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Post by franko on Sept 16, 2011 15:15:23 GMT -5
It's one thing to expect assurances against an unsafe/dangerous environment for patrons (faulty equipment)...it's another to make DEMANDS upon a business solely to satisfy one's personal preference where seating comfort is concerned. Don't like a business's tables/chairs/barstools/their 1-ply toilet-paper.....then DON'T GO THERE, dummy!!! if Air Canada needs to make wider seats [or allow two seats to someone who doesn't fit into one] then this is totally . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . pathetic |
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Post by BadCompany on Jul 5, 2012 11:50:38 GMT -5
Rules are rules, man! And if you don't follow them, then suffer the consequences!!! Florida Lifeguard fired after saving drowning man(CNN) -- Tomas Lopez says he never thought getting fired would make him so popular.
Since he was terminated as a lifeguard Monday for disregarding a protected area to save a swimmer, the 21-year-old from Florida said his phone has been ringing off the hook with journalists trying to get his side of the story. He is set to make an appearance on CNN's "Erin Burnett OutFront" Thursday night.
"The reason I was fired is just ridiculous," Lopez told CNN late Wednesday night. "It is a ridiculous rule, really. What was I supposed to do? Just let the guy drown?"
The incident occurred Monday at Hallandale Beach in southern Florida.
Orlando-based Jeff Ellis and Associates, the company Lopez worked for, said lifeguards cannot go beyond the perimeter of the beach they are responsible for overseeing.The rest at: www.cnn.com/2012/07/05/us/florida-lifeguard-fired/index.html?hpt=hp_t2 |
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Post by franko on Jul 5, 2012 13:39:54 GMT -5
“I just want to sit down like a normal person,’’...he's got a point. Given the percentage of overweight people in the US, one can defenitly say that these tables are NOT for a normal American. Yet, how many commercials show that percentage? None. Always trim....and usually young, happy, and vibrant. any beer commercial. of course, showing someone dying in the gutter of cirrhosis or a mangled car after drinking and driving isn't going to sell many brews. |
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Post by CentreHice on Jul 6, 2012 7:27:17 GMT -5
Yet, how many commercials show that percentage? None. Always trim....and usually young, happy, and vibrant. any beer commercial. of course, showing someone dying in the gutter of cirrhosis or a mangled car after drinking and driving isn't going to sell many brews. They always, very politely, remind us to Please drink responsibly. Not their fault.  Ah...the fine-print ad disclaimer that cleanses the corporate conscience...and seems to hold up in a court of law. The car/truck/SUV commercials, too, which show you everything you SHOULDN'T do in your vehicle...ILLEGAL, life-threatening acts.... Professional driver on closed course. Do not attempt. Really? I'm not supposed to fly down a city street, jump open bridges, and do a 180 skid into a parking spot? I'm not supposed to take my SUV down an alpine ski run? ======================================================== Troy-Bilt Wood Chippers should use a scene similar to the one in Fargo. Professional hit man. Do not attempt. |
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Post by franko on Jul 6, 2012 9:25:56 GMT -5
more like Please drink responsibly
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Post by Skilly on Jul 6, 2012 9:32:40 GMT -5
I'm not supposed to take my SUV down an alpine ski run? My friend actually did this. He drove down the ski hill and then put the vehicle in 4-low, to come back up. I was with him and asked him what will he do if he gets stuck. He said ditch the truck, and tell Dodge to come get it ... it was supose to be able to do this kinda stuff (ok, he actually said another s word ... ). It made it up the hill. |
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Post by Habs_fan_in_LA on Jul 6, 2012 11:03:48 GMT -5
"But the cheese was extra!" 'Big guy' sues White Castle over small booths290-pound stockbroker says he can't fit into burger chain's seating Wedging White Castle burgers into his mouth has admittedly never been a problem for a 290-pound stockbroker from New York.
Trying to wedge himself into a seat at his local White Castle, however, has him mad enough to sue.
Martin Kessman, 64, has filed a lawsuit seeking unspecified financial damages against the fast-food chain, claiming that his local White Castle is in violation of the Americans With Disabilities Act because the seating cannot accommodate a customer of his size. A federal lawsuit filed last week claims that in April 2009, Kessman smacked his knee into a metal post while trying to wedge himself into the stationary seating at a White Castle in Nanuet, N.Y., near his home. The rest here: today.msnbc.msn.com/id/44523370/ns/today-today_people/#.TnHrO10v7VYIf White Castle installs a seat that accomodates a 290 lb man, can they be sued by a 600 lb man who still won't fit into the Booth? My fitness club has a lift chair to allow handicapped people to access the pool without the assistance of a club employee. Does this increase their liability if the lift is used and the member falls and drowns? During WWll the government interned JAPS in camps. They were called offensive slurs in official government newsreels. Times change. Today, Jackie Robinson is considered an Uncle Tom for tolerating racial slurs that he had to endure. Lighten up world. |
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Post by Disgruntled70sHab on Jul 12, 2012 17:40:53 GMT -5
And people used to think that Dungeons and Dragons was addictive. Cripes! ======================================================== Manstabbed over video game
By Galen Eagle, QMI Agency PETERBOROUGH, Ont. — A man enraged over the online videogame World of Warcraft allegedly stabbed a neighbour in the chest sending him to hospital. “I was sitting in my house today thinking ‘should I be dead or shouldn’t I?’” said Jordan Osborne, 20, on Thursday, who was hospitalized with a stab wound to his sternum. “And it’s all over a World of Warcraft game.” Osborne alleges he was stabbed when he went to his neighbour's Peterborough, Ont., apartment on Wednesday after hearing an argument. “I was telling him, there is no need for you to be freaking out about World of Warcraft. It’s just a game,” Osborne said, while his neighbour fought with a friend who was visiting and some other players over his headset. “He said, ‘It’s not just a game, it’s my life.’” That’s when the man grabbed his throat, punched him in the face and stabbed him in the chest, Osborne said. “Like they say, it takes over your life, man.” Justin Williams, 21, is charged him with aggravated assault and assault with a weapon, police said. Williams was scheduled to appear in court Thursday. Peterborough is about 125 km northeast of Toronto. cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/WeirdNews/2012/07/12/19979551.html (link) |
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Post by BadCompany on Aug 1, 2014 7:37:58 GMT -5
Reviving an old thread, even though it will undoubtedly be lost in the PK Hysteria today. Florida mom arrested after letting 7-year-old walk to the park alone(CNN) -- After letting her 7-year-old son walk from their home to a park to play, a Florida mother faces up to five years in jail for child neglect. Nicole Gainey, 34, was arrested on July 26 after her son, Dominic, was found by police alone in a park less than a half-mile from her Port St. Lucie home. On Saturday afternoon, Gainey had given Dominic permission to walk to Sportsman's Park, a route he's familiar with since he uses it to ride his bike to school, her lawyer said. On the way, he passed a public pool, and someone asked him where his mother was. "They asked me a couple questions, and I got scared, so I ran off to the park and they called the cops," Dominic Guerrisi told CNN affiliate WPTV. An officer arrived at the park where Dominic was playing a short time later. "Dominic checked in with his mom a few minutes before the police came and was getting ready to go home for dinner," said Gainey's attorney, John Whitehead, founder of the Virginia-based civil liberties group the Rutherford Institute. He always has a cell phone with him and was wearing it in a case around his neck that his mother had made. According to Whitehead, the phone had fallen out of his pocket recently and she didn't want him to lose it. When the officer asked Dominic whether his mother knew where he was, the child told him that she did and he'd just spoken to her on the phone, according to the police report. Dominic told the police his name, address and mother's name but wasn't able to answer when asked for his date of birth. He was then driven home. "When I saw the police cars pull up in my driveway, and the officers started asking me about Dominic, I was frantic to know whether he was OK," Gainey told CNN in an e-mail. According to the report, Gainey told the officer that she let her son go to the park alone once or twice a week. The arresting officer said that Gainey had failed to provide her son with care and supervision by allowing him to cross the street and go to the park alone. According to the report, he told her that there had been recent criminal activity in and around the park and a number of sex offenders lived nearby. Gainey was arrested on a felony child neglect charge and taken to jail, leaving Dominic and her 17-year-old daughter at the house with her boyfriend. She was released seven hours later on $3,750 bond. The Rest |
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Post by Cranky on Aug 1, 2014 13:13:51 GMT -5
Is it too late to arrest my parents for letting me play up and down the street? I even played in the park half a block away.
Amazingly, cops can arrest a mother....but have a tough time dealing with the sex offenders.
Me thinks that we need a meteor strike to hit re-set......
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Post by blny on Aug 1, 2014 16:33:09 GMT -5
In the immortal words of Charlie Brown, "good grief."
I friggin' near played in traffic as a kid. Hell, I played STREET hockey on a side street in a subdivision. We used half a dozen blocks in the neighbourhood to play hide and seek. Of course, my mother could hear me a mile away at school, so she could hear me playing outside in the summer lol. I was a loud child lol.
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Post by Cranky on Aug 1, 2014 18:13:27 GMT -5
I wonder were all these twitter "oh my Gawd" is comming from....and forgetting that today, everybody is one step away from becoming a victim....and we all need to be one-step, one-think and cocooned.
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Post by franko on Aug 1, 2014 21:22:13 GMT -5
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Post by Disgruntled70sHab on Aug 2, 2014 18:16:09 GMT -5
Big brother is watching it all ... damn those geotags!! Soldier’s Geotagged Instagram Selfies
Land Russia and Putin in Hot Water
Published on August 1, 2014 by Gannon Burgett
While Russia continues to claim it has no involvement in the civil conflict in Ukraine, the selfie-strewn Instagram profile of Russian soldier Sanya Sotkin may tell a slightly different story. A story which is landing Russian President, Vladimir Putin in even more hot water than he’s already in.
With the unwanted help of the ‘Photomap’ feature in Instagram, the 24-year-old’s Instagram profile shows a number of self-portraits that are geotagged inside the borders of Ukraine. More particularly, inside rebel-controlled territory, some of it dangerously close to the location of where Malaysian Airlines flight MH17 was tragically shot down, killing all 298 people on board.
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Post by Cranky on Sept 15, 2014 15:34:56 GMT -5
Interesting video someone sent me....
BTW...do NOT think that we are that far behind in Canada. When I was looking at a wind turbine project, I was stunned to find that there are a number of "associations" that have tremendous power. Where they got it from is a mystery, but they can certainly claim that you need their approval to get a project done......or fight them in court for years and way too much money.
Then there is the other issue of Ontario government ever increasing rules on farmers and land owners. Much like Washington State, it doesn't take too much convincing of Ontario Liberal government to "protect the environment". All you need is "save the BingyBingy worm" interest group and some support from the big mouth foundations, next thing you know, you can't do anything on your property. It doesn't have to be any well recognized eco threat of huge study, an "opinion" from a self described expert is enough to get the ball rolling. Right now, it's far easier to pile on "eco" restrictions then spend enormous amount of money fighting to lift them.
Sure, I'm all for putting the next Love Canal a-holes in jail for 30 years, heck, I'd buy the rope to hang them, but under the "we love our planet" and "the sky is falling" hypochondria, environmental nutties are stripping away land rights so fast, you'd be shocked at the amount of regulations in certain parts of Ontario.
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Post by franko on Sept 15, 2014 15:51:06 GMT -5
Then there is the other issue of Ontario government ever increasing rules on farmers and land owners. Much like Washington State, it doesn't take too much convincing of Ontario Liberal government to "protect the environment". All you need is "save the BingyBingy worm" interest group and some support from the big mouth foundations, next thing you know, you can't do anything on your property. It doesn't have to be any well recognized eco threat of huge study, an "opinion" from a self described expert is enough to get the ball rolling. Right now, it's far easier to pile on "eco" restrictions then spend enormous amount of money fighting to lift them. Sure, I'm all for putting the next Love Canal a-holes in jail for 30 years, heck, I'd buy the rope to hang them, but under the "we love our planet" and "the sky is falling" hypochondria, environmental nutties are stripping away land rights so fast, you'd be shocked at the amount of regulations in certain parts of Ontario. not so fast there, Bucko! event the environmental nutties (as you so kindly call them) aren't in full agreement. seems that the green "nutties" hold more sway -- what was "environmentally sensitive and protected" land only a few years ago is prime wind turbine land . . . and the turbines win out over the turtles! |
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Post by Cranky on Sept 15, 2014 16:21:12 GMT -5
There is nothing funnier the having opposing eco groups fighting for hierarchy! They get together and argue on who is more important for saving the planet....until BIG greenwash money comes along and makes their decision for them.
Make no mistake, greenwash money is as big as it gets. Some of it is from the very people who are behind big oil.
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Post by Disgruntled70sHab on Nov 28, 2014 11:31:02 GMT -5
This is where we've come to is it? ... like try some fibre already ... Parents to rally after city
cracks down on high-fiving crossing guardQMI Agency Nov 28, 2014 Last Updated: 10:41 AM ET PETERBOROUGH, Ont. — A city crackdown on a high-fiving crossing guard has inspired parents to stage a rally outside City Hall Friday morning. A crossing guard stationed outside Prince of Wales Public School was told this week that his longtime practice of high-fiving passing students violates city policies about contact with children and potential distractions. More/Suite |
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Post by Polarice on Nov 28, 2014 12:05:34 GMT -5
The world is slowly going insane.
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Post by Disgruntled70sHab on Dec 30, 2014 23:23:28 GMT -5
Didn't want to start another thread but man ... Ottawa is having a problem with gang violence now (took a while getting there) and now a mother is shot by her 2-year-old toddler ... Woman shot, killed at
Walmart in Idaho by her toddler: REUTERS
Dec 30, 2014, Last Updated: 8:26 PM ETA woman was accidentally shot and killed at a Walmart store in northern Idaho on Tuesday when her 2-year-old son pulled a loaded handgun from her purse that then went off, a county sheriff said. The 29-year-old woman was shopping at a Walmart in Hayden, Idaho, with the toddler seated in her shopping cart when the incident occurred, Kootenai County Sheriff Ben Wolfinger said in a written statement. More/suite |
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Post by Cranky on Dec 31, 2014 14:29:49 GMT -5
Didn't want to start another thread but man ... Ottawa is having a problem with gang violence now (took a while getting there) and now a mother is shot by her 2-year-old toddler ... Woman shot, killed at
Walmart in Idaho by her toddler: REUTERS
Dec 30, 2014, Last Updated: 8:26 PM ETA woman was accidentally shot and killed at a Walmart store in northern Idaho on Tuesday when her 2-year-old son pulled a loaded handgun from her purse that then went off, a county sheriff said. The 29-year-old woman was shopping at a Walmart in Hayden, Idaho, with the toddler seated in her shopping cart when the incident occurred, Kootenai County Sheriff Ben Wolfinger said in a written statement. More/suiteDarwinianism works. |
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Post by Disp on Dec 31, 2014 18:08:00 GMT -5
Didn't want to start another thread but man ... Ottawa is having a problem with gang violence now (took a while getting there) and now a mother is shot by her 2-year-old toddler ... Woman shot, killed at
Walmart in Idaho by her toddler: REUTERS
Dec 30, 2014, Last Updated: 8:26 PM ETA woman was accidentally shot and killed at a Walmart store in northern Idaho on Tuesday when her 2-year-old son pulled a loaded handgun from her purse that then went off, a county sheriff said. The 29-year-old woman was shopping at a Walmart in Hayden, Idaho, with the toddler seated in her shopping cart when the incident occurred, Kootenai County Sheriff Ben Wolfinger said in a written statement. More/suiteDarwinianism works. Not before she reproduced though. |
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Post by jkr on Jan 1, 2015 7:56:23 GMT -5
Didn't want to start another thread but man ... Ottawa is having a problem with gang violence now (took a while getting there) and now a mother is shot by her 2-year-old toddler ... Woman shot, killed at
Walmart in Idaho by her toddler: REUTERS
Dec 30, 2014, Last Updated: 8:26 PM ETA woman was accidentally shot and killed at a Walmart store in northern Idaho on Tuesday when her 2-year-old son pulled a loaded handgun from her purse that then went off, a county sheriff said. The 29-year-old woman was shopping at a Walmart in Hayden, Idaho, with the toddler seated in her shopping cart when the incident occurred, Kootenai County Sheriff Ben Wolfinger said in a written statement. More/suiteI really have trouble feeling sorry for this person. In mid morning she enters a department store with a loaded gun ( safety off I presume) within reach of a two year old. The child could of shot himself or someone else in the store. |
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Post by CentreHice on Jan 1, 2015 16:08:59 GMT -5
Right out of O. Henry.
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Post by Cranky on Jan 1, 2015 21:08:00 GMT -5
Didn't want to start another thread but man ... Ottawa is having a problem with gang violence now (took a while getting there) and now a mother is shot by her 2-year-old toddler ... Woman shot, killed at
Walmart in Idaho by her toddler: REUTERS
Dec 30, 2014, Last Updated: 8:26 PM ETA woman was accidentally shot and killed at a Walmart store in northern Idaho on Tuesday when her 2-year-old son pulled a loaded handgun from her purse that then went off, a county sheriff said. The 29-year-old woman was shopping at a Walmart in Hayden, Idaho, with the toddler seated in her shopping cart when the incident occurred, Kootenai County Sheriff Ben Wolfinger said in a written statement. More/suiteI really have trouble feeling sorry for this person. In mid morning she enters a department store with a loaded gun ( safety off I presume) within reach of a two year old. The child could of shot himself or someone else in the store. To begin with, she shouldn't have one in the chamber. No two year old is going to pull back the slide to load a round. Second, no twit in the known universe is going to go around with the safety off. Like I said, Darwin works wonders. .... ******* BTW. ...best question ever.... "what happens if there isn't a round in the chamber and you pull the trigger?" "click" "And if there is a round in there?""bang" "how would you Know?""aim it at your foot and pull" I'm beyond certain that some people should not own guns. Or plastic knives. |
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Post by Disgruntled70sHab on Jan 11, 2015 22:03:13 GMT -5
Go figure ... Woman who struck boys with SUV, killing one, sues families for 'emotional trauma'
9:04 am, January 11th, 2015Tracy McLaughlin | QMI AGENCYINNISFIL - The last thing Richard Esch saw on his best friend’s face before he was struck and killed by an SUV while they rode their bicycles, was a smile ... But he can’t forget the fact that the woman who struck them is suing the boys and their families for her own emotional trauma. Here's the rest |
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Post by BadCompany on Jan 12, 2015 9:18:19 GMT -5
Go figure ... Woman who struck boys with SUV, killing one, sues families for 'emotional trauma'
9:04 am, January 11th, 2015Tracy McLaughlin | QMI AGENCYINNISFIL - The last thing Richard Esch saw on his best friend’s face before he was struck and killed by an SUV while they rode their bicycles, was a smile ... But he can’t forget the fact that the woman who struck them is suing the boys and their families for her own emotional trauma. Here's the restAs a culture we have lost the concept of "shame". Seriously. Whether the cyclists were at fault or not is almost irrelevant. One is dead, the other left with serious physical and mental injuries. Accept that they have been punished enough, if they even deserved to be punished. I'm sure the driver has and is suffering a tremendous amount of emotional trauma herself, but for Christ sake... |
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Post by Disgruntled70sHab on Jan 13, 2015 14:40:49 GMT -5
I really have trouble feeling sorry for this person. In mid morning she enters a department store with a loaded gun ( safety off I presume) within reach of a two year old. The child could of shot himself or someone else in the store. Then you probably won't like this either: Indiana couple charged after video shows tot putting gun in mouth
Not clear if ammunition was in weapon's chamber
The Associated PressPosted: Jan 11, 2015 12:06 AM ET|Last Updated: Jan 12, 2015 2:13 AM ETAn Indiana couple faces charges after investigators say they found cellphone videos showing the woman's 12-month-old daughter putting a handgun in her mouth. Evansville police discovered the videos after a 19-year-old man was arrested for trying to sell a handgun to an undercover officer. Police say the man and the girl's 22-year-old mother can be heard encouraging the toddler to say "pow" and that no one tried to stop her as she put the gun in her mouth. Link |
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Post by jkr on Jan 13, 2015 15:19:51 GMT -5
I really have trouble feeling sorry for this person. In mid morning she enters a department store with a loaded gun ( safety off I presume) within reach of a two year old. The child could of shot himself or someone else in the store. Then you probably won't like this either: Indiana couple charged after video shows tot putting gun in mouth
Not clear if ammunition was in weapon's chamber
The Associated PressPosted: Jan 11, 2015 12:06 AM ET|Last Updated: Jan 12, 2015 2:13 AM ETAn Indiana couple faces charges after investigators say they found cellphone videos showing the woman's 12-month-old daughter putting a handgun in her mouth. Evansville police discovered the videos after a 19-year-old man was arrested for trying to sell a handgun to an undercover officer. Police say the man and the girl's 22-year-old mother can be heard encouraging the toddler to say "pow" and that no one tried to stop her as she put the gun in her mouth. LinkI saw the video DIS. It's unbelieveable. Pretty hard to watch. |
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Post by jkr on Jan 22, 2015 18:10:52 GMT -5
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