Sunday, March 16, 2025
A Michigan judge said requiring walmart shoplifters to wash cars for free would serve the community and possibly discourage others from stealing from the retail giant.
20 to 30 judges across the state who heard about the car wash planned to join him and the shoplifters.
However, that was shot down by his boss, who said that the proposed punishment deviates from the usual and accepted methods, and isn't going to be allowed by the justice dept
The judge said he is now ordering other types of community service in the Walmart shoplifting cases instead of car washes.
Locomotive Engineer KC Hill has been railroading since 1957... and was involved in the Cuban Missile Crisis! Thanks Mike!
during the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962 Hill was in the U.S. Army (1962-1964), serving as a locomotive engineer at Fort Lewis Army Base in Washington state.
“Our railroad switched out two trains of missiles because there was an Army firing range [near the track in Yakima],” Hill recalled.
“When President Kennedy said we needed missiles in Florida, my crew switched out those trains at Fort Lewis and sent them to Florida. I was on duty for 20 hours and had top-secret clearance … The trains were given high priority and had to go through 10 different railroads.”
a masked Trump hater vandalized a Tesla charging station and attempted to burn it down using molotov cocktails in North Charleston, South Carolina, ultimately setting himself on fire in the process. (thanks George)
a masked Trump hater vandalized and attempted to set fire to Tesla charging stations, only to end up setting himself ablaze in the process.
According to witnesses, the masked individual, wearing a gray jacket or hoodie, spray-painted the message “FUCK TRUMP LONG LIVE UKRAINE” near the bank of Tesla charging stations before proceeding with his ill-fated attempt to destroy the electric vehicle chargers.
The man reportedly used beer bottles as makeshift Molotov cocktails, setting them on fire and hurling them at three charging stations. However, during this act of arson, the man inadvertently set himself on fire, with witnesses reporting flames spreading across his back.
According to witnesses, the masked individual, wearing a gray jacket or hoodie, spray-painted the message “FUCK TRUMP LONG LIVE UKRAINE” near the bank of Tesla charging stations before proceeding with his ill-fated attempt to destroy the electric vehicle chargers.
The man reportedly used beer bottles as makeshift Molotov cocktails, setting them on fire and hurling them at three charging stations. However, during this act of arson, the man inadvertently set himself on fire, with witnesses reporting flames spreading across his back.
there was a tank in London... just to piss off a city council who shot down plans to make a high rise building in that spot. The turret points at their city council planning office
After denying the building permit, the developer switched up and asked for a permit to install a tank... they thought he meant a septic tank, and approved that request.
And you already see he put a Soviet WW2 T34 tank there. Well, in 2022 it was removed.
an old 32" diameter Model T tire cover from 1910
https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=9094778103967869&set=pcb.1704357633515286
A couple others, because the one above got me wondering if photos were online of others. Not so much I found out.
about a hundred years ago, brass was getting stolen from trains! It's not just a problem of todays theft situation with brass plumbing and copper wiring
chunks of brass brake shoes, bushings and pipe fittings from trains was stolen from the Pacific Northern Railroad in Brainerd.
railroad detectives caught a guy stealing brass and he was fired.
Another guy heard about the bust, and threw his stolen brass into an outhouse hole to hide the crime.
Minneapolis-Moline had created vehicles for the army with their 4 wheel-drive prime movers/artillery tractors entering army testing years before the arrival of the flat fendered 4x4 designed by Bantam.
The M-M products were noted by army soldiers in testing to be able to go anywhere and seemingly clear any brush or obstacle
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What sort of strange items have you seen used by gas stations to attach to the bathroom door keys, to keep people from leaving the station with the bathroom key?
I've seen lug wrenches, squeegees, cement bricks, hubcaps, and clipboards
Saturday, March 15, 2025
as I mentioned last week... here's the clock that was a garage time clock for time cards! It's the time clock from the parts store / garage in the previous post! (Thank you Niki!)
the story of the clock is that it came from S&S auto supply out of Duluth MN.
His son (Nancy's dad) moved to Marquette and started an auto supply store there.
The time clock was given to her dad by his uncle from the S&S in Duluth to use in the Marquette store.
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I happened to find the NOAA office in San Diego by accident, by spotting this truck in a parking lot... and wondering what the hell the NOAA fisheries truck was doing in downtown San Diego
But they won't even put the address on their website. Seems the govt feels they have a reason to be worried about the general populace being upset about something... now, why would that be? Huh
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