You just never know...
I came home last night to find my street lined with police cars, fire and hydro trucks. It seems the house just 3 doors down from me was a grow-op. My wife and I walk by the place nearly every night and we had no idea. I guess there's so much money in growing pot that I shouldn't really be surprised.
We haven't anything quite so
We haven't anything quite so exciting on our street but there have been quite a few busts lately in what you'd normally consider "nice" neighbourhoods.
Too bad you didn't know about it earlier, you could have been shopping wholesale! LOL
B #
B #
ROFLMAO! OH
ROFLMAO! OH SHARPIE!.....LOL!
: )
Dave
Maybe I should have got to
Maybe I should have got to know them. I could have took my bass and a couple of cases of beer over and we'd have had a great party.
Sometimes the nicests
Sometimes the nicests neighborhoods have the nicest quality. I'm at my folks house right now and as I walked up the driveway today, I started thinking about all the good stuff I used to get around these parts. I felt a little nostalgic.
-Ann-
The guy two doors down from
The guy two doors down from me has a bunch of tomatoes growing out back...
Isn't my life exciting?
Bo
Here thar be Monsters!
Bo
You don't love me, you just love my FINGERSTYLE!
Peavey T40; SX/Squier P-bass; Spector Legend 5
Roland Bass 30 Cube
LOL. Shhhhhh, you'll alert
LOL. Shhhhhh, you'll alert the tomato police.....
Our neighbours thought the
Our neighbours thought the same of us a couple of years back. Sorry but this takes a bit of explaining;
The War Office was concerned about the scum buildup in her Maytag washing machine. At work I use a product called ReSolve to do some special cleaning of vertical blinds where felt tip pens have marked them. The name implies Solvents which indeed this product contains.
Desperate to clean the scum out of the washing machine, she asked me to bring some ReSolve home.
I was at a client's place in the afternoon and get an emergency call to say "Shit Dad - Mum's just blown herself up with the washing machine, I think she's burnt real bad and there are ambulance men, cops and fire brigade here right now" He put me onto one of the cops and sure enough, she was in the cold shower suffering from burns and indeed the washing machine had blown up!
I got to the hospital just in time to see her wheeled out of the ambulance and into the burns ward. She was in shock and yes burnt, singed hair (her eybrows had been blown off and her hair smelt horrible ) but the burns were not life-time scarring thank God! It took her months to get over the shock.
What happened is that the hot water in the washing machine flashed the solvents off and they lay as a vapour underneath the lid. When she opened the lid to inspect if the scum was gone, the micro switch sparked and set of the vapour. The explosion was so great it blew all the products off the shelf above PLUS the drier above was thrown off it's mounts and crashed down on the washing machine. How she wasn't killed was really a miracle.
Of course the neighbours heard this and heard the screaming ad called emergency services - so did my son. Fire, Police and Ambulance turned up and apparently at one stage there were 15 uniformed officers in our house!
They came so quickly, thinking "CRIKEY! a P lab has gone up"
Our neighbours gave us suspicious looks for months after.
We laugh about it now BUT it was quite serious at the time.
The Maytag machine????? Guess what? the front panel came a bit loose, and simply pressed it back into place - not fitting perfectly but OK - nothing else, worked like a charm up until we sold it recently.
Here's the best bit. The weekend after, we decide to go to the pictures. There was a new movie out about dragons called the Reign of Fire. The War Office was NOT impressed at our choice and did not make a good movie patron that day!
So, Mo's faimly are the pseudo druggies in our street!
Mo
Scary... Bo Here thar be
Scary...
Bo
Here thar be Monsters!
Bo
You don't love me, you just love my FINGERSTYLE!
Peavey T40; SX/Squier P-bass; Spector Legend 5
Roland Bass 30 Cube
Ouch! Glad everyone was Ok
Ouch! Glad everyone was Ok afterwards. I can see why the neighbors were suspicious. The various meth labs and such explode fairly regularly here too.
Gald to hear .....
Gald to hear that the War Office wasn't badly hurt.
My question is.....when you sold the exploding washer did you buy another Maytag?
The lonliest man in the world? LOL
B #
B #
Re: Gald to hear .....
[quote=Brian Sharpe]My question is.....when you sold the exploding washer did you buy another Maytag?
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No, because there was no way to control the lint/scum buildup and so we bought a locally made one that is sold worldwide - a Fisher and Paykel.
No scum problems and therefore no way the War Office will be tempted to try out my chemicals at work.
Mo
Nice to hear she was alright
Nice to hear she was alright Mo but now, in hind site I gotta say. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!! That is funny though. So did she learn that she needs to unplug the electrical devices before undertaking any such tasks? Kinda like the people over hear that put ohhhh 25 or 30 bug bombs in their 1000sq/ft house and then wonder why the heck it exploded.
Hazz
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Re: Nice to hear she was alright
[quote=Hazz] So did she learn that she needs to unplug the electrical devices before undertaking any such tasks? [/quote]
Funnily enough, this incident caused the various suppliers of this type of solvent to revise their labels as most of them advised you could use their product in washing machines - but of course commercial which are normally not top loading and do not have areas where vapours can collect.
The supplier of ReSolve phoned us up constantly enquiring about the war Office's condition which was a nice touch. In NZ you cannot sue for accidents as the govt covers you for accident compensation and they sue the guilty party. In this case we all agreed a lesson was learned and we were happy to have the War Office back cooking within the week!
Mo
snigger snigger
Mo,
I am pleased that no one was permanently hurt of course, but that's quite a tale! Sorry but I couldn't help laughing at it, despite the seriousness of the situation. The navy mine clearance boys could use you!
lol
dags
dags
Yes we even laugh about it
Yes we even laugh about it now and when we tell the story to those who haven't heard it before the War Office goes all dramatic and gets very animated about us taking her to that Reign of Fire movie so closely after.
How she was not killed is a miracle Dags - really. The force blew her back of course but not before the fireball burnt her arms and face. Hopping straight into a cold shower saved her some severe scarring but even that was dangerous - the fire brigade reckoned she had the beginning stages of hypothermia!!! - I kid you not.
The drier coming down could have done her damage too but luckily there were a whole pile of towels around the machine and the lid blew right back so the drier ( a Simpson - very lightweight ) landed flat on the towels an did not damage the machine. Drier had dings of course.
When we sold it I told the guy "hey the front panel is loose" he asked why and I said "Oh my Mrs was tried to see how tough it was by blowing it up but could only manage to loosen one panel" He looked at me as if I was coming from outer space hahahahah - well...I didn't lie to him did I!!!!!
Mo
This reminds me of back in
This reminds me of back in the day when I was in the service. I was dating this girl and would spend a lot of time at thier house. After a while a friend of theirs would show up on a constant basses and seemed like a cool cat. I would lend him my car while I was there and never realy thought about what he was doing.
Anyways, I was leaving one morning to get back to base when 7 unmarked cars pulled out from some dirt roads and pulled right up to ny rear bumper. Lights go on and I pull over. One of the cars flys up in front of me and stops. The doors on all the cars opened op simultaneously and I see 2 guys carrying Uzzis, two guys with 12guages, 2 with MP40s and the rest with their 45 drawn and pointed right at my head as they approached.
They told me to put my hands out the window which I did and one guy walked up to me and we started chattin'. Come to find out they were US Marshall's and they have been watching the house where my GF lived. Why, because the guy who kept borrowing my car was THE BIGGEST coke supplier on the West coast and was very dangerous. They told me there was a 500k$$ reward for him and then handed me their business card and said to call if he ever shows up again.
Later that night I went back to my gf's house and she said right after I left their house was raided. Guys came from out of the bushes in full camo and others broke down and rushed the front and back doors.
I was sooo damn pissed. If I would have know about the reward and who the guy was a few days earlier I would have made a lot of money. The guy dissapeard after that though.
The funniest part was when the Marshals called the base a few days later and the CO called me into his office to find out what I had done wrong. Once he found out that I was actually working with the Marshals he changed his attitude and I received a lot more liberties then I had had.
Hazz
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...If I would have know
...If I would have know about the reward and who the guy was a few days earlier I would have made a lot of money. The guy disappeared after that though.....
Probably good thing you did not get to claim the reward....could have been you who disappeared Hazz!
Mo