Wow! That is unbelievably fucked up.
And expensive! I wonder if your car insurance will cover this?
So sorry.
When my neice, who is now 24, was much younger and Beanie Babies were the huge fad, she collected scores of them, claiming that she would know when to sell them and make money on it.
At Mother’s Day, my sister reminded her that there was a box of them in the basement and she had recently checked their value. Which wasn’t much.
If my kid does show an interest in playing with mutual funds, should I encourage this interest, or ask our rabbi about an exorcism?
Indyellen, please have your daughter remind the manager that since she showed up, she is owed wages. Here in the Commonwealth of Taxachusetts, she would need to be paid for three hours, the state minimum shift. If she was being dismissed from her job, she would need to recieve said funds AT THAT TIME. Failure to do so would result in triple damages to her, even more to the state.
Dear husband,
You’re really battin’ a thousand, y’know that? I honestly and truly do appreciate you wielding the weed whacker & attacking the jungle that was the back yard, it’s nice to be able to see out of the back windows again. But using a gas powered machine with a brush blade on it around the HVAC unit? Not your brightest move. I don’t care how careful you said you were, there are mangled wires and possibly mangled copper tubing, and we have no a/c. Well, you’re the one who’s going to suffer, I don’t mind not having the house a meat locker as much as you do. And you get to pay for it. I unfortunately though have to deal with getting it fixed (snarl).
I don’t know whether to laugh or cry, or just kill him…
I would bet that, for every story of someone making a lot of money on Beanie Babies or other collectibles, there are at least 10 stories like this. Probably more.
Consider it his way of playing with math but make sure you’ve got the rabbi on speedcall.
Who’s going to pay for a landscaper, so you can have a nice-looking yard without this happening again?
Oh boy, I know. I’m still dealing with stuff. Admittedly it’s been less than two months.
Right now half of my place is really really dark. The half that I use all the time. My mom is making a lampshade for the lamp that’s the primary source of light for my apartment, which is awesome. But the only lamp in that half only casts a little bit of light. And that’s red.
sigh Yet another reason I have to get my ass in gear about getting the dining and office areas cleaned up. (The main one being the party in two weeks. AAAAHHHH!!! )
Thanks for the sympathy. I have no idea if my auto insurance or my homeowner’s insurance will cover it. The expense depends on how badly the mother fuckers cut up my car in order to get the catalytic converter out.
Apparently there’s been a rash of thefts like this since the price of precious metals went through the roof. The thieving goatsnorters are recycling the convertersfor the tiny amount of platinum in them. It’s particularly annoying because now that the scum sucking thieves know I have a car that’s easy to get to, they probably be back as soon as I replace it. I don’t have a garage I can park in. :mad:
Hey germs, you tortured my poor husband for three days with body aches, a sore throat and fever. You did not have to seek revenge when he finally got rid of you by invading me. I have aching body parts where I didn’t quite know I had body parts.
When my failed thieves damaged our GPS/Radio the insurance company treated it as a vandalism claim under our car insurance. Hope that the insurance company is cooperative!
And yet every time I post a comment on boards (not necessarily this one) about how we need to start criminally prosecuting the scrap yards that accept this stuff, there is a flood of people claiming there is no way they could know (for one local example) that the ‘over 100 brass urns stolen from one cemetery’ were stolen and not legitimate scrap. :rolleyes:
We fucking regulate pawn shops because people take stolen goods there. There is no fucking reason we cannot do the same to scrap yards.
I agree with you that the companies who buy scrap metal need to be held liable for the receiving of stolen goods. People who (are convicted of) steal(ing) man hole covers, which are incredibly expensive to replace *and *present a significant danger, should be taken out and flogged by the nastiest of Skald the Rhymer’s minions. For the person who stole a chunk of my car, I’m willing to beat him/her myself, today.
Grow your own fucking flowers and stop picking ours!
Actually, I would have her call the manager and thank him/her for considering her valuable enough to hire her, even if it did not work out in the end. That manager may end up in another business at some later time, and she go in for an interview and it might make him remember her positively and pick her over someone else that might be slightly better qualified. I tend to remember people who have a positive attitude over something like that.
I gave a bunch of old beanies to Bear Nenno to pass out while on patrol. Consider asking her to donate them to some good purpose if she would otherwise be inclined to just throw them out.
You are not the first person to wonder this. Barbie Trashes Her Dreamhouse.
Maybe I shouldn’t tell you this, it will just make it worse. A friend who works in the auto business just had his muffler and converter replaced. He bought the parts and had a mechanic change it out. When he wanted to settle up with the mechanic, the mechanic said that all he wanted was the converter because he could get $50 for it.
Watches steam come out of your ears as you realize that all the bother and time and expense you are dealing with is so a thief can maybe make 50 bucks.
Bunny and kitty are doing better. I posted about it for advice as to feeding said bunny and of course got excellent advice. I didn’t know that bunnies needed to eat hay, I thought they ate rabbit food. Today I was able to take a picture of bunny and hung “Found Rabbit” signs all over. I hope the owner sees the signs and calls.
Yep, seems that all of those former Beanie Baby “investors” have a similar idea. My husband has a seemingly endless supply of those to keep in his trunk for kids he encounters at work (and a handful that have come indoors for our girls to play with.)
As for those scrapyard operators that should be prosecuted? Some finally are being investigated. Recently, my husband’s colleague stopped a semi with a stolen trailer-full of scrap. This has led to charges against a father and son team of thieves, plus the junkyard buyer. Early estimates are that this operation moved $4-6 million over the past couple of years!
My gripe? We desperately needed the rain that TS Beryl brought, but not the mosquitoes. And I can practically hear the grass growing, and the shrubs are trying to eat the house! (Whoever planted ivy can suck on my socks. Less than a month since I cut it back, and it has already grown up over the 5-foot-high lampposts in the front yard.) And the old dude who lives catty-corner behind me had his yard “leveled” over the winter: all trees and shrubs gone, gone, gone, and soil brought in. So now the low side of his yard is a huge, mosquito-infested pond that’s taking forever to dry up. Those bothersome oaks, magnolias, and azaleas would have soaked it all up by now… while looking pretty!
It’s not a big deal since I only glance at Gawker occasionally, but it’s usually for the comments (hopefully funny, like they are on Deadspin). They’ve absolutely destroyed the user-friendliness of the site. If a story has 50 comments, it appears that rather than just load them all and scroll through quickly, you probably have to click about 49 times to see them all. It’s annoying, but I’ll be really pissed (as far as one can be about internet stuff) if Deadspin gets stuck with this system.