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Journal nizo's Journal: George is in town! 11

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My daughter called me up yesterday and said, "The President is here". Apparently she was eating at a restaurant next to the Marriott right up the street from our house and looking at the large group of military vehicles that I had seen earlier on the way to work. This morning on the way to work I could see several secret service guys on top of the hotel, and a whole armada of police cars blocking the street (plus of course the same military vehicles parking in the Bennigans parking lot). The weird thing is that hotel isn't even a really nice one (it was the one I stayed in back in high school when we had a state chess tournament). From a security standpoint however it is probably ideal (few nearby buildings, right off the interstate, easy to block side streets, convenient mall shopping next door).

I slept next to the President last night; now I can die happy. Heck I bet he could even hear my noisy neighbors who had their radio up too loud. I wonder if he could do something about that for me?

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  • Speaking of neighbors, Presidential or otherwise, how're things with the pitbull next door? I think I mentioned that we adopted a pit/sharpei mix a few months back and she is a total love;-)
    • Things have been fine; she is finally pretty much used to us, and her owner has been keeping her collar on her (she has an invisible fence around her backyard). If all neighbors were as responsible as her, this world would get along better....

      Now the neighbors across the street, with the kid who sits in his car at 9pm blasting his radio are a totally different group of people. I have gotten the neighbors to call and complain with me when the dumbass does this, plus I have been videotaping him blaring his mu

      • It's idiots like that that feed a particular fantasy of mine. I fantasize about an association of like minded individuals dedicated to preserving polite society... a group just to deal with offenses like the one you describe. Things that the police really don't have the time to deal with... petty offenses, but ones which really have an impact on the quality of our lives. This group would then ensure that 'car music guy' would find his can burned to the ground one morning.

        I know, that would be wrong in so
        • s/find his can burned/find his car burned/
        • It does give me a business idea that may or may not be viable. How about offering a service (for a reasonable fee :-) ) where you (as an impartial observer) arrive at the scene of crap like this, camera (and sound meter) in hand, and tape it. Basically record offenses, get them notorized, etc, to present as evidence in court to sue their asses off, or maybe to file charges (I am not a lawyer, but one would be need to be consulted in a biz like this). Might be viable I dunno. It is hard dealing with morons l
      • HERF [wikipedia.org] his ass.
        • Yeah I have been thinking of a few ideas along those lines:

          - Stinkbombs, or a stink gun (kinda like those air guns that shoot out puffs of air, only stinkier)
          - Really bright lights pointed right at their driveway
          - A microphone with a speaker that will screech with feedback when they get too noisy
          - Going ninja on his butt with a sword/bat

          Yeah I know all these are illegal (and dumb) but hey when you are sitting in the back of your house and your windows are vibrating from some moron's radio who is across the

          • Yeah, they are illegal, but a stereo blowing up for no obvious reason isn't so easy to trace.

            If they have a dog think of three things:
            • Air compressor.
            • Dog whistle.
            • Duct tape.

            A gal that was in an apartment next to me once had a dog that would go off as soon as she left to go somewhere. I was working graveyard and started to have evil thoughts. Didn't follow through, though.

            The guy I was living with told me about his having a problem with neighbors who blasted their stereo all night. He had enough

  • Where do you live?
    • Albuquerque, NM. I didn't even know he was coming into town. This is big news in a podunky town like ours :-) Ok so we have a million people in the city and surrounding area, but still it feels like a podunk town....
  • Homer handled having Bush as a neighbour much better :D you should of shot fireworks at his house and glued a funny wig to his head , till eventually he is humiliated in front of the Russians

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