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  1. El Mat had the best puffy tacos in town from the late '50s until the '70s. It was our go-to place, mainly because it was about a 5 minute rive from our house at Elmhurst & I-35 South - if we made both the frontage road lights at Riverside and 6th street.

  2. She chose the 32 GB 9.7" cheapo from Costco - it was on "sale" yesterday for $280.

    It doesn't have a paper hard copy instruction manual, so I guess the startup info comes up when the device is turned on?

    Wife did turn it on briefly, but a lot of quick stuff (including Chinese) popped up, so she turned it off.

    Does it have to be charged up fully first?

    Will it be similar to setting up her 2015 Kindle Fire?

    Will we have to establish some kind of security?

     

  3. On ‎7‎/‎12‎/‎2018 at 8:31 PM, Lhorn said:

    I’d rather go back to the shag and watching shitting gifs while eating dinner rather than open a single thread in the politics board.  It’s where otherwise perfectly normal people go to check their brains at the door and hurl shit at people who think differently.  Buncha fucking mental patients. 

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  4. Read this afternoon that Crouch was rehired - corporate management reviewed & reconsidered their hasty termination of this manager, but in reality they were afraid of a boycott backlash. (like Dick's/Field & Stream recently experienced).

    Good for Mr. Crouch & his family, but I'd still look for employment elsewhere (Bass Pro invited him to apply).

  5. As suggested elsewhere:

    The retail gun stores should attach a steel cable to firearms on display, just like the dealers do at gun shows. That would prevent incidents like this one.
    Customers can still handle the firearms but virtually eliminate the possibility of running off with it from the store.

    Insurance companies could demand this - and command higher premium rates if the gun retailer doesn't comply.

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  6. A man in South Dakota offered to send money for Dean Crouch and his family in Tallahassee. An Alaska-based gun store chain offered a management position. Heck, even local eat and drinkery Madison Social offered to let the 32-year-old pick up a few shifts to cover the bills.

    Crouch was fired Tuesday from his job as a manager of the Academy Sports on Mahan Drive after tackling and subduing Jason White, who was fleeing the store with what police say was a stolen .40-caliber handgun, ammo and other items picked up of the shelves. 

    An Academy Sports spokeswoman said he was fired in accordance with corporate policy, but she declined to detail the policy.

    That policy has rankled people across the country who have come out in support of Crouch and condemnation of Academy. Some have even called for a boycott of the Texas-based sporting goods store.

    “It is such a tragic and horrific situation he would lose his job for doing the right thing,” wrote Howard Scow of Sturgis, South Dakota, in an email to the Tallahassee Democrat. “Shame on Academy Sporting Goods!

    Madison Social reached out on Twitter trying to locate Crouch to offer him a few shifts.

    “If anyone knows Dean Crouch – the Academy sports manager that was fired after tackling a guy who stole a gun and threatened to shoot people – have him message us,” the College Town bar wrote. “Happy to try and get him some shifts to help him support his family in the transition.”

    Crouch’s Tallahassee attorney Ryan Hobbs said his client has had job offers from around the country and is interviewing at the Tallahassee Bass Pro Shops, which sits just a block east of his former place of employment.

    A GoFund Me page seeking $10,000 to “save Dean Crouch’s home” has been established in Elizabethtown, Kentucky, after the story was picked up by Fox News Wednesday.

    “There are opportunities being presented to him and he is taking a close look at each and every one of them,” Hobbs said.

    Meanwhile, White posted $5,000 bail and was released from the Leon County jail on July 6. He faces three counts of grand theft of a firearm after being connected to the theft of two other guns from a pawn shop just hours before he entered Academy Sports.

    White admitted to stealing the gun and threatened to shoot people with it, according to court records. Those documents indicate those threats but do not mention threats to kill police officers as Crouch’s attorney claims.

    White, according to court records, said he and his family were being threatened by an unknown person and he wanted the gun to “kill him."

    “He repeatedly said ‘I stole and I admit to it’ and ‘I will steal again when I get out of jail,’” officers wrote in their report.

    Many have said Crouch did the right thing in the face a company policy that needs to be reviewed. The expressions of support mean a lot to the Crouches, his attorney said.

     “He and his family appreciate the support they’re receiving,” Hobbs said. “Not just from the local community but from around the country acknowledging him as the hero that we believe he is.”

  7. https://www.tallahassee.com/story/news/2018/07/11/academy-sports-manager-fired-after-stopping-gun-theft-suspect/772900002/

    The manager of Tallahassee’s Academy Sports was fired Tuesday after tackling a suspect accused of stealing a handgun late last month. The suspect also allegedly threatened to shoot people.

    Dean Crouch, 32, was the store manager who stopped Jason White from leaving the Mahan Drive store with a .40-caliber pistol from the firearms counter on June 29.

    “Academy has decided to, instead of treating him like the hero he is, they terminated his employment effective immediately because he put his hands on Mr. White,” Crouch's attorney Ryan Hobbs said.

    Just hours before he was taken into custody, White stole two handguns from Cash America Pawn on South Adams Street, according to Tallahassee Police.

    White asked to look at the handgun at the firearms counter. He was handed the gun, then ran toward the front door. 

    Crouch, who court records say observed the transaction at the counter, and another employee tackled and subdued White at the exit doors and recovered the gun, a stolen backpack, five boxes of ammunition and two magazines for the Glock. 

    UPDATE: Fired Academy Sports manager receiving nationwide support, job offer

    Jason White

    Jason White (Photo: Leon County Sheriff's Office)

    White was taken into the store’s office while police were en route.

    It was there that he admitted to stealing the gun and threatened to shoot people with it. Court records indicate those threats, but do not mention threats to kill police officers as Crouch’s attorney claims.

    White, according to court records, said he and his family were being threatened by an unknown person and he wanted the gun to “kill him."

    “He repeatedly said ‘I stole and I admit to it’ and ‘I will steal again when I get out of jail,’” officers wrote in their report.

    Hobbs said his client is considering a lawsuit for wrongful termination. The way he sees it, Crouch may have saved lives by stopping White.

    “This is not something that happens for Mr. Crouch in his everyday life,” Hobbs said. “I think he was thinking there is a man running out of the store with a gun in his hand with his coworkers following from the firearm area screaming ‘Stop that man.’ Something had to be done and he was the one that was going to do it.”

    Academy Sports spokeswoman Elise Hasbrook said she could not comment on specific personnel matters or policies.  

    However, Crouch’s actions and his termination were handled in accordance with the Texas-based company’s policies.

    “While the incident ended without injury, actions inconsistent with corporate policies were taken,” she said. “We addressed the matter with the local store and individuals involved.”

    Crouch worked at the store for more than two years and is married with a family and has no way to support them.

    Hobbs said maybe the corporate policy should be revisited.

    “My instincts tell me they are concerned more about people like Mr. White suing them for being stopped in the course of a theft than they are about rewarding or acknowledging in a positive manner that Mr. Crouch may have saved lives.”

  8. 4 hours ago, deft said:

    I can’t even tell what this thread is about anymore.

    Here you go... a little something that may be familiar:

    (my 1975 production Ruger Service Six .357 - gifted to my middle son 25 years ago)

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  9. 10 hours ago, iamthepush said:

    Would this be the equivalent of me calling you "a friend of mine"?

     

    No, because I've met the guy in person at least a dozen times in the past 20 years, had numerous long one on one conversations while buying copious amounts of alcohol drinks for each other. Plus exchanging little gifts on special occasions, and not to mention offering him much sincere support during his time of extreme grief after his son was killed in a motorcycle accident 15 years ago.

    We have belonged to the same small Las Vegas social boards in all that time, and have read each other's posts almost daily. 

    I don't recall doing the same with you.

  10. Wife wants one of these devices to use while traveling. We know next to nothing about them, but it will be used for simple Internet surfing & information research, emails, photos & the like. She already has a 3 year old kindle Fire to play games, read books & her email.

     A keyboard would be nice, but not necessary. A good camera too.

    We looked at a 9.7" iPad at Costco (32GB memory) for $319.95. Would something like that be good enough for those everyday applications? We do have iPhone5 cells, but she is also. looking to upgrade hers to a 6s (bigger screen).

    We want to purchase the device at a b&m store in the Austin area, not online. Any suggestions there?

    Relevant info will be appreciated.

    Old people jokes  are getting old.

     

  11. 5 hours ago, Whitman said:

    Cheap marguarita's, interracial cuck porn, and lots of scat? 

    Heavy of the cheap margaritas, but I'm probably the only one who surfed any porn. No Scat At All with that over 50 crowd, but possibly some with the over 75 members.

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  12. It has on my favorite gun  & Las Vegas boards where I hang out most days. Almost.

    By necessity, said Las Vegas board splintered off from another where it had gotten worse than TOS CR - and that was between members who had interacted online for 15 years and met in Las Vegas as friends dozens of times. The annoyance over politics became real hate, then lots of personal slander that was uglier than anything I ever read on TOS. Sad Panda gif.

    The original Las Vegas board suffered a similar death that TOS has experienced since March.

     

     

  13. Like most political forums I've seen & participated in, the CR is a cancer to the board.

    At least I've had Surly NSAA radiation therapy and am in the middle of the chemo regimen to burn that CR shit out of my carcass. Feelin' pretty good these days what with the remission.

    Somebody ought to darn those socks though, some of them are getting lost and showing in other Surly forums.

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