Threats and toys

[topbuilder]

Check out "Kangaroo carry" as a carry option. Works in all situations. Driving is usually the tough one as far as access.

 

[ultrarunner]

Now that this thread has gone completely off topic (by talking about adoption law)....


Years ago a friend and mentor of mine got married to a gal that had a child from her first marriage. The bio-dad never paid child support so my friend ended up adopting her little girl. He had a career change and moved to TN with his family. The new wife came up here from time to time to see her family/parents. The trips became a little more frequent... (yeah, you can see where this is headed! :laughing He told me that he was leaving for work one morning and the wife said "I'll be gone when you get home. I'm filing for divorce." He thought she was joking and replied "yeah, we all need one of those every now and then." Came home and she was gone along with most of his/their belongings.

Turned out she started seeing the bio-dad while she was back home and moved back in with him. So my buddy ended up paying child support for a child that he adopted that was living with the deadbeat that wouldn't pay child support! Sheesh!

It things like this that drive me up the wall... unfortunately... I know others in similar situations.

I better stopped here... was at Building the building department with Mom most of the afternoon... staff was as nice as can be... but how do you tell an 83 year old woman there are no records of the property you have owned/lived since 1967???

The excuse is not all the paper records made the transition to digital and in any event... there are no more paper record as they were destroyed... this is for a home with gas, electric, sewer. water, telephone built in 1958 on a major city thoroughfare...

 

[dzimbric]

Wow, sorry about the hijack but maybe we need a new thread about legal situations that are so unimaginable they cannot be made up.
Dan

 

[TheMan419]

Check out "Kangaroo carry" as a carry option. Works in all situations. Driving is usually the tough one as far as access.

Yeah I saw them. Nice models they show!

 

[lilranch2001]

My first wife and I had two children, she passed when they were three. I married the bat sheet crazy woman , not knowing she was going to become bat sheet crazy. She never adopted my children but we had a long ugly custody battle for kids that she had never adopted. My attorney told me that in Indiana anyone can sue for custody of anyones children if they felt they were not in a good home yada, yada yada.

I have heard that in the south you can marry your cousin, doesn't make it true.........
:duh:

 

[murphy1244]

It things like this that drive me up the wall... unfortunately... I know others in similar situations.

I better stopped here... was at Building the building department with Mom most of the afternoon... staff was as nice as can be... but how do you tell an 83 year old woman there are no records of the property you have owned/lived since 1967???

The excuse is not all the paper records made the transition to digital and in any event... there are no more paper record as they were destroyed... this is for a home with gas, electric, sewer. water, telephone built in 1958 on a major city thoroughfare...

But they have enough paper records to collect property taxes I bet.

 

[ultrarunner]

Yes they do...


The county really does seem to run a good operation... it is focus on essentials... the cities just have too many people calling the shots and the taxes are 70% higher in my case because I'm in the city... and yes... we do have midnight basketball.

 

[dmccarty]

So if LE can use HP ammo, why on earth would they not want citizens to do the same?

Simple answer is that The Government does not trust The People. :confused3: I think it was sorta recently that LEO's in NJ could carry HP, they used to carry FMJ which makes no sense what so ever. Most likely it was based on ignorance and fantasy ideas about HP bullets and not knowing the huge liability of using FMJ rounds from an agency perspective.

Later,
Dan

 

[ultrarunner]

Airport style security is popping up everywhere... even at the County Fair.

Went to the Tax Office with a quesiton about a record and I had to take off my belt, empty my pockets, and even put my reading glasses in the bin...

Sad state... plus the officers doing the screening are LEO that cost the country about 160k each with pay and benefits.

 

[Garandman]

So I work in the legal field and deal with custody cases..... had a father (who is crazy and trying to get custody) tell me that if he does not get custody he would hold me personally responsible.//

A friend's wife is a psychiatric nurse. She is the only person I know that carries a gun absolutely 100% of the time.

Because "crazy" is unpredictable.

 

[k0ua]

Simple answer is that The Government does not trust The People. :confused3: I think it was sorta recently that LEO's in NJ could carry HP, they used to carry FMJ which makes no sense what so ever. Most likely it was based on ignorance and fantasy ideas about HP bullets and not knowing the huge liability of using FMJ rounds from an agency perspective.

Later,
Dan

I guess. I can't explain it any other way either. I think the ignorance part weighs heavy in most law makers decision making concerning firearms.

 

[davrow]

I think the ignorance part weighs heavy in most law makers decision making ...

I just had to say it. I don't think it is restricted to firearms.

 

[gsganzer]

My last employer was the only place I ever felt uneasy enough that I needed to keep a gun in my office on a full-time basis. I screwed a plastic coated magnet to the underside of my desktop and I would stick my 10mm to it after I walked in each morning. The way my desk/door was arranged, I always felt like a trapped squirrel if a confrontation ever happened. I could grab the pistol easily when I was seated at my desk.

That employer had a habit of attracting some really odd people, partly because they'd never screen and hire people directly. They always hired employees on a "temp to hire" through one of the labor companies. They didn't have a full-time HR department, so conflicts and altercations usually spun out of control in the days it took for the "part-time" HR person to consult with someone at the labor board on what they should do in a particular instance. Every time an employee would be having performance issues, they'd find a way to play the disability, race, or discrimination card to buy themselves time. It would freeze HR in their tracks every time while they consulted with an attorney or labor board.