The Good Banter Thread

[sissy]

just found some pics of my house in NJ and scanner does not work so took pics of the pics

 

[MitchM]

Sad to hear about your neighbor. Hope it wasn't another case of untreated mental illness.

You probably need a lot of capacity for wood drying, you live in a very humid area.

 

[j.w]

Haven't heard anymore about it and I think he is ok as we heard gunshots yesterday at his place. I know that sounds not too ok but it is normal for him to shoot to scare the deer away from his farm. We had to call the police once cuz he was shooting above our shop and the bullets or whatever were falling down on the roof. We would not want them falling on our heads while walking outside on our property. The police told him to use some kind of fake ammo if all he was doing was trying to scare the deer away. We kind of stay our distance from those neighbors and there very well could be some mental problems going on w/ some family members over there.

 

[sissy]

nuts falling from the trees jw and think the economy brings them out .

 

[CountryEscape]

Yikes, JW, that's awful about your neighbor and someone else in your area! I hope Santa is ok, and awful about his wife hiding outside from their son?! Sad sad world we live in.

 

[j.w]

Nuts have been falling out of the trees since the beginning of time. They reach their ripening point and then watch out all Hell breaks loose and don't get in their way or they will land on you and it won't be a pretty site. I put drunk drivers in that list of nuts also. Drunk guy busted too many times and let back out on the streets just ran over 4 people the other day drunk again and 2 died and mother and 10 day old baby boy clinging to life :sad: Doesn't anybody ever think of anybody but themselves nowadays?

 

[CountryEscape]

That's someone that knows someone in the system that got him/her off!!! Yeah, it takes a lot of screaming sometimes to get drunks off the roads and into jail or prison. That's where that idiot needs to be, and now he will be, after manslaughter charges are brought! Wow, how awful is that.

 

[Big Lou]

Haven't heard anymore about it and I think he is ok as we heard gunshots yesterday at his place. I know that sounds not too ok but it is normal for him to shoot to scare the deer away from his farm. We had to call the police once cuz he was shooting above our shop and the bullets or whatever were falling down on the roof. We would not want them falling on our heads while walking outside on our property. The police told him to use some kind of fake ammo if all he was doing was trying to scare the deer away. We kind of stay our distance from those neighbors and there very well could be some mental problems going on w/ some family members over there.

Holy moly, pellets hitting the roof!

No heat problems JW. Contractor has too many jobs going on at one time. Contractors &$',+*^%

 

[j.w]

We need tougher laws on driving drunk and none of this 3 times business and your out or 25 times and your in and out forever leaving a trail of pain and sorrow where ever you go. Too many people are dying or injured for life. Just lock them up and throw away the key!

SEATTLE (AP) - Prosecutors filed vehicular homicide, vehicular assault and reckless driving charges Thursday against a driver who crashed into a family out for a walk, killing two grandparents and leaving their daughter-in-law and baby grandson in comas.
Prosecutors said in court documents that Mark Mullan's preliminary blood-alcohol level was 0.22 after Monday's crash. Washington's legal limit for driving of .08.
Mullan, 50, remains jailed on $2.5 million bail, with arraignment scheduled for April 11. It's not known if he has a lawyer.
He faces a sentencing range of 15 to 19 years in prison if he's convicted as charged.
The crash killed Dennis and Judith Schulte, retired teachers from Kokomo, Ind., who recently moved to Seattle.
Thirty-three-year-old Karina Schulte and her infant son, Elias, were critically injured.
In court papers, prosecutors said Monday was the first day Karina Schulte had ventured out for a walk since the recent birth of her son and the first day her husband, Daniel Schulte, had returned to work.
Mullan's truck was traveling at 30-40 mph and didn't slow or take evasive action as the three adults, with the baby carried by his mother in a sling, legally crossed a neighborhood street at an intersection, prosecutors said.
The infant, initially found not breathing, suffered multiple skull fractures and brain injury and has undergone emergency surgery for liver and intestinal injury, court documents said.
His mother suffered a crushed pelvis. She also developed blood clots due to her injuries and suffered a stroke that has led to brain damage, prosecutors said.
At the time of the crash, Mullan was on probation for a DUI conviction in January for an incident that occurred on Christmas Day. Conditions of his probation included that he not use alcohol and not drive without a valid license and an ignition interlock device.
Prosecutors said he was driving with neither a valid license nor ignition interlock. He has another DUI charge pending trial in Snohomish County.
Mullan's history includes two 1990 DUI convictions in Puyallup in Pierce County and a 1994 DUI deferred prosecution that was dismissed in 1998, prosecutors said.
"Mr. Mullan is a grave danger to the community who cannot or will not refrain from driving impaired," Senior Deputy Prosecutor Amy Freedheim wrote in a court statement requesting bail be maintained at $2.5 million.

 

[sissy]

some of my neighbors area tad strange I would say but then again they think I am strange too gotta admit it might keep them away from me .

 

[CountryEscape]

$2.5 million bond???? Are you serious? A guy that shot a bartender point blank last week, now has been charged, and has not yet been apprehended. His bail will be $5 million, which means he will have to come up with $500,000 cash to be released form jail. This guy in your state, JW, KILLED two innocent people, critically injured 2 more, and maybe likely be four total in the end, and they have him on $2.5 mil??? Also, are you serious, you kill 2 people because of your disrespect for life and law, and you get 15-19 years? That is also totally absurd! This guy needs to go away forever, lock the door and lose the key. How can a person be put in prison for only 15 years for killing 2 innocent people, with his background and knowing that he obviously disregards any laws or rules when they pertain to him? I'm disgusted with the judicial system in our country. If I was that family that was killed/critically injured, I'd be sure to be at his pre-trial hearing and make sure I was heard.
This just goes to show that laws do just so much. Good people that make mistakes learn, go by the law, and don't return. Criminals will do what they want when they want, and should be put away for life.
Keep in mind I work for an attorney, and for the Attorney General's Office for Illinois. Laws need to be more strict for drunken drivers in all states.
Here's a story that relates to this somewhat. My son's friend went out, got drunk, drove the wrong way onto an interstate, killed a mom, injured her 2 teenage children, but they recovered. The friend (I think he was maybe 21 or 22 at the time) served time in prison, and he had NEVER had any criminal activity in his life, other than a speeding ticket. He just was released from prison last year . He is now 29. I suspect he served a percentage of his sentence. Again, he was never arrested for anything in his life but a speeding ticket. Wrong place, bad decision on his part, wrong time. Now he is a convicted felon and will be for the rest of his life.
This guy in WA is obviously a repeat offender, he needs to be removed from society ... forever. He gave up his right to freedom when he drove the car against the Court's ruling. Throw away the key!
OK, off my soap box!

 

[j.w]

I agree it is sick what they let them get away with here! It is a travesty of injustice to allow these drunk drivers on our roads. I say lock them up too and throw away the key! I feel so sorry for the husband of the mother of the baby. He lost his two parents and he may lose both his wife and baby now. Their lives will never be the same even if they survive. Her brain is damaged and that poor little innocent baby only 10 days old. If these drunks want to drink themselves into a coma then so be it but stay out of cars and killing innocent people. I once was driving w/ my adult daughter by a tavern on the way to my parents house when we saw a drunk come stumbling out. He was so drunk when he tried to open his car door he fell down on the ground. We pulled our car into the tavern parking lot right up to him. I got out and said "NO you are not really intending to drive that car are you?" He just laughed and stumbled around for his keys. So I went into the tavern and demanded to speak to whoever was in charge. Told them the story and said if you let him drive after serving him all those drinks and he kills someone I will be a witness to this sorry mess! They were just speechless so I walked outside and called the police from my parents house down the road. I gave them the guys license # and they said they have a car headed after him and if nothing else they will greet him at his house when he gets there. I don't know what happened in the end but I did my best. I just could not just see that and do nothing. Had to try to stop him.

 

[addy1]

We are back home again. A long hard month, first his mom then his dad passed 22 days apart. The hospice doctor called two days after he was put under hospice care and told us he might die that night. We jumped in the car after quickly shutting down the house and drove down, he survived another 6 days. Hospice crisis care is wonderful, we had a great team of nurses at the house 24/7 watching over him, keeping him comfortable.
It was tough watching his dad finish with life to go and join his wife of 64 years. He did not want to live without her. We are going to have a memorial service here, then they will be placed in Arlington, a military burial sometime in the summer. (ashes) We are going to find out if we can mix the ashes so they can be together forever. Some states allow that, some don't. No clue about virginia. We drove them north together.

While we were waiting for death certificates and cremains, we have been down there cleaning out his house, fixing it up. We ended up buying it from the two brothers it was willed to. They are not capable of fixing up a house. So rather than doing a sale cheap of his dads house, we paid the brothers a fix me up price and worked on it. Not done of course....... We had, over the years, modified bathrooms, doors to allow wheelchairs into showers etc, tore up carpet, painted concrete to allow lifts to work better. Now we are fixing our fixes to look better.

Now home and oh my, a ton of yard work to do that I would have done a month ago to be ready for spring. A pond to fix, (leaking preform) piping to run for the new shubbie tank, 1000 gallon stock tank. The big pond is crystal clear, I had started the pump the day before we left, luckily nothing went wrong. I did get the net up to protect the fish from mr heron. Like the look of this net, don't even really notice it. (black fishing net with 5 inch weave)

A couple places I've found that have liner remnants

http://www.coloradolining.com/sale.php

http://stores.ebay.com/Pond-and-Gar...ub=8180684&_sid=1863266&_trksid=p4634.c0.m322

Thanks gardengimp and sissy about the liner

 

[Big Lou]

Welcome home Addy!

 

[Big Lou]

He is risen.....may we never forget the true meaning of Easter.