> Joining the ranks of inept is the bicycle riding junkie who reached into my > car's window and unlocked it, scooped the roll worth of quarters from the > change tray, opened the center console and snatched my wallet with it's > contents of a single $20 bill, every credit card, every ID, and every piece > if paper that I live by, Drivers License, VA ID, AARP, Medicare, VFW, > American Legion, Sierra Club, WWF, a card of "forever" stamps, Costco Card > and a few coupons for 50 free prints. Then he grabbed my last pair of > prescription sunglasses in their aluminum case. Not a huge amount of monitary > value, but days with no money to spend, and weeks to replace everything that > I can think of that was in the wallet. > > All the while standing under the doughnut shops security camera . Granted, it > took me six of the seven days the security system retains before it's written > over to get the cops to actually go look at the images. They, and the shop's > employees, recognized the guy as a regular customer who rides his bike to buy > a doughnut about every day. > > This just a few weeks after "Billy Bob", the dude who was working to get my > old Dodge, totaled by Farmer's last spring, back into streetable shape, > abandoned the shop he was working out. The owner kicked him out when he got > over $3000 behind in his rent. On his way out he apparently took some tools > that weren't his too. He had already had several tools and electronics of > mine "disappear" from the car. He was going to buy the car off me for $500 > once he had it fixed up so he'd have something to drive. > > Well, he does now. He never came back, so my car and "Billy Bob" are in the > wind. The police won't take a report that car was stolen because I gave him a > key to move it around while he was fixing it. So I had to report my tools and > electronics missing to my homeowners insurance, so they would report the car > as stolen. Because it was totaled by Farmers, it is illegal to drive on the > road, has no insurance, and the plates expire in December. > > That's my August so far. How was yours? > > Joseph McAllister > [email protected]
Got me beat- the lens release button fell off of my new K-5. Cheers Mike -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
