Re: [MBZ] OT: The case for banning hammers [AND MACHETES AND GATORS] and registering owners

2013-05-03 Thread Dieselhead
Not true in Chitkagoh. Stay at any stop light controlled intersection during peak traffic times and you will see 2-6 cars go through or finish going through the intersection after the light is red nearly every light cycle. I've seen more intersection accidents here with amber light times

Re: [MBZ] OT: The case for banning hammers [AND MACHETES AND GATORS] and registering owners

2013-05-03 Thread John Reames
As this is really off-topic, I don't feel too ashamed in saying that maybe they should ban sports equipment (and perhaps dis-arm black belts?) Although a lacrosse stick didn't do much for a Loyola player at the Saturday Hopkins-Loyola game in Baltimore:

Re: [MBZ] OT: The case for banning hammers [AND MACHETES AND GATORS] and registering owners

2013-05-03 Thread Rich Thomas
Those things sometimes snap quite easily. One of my son's teammates had a titanium shaft break into three pieces when he checked another player. Not cheap, but kinda brittle. --R On 5/3/13 8:58 AM, John Reames wrote: As this is really off-topic, I don't feel too ashamed in saying that

Re: [MBZ] OT: The case for banning hammers [AND MACHETES AND GATORS] and registering owners

2013-05-03 Thread Dieselhead
As this is really off-topic, I don't feel too ashamed in saying that maybe they should ban sports equipment (and perhaps dis-arm black belts?) How may people have union thugs beat with baseball bats? along with hammers, machetes, and the stuff already listed, We should ban Baseball bats,

Re: [MBZ] OT: The case for banning hammers [AND MACHETES AND GATORS] and registering owners

2013-05-03 Thread Frederick Moir
3   Fred Moir Lynn MA Diesel preferred. From: Rich Thomas richthomas79td...@constructivity.net To: Mercedes Discussion List mercedes@okiebenz.com Sent: Thursday, May 2, 2013 3:45 PM Subject: Re: [MBZ] OT: The case for banning hammers [AND MACHETES AND GATORS]

Re: [MBZ] OT: The case for banning hammers [AND MACHETES AND GATORS] and registering owners

2013-05-03 Thread Max
Eat, swim, reproduce? Frederick Moir fredy4.s...@yahoo.com wrote: 3   Fred Moir Lynn MA Diesel preferred. From: Rich Thomas richthomas79td...@constructivity.net To: Mercedes Discussion List mercedes@okiebenz.com Sent: Thursday, May 2, 2013 3:45 PM Subject:

Re: [MBZ] OT: The case for banning hammers [AND MACHETES AND GATORS] and registering owners

2013-05-03 Thread Frederick Moir
Eat, eliminate and reproduce. Basics.   Fred Moir Lynn MA Diesel preferred. From: Max meadedil...@bellsouth.net To: Mercedes Discussion List mercedes@okiebenz.com Sent: Friday, May 3, 2013 5:38 PM Subject: Re: [MBZ] OT: The case for banning hammers [AND

Re: [MBZ] OT: The case for banning hammers [AND MACHETES AND GATORS] and registering owners

2013-05-03 Thread Max
And that has worked for millions of years... Frederick Moir fredy4.s...@yahoo.com wrote: Eat, eliminate and reproduce. Basics.   Fred Moir Lynn MA Diesel preferred. From: Max meadedil...@bellsouth.net To: Mercedes Discussion List mercedes@okiebenz.com Sent:

Re: [MBZ] OT: The case for banning hammers [AND MACHETES AND GATORS] and registering owners

2013-05-02 Thread Rich Thomas
Just in today's murder and mayhem report. This one goes for the hammer, although he threatened a gun http://www.postandcourier.com/article/20130502/PC16/130509862/1005/police-report-north-charleston-man-bashed-table-threatened-to-kill-woman-with-hammer This one goes for the machete

Re: [MBZ] OT: The case for banning hammers [AND MACHETES AND GATORS] and registering owners

2013-05-02 Thread Andrew Strasfogel
Hey Rich, about posting some crime reports that are both victimless and nonviolent for a change? As for the third example, has anyone ascertained whether we taste like chicken or pork to a gator? On Thu, May 2, 2013 at 2:05 PM, Rich Thomas richthomas79td...@constructivity.net wrote: Just in

Re: [MBZ] OT: The case for banning hammers [AND MACHETES AND GATORS] and registering owners

2013-05-02 Thread Rich Thomas
Victimless and non-violent crime, I am having a hard time with that one. I don't think gators have taste neurons, their brain is about the size of a golf ball, which allows them to do 2 main things. --R On 5/2/13 2:31 PM, Andrew Strasfogel wrote: Hey Rich, about posting some crime reports

Re: [MBZ] OT: The case for banning hammers [AND MACHETES AND GATORS] and registering owners

2013-05-02 Thread John Reames
What about triggering all of the revenue enhancement devices (aka speed cameras) in DC? -- John W Reames jream...@verizon.net Home: +14106646986 Mobile: +14437915905 On May 2, 2013, at 15:45, Rich Thomas richthomas79td...@constructivity.net wrote: Victimless and non-violent crime, I am

Re: [MBZ] OT: The case for banning hammers [AND MACHETES AND GATORS] and registering owners

2013-05-02 Thread Dieselhead
What about triggering all of the revenue enhancement devices (aka speed cameras) in DC? -- John W Reames jream...@verizon.net Home: +14106646986 Mobile: +14437915905 Those are not victimless crimes. Everyone who gets a ticket is a victim. ___

Re: [MBZ] OT: The case for banning hammers [AND MACHETES AND GATORS] and registering owners

2013-05-02 Thread OK Don
You don't need a gun to defend yourself - http://feeds.nbcnews.com/c/35002/f/653383/s/2b729a63/l/0Lvideo0Bmsnbc0Bmsn0N0Cid0C51658713/story01.htm I keep a WW1 sabre next to our bed - it makes a cool sound when you draw it from the steel scabbard, though it might not be as universally recognizable

Re: [MBZ] OT: The case for banning hammers [AND MACHETES AND GATORS] and registering owners

2013-05-02 Thread OK Don
I see the speeders as perps, not victims. On Thu, May 2, 2013 at 3:46 PM, Dieselhead 126die...@gmail.com wrote: Those are not victimless crimes. Everyone who gets a ticket is a victim. -- OK Don 2013 F150 2012 Passat TDI DSG 1957 C182A ___

Re: [MBZ] OT: The case for banning hammers [AND MACHETES AND GATORS] and registering owners

2013-05-02 Thread Dieselhead
Nope. Not until a camera gets on the stand and testifies. In the US of A, we have the right to face our accuser. Some camera company inGermany is not an accuser in the eyes of the court. Whoever gets a ticket is a victim of injustice. They lie with studies about safety. They claim its

Re: [MBZ] OT: The case for banning hammers [AND MACHETES AND GATORS] and registering owners

2013-05-02 Thread OK Don
If you don't like the law (speed limits), work to get them changed --- Just because you don't like them doesn't mean that you get to ignore them. On Thu, May 2, 2013 at 9:23 PM, Dieselhead 126die...@gmail.com wrote: Whoever gets a ticket is a victim of injustice. They lie with studies about

Re: [MBZ] OT: The case for banning hammers [AND MACHETES AND GATORS] and registering owners

2013-05-02 Thread Dieselhead
That is a different issue than the big gummit revenue cameras. They are not about law, they are about revenue. They are about extortion. There are lots of cases where people have proven they were not speeding when the revenue cameras say they were. the camera company just fiddles with the

Re: [MBZ] OT: The case for banning hammers [AND MACHETES AND GATORS] and registering owners

2013-05-02 Thread Benz Hogs
Not true in Chitkagoh. Stay at any stop light controlled intersection during peak traffic times and you will see 2-6 cars go through or finish going through the intersection after the light is red nearly every light cycle. I've seen more intersection accidents here with amber light times