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When I first saw the headline to the story, my first thought was, "I wonder how they got his head out of a jar? Did they oil down his neck or what?" and then I watched the video and saw it was a plastic jug.
Plastic? And they took the dog to the cop shop to get it cut off using a pair of scissors? Are people nowadays so fucking helpless that they have to have a cop do something they could've and should've done themselves?
Self reliance and common sense are getting to be so rare they will soon be superpowers.
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Yes, I would say so… numerous in law family Xmas gatherings with 3-5 adult males and I’m the only one with a pocket knife…
ReplyDeleteHere in West Oz, the commie government has outlawed carrying a pocket knife (or any other "weapon") without "lawful reason".
DeleteSo a Leatherman on your belt is verboten unless your current activity requires it.
"Just in case" doesn't cut it - no pun intended.
And here in Tennessee, I legally carry a switchblade every day.
DeleteI carry a Leatherman pocket knife. It is actually illegal in the UK because the blade locks open and you have to press a lever to close it.
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The shores of the Great Lakes have been priced out of the range of the locals, at least on Lake Superior. Most of the towns have rainbow flags up permanently and have a lot of "artists" that came from some big city and fled after wrecking the joint.
ReplyDeleteI can imagine southeast Cheeseland is just as jacked up as northwest like Ashland and Superior. Minnesota is jacked from Duluth up to the Rez and Canuckistan, and back west along the Boundary Waters.
Yes, many modern adults (in name only) are quite helpless in ordinary situations. People get locked out of their cars when the battery dies on their key fob, are unable to open a potato chip bag without looking for a pair of scissors and can't assemble even a child's toy without a YouTube video and power tools. Lord help us.
ReplyDeleteI still catch myself unlocking the truck with a key instead of the fob. I know, I'm old...
DeleteI still have a car so old it doesn't even have basic keyless entry. Gotta use the keys to open the doors or the trunk. There is an electronic trunk release on the center console, but the car has to be running for that to work.
DeleteI got one of those too! The battery in the remote died. People look at me in parkinglots like some kinda weirdo, lol.
DeleteI was visiting my daughter at college. A lexus suv was 'broke down' in the parkinglot. 4 college kids, 3 of them on facetime with other college kids, had a 1 gallon can of gasoline they could not figure out how to get into the car (spout was one of those new gov't approved style).
ReplyDeleteThey had the gas, couldn't get it into the car.
I took the spout off and poured it in. They were amazed....
To top it off, the car wasn't actually dead out of gas, the guage read 'E', so she stopped it and parked there blocking 3 cars in while her friends drove to a nearby gas station.
7 college educated brains.... THE CAR WAS NEVER ACTUALLY OUT OF GAS, THE GUAGE READ EMPTY, SO SHE STOPPED.
We are so totally fucked, most people don't realize it yet.
Uh huh, her dad probably told her that if she ran his Lexus out of gas and burned up the fuel pump, she was headed to community college.
DeleteThe fuel pump in my 2001 F-150 finally gave up the ghost at 200k miles and it cost me $800 to replace it.
True old Jerry Clower (look him up) story...He bought a F-250 and ran out of gas when the gauge said.half full. Called AAA to bring 5 gallons. They came and told him he wasn't out of gas. Flipped a switch that opened a reserve tank.
DeleteHe'd often tell that story when performing.
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DeleteI agree. Too many worthless people in this world. Even if I didn't have the "right" tool, I could cut that off with random shit from my shed in less than 20 seconds...pruning shears, branch loppers, wire cutters, or whatever. I would be humiliated if I had to borrow a tool from a neighbor for this job, much less drive to a police or fire station.
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