like that every day. Have some that will call if the neighbor does not cut their grass to the height they think it should be. They call for the neighbors kids playing too loud in the yard. Had a woman complain that the neighbor was letting her dog poop in her own yard. I advised her that it was her yard and her dog could do that there. She advised me that the woman needed to take a baggie and clean it up because it was a law. I advised her that was for the park, cemetery, and sidewalks and someone else yard. I advised her that it is not illegal to let your dog poop in your own yard. She got mad and called my Chief because I looked at her like she was crazy.
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I think the letter from the lawyer worked, now all I get is dirty looks.
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I think the letter from the lawyer worked, now all I get is dirty looks.
Well, dadgummit, I'm in touch with a legal firm myself. I have this thing where I like to change my new car's transmission and differential fluid at 1,000 or so miles to get rid of the metal shavings, etc. from a new build. Right or wrong, it's what I do. Well, on my new F150 the mechanic left the bolts lose on the transmission cooler or pan. That was Thursday and the mileage on the vehicle was 1,500 miles.
No word on Friday waiting on Ford's response the dealership said. No word yesterday waiting on Service Manager and the Service and Parts Director the service greeter said. The service greeter (you know, the guys up front with the "pom-poms" who greets you and fills out the paperwork) did not have an answer for me but he did mention they had ordered a new gasket for the oil pan.
I told them I wanted a new crate transmission and my $400 for the "service" back. I told hem we both know that transmission will never hold up like any other from the lot with 1,500 miles on it and that the "extra" service I paid for was to help ensure a long and trouble-free life which I am certain I won't get now. He said they had not made a decision but I passed on that since they ordered new gaskets that was an answer...and unacceptable.
So...I told the service greeter we can do it the hard way or the easy way. He asked when I wanted a replacement vehicle while mine was being serviced...so I cut him off as the pass and told him I had plenty of cars I didn't need his loaner...but that I do need a new crate transmission.
Tab....why do they make this stuff so hard? I suspect I'll hear from them today and they will not want to give me a new transmission. The lawyer is ready to go. First they get noticed not to delete electronic records they pulled from my vehicle then we schedule depositions on four people. No way will they win a jury decision...gee....
Oh, and the Ford Sync system which I have hated for years...I hate more now with my new stereo system. No open architecture on the Ford system so we hooked up downstream of Sync...and promptly lost Siri, the map/navigation voice, hands-free phone and the ability to play songs from the USB port. I'll drag that one into court too because the Magnusson-Moss Warranty Act says the warranty for cars cannot be voided if attachments are made "downstream" of the primary device and the device is unaffected. My Sync was connected downstream but when we did this it is likely some piece of software started locking things out... Only on the new 7" units....not any of the others.
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Had a similar prob with Chevy, long story short, blew a spark plug out of the head. I watched their tech rental the threads with out pulling the motor. You know metal shavings in cylinders is a great thing. Truck had less then 7k miles on it. The day they were served I got a check for the full amount for the truck+10k.
I made it very simple, replace to motor, but the truck or I will see you in court. They did not believe me
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They have nothing to lose by being suborn to see if they can get you to back down.
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Rastus, this is the time when you crawl under that nice new pickup with an engraver, and mark the tranny case in a couple of spots to easily prove if they actually replace it or just claim to.
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Rastus, this is the time when you crawl under that nice new pickup with an engraver, and mark the tranny case in a couple of spots to easily prove if they actually replace it or just claim to.
Yep.
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Well, you would have thought they would have called me yesterday. I was told I would get a call. Of course, the Ford dealer said I would get a call on Friday and on Monday and I finally had to call them just before quitting time on Friday and Monday. I will say that Ford corporate called me back and I am pleased with Ford corporate. It's a shame the dealer isn't performing.
Marking that transmission is an excellent idea, but since they did not call yesterday I'm giving it to a lawyer. I can wait a while...until we have electronic records, shop records, and 4 depositions. I'm pretty certain I'll get a new transmission and the paperwork that supports it now without having to crawl under the truck.....or a new truck with exactly what I want and the same aftermarket upgrades.
Oh. And if they do anything to the truck I don't like, that will be a shame. No repairs have been authorized.
Gee I hate this. My first new vehicle in over 13 years. I had to wait 3 months because I ordered pretty much what I wanted; something decked out without the full console (I wanted bench leather), without high priced premium package trim and $25k less than premium package (well, maybe $23-1/2k after I put the new step on it...if I keep it) with everything but the power step. It spent a week and a half at the audio shop having soundproofing installed along with a stereo. Nice quiet truck...the engine sound purred through just right...8 cylinder no eco-six banger. I was looking at a Rousch upgrade to 600 HP a little later on...now this.
And my bass boat electronics upgrades are three weeks behind so far.....