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Sbbruin

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  1. Not sure how to screen shot the post, but the text is great.  Surly handle?

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    On Trac Delivery Person (Lewd Conduct) - Looking For Other Victims

    I recently had an incident with an On Trac delivery person (in a white van) who has been repeatedly parking outside my house during times when I am working from my desk, where he can clearly see me. Without going in to too much detail, I discovered about 1 1/2 weeks ago that he has been inappropriately touching himself while he watches me. I have filed a report with the Altadena Sheriff's office and they have an on-going investigation. If anyone else experienced anything similar from perhaps the same person, please let me know and I will connect you with the detective on the case. The goal is to get enough evidence to make sure that he cannot continue to do this activity while under the guise of delivering to houses. The company he works for has taken this very seriously, but I do not want to see him being able to get similar employment and continue to victimize women. I have reported this information to the Altadena Sheriff. Description of person involved – Hair: Hat, Top: T-shirt or Collared Shirt, Bottom: Tan Shorts, Shoes: Tennis Shoes, Age: late 50's, Build: medium, Race: unknown, Sex: male Description of vehicle involved – Color: White, Make: Chevrolet, Model: Express, Year: 2007, Type: Van, Other details: Last seen in Altadena on June 27, 2019.

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  2. 1 minute ago, Francisco 2.0 said:

    Someone's gotta ask.  ASAP?

    I mean, getting your twins worked on ASAP?  There's gotta be a story here.

     

    Agreed.  Spill it.

  3. 27 minutes ago, CoTex said:

    Maybe you made the right decision.  It seems like you would want to go super fast, super competitive (one-design) or super comfortable, and I don't think this checks any of those boxes.

    I think someone raced a Gunboat one year, that's probably the ride you angle for.

    Well, it would check the second box, the there weren't 11 crew members.  Way too many bodies for that long of a trip.

    BTW, Patrick Disney is a tenant of mine.  He has taken line honors with Pyewacket a couple of times.

  4. 2 hours ago, CoTex said:

    Sailors,

    I was watching this video and saw something surprising.

     

    At the 2:09 mark they're taking down the kite, and the bowman is at the end of the pole.  Watch what happens to the bowman when he spikes the shackle?  Looks like he takes it in the head or face, hard. 

    Mind you this is a very high dollar operation - the sailors are paid professionals, the boat costs millions to sail annually. 

    Question, there's got to be a better technique, right?  G650, I know, I know, use a sprit and you don't have these problems, but for these guys, wtf?  You can hurt someone like that.

    No lifelines.  Seems like it'd be pretty easy to go ass over elbows into the drink.  At least for me.

  5. Buddy of mine is taking off today for the 2019 TransPac.  Beneteau 47 "Macando" is anyone follows it.  They'll probably finish last.  He invited me to crew, but I ain't taking that much time off work for that.  But it would have been intriguing.

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  6. This is the stupidest concept ever proposed.  Who gets reparations?  And who bears the cost?  Do we propose a special levy on those whose ancestry can be directly linked to slave ownership?  If your family arrived here in the late 1800's/early 1900's from Europe (as my ancestors did), are you supposed to bear the burden of reparations owned by generations you had nothing to do with?  If you are black and your family arrived here after the abolishment of slavery, do you receive money?  There is absolutely no practical way to apply this in either direction.  It is, for lack of a better descriptor, retarded.

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