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  1. I just got mugged at the chevron getting gas before rental drop in beautiful Oakland. I had looked around and there was nobody suspicious and after I got the pump in my hand, a black sedan pulled up and two guys jumped out and ran at me…Teenagers with hoods and masks. We were so tight between the gas pump in the car that they really couldn’t use their advantage in numbers, one kid grabbed my left arm and was trying to take my watch off while the second kid was trying to grab m. The one kid kept struggling to figure out how to take off my watch for like 15 seconds while I kept trying to pull away an FU them. About that time I realized I had the gas nozzle in my right hand and pumped gas on the nearest one’s head, screaming, “ I’ve got a lighter... I want us to die!!” The car next to me had started honking his horn, and so both of them ran off and jumped in the black car which took off like an Indy car and almost got in a wreck. It turns out the second one had gotten my watch off my wrist before he ran. The whole thing could not have lasted more than 20 to 30 seconds. so that was different. But I kept my phone and credit cards and ID to get on the plane so all is good and I’m drinking a glass of wine at the airport. My $50 watch looked like an Omega - so they only focused on it and not my wallet. Feel free to share your I got mugged story.
    46 points
  2. Early July straw poll Over/under final class rank: 5.5 Pos rep this post if you think under (i.e., top 5 class). Neg if you think over (i.e., 6th or worse). Can’t rep my own post but for the record I’ll take the under.
    41 points
  3. Update: I received an unexpected call from a Detective from Oakland. Someone had called in and reported my mugging and the black sedan. They must have given a partial license, because the detective said that their crime detection cameras and license plate scanner had found the car quickly. Using my credit card information from the gas station they found my address and phone number, and called me to ask if I was in Oakland on Monday around 11:30. When I confirmed I was mugged around then and my watch stolen, the detective was extremely happy. They weren’t sure if anything was taken, but the guy they arrested had just gotten out of jail for robbing people at gas stations. There was also a mini crime spree Saturday, Sunday and Monday, which they think mostly involved this guy at nearby gas stations. Because of the information I gave them (watch stolen) they were now formally charging him with a felony. I told the detective that I would be happy to fly to Oakland on my dime to testify, and to tell the Dipshit that at the pre-trial. Given that I never made a police report, the fact Oakland detectives tracked me down and have arrested a likely suspect is pretty damn awesome. Remind me not to go crime-ing in Oakland. oh. They got a subpoena for the car from the scan match - and found what looks to be some stolen stuff in it. If they find my watch, they will send it to me after the case is closed.
    40 points
  4. I went to search with a group on Friday. If you have ever been to Hunt, you won’t recognize it. Looks like it was clear cut. Standing near the river and looking at the debris line was daunting. So much water. Hard to really understand it without seeing. I thought it was strange that I encountered no dead animals other than fish. Maybe they have been removed but still strange. I mostly was searching the high water line. Can’t tell you the amount of Mystic t shirts and shorts that were on the ground in my am search area. As a father who sent two girls to camp in the area it was rough because I recognized what a lot of the things I came across were. Hard to see. Heartbreaking. &nbsp If you have been keeping up with the numbers you will know that the bodies found have been slow the past few days. I did not come across anything. No smells other than the stench of silt which is everywhere. Its not just a little. It’s everywhere and deep. The main search tool seemed to be excavators digging up the silt on the banks and people lined up on the side of it looking underneath what was dug up and the watching as the bucket was sifted. Other excavators are moving trees and brush piles while spotters look in the area beneath. This is going on all up and down the bank. There are lots of non profit organizations in Hunt running this machinery and either supervising volunteers or their own people doing the spotting. Every person who told me what to do, handed me a water, food, or a cold towel was with a non profit. No FEMA or any other official types that I saw. I wonder how long this will be going on and Abbotts claim that they aren’t leaving until all missing are accounted for seems unrealistic. I did come across some game wardens walking around the water line trying to detect decomposition odors. One issue with this is that you have to till up or poke the silt wi th a stick to get oxygen to potentially what might be underneath it in order to detect a smell. The scope of this flood is just massive. Being there made it feels enormous. Finding everyone who is missing just seems very difficult. I saw no National Guard. Nowhere. No military vehicles, no base camps, nothing. Not saying they aren’t there but I didn’t see them. In fact outside of the game wardens , I had the impression that it’s just locals and the non profits. I’m assuming that’s not the case but I covered a lot of ground and that’s all I saw. Met people from all over the country. It is really bad down there. I’m just not sure what will happen over the long haul.
    39 points
  5. He's going to be slow to respond. He turned down a federal grant that would have allowed Surly to increase the timing of alerts when a user gets tagged in a post. That's not political. It's just facts.
    39 points
  6. Guys, they are gonna fuck this up so bad this year and spend it all like a bunch of poors do when they win the lottery. Calm the fuck down.
    38 points
  7. See two new pages, think something is happening. fucking idiots arguing about breakfast food. going to start rewarding off topic posts with time off
    37 points
  8. She just got tired of his wandering eye
    37 points
  9. Did the BBQ drop-off in Boerne for the SIL and his team. He said they started in Bergheim today and then went straight to Canyon Lake leapfrogging the teams in between. He said they found a "few" victims and went into a bit of detail on condition, but I'll leave that out here. It's what you think it would be and ID is not easy. Met his commander, who said the guys in the field were getting fed "But it's the same sandwiches over and over..." then grumbled a bit about "The guys who are staying in Kerrville are getting the good stuff." That is to say the ribs and bacon/jap wrapped chicken skewers were well received. He told me they'd be back searching Canyon Lake tomorrow. That aspect is just surreal. The whole thing is. Well, so, for the ttwwps purists...
    36 points
  10. We lost everything in the fires in January. FEMA definitely helps in the immediate aftermath. Just stick with them. They will follow through, it just takes time. All the agencies that are meant to help right now are dealing with shakeups. SBA Disaster loans are HUGE for people that need to rebuild/relocate. You can get loans to help at 2.56% over 30 years. Can't stress how helpful that will be for the recovery. And yes you can use it to relocate. Obviously, now is the time to find those that are missing and make sure everyone's immediate needs are met. But if you have friends dealing with the loss of a home, share this site with them: https://uphelp.org/ I know flood insurance is treated differently than other calamities, but that website will be one of the most helpful things you could share over the next 2 years for them. It has step-by-step roadmaps for recovery. It's a non-profit run by survivors of disasters. Also, offer to babysit their kids for free while they talk with their spouses about what the fuck they're going to do. Recovery is like having another full time job.
    36 points
  11. Wasn't just the boy counselors at La Junta that did such a great job, these two girl counselors are not getting enough love... And our fellow Bomberos to the south of us...
    35 points
  12. My heart tell me the Eastlands were good people. People who loved the camp and the children entrusted to them. And if Mr. Eastland were here today, I believe he'd be doing the exact opposite of what we’ve seen from city, county, and state leaders. He would raise his hand and say: “I’m sorry. I should have done better.” Just look at the difference between someone like Mr. Eastland and Ingram City Councilman Raymond Howard. One died in his car on what amounted to a suicide mission to save several young women. The other stood on the bank and shouted to a child being swept downriver to “grab a tree or something.” Both bore responsibility—one as a camp owner, the other as an elected official who ignored ample warning—and both failed to meet the standard of care expected of them. Their failures didn’t start when the river rose; they began long before the first drops of rain. Why wasn’t someone at Camp Mystic awake and monitoring conditions that night? In the aftermath, there have been references to a longtime maintenance staffer who, in years past, would stay up overnight during storms to monitor the river. When did that practice stop—and more importantly, why? Maybe it didn’t. Maybe someone was there and fell asleep to the droning of a weather radio. But if that’s true, it only compounds the tragedy. The cabins along the riverbank were known to be vulnerable, even under less extreme circumstances. And when you're housing 750 children on a property with limited elevation, that should demand not just caution, but heightened, even obsessive vigilance—especially during storms. That level of care shouldn’t be optional. It should be institutionalized. I haven’t even started allocating accountability to county or state officials. But after six days, I’ve grown weary of the deflections, the self-pity, and the contempt for legitimate questions from the media and the public. This isn’t about politics. It’s about basic human decency. It's about wanting to know why so many people—so many children—died. Evasion and hostility aren’t damage control. They’re accelerants. We shouldn't still be asking for answers. We should be demanding them. Not just for the sake of accountability, but out of respect for Aidan Heartfield, Chloe Childress, Jane Ragsdale, Hanna and Rebecca Lawrence, and the many others who lost their lives. Because the truth is owed—to them, to their families, and in particular, to every parent of a child that isn't coming home.
    34 points
  13. Need to shop on a gas nozzle
    33 points
  14. Samari Matthews to Texas!!! https://247sports.com/player/samari-matthews-46135831/
    32 points
  15. I care about my eight year old daughter more than I care about football.
    32 points
  16. literally simultaneous posts of our resident retard
    32 points
  17. Word on the street is that if you combine the money given to Carlton and Ojo, it still wouldn't pay Ketch's tab at Golden Corral.
    31 points
  18. And I refuse to believe those little souls weren't responsible for this piece of artwork over Canyon Lake last night. From my balcony...
    31 points
  19. That's coach Sark in the middle.
    30 points
  20. Dear Penthouse....
    30 points
  21. Quote is from a DT thread.
    29 points
  22. Probably won't amount to much, but I just tweeted this. Any of y'all on X could retweet it to whatever news agency or reporter you can think of. Who knows. Might catch someone's eye.
    28 points
  23. How the fuck is it efficient to have Austin firefighters drive 2 hours to knock on doors in Kerr County? If those FFs were legit worried enough with enough lead time to get there in time to make a difference, why weren’t they in that moment calling all available first responders in Kerr County and telling them to get their asses in gear? That whole scenario seems ridiculous
    28 points
  24. The stories are endless. Here is just one of those coming across my social media feeds:
    28 points
  25. Final Update: Finally, we're done here! Okay, system is still out there but weakened. This low pressure system coming in from the coast is bumping it out. Now this low has its own rain-making capabilites and therefore chances of "normal" July afternoon storms is pretty good, but coverage will be more scattered. The CTX atmosphere is still pretty humid so there's a lot of fuel, but the triggering mechanism not so intense. In other words we're almost back to normal. July will set in after Wednesday - trending sunnier and hotter - and drier. However all the tons of water fallen on our ground will probably keep 100's away for at least another week if not more. So one small plus on this otherwise awful episode is that we'll be over 1 1/2 months without a triple-digit day (I hear Aug and Sept saying, "hold my beer" but it's possible that this year could be a little different - there hasn't been a really strong high parking over us for weeks on end, even back in May with those 100's... the high moved in and out pretty quickly. (There, I just jinxed it, 100 degree days comin' up!). Epilogue - I try to post here especially when weather is critical to calm nerves and hopefully put at ease by giving perspective and "what's going on" and "what's next?". I guess I've had a talent for weather (people have told me so since I was kid), and I actually did intern at NASA for a time plotting hurricane info when I was 15. I was going to go into either astronomy or meteorology as a career, then I entered both programs in college - and promptly found out that there were no chicks (definitely not the case now as you guys frequently have posted here), and a buncha nerds which closely resembled the seating section that Pinto and Flounder were invited to sit in at the Omega House. Anyway I've always liked the sky, be it immediate (meteorology) or farther out (astronomy). If I can help calm nerves and assuage fears during weather crises I think I owe it to "whomever" to use that talent and I think that's important. Can't always be correct, but people doing this do their best. Beyond this I do here and there glance at this thread on the site; otherwise just send me a PM or one of those tag things and I'll check it out. Meanwhile I can hope that the grieving period and cleanup/rebuilding of these devastated areas - and lives - can proceed with grace and hope. Late!
    28 points
  26. The real cost of Boy Scout camp is in the emotional trauma.
    27 points
  27. So, to sum up, the richest state in the Union cannot afford to make sure people don't die in flash floods (which have been known to occur pretty much every summer), cannot afford to make sure people don't die in freezing conditions (which have been known to occur pretty much every winter), and cannot afford to place in the top half of state education rankings. But we can afford gazillions of dollars to block Central Americans from coming here to paint our houses and bus our tables. And we can give gazillions of dollars in tax breaks to crypto bros. What a fucking embarrassment this place is.
    27 points
  28. Campbell really seems to believe that he’s the smartest guy in the room. Yet he’s not quite smart enough to grasp one simple fact: if anyone in the country gave a single fuck about watching Texas Tech on TV, they’d already have a seat at the table and he wouldn’t need to gargle Trump’s balls to get one.
    27 points
  29. Our friends said they got a letter from their drowned daughter sometime Sunday or Monday. It said something like “don’t worry about me, I’m having so much fun with my friends” and other stuff like that. Fuck, it’s making me cry all over again. EDIT: Forgot one thing that at least brought a temporary smile and laugh. Eloise mentioned in her letter she was disappointed that she was a "Kiowa" rather than a "Tonk" like her mother at Mystic but rationalized it by saying Kiowa's colors were red and that's pretty close to pink, her favorite color. Goddammit.
    27 points
  30. Holy shit what a meltdown. I’m only going say this once and I’m sure it won’t make a difference, but the problem with daily Texan comes down to the fact that sane people post relevant, pertinent facts that are in context, and then the window lickers scream “no cloakroom!!!” Sane people explain how something is reasonable and important to the conversation at hand, and then there is a bunch of posts going back-and-forth with a total thread derailment that gets blamed on the wrong people. It’s basically letting your toddler control the house. But hey, it’s their house.
    27 points
  31. Some of y'all get so worked up about the dumbest shit. The kid threw a Texas hat on the ground. He didn't fuck your wife. Let it go.
    27 points
  32. Outside of everyone rolling your eyes at "media scum" while you attempt to laughably accuse any other organization of bias, allow me to try and illustrate the big point here you seem to be missing. And it's obvious that you're missing it even though you've inadvertently outlined it in your post and don't seem to see the signifigance: The governor, who is calling parents asking who to blame Losers, said that there was plenty of notice and resources sent. The mayor, who slept through it, says he has no clue what the governor is talking about. Two sides are saying opposite things, and one will be shown to be a blatant lie, and that motherfucker should face consequences. Now, it's rather obvious who you think the liar is, but whatever, either way, the sunlight means someone deserving should face some fucking consequences, and that's a fucking good thing. But I guess you can go back to finding a solution that "brings back the victims" since "that's what the families of the victims need." I guess maybe you dabble in necromancy? But I'd bet 100 bucks that, short of their dead family and friends coming back to life, victims would settle for some fucking justice and accountability for folks at fault, and THAT can maybe be uncovered by...checks notes...people asking fucking questions and writing articles about it.
    26 points
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