Now I can't help but envision all these old men in rockers driving their porches down the street yelling at kids to get off their lawn as they drive by.
After a Virginia man was reported missing, then found hours later on the side of the road, he told police he was kidnapped, drugged and held against his will by members of a motorcycle gang. The FBI says he fabricated that story and several others so he could disappear and start a new life with his mistress.
Larry Wayne Price Jr. was arrested last week and charged with lying to federal authorities. He was being held on a $500,000 bond. Price's lawyer, Justin Lugar of Roanoke, declined to comment.
Prosecutors said after Price's wife reported him missing April 14, police in his hometown of Bluefield and the county sheriff's office launched a massive search that included the use of state police helicopters and dogs.
Price, 38, was located that night by a driver who noticed him on the side of the road on Route 61 near Gratton, Virginia.
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Price's arrest drew attention in Montana, where he owned the largest house ever built in Billings, the Billings Gazette reported. The house is a 10-bedroom, 26,000-square-foot mansion with three swimming pools. KTVQ reports the house was possessed by the lawyer for a company to whom Price owed millions and was put up for sale earlier this week with an asking price of $17 million.
hepcat wrote: ↑Fri May 18, 2018 9:17 am
I purchased a monocle for the sole purpose of spending an afternoon test driving BMWs.
Wadaminnit.... I though you purchased a monocle so it could fall in to your drink during a moment of big reveal? Or do you purchase different monocles for different occasions? I suspect in actuality, you are purchasing glasses and breaking them in half and merely telling everyone, "Oh there's a monocle for that!", trying to get in the next wave of Apple advertising.
I see what you're trying to do. I got my eye on you.
Let's be honest: monocles are cool.
Re: Random randomness
Posted: Fri May 18, 2018 3:14 pm
by em2nought
hepcat wrote: ↑Fri May 18, 2018 3:00 pm
Let's be honest: monocles are cool.
As opposed to walking around missing one lens in a pair of eyeglasses? I really need to do something about that tiny screw.
Re: Random randomness
Posted: Fri May 18, 2018 3:34 pm
by TheMix
While this should either be in the "What are you listening to right now" thread, or maybe the youtube thread. I'm putting it here to make sure dbt sees it. Since it made me think of him.
I have a Pandora station that plays comedy songs, and this just played.
Re: Random randomness
Posted: Fri May 18, 2018 3:55 pm
by Daehawk
My neighbor is out firing his fully automatic guns.
Re: Random randomness
Posted: Fri May 18, 2018 4:42 pm
by GreenGoo
Do they have her goat?
Re: Random randomness
Posted: Fri May 18, 2018 5:34 pm
by dbt1949
When I was in high school I bet there were just as many guns per person as there are now. Including "assault rifles".
But I can't think of one incident of mass shootings at school like now.
Just a thought but many we out to look into kids attitudes now and make changes there.
Re: Random randomness
Posted: Fri May 18, 2018 5:51 pm
by Daehawk
When I was a kid children got spankings. We were watched after to and not handed a electronic doodad and told to be quite. Basically lots of teaching and learning chances.
Re: Random randomness
Posted: Fri May 18, 2018 6:27 pm
by Exodor
dbt1949 wrote: ↑Fri May 18, 2018 5:34 pm
When I was in high school I bet there were just as many guns per person as there are now. Including "assault rifles".
But I can't think of one incident of mass shootings at school like now.
Just a thought but many we out to look into kids attitudes now and make changes there.
Percentage of households with guns has held pretty steady over my lifetime - which strongly implies that gun ownership isn't getting more widespread but that those who have guns have a lot more of them.
Re: Random randomness
Posted: Fri May 18, 2018 7:59 pm
by Blackhawk
Ugh. People love to latch on to one thing that has changed and try to tie every other change to it. Spankings is a classic example.
Our entire society has changed, in both good and bad ways. There are literally dozens of things that likely contribute to this one issue, from the political climate to the divisiveness in society to the pervasiveness of guns to the celebrity of shooters to incorrectly prescribed medications to untreated mental illnesses to overexposure to electronics to reduced social contact to drug usage to outlets for anger to the way kids are parented to the way the kids parents were parented this to that and to a myriad of other things.
To pick one and say "we changed this thing, and society went to hell" is blind, ignorant, and counterproductive.
Re: Random randomness
Posted: Fri May 18, 2018 8:34 pm
by Daehawk
Edited...that was not nice of me to say or my business. But I stand by my belief that spankings help. Did for all the years until millennials.
Re: Random randomness
Posted: Fri May 18, 2018 9:02 pm
by Isgrimnur
It worked for adults, too, but I don't see anyone clamoring for that to come back.
Re: Random randomness
Posted: Fri May 18, 2018 9:48 pm
by Max Peck
Isgrimnur wrote: ↑Fri May 18, 2018 9:02 pm
It worked for adults, too, but I don't see anyone clamoring for that to come back.
I had a witty rejoinder for that.
Then I checked for an appropriate image macro to make it even funnier.
I would like to think it was a simple solution like spanking but I know better of course. Probably numerous things but I get so tired of ignorant people blaming gun ownership as the solve all.
As well as tired of all these asshole shooters who feel life is so unfair to them.
Re: Random randomness
Posted: Sat May 19, 2018 2:09 am
by Kraken
If we're looking back at what changed ~15 years ago for some reason, I refer you to the death of Gone Gold and the rise of OO.
Re: Random randomness
Posted: Sat May 19, 2018 4:42 am
by dbt1949
Well, that was very traumatic for me.
That and Trump.
Re: Random randomness
Posted: Sat May 19, 2018 6:41 am
by Max Peck
Kraken wrote: ↑Sat May 19, 2018 2:09 am
If we're looking back at what changed ~15 years ago for some reason, I refer you to the death of Gone Gold
Too soon, man. Too soon...
Re: Random randomness
Posted: Mon May 21, 2018 11:50 am
by Daehawk
Stopped by my local gas station quick stop to grab some breakfast.
SIDE NOTE here.... if you order 2 meatloaf biscuit and one with sausage and they instead give you 1 meatloaf biscuit and 1 meatloaf biscuit with an extra sausage patty on it instead of its own biscuit...dont turn it down. Its YUMMY that way.
Anyways the guy that runs it and owns it is India indian and they are SO nice but a little hard to understand at times. He was asking if its been a while since I was in and I say no that he wasn't there last time it was a woman working. He then asked me something and I misheard him and I said it was long haired blonde working. My wife started laughing and said "Im his wife so with me standing here thats a good answer". I wasn't sure what was up but in the car she said he asked me "Did she have big boobs?" hahahahahah Man I dodged a bullet by accident
Re: Random randomness
Posted: Mon May 21, 2018 12:00 pm
by hepcat
I would be more concerned about what you call "breakfast".
dbt1949 wrote: ↑Sat May 19, 2018 12:31 am
I would like to think it was a simple solution like spanking but I know better of course. Probably numerous things but I get so tired of ignorant people blaming gun ownership as the solve all.
As well as tired of all these asshole shooters who feel life is so unfair to them.
I don't own a gun, my dad did and my brother does but I just never got into guns. But I don't blame guns for what is happening in society today. Something has happened to the mental welfare of too many of our youth. That kids would think taking a gun to school and killing randomly was some viable option is insane, and we need to look at it as such.
I don't have an answer for the problem. But screaming about guns and then doing nothing about the kids themselves solves nothing. It just ends up making it political.
Isgrimnur wrote: ↑Fri May 18, 2018 9:02 pm
It worked for adults, too, but I don't see anyone clamoring for that to come back.
The spanker's obvious hard-on is a nice touch.
You can always trust 16th/17th-century art.
Re: Random randomness
Posted: Mon May 21, 2018 10:46 pm
by GreenGoo
He's not the only one. *Shudder*
Re: Random randomness
Posted: Tue May 22, 2018 5:42 pm
by dbt1949
Found out my engine light was my truck needing a new cylinder head or something. My stepson took it and had it evaluated. It had missed too my firings.
What that meant was the sparkplug had misfired a few times. I remember the incident and it took about 30 seconds before it started working fine.
So at the worst I needed a tuneup.
I reset the engine on lite and it stays off now.
I don't understand the reason for the engine on light except to make dealers more money.
Re: Random randomness
Posted: Wed May 23, 2018 10:22 am
by GreenGoo
The term "pert bottom" appears far too often in UK media.
GreenGoo wrote: ↑Wed May 23, 2018 10:22 am
The term "pert bottom" appears far too often in UK media.
Must...not....Google that...must...not.....must....not....must ...Google ...that...must Google
But wait, Daehawk! Think of your search history!
Re: Random randomness
Posted: Wed May 23, 2018 6:30 pm
by Daehawk
I was talking to my friend about him getting some rain barrels and collecting rainwater for his garden. Come to find out its illegal in his county to collect rainwater. How nuts is that?? He said he should charge the county a fee for all the rainwater they get from his land.
