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Hachiroku ハチロク - 30 Jul 2007 10:13 GMT

I had a good weekend...my new band had our first two gigs, Saturday was a
Barbecue. Now, ask me what I want for dinner and I'll say MEAT, with MEAT
for a vegetable and MEAT for desert. ALL they had was MEAT! I don't want
to see meat for a week.

Then, on Sunday, we played a benefit for a 4 month old girl that has
Leukemia. Sad story. So the family was trying to raise some money for the
travel it's going to take to get the kid to where she can get treatment.

About 1/3 of the way through, I noticed about 1/3 of the people had left.
I didn't think we sucked *THAT* badly!

When the grandfather came back, he told us what had happened. While tha
family was out trying to raise money to get the kid treatment, someone was
helping themselves to the family's home. The door was broken in, the place
ransacked, and the family at that time didn't yet know what was missing.

My cousin who is on the town committe said that there have been a lot of
break-ins, esp, of all things, when the time of a funeral had been printed
in the paper.

Yeah, that's pretty frigging low...

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qslim - 30 Jul 2007 14:49 GMT

Wow. Some people deserve a nice shove down a flight of stairs, I think. A
lot of people, actually.
My little brother had Leukemia in the mid 90's, and at one point we
were trying to come up with the buckets of cash it costs to go through the
bone marrow transplant process, including finding a donor, etc... Well, our
mother got this thing organized in our hometown of putting donation jars on
countertops of some local businesses, and after several newspapers picked
up on it, it actually became quite lucrative and everyone around was
pitching in.
Then, the jars started vanishing one by one. Someone got wind of how
popular this little charity drive was, and they were swiping everyones
donations. Until, that is, one squirrelly business owner took it upon
himself to chase one of the thieves down the street and crack him in the
back with a baseball bat! That was the feel good story of the year, as
far as I'm concerned.

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dbu., - 30 Jul 2007 15:02 GMT

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<79ae022c0c87e1e5d0464ea10be16744@localhost.talkaboutautos.com>,

> Wow. Some people deserve a nice shove down a flight of stairs, I think. A
> lot of people, actually.
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> back with a baseball bat! That was the feel good story of the year, as
> far as I'm concerned.

Someone hopefully handed that store owner a cigar.

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When everything is coming your way, you're probably in the wrong lane.
Tom Snyder

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sharx35 - 30 Jul 2007 19:20 GMT

> In article
> <79ae022c0c87e1e5d0464ea10be16744@localhost.talkaboutautos.com>,
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> Someone hopefully handed that store owner a cigar.

If the ACLU or various LIEbrawls/DEMONrats got hold of that, the store owner
AND the family supplying the jars would probably have been charged and sued.

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Hachiroku ハチロク - 30 Jul 2007 20:32 GMT

>>> popular this little charity drive was, and they were swiping everyones
>>> donations. Until, that is, one squirrelly business owner took it upon
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> owner AND the family supplying the jars would probably have been charged
> and sued.

Although a lot of people think Sharx here is cynical and abrasive at
times, he is probably 100% correct.

However, if he were taking into custody, and brought by the Sheriff's
dep't to the preliminary hearings, it wouldn't surprise me if he lost his
balance in the shackles and kept hitting his head against the side of the
cruiser... ;)

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qslim - 31 Jul 2007 07:16 GMT

Man, I used to think that Sharx was a total a.shole. A year later, I know
for a fact that he is. Yet, all of his posts give me a solid chuckle.

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witfal - 31 Jul 2007 15:38 GMT

> Man, I used to think that Sharx was a total a.shole. A year later, I know
> for a fact that he is. Yet, all of his posts give me a solid chuckle.

It's a tough job, but SOMEONE has to do it. <g>

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mark_digital© - 30 Jul 2007 19:32 GMT

> In article
> <79ae022c0c87e1e5d0464ea10be16744@localhost.talkaboutautos.com>,
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> Someone hopefully handed that store owner a cigar.

Who is Tom Snyder? I saw the quote on a Salada tea bag.

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dbu., - 30 Jul 2007 19:59 GMT

> > In article
> > <79ae022c0c87e1e5d0464ea10be16744@localhost.talkaboutautos.com>,
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> Who is Tom Snyder? I saw the quote on a Salada tea bag.

A good guy, an ex-cheesehead and late night TV talk show host, followed
Johnny Carson. He died yesterday.

<http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20035424/>

I'm sad to see him pass on.

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"Fire up a colortini, sit back, relax, and watch the pictures, now,
as they fly through the air."
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Hachiroku ハチロク - 30 Jul 2007 20:30 GMT

>> > In article
>> > <79ae022c0c87e1e5d0464ea10be16744@localhost.talkaboutautos.com>,
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> I'm sad to see him pass on.

Tom Snyder died?! Didn't here it...

"...uh...huh..there, I said it..."

Guy was funny, but a good guy.

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Mike Hunter - 30 Jul 2007 20:54 GMT

You mean who WAS Tom Snyder, he just died LOL

mike

> Who is Tom Snyder? I saw the quote on a Salada tea bag.

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sharx35 - 30 Jul 2007 19:19 GMT

> Wow. Some people deserve a nice shove down a flight of stairs, I think. A
> lot of people, actually.
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> back with a baseball bat! That was the feel good story of the year, as
> far as I'm concerned.

Damn straight! Stealing stuff like that can never be justified.

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Hachiroku ハチロク - 30 Jul 2007 20:28 GMT

> Then, the jars started vanishing one by one. Someone got wind of how
> popular this little charity drive was, and they were swiping everyones
> donations. Until, that is, one squirrelly business owner took it upon
> himself to chase one of the thieves down the street and crack him in the
> back with a baseball bat! That was the feel good story of the year, as
> far as I'm concerned.

That's pretty bad, stealing from sick little kids. Glad the theif got
something in return. Did they ever string him up by his cajones?

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Ph@Boy - 30 Jul 2007 15:59 GMT

> I had a good weekend...my new band had our first two gigs, Saturday was a
> Barbecue. Now, ask me what I want for dinner and I'll say MEAT, with MEAT
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>
> Yeah, that's pretty frigging low...

That's pretty bad Hachi, but read this one. Equally as low.

JACKSON, Michigan — A woman pretended to have liver cancer and took in
about $20,000 from fund-raisers to pay for fictitious treatments,
authorities say.

Jackson County prosecutors charged the 36-year-old woman on Tuesday
after state police said they found no evidence she was being treated for
the disease.

“She duped a lot of people,” state police Sgt. Lisa Gee-Cram told the
Jackson Citizen Patriot.

Jean Anne Allen of Jackson County’s Norvell Township faces up to five
years in prison if convicted of fraud. She was arraigned Thursday before
District Judge James Justin, who freed her on a $10,000 personal bond
and scheduled a preliminary examination for May 8.

A message seeking comment was left Friday for defense lawyer Kenneth
Hotchkiss.

She said that half her liver had been removed years earlier but the
disease recurred.

“This time it’s just even worse,” Allen told the newspaper in 2006.
“It’s just something I do not want to go through again. I just don’t
want to deal with it. And the doctor says the more occurrences I have,
the more chances of recurrence.”

Friends and co-workers at Medical Weight Loss Clinic in Jackson held a
spaghetti-supper fundraiser last year at Napoleon High School. Allen
said she needed the money to help with the cost of chemotherapy.

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