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CHIEF

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  1. I was in a Dodge 3/4 ton. They came up throwing beer bottles at the truck, got in front of us trying to stop us. I wasn't going to stop after that. It was a 120 mph chase all the way to Throckmorton. This was 2006, there wasn't any cell service two miles out of town, and it was spotty in town. You couldn't get a 911 call out. My priority was to get my son into a crowded restaurant, for protection. It was Friday Night ribeye night at this restaurant, there was at least 60 people there. You would think that would have deterred them from pulling in and getting in a fight where someone would know them. You would have thought wrong. When they hit the ditch to come back into the parking lot, I had about 8-10 seconds to come up with a plan. My truck was fine, tweaked the trailer hitch when it was pulled off their hood. CHIEF
  2. I guess it is just the noble gesture being able to do things manually. It would come in handy if we had an EMP strike. CHIEF
  3. No, they made it abundantly clear what they were up to. My priority was my child, and getting him to safety. I wrecked their car so they couldn't leave. They were planing a quick assault, robbery, and fleeing the scene, or they wouldn't have followed me. I had my son run into the restaurant and call LEO. I am just repeating what I was told by the LEOs, including time and distance from the scene. Throckmorton does not have a police department, they have a sheriff's department responsible for the whole county, there was one officer on duty nowhere to be found.. Might want to get your facts straight. CHIEF
  4. What's crazy, is this isn't the first time something like that has happened in my family. Back in the early 80's, we had some wells in Brown county. After a completion, one day, my old man was coming home, and had a flat between Zypher and Priddy. An old truck pulls up behind him, he thinks the two guys are coming to help, or talk. He overhears one of them say, "I'll square off and then you take his wallet." Dad waited till he got close and hit him as hard as he could, in the nuts, with a tire iron before a word was even said. He said he doesn't remember anything else until he was at a traffic light in Hamilton. BUT, he still had his wallet. CHIEF
  5. Kind of a long story: Normal small town thugs, apparently. Everyone in Throckmorton was scared of them. They had gotten off work and stopped at the beer store at the Stephens/Throckmorton county line. Didn't have enough money for the amount of beer they wanted to buy. Tried to get me to pull over to rob me on the side of the road. Had my eight year old in the truck. I was meeting uncles in town to eat. Both were already CCL holders. Tried to call them multiple times but no signal. I arrived about 15 minutes before they did. Throckmorton has no LEOs. Had the truck in reverse and the turbo spoiled when they slid in behind me in the parking lot, so I parked it on top of their Olds Aurora. I opened the driver door and backed into the A-pillar to keep them from getting behind me. They attacked me with full beer bottles, I had one of the new boxcutter pocketknives that had just come out. It had a fresh blade. They started swinging and I went to town on them, cutting biceps, kidneys, hands, legs, and feet. It took them a little while to figure out what was happening to them. The hospital was across the street, so they all ran over there to the emergency room. The streets were so bloody they had to wash it down with a firetruck. They ran out of sutures after about 1000 stitches on these fools, and was trying to get them careflighted out, but we hunted with a careflight commander, and he had all flights coming to Throckmorton grounded. These fuckers had called their family, so about another 10-15 of them was about to show up. Thats when the first LEO, a game warden, showed up about 18 minutes after the fight started. He cuffed me and threw me in his truck and guarded it with his AR-15 drawn on them. The next closest LEO was nearly an hour away. I got a scolding that night from both the game warden and state trooper. This was something that occurred on desolate rural highways a couple of times a year, and that only idiots aren't carrying on these roads. Said if I would have been armed I could have done the town a great service. I only had a cut on my scalp from a beer bottle, got cleaned up and went hunting the next morning. The thugs got assault with a deadly weapon, child endangerment charges, scars, and some pretty permanent damage. After that, one uncle gave me his 1911 to carry until I bought a P365 a couple of years ago. So even after that, I don't have a CCL, and only have gotten serious about having one in the truck now that I'm too old to participate in such shenanigans. I still regret that night, those thugs were someone's son, father, brother, and husband. You can't count on the dregs of society to feel the same way. That is what is puzzling to me when I see people advocating that no-one be armed at all, that you can just "reason" your way out of the situation. The perps objective is to not spend time in prison. The easiest way to do it, is to leave no witnesses. Those that live in their little affluent neighborhoods with overlapping LEO departments, are ignorant, and oblivious to what true desolation, and no LEO presence can mean once you get 100+ miles away from the city. I will say that CCL and open carry have not been the biggest preventative obstacles to crime, but the iPhone camera, and more cell towers I told CHIEF Jr. before the fight started that Dad probably wasn't going to live through this, and to take care of his Mom. But, when fists, bottles, and knives started flying it was like everything was in slow motion. Then, that glimmer of hope, and the realization that you are gonna live through this takes place. CHIEF
  6. I have seen one or two open carries that I definitely knew were Qnon crackpot types. Seen a lot more dressed nice, open carry, no badge, but look the part type of folks (men and women). One would assume that in Houston, you would see that much more often. CHIEF
  7. I carry one in the center console of my truck. I was unarmed, and got into an altercation with three ex-cons and their cousin in Throckmorton in 2006. Apparently they were the town bullies, had shot some folks. Just generally bad people. My truck wasn't recognized, so I was a sure mark.I fucked them up and lived through it at 38, not sure I would live through it at 55. I had CHIEF Jr. with me, he was eight at the time. If I would have stopped way out of town, where it all started, if they would have killed me, they would have killed him on the side of the road. CHIEF
  8. I don't really have a problem with STEM students using it as an aid to write code in a timely manner, or working out physics, calculus, and equations associated with those subjects. They still have to know how to plug the numbers in, and they still need to know the equation for exams. CHIEF Jr. and his fellow engineering students just uses it for the mundane shit, stuff they already know, but takes a while to put down on lab reports. AI will become increasingly important in engineering, maybe the most important. Currently, there is so much spent on R&D, trial and error, basically human mistakes. The lead engineer on the F-22 said there were over three million change orders. That was the reason for the huge cost. He said each F-22 is basically a prototype, no two are exactly alike, due to human error. The efficiency upgrade in the defense industry, and O&G, alone, should have university STEM departments pivoting towards ChatGPT and AI to eliminate human error and eliminate the millions of change orders due to that human error. Liberal Arts students are a whole different ball of wax. Will we see a decay in journalistic integrity? Sure. Graduates that really don't have a grasp of the knowledge needed to be an expert in their field of study? Yep. Take home assignments just need to be weighted less, and the bulk of their grade should be determined by Blue Books and Scantrons. I say this with a Liberal Arts minor. CHIEF
  9. Resin, it’s a stoner question. There are six letters don’t use the k. CHIEF
  10. Immigration attorneys, family, staffers, and their families. CHIEF
  11. Of course not. She loathes this board and how much time I spend on it. She calls y’all that bunch of cocksuckers on the internet. CHIEF
  12. Got my first big boil coming up this weekend. 200 lbs. (six sacks). The guy is picking them up in Louisiana today, I pick them up in Weatherford tomorrow for $3.25/lb. Gonna be more work than fun. CHIEF
  13. Shit, they had a Rolls Royce dealership in the 1980’s. Smallest city in the World to have that dealership. CHIEF
  14. Mrs. CHIEF has never made a showing on this thread. Smart, levelheaded, always thinks before she says sumthin'. I don't think she has ever even curb washed a wheel rim. BUT, she has the female tendency to ramble a bit more than I like on how her day went. The tried and true, but subtle way I have found to get her to reach the end is the old "the play clock is down to 6 seconds, hurry up offense!" coach's hand motion. Just offering a tidbit that works in my household. CHIEF
  15. I'm gonna swing for the fences on this prognostication. I feel BP will be able to convince aggy that Jimbo can't adapt, and can Jimbo as soon as economically possible. He will be the interim coach, and convince them to hire him as the replacement. He will be better than Jimbo, but not enough to ever get them to the CFP. CHIEF
  16. If they included Midland-Odessa, I bet it would smoke everyone on that list. I know of several dozen people, personally, with just high school education making easy six figures, some are even mid to high six figures. CHIEF
  17. My son and his buddies have started using chatGPT for writing lab reports and term papers for class. Cut and paste a supporting paragraph from an article into chatGPT that supports your view on the subject, and ask it to rewrite it with a few extra comments. It takes about 45 minutes, and it turns out a stellar report or essay that cannot be recognized as being plagiarized (and let's be real, this is what we were basically doing manually in college). This has been a boon for him, as he has dysgraphia, and writing has always been his big "thorn" since kindergarten. This is the new norm in colleges apparently. He and his fellow students are way ahead of the curve. CHIEF
  18. Super talented, even played bass for Zepplin. CHIEF
  19. You can put up to about 32 RV spots per acre, but it would be extremely cramped. 20 per acre, you can maneuver and park. They rent from $400 to $450 per month per spot without electricity provided. They make individual secondary meters to put at each spot for electric. I'm working on $10k cost per spot, land, utilities, concrete, and paving. Maybe include a picnic table at each location. That is a possible cashflow of $8k/acre/month. Even at 60% occupancy, you are still grossing $4800/acre/month, more than enough to cover the payment, and still make a profit. 3-4 acres is what I look for, big enough to be profitable, but not too big to saturate the market. There is a board https://www.workamper.com, where you can advertise for a custodian. I have a friend whose parents didn't quite have enough retirement put back, but they sold their house, bought a travel trailer, and worked at a RV park in Rockport. They checked people in, the wife worked in the little convenient store, he did small repairs, and made sure the lawn service kept the grass cut. They both worked about 10-12 hours per week, got a free spot, free electricity, water, and internet. The problem with mobile home parks, is the demographic. A lot of folks with disabilities and paycheck to paycheck living live there. You have to deal with squatters rights, and the mobile homes have to be secured in the flood plain according to FEMA rules. They are not mobile and will get flooded in a record turd floater. I wouldn't trust the owners to keep insurance, and since they are semi-permanent you would have to carry flood insurance on them. i have an uncle that lives on my paternal grandparents old place, it is in the 500 year flood plain. FEMA is requiring him to carry flood insurance on his old double wide, as it is underpinned, and the axles and tires have been removed. CHIEF
  20. I've been toying around with the idea of putting in RV Parks. You can put them on cheaper land in 500 year flood plains. I have found a 6 acre tract on the west side of Ft. Worth that has city sewer and water at the back of the property. Much like the O&G guys out in the Permian, a lot of the commercial construction guys buy an RV, and pocket their per diem. My aunt also has property on the loop in Cleburne, a huge part of it is in a flood plain. I have contacts for utilities, concrete, and paving. Put a laundromat in one corner to build a slush fund. My banker would loan me 100% on a purchase and a construction loan, but I think I'm going to see about using family and other investors. CHIEF
  21. I tend to think that those majors are already dominated by the privileged class. 30 years ago, those degrees were rather "cheap" to get. You could get out of college with little or no debt, and have a career that just required a degree, and you got to study something of interest. Now, with so many people going to college, there aren't as many of those type of jobs available. You need to get a degree that is specialized, and can put food on the table, or have a high GPA in those studies to get into post graduate schools. CHIEF
  22. Would be a good time to blow the Kerch bridge. Make that fucker try to get out by boat or plane rather than an armored train. CHIEF
  23. I dated a girl from Holy Cross, IA one summer. She came to Texas to spend the summer with her aunt, in Clifton. She had the most spectacular tits of any woman I have ever been with. Pre-IPhone years, so, unfortunately, I have no pictures but wish I did. Thats my only Iowa story. CHIEF
  24. Can’t wait to see her on Meet an Inmate thread. CHIEF
  25. I wear these, I have three pair (two gray, one black) because I simply refuse to bend over and tie my shoes anymore. Other than tying my dress shoes up for funerals, I haven't tied shoes in probably 3-4 years: CHIEF
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