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I'll be up around 3am on Friday morning, so, yes, I'll probably be one of the idiots who gets out with the other idiots. Besides, I saw a pair of shoes I want.

The official policy where I work says "no weapons", even though that term is not defined. It says nothing about "tools".

Some great information. Thanks to all of you.

Did you mean for this to be a PM to David?

Yep, Bill W is da man.

Gobble, gobble.

If Chuck touched it, then you don't even have to have a firearm to use it. Just throw it at them and it will splatter their brains. No aiming required.

Sometimes someone else talking to her can make the difference. Do you know any instructors or anyone she knows and respects who might have more luck talking to her?

Not when you're sitting in traffic with your wife.

So, I guess anyone who ever complains about ANYTHING is "whining". Please.

Anyone know what the frame designation of the Commando is? I have one that I would like to find some replacement grips for. Thanks!

On the hunt for a good deal on a Smith 686; preferably nothing longer than a 4" barrel without the internal lock. So what are the most desirable 686's to have? I'm not a collector, just looking for something I can enjoy shooting, and something that looks good too.

In Kommiefornia, of course, where parents are considered irresponsible for letting their children play with TOY GUNS. Toy M16 rifle in moving car triggers false alarm - latimes.com

So, at what point would it have been "legitimately" inconvenient?

No, the question remains unanswered. Thank you anyway.

So, someone making a complaint about one thing means they just like to complain? Really?

Sorry, but my complaint is not against runners in general. My complaint is the timing/location of the event. A major thoroughfare is NOT the place to schedule something that ties up traffic for ANY amount of time.

No, but it wouldn't surprise me if someone tries to turn it into one.

I get the whole charity thing as I donate to a couple myself. What I don't understand is why these events seem to be scheduled in a way that has a major impact on the regular daily flow of society. There was no way for me to know that this was going on until I and many others were stuck right in the middle of it. If you have to be somewhere, it's more than irritating.

That's too funny, Quiet Dan. Two great minds, I guess.

Bacon!!

Yesterday I was driving my wife and two of her friends to a craft fair at one of the local high schools. I was traveling west on Hwy 96 towards I-65 (which is a 4-lane road), when we saw blue lights down the road and a big ol' traffic jam. Franklin City Police were diverting traffic down to one lane, and I guessed that there was an accident of some kind, which is VERY rare on that stretch of road. But as we got closer, I could see that there were people running on the shoulder of the road against traffic. "Ah", I thought to myself, "they have traffic down to one lane so these runners won't get hit". But the shoulder is wide enough for about ten people to run abreast of each other, even though the majority of them were running single file or two abreast. Now firmly caught in the grip of traffic, I looked in my rear view mirror and saw that it was backed all the way up the hill as far as I could see (about 500 yards or so) around the curve. What made it even worse was that there was a cop sitting at an intersection ahead of us who could have directed traffic on through to make it flow better, but he was just sitting there watching the runners, as the vast majority of them were FEMALE. I have two questions for anyone who understands these things better than I: 1. Why was it necessary to close the right hand lane when there was more than enough room for these folks to run without being hit? People walk and run on that part of the shoulder all the time. 2. Is there a reason the LEO at the intersection couldn't direct traffic to get it going again (other than the fact that he was obviously more interested in girl-watching than actually doing some work)? We sat in traffic for about 20 minutes, which isn't that long in the big scheme of things, but it's more than aggravating when you have somewhere to be. If someone had had a medical emergency, they would have been in a world of hurt as the medical center was on the other side of where the PD had the road blocked off. It just seems to me that the whole thing was unnecessary and could've been handled much better.

Best thing I ever did for myself and my family was to quit.

That's kinda what I figured.