on a lighter note...

[Twraska]

My cousin's wife was taking him to dialysis treatment. She is bred from Bohemian farm girl stock with legs like Hercules and a naturally husky frame. As they were going in, a little hispanic granny was coming out. Another hispanic man tried to violently jerk the grannie's purse away, and she cried out. Mrs. Rosenbaum was right next to the guy and suddenly he saw her right fist coming at his head! She laid him out COLD, and it was not an accident either, for she stood over him and when he woke up, she said "Get up and I'll do it again! You better lay there till the police get here." He did, meek as a lamb.

She said to the police, "I hope I won't get in trouble for this" They were almost laughing too hard, but finally told her, "No, ma'am, you're not in trouble at all."

I almost feel sorry for the purse snatcher having to live with the other inmates laughing at him!!!!!

 

[JimP]

I almost feel sorry for the purse snatcher having to live with the other inmates laughing at him!!!!!

Likely depends on where he is at. Petty thief would be out of jail before the dialysis treatment is finished.

 

[jpr9954]

Likely depends on where he is at. Petty thief would be out of jail before the dialysis treatment is finished.

I have to agree especially in certain jurisdictions like NYC, Chicago, LA, and Philly.

 

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[JimP]

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But the real question out there is just who has used them in their current state for the modern version?

 

[Boyd Brooks]

But the real question out there is just who has used them in their current state for the modern version?

Still use them and the modern ones as well, doing my part for the environment!

 

[Newboomer]

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Clothes pins. I still have some of my Mom's.

 

[Vashper]

An image of a plush toy with an unnaturally sewn mouth has spread online, which allegedly turned the initially "smiling horse" (which was named "Xiaoxiaoma") into a "crying horse" ("Kukuma").This apparent marriage caused an unpredictable stir among buyers. As a result, production facilities have been significantly expanded.:The number of lines has grown from two to more than ten, and the average daily output of toys has reached 15,000 units.According to Penpai, orders for this model have already been placed before March.
Apparently, the buyers expect something from the coming Year of the Horse.

 

[steve white]

Likely depends on where he is at. Petty thief would be out of jail before the dialysis treatment is finished.

Yes, but I told my uncle that she did more to decrease future crime for this guy than 3 jail sentences could have! I think a public whipping would work better than incarceration, too.

One new "security consultant" (read, former lifelong burglar) in Dallas explained it in his own unique way. He said he was not deterred from burglary by fences, dogs, alarms or fear of the law. What retired him was a man who stayed home without the car in the drive and shot him in the legs as he dove back out the kicked in door! He suspected the man was not aiming for his legs, just didn't lead him enough, lol. He went on to state, the best deterrent is the mere question of whether or not an armed home owner is home. He also said that most of his work was done between 10 am and 2 pm to avoid such a possibility as much as humanly possible.
And yes, I find this stuff incredibly humorous!!

 

[Firebird]

My mother used that original clothespin and later the modern version. We still use them in my house to keep bags of chips and similar rolled up and fresh. We no longer have a clothesline

 

[steve white]

Jeff Cooper once wrote about some east coast mobsters traveling across country to Vegas, who stopped in a little town to relieve the local bumpkins of some traveling money. As they were attempting to get back to their car and make a getaway, they encountered a fellow who had been hauling hay for years, who suddenly seized a miscreant, pinning his arms to his sides, and then proceeded to use his head to drive in a hitching post just a little deeper. He didn't have to swing his body that many times before it was decided this was not a place to try and knock over!

Cooper was making the argument that some people are fit enough/trained enough that they are "virtually un-muggable." Who says Joe public can't make a difference, lol?

 

[steve white]

My mother used that original clothespin and later the modern version. We still use them in my house to keep bags of chips and similar rolled up and fresh. We no longer have a clothesline

Well, they have held up the corners of many a shotgun patterning target, though the ones with a metal spring hold better.

 

[JimP]

My mother used that original clothespin and later the modern version. We still use them in my house to keep bags of chips and similar rolled up and fresh. We no longer have a clothesline

Did you ever make a match gun out of one? You would take it apart and then reassemble it with a second one and use the spring for a trigger and striker held together with friction tape. Cock it and place a wooden strike anywhere match into it and pull the trigger. It would light the match and throw it out a ways.

Been a long time since I made one. The problem is that you can't find those strike anywhere matches anymore.

 

[steve white]

OK, one more from memory lane. Back when I was an inner city scout master in Ft Worth, Tx, we were going to summer camp and had to have a physical signed by a parent. One little guy said his mother was at work, and his daddy couldn't sign it because he was in a big trash dumpster and couldn't climb out! I asked him how he managed to fall in there. Said, "oh, he didn't fall in--mama got mad and threw him into the dumpster." She was a big woman, and the dad was a somewhat short West African immigrant. We got him out by throwing in a post which he wedged in a corner and climbed. But I cannot for the life of me imagine the strength it took to throw him up and over.