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Gunner's Neighbors
I was recently reviewing the archives and came across this thread
discussing Gunner's backyard.... http://groups.google.com/group/rec.c...19b918147eaae3 ....and wondered what his neighbors thought of his HSM adventures. Gunner, care to fill us in on this subject and how you handle neighbor relations so you can pursue your interests? I would think it to be an interesting and education subject that we all encounter sometime in our HSM exploits. TMT |
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Gunner's Neighbors
Gunner fends them off - keeps mad guard dogs and guard cats.
Martin visitor/customer twice. Martin Eastburn @ home at Lions' Lair with our computer lionslair at consolidated dot net NRA LOH & Endowment Member NRA Second Amendment Task Force Charter Founder Too_Many_Tools wrote: I was recently reviewing the archives and came across this thread discussing Gunner's backyard.... http://groups.google.com/group/rec.c...19b918147eaae3 ...and wondered what his neighbors thought of his HSM adventures. Gunner, care to fill us in on this subject and how you handle neighbor relations so you can pursue your interests? I would think it to be an interesting and education subject that we all encounter sometime in our HSM exploits. TMT ----== Posted via Newsfeeds.Com - Unlimited-Unrestricted-Secure Usenet News==---- http://www.newsfeeds.com The #1 Newsgroup Service in the World! 120,000+ Newsgroups ----= East and West-Coast Server Farms - Total Privacy via Encryption =---- |
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HUH!
I suspect he treats his neighbors the same way I treat mine. The friendly ones get anything they like and the unfrinedly ones get whatever it takes. "Anybody is good down deep" I have not been appointed to sort the good from the bad. Let the maker sort them out. Glenn "Too_Many_Tools" wrote in message ups.com... I was recently reviewing the archives and came across this thread discussing Gunner's backyard.... http://groups.google.com/group/rec.c...19b918147eaae3 ...and wondered what his neighbors thought of his HSM adventures. Gunner, care to fill us in on this subject and how you handle neighbor relations so you can pursue your interests? I would think it to be an interesting and education subject that we all encounter sometime in our HSM exploits. TMT |
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On Mon, 06 Mar 2006 21:03:07 -0600, "Martin H. Eastburn"
wrote: Gunner fends them off - keeps mad guard dogs and guard cats. Martin visitor/customer twice. Martin Eastburn @ home at Lions' Lair with our computer lionslair at consolidated dot net NRA LOH & Endowment Member NRA Second Amendment Task Force Charter Founder Too_Many_Tools wrote: I was recently reviewing the archives and came across this thread discussing Gunner's backyard.... http://groups.google.com/group/rec.c...19b918147eaae3 ...and wondered what his neighbors thought of his HSM adventures. Gunner, care to fill us in on this subject and how you handle neighbor relations so you can pursue your interests? I would think it to be an interesting and education subject that we all encounter sometime in our HSM exploits. TMT I live in a rather mellow area..with most folks not bothering to lock their doors. Actually..the dogs do help. But on the other hand..they are in kennels. So Ive a couple IR operated flood lights that help a bit more. More importantly..the word has gotten round over the years about the two fellah I caught trying to carry Stuff away some years ago. Ill not go into details..but they both did live. It involved guns, chain..a ride into the desert..a backhoe and a seriously deranged war face. Both gents dont even drive down the street I live on anymore, and will leave any bar I walk into, rather quickly. So a reputation largely blown out of proportion, fear and whatnot is pretty much all I need to keep "shrinkage" to a minimum. The Sawzall and Milwakee grinder I recently thought had grown legs..was loaned by my wife to a good friend while I was on the road. Now I wish I could say the same for LA....when in May of 2000..the druggie brother of the mexicana neighbor broke into the back of my pickup truck shell, and got me for about $15,000 worth of tools, spindle bearings, machine tool parts and so forth. Id been a field service guy for over 20 yrs..and had my truck filled with SnapOn, Excelite, scopes, meters, etc etc etc..and they pretty much cleaned me out. Including all the spare parts belonging to the company I worked for. OmniWest/Richland Machinery (based in Long Island) I offered to pay for the missing company equipment..and my boss, Jeff Richland was very kind to say it was the breaks..and try to be more careful where I parked my truck in the future. I bought some used tools from Leigh Knudsen (who posts here) and some Harbor Freight stuff..a meter etc etc. Some posters here were kind enough to send me an electric drill (thanks Jim from Florida!!) and so forth. Its been almost 6 yrs now..and I still dont have any high end tools for the most part in the truck. Just enough to do most jobs. If I need something special..Ill bring it down from home. Im still trying to scrounge up a set of end wrenchs 1"-2 1/2" and sockets to match for the big shears and brakes I also work on. And sockets to match. But they are not real common. Big stuff like that..the client often has..so its not been a real serious issue. Though there were a 1 1/8th, 1 1/4" and 2" end wrenchs in the stuff I brought home from the estate of the guy Ive been sorting out, last weekend. Id hoped to find a full set..but no luck. Just a couple 12 and 14" adjustable wrenches. Both old Protos. The neighborhood is increasingly Latino..and the wife had the spare change stolen out of her console the other night..so we are making some changes to the way we practice security. It may come a time Ill have to put up a chain link fence..but most of the stuff out back..is big, heavy and not really portable. And Ive chained the welders up. Shrug..and I still walk the property several times a night, in the dark, with a dog and a .45 Gunner "A prudent man foresees the difficulties ahead and prepares for them; the simpleton goes blindly on and suffers the consequences." - Proverbs 22:3 |
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Gunner wrote: Now I wish I could say the same for LA....when in May of 2000..the druggie brother of the mexicana neighbor broke into the back of my pickup truck shell, and got me for about $15,000 worth of tools, Plan ahead. Have a nice shiny new drill you NEVER use, ad a cap and a repackaged stick, and read in the newspapers who stole it -- Free men own guns, slaves don't www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/5357/ |
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On Mon, 6 Mar 2006 23:52:13 -0800, "Glenn"
wrote: HUH! I suspect he treats his neighbors the same way I treat mine. The friendly ones get anything they like and the unfrinedly ones get whatever it takes. "Anybody is good down deep" I have not been appointed to sort the good from the bad. Let the maker sort them out. Glenn Ayup. Couple wets came by sunday..needed some bearings pressed out of a hub for their group car. Neighbor brought em. Most camposenos are hard working dudes who send most of their money home to their families..so didnt take their money when they offered after it was done. I get along pretty well with nearly all the neighbors. The sole exception used to be the circle of meth addicts that seemed to be the only folks one landloard would rent to. They would come and go..new faces every couple months..caused some trouble in the neighborhood for quite a number of years. Most folks here are pretty much live and let live..but those meth monsters kept wearing out their welcome. Then the house burned down. Its pretty quiet now. "Too_Many_Tools" wrote in message oups.com... I was recently reviewing the archives and came across this thread discussing Gunner's backyard.... http://groups.google.com/group/rec.c...19b918147eaae3 ...and wondered what his neighbors thought of his HSM adventures. Gunner, care to fill us in on this subject and how you handle neighbor relations so you can pursue your interests? I would think it to be an interesting and education subject that we all encounter sometime in our HSM exploits. TMT "A prudent man foresees the difficulties ahead and prepares for them; the simpleton goes blindly on and suffers the consequences." - Proverbs 22:3 |
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It doesn't look like a problem to me. I wish I had neighbors
like that! Too_Many_Tools wrote: I was recently reviewing the archives and came across this thread discussing Gunner's backyard.... http://groups.google.com/group/rec.c...19b918147eaae3 ...and wondered what his neighbors thought of his HSM adventures. Gunner, care to fill us in on this subject and how you handle neighbor relations so you can pursue your interests? |
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