@kjosmitty@FemaleMenaces@MarioNawfal I watched "Citizen Vigilante" last night. There is a scene similar to this in the movie. I read somewhere all the crimes in the movie were recreations of actual crimes. "Stripped from the headlines." But without the Whitewashing.
@Mangan150@CoffeeBlackMD I've never had a doctor prescribe what I ask. For example, they wanted to put me on a statin. I said, "Okay, how about Pitavastan", which is the newest/best and doesn't lower HDL or raise HbA1c. She said no, here's your prescription for Lipitor.
@BumpstockBarbie@shaunvlog_@fliprich1 I remember seeing a video of someone punking a raccoon with cotton candy. They like to wash their food, and it dipped the cotton candy into a pond, and it disappeared.
@GravelGertie12@WholeMilkisBest "If they had a how to drive slower skewl, that would be helpful"
At one point decades ago, I don't know about now, CA had a "level 2" traffic school if you got a 2nd ticket with some period of time. It was sort of a group therapy session to change your outlook!
@GravelGertie12@WholeMilkisBest They have online traffic school now in California. It's all automated. It's like one of those corporate educational class videos one often has to take.
Sometimes adults might want to listen to what young people have to say. As a youngster my friends and I built a play cabin in the woods. Tarzan was our hero back then so naturally we had a rope swing at our cabin. Trouble is that cabin was built on a steep hill which made for some embarrassing face down falls trying to land the perfect rope swing. So we had a plan to fix that problem, we would create a flat landing pad by hauling dirt to our cabin. A little ways up from our cabin in the woods was a clearing so we decided to dig and harvest dirt from that area. With Radio Flyer wagons and shovels we spent practically all summer vacation digging dirt and hauling it to our cabin. The hill was steep so it took a lot more dirt than we had figured and the hole we created by digging all the dirt was quite big when we got done. But we got that sweet landing pad done by winter all that was left was to wait for spring to properly try it out. Spring came and my friend and I were at the cabin doing some spring-cleaning and we heard some voices on top of the hill. There in the clearing was six official looking men all standing around and staring at our hole in the ground. Our vine landing pad had required quite a lot more dirt than we had anticipated, so the hole from all that harvested dirt was quite large and deep. Next weekend we again heard noise at the top of the hill. We then observed a bunch of men erecting an enormous fence around our hole in the ground. Our curiosity overcame our fear, so we walked over to them to see what the heck was going on. As we got close one of the men spotted us and yelled at us to get out of there for it was dangerous to be there. My friend and I looked at each other, now very puzzled and asked the man why it was dangerous ? The man exclaimed that this hole in the ground was a coal mine cave in and could cave in further at any time. Gosh I said to my friend, we can’t let them think our hole is a mine cave in. When they find out the truth, we will surely be in real big trouble. So me, being the president of the Tarzan club was also the official spokesman. Hey mister, that’s not a coal mine cave in. It’s just a hole in the ground that someone dug. The man now even more angry with us, said that it was not a hole that someone dug because there was no dirt around the hole. All the dirt has sunk into the mine just like you two boys are going to do if you don’t get out of here now, the man again yelled.” But, but, you don’t understand mister. The man in the fancy suit just would not listen to my friend and I that day, so we went home. We knew where the dirt went! The next weekend we walked to the clearing to look at the newly erected fence around ourhole. It was a grand fence about 10 foot high complete with multiple strands of barbwire at the top. All around the perimeter of the fence were signs that read “ Danger - Coal Mine Cave In - STAY AWAY- NO TRESPASSING!
All summer long, park officials, surveyors, well-drillers and numerous other workers were seen looking through the fence at our hole in the ground. The fence stayed there all summer and all winter doing its intended job, protecting people from that all dangerous “coal mine cave in” Fast forward 20 years later and our family is holding a big family reunion at this very same area of our cabin of yesteryear but which now a beautiful park. After a big lunch feast I decided to take a walk and see if I could find and remnants of my Tarzan clubhouse in the woods. I did not find my cabin but I did find the site of the infamous hole that we dug those many years ago. That big ugly fence was gone but in its place was beautiful and elaborate circular stone structure and in the middle of it was an old coal mining car with a bronze plaque on its side. On this plaque it said. This area is laced with many now abandoned coal mines and occasionally one of those coal mines caves in and creates a sink hole. At this very site a very large coal mine sinkhole was discovered and filled in with concrete and stone. I sat down on “my monument” and chucked to myself. They could have saved themselves a lot of time and money if only they would have just listened to my friend and I twenty years earlier when we told them “Hey mister, that’s not a coal mine cave in. It’s just a hole in the ground that someone dug”.
Note: This photo is not of the actual sinkhole back then, but similar