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crash_davis

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  1. Can we agree on cyclists?
  2. First thing I do with new phones is to turn off the emergency alerts. Fuck those middle of the night bullshit. So...I didn't get the bullshit alarm. However, my wife does not turn off her alerts. I was still woken up by bullshit alarm. I turned off emergency alerts on her phone. We good now.
  3. https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/california-skydiving-instructor-lodi-imprisoned-19807333.php Skydiving instructor at troubled California center gets prison time A California skydiving instructor who fraudulently trained new instructors at the Lodi Parachute Center in San Joaquin County, including one who died while tandem jumping with an 18-year-old high school graduate in 2016, has been sentenced to two years in prison. Robert Pooley, 49, of Acampo, was sentenced on Monday after being found guilty in May of running unauthorized tandem skydiving courses at the beleaguered site in San Joaquin County that has seen 28 deaths since 1985. After Pooley’s certification as an instructor was suspended in 2015, he continued to train more than 100 new instructors using the digital image of the signature of another certified instructor to sign off on training courses. Pooley charged around $1,100 for each training course. “Pooley falsely told students that he was a tandem examiner,” the U.S. Attorney’s Office said in a statement Monday. “After those deaths, numerous victims of Pooley’s scheme asked for their money back, but he did not repay them.” One of Pooley’s trainees was Yong Kwon, a 25-year-old who had recently moved to California from South Korea. On Aug. 16, 2016, Kwon was paired with first-time skydiver Tyler Turner for a tandem jump. Both men died on impact in a nearby vineyard after Kwon was unable to successfully open either the main or reserve chutes. Turner’s mother, Francine Turner, described the tragic day to SFGATE last year, and characterized the scene at the Lodi Parachute Center as “hurried and rushed.” Pooley has not been charged in relation to Kwon or Turner’s deaths. Following the Turner and Kwon crash, a wrongful death civil suit was brought against longtime owner of the drop zone William Dause. Turner’s family was awarded a $40 million judgment in that case, but told SFGATE in 2023 that they had not seen a penny. While investigating the 28 deaths at the Lodi Parachute Center, SFGATE revealed the murky level of regulation surrounding the sport that has a contentious history of oversight and accountability. The most recent skydiving deaths in California occurred in August when instructor Devrey LaRiccia Chase, 28, and student Kayla Black, 28, both died in a tandem jump at Skydive Perris in Riverside County. Photo of the instructor and student.
  4. Found on Reddit r/Austin. September daily high temps since 2000.
  5. "Our QB took a giant deuce on the field." -- Freeze, in the future probably
  6. The lowish humidity makes the low 90s feel not quite so bad. Yesterday walked 9 holes late afternoon until sunset. Didn't sweat my ass off.
  7. Bros, do you even Texas?
  8. Strike a few weeks before an election. Hmmmm.... https://ilaunion.org/ila-president-harold-daggett-asks-ila-members-to-pray-for-former-president-donald-trump-and-victims-at-saturdays-pennsylvania-rally-recalls-productive-meeting-last-november-with-trump/
  9. There was lots of home cooking involved. Reminds me the OU games under Riley. They basically raped our WRs and dared the refs to call a DPI on every fucking passing play.
  10. They should've used a ratchet strap.
  11. She married the dude. I wonder if she made him sign a pre-nup.
  12. Rednecks with Paychecks event? In Texas? No wai!
  13. He dead, except in prequels.
  14. That grouping is fun. Tom Kim likes to talk shit. Sheff gave it right back. Funny that they are good friends off the course.
  15. This is the most boring kind of golf to watch and play.
  16. States leges are passing/trying to pass laws which will protect their state schools from the NCAA doing anything to thwart "NIL" payments. NCAA pretty much is fucked. Their time to do anything has passed. Also, the optics on this dude is that he's all about the money. Will be interesting to see which coach/program takes a chance on this guy when he hits the portal. CTJ says the dude is a better runner than passer. Aggy will prob be first in line because desperation. I'm half joking.
  17. How else are the children to grow up to become assholes?
  18. Fall is approaching. He's just getting ready for hibernation.
  19. Spoiler that! There are children who peruse this site.
  20. Seatbelts are kinda important. slow mo'ed https://imgur.com/G7zU9zr
  21. Sooo....there's a lawsuit in Harris County which alleges that the 2021 Icepocalypse and power outages shitshow was a result of market manipulation by gas companies to get more profits. Interesting read. I'm sure it will go nowhere because in this state O&G companies own our legislature. Remember that CFO of the O&G co backed by Jerry Jones saying tha they "hit the jackpoint" when the the price of MWh hit $9K a few days after the blackout? https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/4896585-texas-gas-manipulation-lawsuit-uri/ Lawsuits allege deadly 2021 Texas blackouts were an inside job Those companies, plaintiff’s lawyer Andrew Gould argued on Monday, “diverted natural gas before winter, to create artificial scarcity — thus driving up the price.” The defendants in the case include nearly three dozen major Texas gas extraction, pipeline companies and banks: Companies like CenterPoint Energy, BP, Energy Transfer Partners and Morgan Stanley. The Hill has reached out to these companies, but only CenterPoint responded, to say that it does not comment on pending litigation. But on Monday, company lawyers argued that even if the claims were true, the Harris County courthouse didn’t have jurisdiction, because the 2021 state legislative session had established a process which, ultimately, ruled that the sky-high profits by the defendants were fair. The plaintiffs “could have participated in that regulatory process, and could have raised all the complaints that they’re raising now about utilities,” Weston O’Black, an attorney for CenterPoint, said on Monday. Had they missed that opportunity, O’Black argued, the only other means of challenging those conclusions was to do so in Travis County district court — an opportunity that has now expired. But CirclesX attorneys charged that the harm to Texans had happened long before that legislative process began. Its suit comes on the heels of courts in Oklahoma and Arkansas finding market manipulation by pipeline companies during Winter Storm Uri — as well as a wave of other suits that allege manipulation in Texas. It also follows widespread, bigger-picture allegations of market manipulation and racketeering by the oil and gas industry — like the July lawsuit by the city of Baltimore that argued oil and gas driller pioneer had illegally conspired with foreign governments to inflate the price of oil and gas. The charges aired in court on Monday were a far more limited version of CirclesX’s broader, more explosive claims: For decades, Texas’s major pipeline companies have covertly squeezed gas supplies before cold snaps and hurricanes. In doing this, the plaintiffs argued, they have driven up the price, and then using the ensuing disaster as a cover to break existing contracts, freeing up their gas supplies to be sold for newly-soaring prices on the spot market. “Winter Storm Uri followed this playbook,” the suit argues, “and indeed represents the most egregious example of Defendants’ manipulation and their greatest heist yet.” In this alleged “heist,” the suit contends, the gas companies starved their contracted customers of gas, helping ensure the shortages that led to blackouts, hundreds of deaths and costs of hundreds of billions of dollars. “Simply stated, the ‘failure to winterize’ narrative is misleading,” the CirclesX lawyers wrote.
  22. He wants to be able to play with his kid at Utah. The Griffeys, the James, and hopefully the Risings.
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