Interesting story about home automobile gasoline filling stations in residential property

Boy, this is a tough, cynical crowd! You might be right but I haven't been downbeaten enough to totally accept your outlook on how things are in America.

we can't just sit it out and see what a free market will do when there isn't one. It's like watching a cat to see what a dog would do.

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My guess is that is in fact what will happen. Events will pretty much play themselves out unfettered. There's not much we can do about it.

What will happen? regulations on gasoline powered cars become more and more until they are more crappy than electrics? I don't see CAFE being rolled back any time soon.

government will tax and make illegal what it doesn't like and subsidize what it does like. Do that through enough rounds and electrics will be the 'better' or only choice.

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You're the one that said that we can't sit around. My point is that we can and we will.

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Go back to #1. That appears to be what happened. It saved the kid from #2. So having a gun really worked out for him, eh? [and a cop, Army vet & father of 5 besides]

When I heard this on the news last night your post was the first thing I thought of. I hope this doesn't turn out that the kid was armed by a concerned parent who thought it was a god idea for their child to carry a gun on the dangerous campus.

I don't want any guns taken away-- especially the ones I own-- but there are some folks who should *not* have guns. [And with all your bravado you might be on my short list of those who should be disarmed.]

Jim

Phobias are by definition irrational.

You don't pour the gasoline on your clothes. You pump it into the car. I've been putting gas in vehicles for 30+ years and not once have I gotten a drop of gas on my clothes.

It might, but probably won't.

Hey, that's fine with me.

Try to comprehend the entire thing. We can't judge which is really the superior product under free market conditions because we don't have free market conditions. Government seems determined to make the electric 'work' the same way it makes transit 'work'. It makes driving more and more painful until transit is the path of least resistance. It will do the same with regard to electric and gasoline power if it remains determined to have electric cars.

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I think you are right about this. OTOH, electric will work fine for me although it's not really a viable option for a good number of Americans. ???

What many people dislike about a free market is simply the fact that other people may make different choices than they do.

Which gives rise to socialism: Making everyone equal by cutting heads off the tall ones.

Forget about getting a DA to file harrassment charges. In every case you've described, the inspectors will probably say "it was a valid concern of the tipster."

Get something like a "danger - Radiation!" sign and attach it to a metal box that only your suspect neighbor can see. If you get a visit from the nuclear police, you pretty much know who called them.

Then, find a batch of old keys somewhere (most people I know have dozens lying around), write you pesky neighbor's address only on a key tag with the words "$75 reward if returned" and distribute them in the baddest part of town you can find. Soon, your neighbor will have visit after visit of angry people thinking they've been cheated out of their reward. They'll take care of your revenge for you.

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The numerous laws, regulations, and huge sums of money spent on enforcement to control personal choices is more than enough proof of it.

Use a printer to generate the label. Wear gloves when you handle the labels and the keys

NO fingerprints, NO DNA

That wasn't a question. It was a declarative sentence. If you see a question mark, it's because I've been sticking emoji characters after my posts which comes out funny on some readers. Sorry about that.

At one time before I grew up some more and was even more intolerant of walking sphincters, I would make my own bumper stickers with foul words damning law enforcement or insulting to the prevalent minority in the area. These bumper stickers would be applied to the vehicle belonging to said mobile personal annoyance for entertainment purposes. Of course, a less expensive and expedient weapon is duct tape used to cover their automobile tag which earns them a possible felony stop by the local constabulary especially if an anonymous tip is called in about a mugger driving a vehicle matching the description of the car belonging to your target. ^_^

TDD

That brought a smile to my face. And the hint about the nuclear police reminded me of what Commander Rochefort did to the Japanese at AF Midway. :)

Another smile! :)

Jasper Holmes was the real hero of that operation. Rochefort knew that the Japanese were going to attack *somewhere* (but not where) from decrypting IJN (Imp. Jap. Navy) radio traffic (an impressive feat - Rochefort was a real ace). Holmes had the idea to put out an uncoded broadcast that Midway was running out of water. Sure enough, soon they decrypted an IJN transmission that said "AF short of water" and they knew the attack was aimed at Midway.

The Battle of Midway should be renamed the Battle of Miracles because there were at least five different times when God or whoever's in charge smiled on us and gave us breaks (like decoding the term AF) that turned the tide of battle. Three IJN carriers were sunk because a pilot got a glimpse of a destroyer moving at flank speed so he followed, assuming it was returning to the fleet. He was right and minutes later the pride of the IJN flat-top fleet was heading for the bottom of the sea.

Drop 'em off in the parking lot of the local county jail. I don't even think the "key trick" is against the law, per se. Still, as one poster suggested, I wouldn't use anything easily traceable in making up the tags. You could even get creative and use an etcher to write "Safe" or "Gun Locker" or "Pot Grow Room" on the keys to make their return more likely. You're sure to attract a vengeful sort of person that way. It's a good way to get revenge without ever having to approach the target's property or car. These days, with everyone having a nanny-cam or CCTV, you never know who's watching. Of course, these suggestions are purely for entertainment purposes and I would

I often wonder if the drops we've seen in the last ten years in various crime rates hasn't been, in part, attributable to people knowing they're being watched. Of course, it doesn't seem to bother "flash mobsters" but from the looks of it, they're mostly just stupid kids acting the way stupid kids do.

I seem to remember doing dumb stuff when I was young but that's the benefit of a failing memory. You forget the stupid and bad stuff as well as the important stuff. I can still remember my family's telephone number from the