Re: Somebody got busted in Orange County - Florida

 Ever get your baby salutes to ignite the Titanium? I rest my case.

-- 


Don Thompson

Ex ROMAD


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> On 2003-12-01 [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
>
>    >You DO understand that just because Yehuda did it is no excuse for
>    >you to do it. Don't you? Let us pose a hypothetical. All your
>    >acquaintances one day decided to walk to the middle of the Golden
>    >Gate Bridge and jump off it into the Bay. Presto. You have no more
>    >acquaintances because all of them died. Would YOU jump too? Or
>    >would you just press a pistol to your temple and pull the trigger
>    >because it is not the same thing as jumping off the bridge?
>
> No.  An increase in danger is not the same as certainty of injury or
death.
> Nor is pursuing a hobby the same as silly daredevil play.  My point was
that
> I don't significantly increase the danger in this neighborhood.  If
> anything, by showing how to do things more safely, I make this
neighborhood
> safer.  But I can't make them use my cardboard mortar instead of their PVC
> pipes if they refuse.  Nor can I make them keep articles in a closed ready
> box while firing something else.
>
> One July 4 night a stranger came by and just gave me an assortment box
while
> I was standing on the sidewalk.  He saw that I knew what I was doing,
> compared to himself or a family member or whoever was going to shoot it.
I
> hope I didn't disappoint him when I didn't shoot much of it that night,
and
> told him so, because I like to examine items well before shooting them.
>
>    >It is your philosophy, expressed over several years, that has led
>    >most of the folks who KNOW to not give you definitive answers to
>    >your questions. Couple that with your refusal to follow specific
>    >directions and instead charge ahead with your own ideas ( which
>    >have proved wrong, which is why you sought advice in the first
>    >place ) and then coming back with days and days of "that didn't
>    >work", and pretty soon everyone just throws up their hands.
>    >--
> You sure you don't have me mixed up with someone else?  I don't recall any
> such evasiveness or refusals.  Seems people give me as straight an answer
as
> anyone, and I'm just as receptive to advice as others.
>
> Robert