Friday, May 03, 2019
Thursday, May 02, 2019
In Feb 1974, Rob Preston, an Army private first class, stole a "Huey" helicopter from Fort Meade, Maryland, flew it to Washington, D.C. and landed on the White House south lawn
After being taken into custody Preston indicated he was upset over not being allowed to continue training to be a helicopter pilot, and staged the incident to show his skill as a pilot. He spent 1 year in prison, fined $2400, received a general discharge and 0 were the fucks he gave.
https://www.facebook.com/zerofoxtrot/photos/a.1513400125542098/2291829944365775/
https://www.facebook.com/zerofoxtrot/
https://www.facebook.com/instructorpilotwtfmoments/posts/823747274669018
the Chevy car dealership wheel thieves are still at it, they've moved from Texas to Louisiana
Just exactly how many car dealerships are going to be preyed on before the rest get a damn clue, and hire a night watchman, and catch the tire thieves redhanded?
Am I being too arrogant, in claiming they are too stupid or lazy to get their shit together to prevent this, when the entire country knows that this has been going on for 3 years the South Mid West? https://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2016/08/chevy-dealerships-in-texas-are-too.html
https://www.thedrive.com/news/27780/professional-thieves-steal-124-wheels-off-cars-at-chevrolet-dealership-overnight
14 second 1/4 mile 1967 combine... twin turbo 500 cu in Caddy engine from a 76 Eldorado
1967 Fahr M44 Super combine was built by Raine Savioja and Petri Plosila from Kurikka, Finland.
The team installed a 500 ci V8, Turbo 425 three-speed automatic transmission, and front frame from a 1976 Cadillac Eldorado into the 3 to 4 thousand pound combine.
https://engineswapdepot.com/?p=39817&fbclid=IwAR2F0SuNAVLWJAb6Sp0uxUGogtB_0C9PyvFKeQpTV4_m6boe8euHA44HdD8
cool car art by Benedetto Bufalino, including the Fiat Coupe Chippy Car, the car was sliced into two halves horizontallt and repurposed into a mobile friterie, serving French fries.
this is pretty damn clever
and this Fiat was drasticall changed over to be a mix of public art, and french fry selling place
https://www.benedettobufalino.com/
https://mikeshouts.com/fiat-coupe-chippy-car-by-benedetto-bufalino/
Battery recylcing plant failed to handle toxic materials IAW hazmat and EPA laws, and worse, used a trucking firm that also ignored decency, responsibility, and legal requirements for hazmat transportation
The L.A. County Board of Supervisors voted Tuesday to release $5.2 million for the ongoing lead contamination cleanup efforts stemming from the closed Exide battery recycling facility in the city of Vernon. The leak affected hundreds of thousands of people in parts of Southeast and East L.A. As of last year, only a few hundred of those homes had been cleaned by the California Department of Toxic Substances Control.
The Exide cleanup has so far been the largest environmental toxins cleanup in California history.
Until it was closed in 2015 after coming under investigation under the U.S. Attorney’s Office, Exide had been been spewing lead and arsenic particles from the facility’s smelters for decades – contaminating air, soil, and groundwater in Vernon, Boyle Heights, Commerce, Maywood, Huntington Park, Bell, and parts of East L.A. – and affecting hundreds of thousands of people
they negotiated a settlement with the U.S. Attorney and admitted to felony violations, they managed to avoid criminal liability for their actions, and got away with only having to put up $9 million for cleaning up houses around the facility over a five year period.
An estimated 10,000 homes, and hundreds of thousands of people, have been exposed to lead and arsenic pollution as a result of Exide’s activities.
hundreds of thousands of people, have been exposed to lead and arsenic pollution as a result of Exide’s activities. Exide disputes this – ignoring a plethora of studies of blood testings of community members showing high signs of lead levels in their blood.
The truck leakages have been going on for over 20 years — violating California's hazardous waste control law, in addition to public nuisance laws.
Boyle Heights resident Jose Gonzalez said contaminated trucks went through his neighborhood, leaving local families like his to deal with the aftermath.
His own nephew has developmental disabilities that he believes are a result of chemical exposure to the leakages.
"He's 32, but he'll always be 7," Gonzalez said, "and this is a scene that's played over time and time and time again in these neighborhoods."
As part of a new settlement agreement, Wiley Sanders Truck Lines will no longer be allowed to transport hazardous waste in the state. They'll also pay $1.8 million to L.A. County Department of Health for public outreach programs in affected neighborhoods, to resolve allegations it illegally trucked more than 128,000 pounds of lead-contaminated material from a former battery-recycling plant in Vernon to Kern County, county officials said Thursday.
County officials contend in a lawsuit that Wiley Sanders Truck Lines violated state hazardous-waste-handling regulations for years by hauling the contaminated plastic battery chips from the former Exide recycling plant to a facility in Bakersfield. The lawsuit contends the company failed to handle the material as hazardous waste.
After the plastic battery chips were rinsed with water in an attempt to remove the lead and other materials, they were loaded into the Wiley Sanders semi-trailers parked at the facility. Prosecutors said Wiley Sanders knew that the semi-trailers did not contain any lining or inner packaging material to prevent liquids and semi-solids from escaping through cracks and other openings in the trailers while they were traveling on public roads. On at least two occasions authorities spotted liquid dripping from the trailers and called hazmat responders to the scene.
“For decades, hard-working families were unaware that trucks leaving Exide’s facility illegally carried and leaked hazardous wastes into the community and endangered the health and safety of children and others,” County Supervisor Hilda Solis said. “It is unacceptable and a human rights violation that unsuspecting children and families at nearby schoolyards and parks were potentially exposed to these hazardous materials.”
“Exide admits that it knowingly and willfully caused the shipment of hazardous waste contaminated with lead and corrosive acid in leaking van trailers owned by Wiley Sanders Truck Line Inc. and operated by Lutrel Trucking Inc. and KW Plastics of California Inc., from the [Vernon] facility to Bakersfield, Calif., a significant number of times over the past two decades, in violation of federal law," the agreement between the U.S. Department of Justice and Exide Technologies Inc.
https://www.lataco.com/exide-cleanup-effort-gets-small-boost/
https://mynewsla.com/crime/2019/05/02/l-a-county-reaches-1-8m-settlement-with-trucking-firm-over/
https://www.ttnews.com/articles/wiley-sanders-truck-lines-fined-3-million-illegal-transport-hazmat-materials-california
The Exide cleanup has so far been the largest environmental toxins cleanup in California history.
Until it was closed in 2015 after coming under investigation under the U.S. Attorney’s Office, Exide had been been spewing lead and arsenic particles from the facility’s smelters for decades – contaminating air, soil, and groundwater in Vernon, Boyle Heights, Commerce, Maywood, Huntington Park, Bell, and parts of East L.A. – and affecting hundreds of thousands of people
they negotiated a settlement with the U.S. Attorney and admitted to felony violations, they managed to avoid criminal liability for their actions, and got away with only having to put up $9 million for cleaning up houses around the facility over a five year period.
An estimated 10,000 homes, and hundreds of thousands of people, have been exposed to lead and arsenic pollution as a result of Exide’s activities.
hundreds of thousands of people, have been exposed to lead and arsenic pollution as a result of Exide’s activities. Exide disputes this – ignoring a plethora of studies of blood testings of community members showing high signs of lead levels in their blood.
The truck leakages have been going on for over 20 years — violating California's hazardous waste control law, in addition to public nuisance laws.
Boyle Heights resident Jose Gonzalez said contaminated trucks went through his neighborhood, leaving local families like his to deal with the aftermath.
His own nephew has developmental disabilities that he believes are a result of chemical exposure to the leakages.
"He's 32, but he'll always be 7," Gonzalez said, "and this is a scene that's played over time and time and time again in these neighborhoods."
As part of a new settlement agreement, Wiley Sanders Truck Lines will no longer be allowed to transport hazardous waste in the state. They'll also pay $1.8 million to L.A. County Department of Health for public outreach programs in affected neighborhoods, to resolve allegations it illegally trucked more than 128,000 pounds of lead-contaminated material from a former battery-recycling plant in Vernon to Kern County, county officials said Thursday.
County officials contend in a lawsuit that Wiley Sanders Truck Lines violated state hazardous-waste-handling regulations for years by hauling the contaminated plastic battery chips from the former Exide recycling plant to a facility in Bakersfield. The lawsuit contends the company failed to handle the material as hazardous waste.
After the plastic battery chips were rinsed with water in an attempt to remove the lead and other materials, they were loaded into the Wiley Sanders semi-trailers parked at the facility. Prosecutors said Wiley Sanders knew that the semi-trailers did not contain any lining or inner packaging material to prevent liquids and semi-solids from escaping through cracks and other openings in the trailers while they were traveling on public roads. On at least two occasions authorities spotted liquid dripping from the trailers and called hazmat responders to the scene.
“For decades, hard-working families were unaware that trucks leaving Exide’s facility illegally carried and leaked hazardous wastes into the community and endangered the health and safety of children and others,” County Supervisor Hilda Solis said. “It is unacceptable and a human rights violation that unsuspecting children and families at nearby schoolyards and parks were potentially exposed to these hazardous materials.”
“Exide admits that it knowingly and willfully caused the shipment of hazardous waste contaminated with lead and corrosive acid in leaking van trailers owned by Wiley Sanders Truck Line Inc. and operated by Lutrel Trucking Inc. and KW Plastics of California Inc., from the [Vernon] facility to Bakersfield, Calif., a significant number of times over the past two decades, in violation of federal law," the agreement between the U.S. Department of Justice and Exide Technologies Inc.
https://www.lataco.com/exide-cleanup-effort-gets-small-boost/
https://mynewsla.com/crime/2019/05/02/l-a-county-reaches-1-8m-settlement-with-trucking-firm-over/
https://www.ttnews.com/articles/wiley-sanders-truck-lines-fined-3-million-illegal-transport-hazmat-materials-california
an armrest war should be avoided at all cost, as it could make an already cramped air travel experience even worst. Now there's a airline/movie theater/stadum chair - armrest divider
Soarigami is an origami inspired folding device that not only divides the skinny airplane armrest, but it also extends the arm resting surface area so both you and next seat fellow passenger will have each own armrest. The device literally creates two armrests out of a single pathetically narrow armrest and in the process, form a divider so both party’s elbow will never have direct, physical contact.
https://mikeshouts.com/soarigami-portable-airplane-armrest-divider/
19 Dollars on Amazon https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0725KDSW2/ref=as_li_qf_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=mikeshouts-20&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=B0725KDSW2&linkId=7e78d2cce18e28291ddb5596f04a8559
Cop Connor Kirby freed Coburn kids caught in a kidnapping carjacking, captured carjacker now in custody... I kid you not
Grandmother, Nita Coburn told police she had left her car briefly to help a relative inside a medical center. That's when 24-year-old Dalvir Singh allegedly jumped in and sped off with the 8- and 10-year-old in the back seat.
"I heard them screaming. I ran to the car, I ran to the driver side...because I knew my grandbabies were in that car," the grandmother, Nita Coburn, explained.
Coburn, hung onto the driver's door and was dragged for several feet before letting go.
The footage shows the moving car's back passenger door swing open and the two children tumbling out into the street.
The quick-thinking little boy managed to open the door and pull his big sister out of the car as the suspect allegedly tried to hold her by her hoodie.
the 24-year-old Dalvir Singh of Middletown Ohio was taken into custody blocks away and has been charged with kidnapping, felonious assault and grand theft.
https://abc7news.com/children-leap-from-moving-car-during-alleged-carjacking-video/5274080/
"I heard them screaming. I ran to the car, I ran to the driver side...because I knew my grandbabies were in that car," the grandmother, Nita Coburn, explained.
Coburn, hung onto the driver's door and was dragged for several feet before letting go.
The footage shows the moving car's back passenger door swing open and the two children tumbling out into the street.
The quick-thinking little boy managed to open the door and pull his big sister out of the car as the suspect allegedly tried to hold her by her hoodie.
the 24-year-old Dalvir Singh of Middletown Ohio was taken into custody blocks away and has been charged with kidnapping, felonious assault and grand theft.
https://abc7news.com/children-leap-from-moving-car-during-alleged-carjacking-video/5274080/
Though Capt Marvel can fly through time and space, she is supposedly still from the 90s. Because the human tech then is generations old, and obsolete, (and she missed everything Capt Marvel movie to Avengers 4 beginning) she needed an Agent of Shield to bring her up to speed (on cars, and about what happened in Avengers 3)
they finally played games too long, and now the rules will get changed to prevent this baloney... here's what just changed in Nascar, due to stupid rule changes that made being first in group qualifying, worst aerodynamically for the guy in front
With 7 or 8 minutes to qualify, no one would risk hitting the track first, and so all the cars sat in the staging lanes... just sat their, waiting for anyone else to leave first, and get the air moving in teh right direction, giving all the cars following - a draft advantage for qualifying speeds.
https://jalopnik.com/nascar-drivers-are-still-gaming-the-qualifying-system-1833998898
Big Boy 4014 has gotten the whistle working for the first time in 60 years, and is moving under her own power!
Big Boy 4014 is now one of eight engines still in existence, but the only one that’s still operational.
Above they spend 10 minutes working on the whistle, getting the right sound and tone, pressure and duration it seems...
below video isn't on You Tube yet, so I can't embed it, but it's on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/UPSteamClub/permalink/1439843116162997 and https://www.facebook.com/groups/UPSteamClub/permalink/1439822466165062/ and you can see the 4014 moving out of the barn and onto the rails under her own power
https://www.torringtontelegram.com/article/big-boy-steam-locomotive-almost-ready-for-its-big-day
seems that a lot more pot is grown in Mexico and smuggled into the USA than we're made aware of, and very little of it gets in the news... but a ton, hidden in a trailer roof?
nearly 170 packages within the roof of the trailer that weighed more than 1,995 pounds, and have an estimated value of nearly $998,000.
https://cdllife.com/2019/border-patrol-finds-nearly-1-million-in-marijuana-hidden-in-trailer-ceiling
Wednesday, May 01, 2019
I, the judge, was asked by myself, "it's sorta past the border of public decency, but it's tats (already a thing I post) and Mopar" . So, I responded as the judge, "I'll allow it"
most clever damn use of the Road Runner and Coyote I've seen yet. Sometimes, that's enough to get allowed on the blog.
https://j4ckme.tumblr.com/
the owners of the trucking company responsible for last weeks fiery deaths have been cited 10 times in the last 18 months for bad brakes.
Last Thursday, 23-year-old Rogel Aguilera Mederos, a green-card-holding Cuban national and resident of Texas according to The Denver Channel, was driving on Interstate 70 through Colorado in a truck owned by Texas-based trucking company Castellano 03 Trucking.
KABC reports Mederos told authorities that his brakes failed at 85 miles per hour, and that as he approached backed-up traffic in the Denver suburb of Lakewood he "closed his eyes" because he was "sure he was about to die." His truck slammed into the traffic jam, causing damage at least 28 vehicles and an immense fire. Four people were ultimately killed in the crash, and all four deaths have resulted in tentative charges of vehicular homicide for Mederos, plus a bond of $400,000.
Since November 1, 2017, Castellano 03 Trucking has also been cited 10 times for poorly maintained brakes across four of its five trucks,
https://www.thedrive.com/news/27724/truck-driver-who-killed-four-in-fiery-highway-crash-closed-his-eyes-seconds-before-impact
KABC reports Mederos told authorities that his brakes failed at 85 miles per hour, and that as he approached backed-up traffic in the Denver suburb of Lakewood he "closed his eyes" because he was "sure he was about to die." His truck slammed into the traffic jam, causing damage at least 28 vehicles and an immense fire. Four people were ultimately killed in the crash, and all four deaths have resulted in tentative charges of vehicular homicide for Mederos, plus a bond of $400,000.
Since November 1, 2017, Castellano 03 Trucking has also been cited 10 times for poorly maintained brakes across four of its five trucks,
https://www.thedrive.com/news/27724/truck-driver-who-killed-four-in-fiery-highway-crash-closed-his-eyes-seconds-before-impact
not many Chevy trucks get a photo like this... people just love a Gremlin
admit it... this is a cool looking buggy, especially due to the big n little tires.
And you Chevy truck fans can settle down, I was just pulling your chain. I know there are million more Chevy truck family photos than Gremlins.
https://www.instagram.com/p/Bsp-aKMD3yo/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=3aurggqa5fx6
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