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  1. 1 hour ago, Dewey said:

    He needs to get away from the hayseeds that suck his dick and throw money at him. Dude needs to find sober friends who do not give a shit about Johnny being the greatest achievement in Aggie history. 

    Why would anyone like that want to be friends with this douchebag?

  2. 7 minutes ago, PantsTent said:

    I have a rain gauge.  So when my dad asks how much rain I got, I tell him.

    I honestly thought every homeowner in Texas was supposed to have a rain gauge.  I did grow up watching Harold Taft.

     

     

  3. I love going to Texas State graduation.  I get to see a lot of students I really like for maybe the last time, and there's not a whole lot of bullshit to the ceremony -- only one of the six ceremonies each semester has a speaker.  It's mainly just a song, a proclamation, read 500 or so names, sing the school song, and you're done in less than an hour.  

    But my daughter graduated from HS a couple of years ago, and that was a whole new level of bullshit.  It took nearly two hours even though there were only 140 grads.  Wife went down to SA a week later to see the niece graduate from a really big HS, and she said it took nearly three hours.  

     

  4. Faking cancer is despicable, but having your 9-yo kid fake cancer is on a whole different fucking level.

    Because a 9-yo can't fake stuff like that.  They had to have told the kid that he has cancer.  They made the kid believe he had cancer.  That's beyond fucked up.

  5. On ‎4‎/‎10‎/‎2018 at 7:16 PM, Horn_Spanker said:

    I bought a rolled up foam bed delivered my UPS.  I love it!

     

     

    Yeah, I bought one of these for $300 off Amazon, with return available.

    It's better than my old one (that I'm sure we paid $1K+ for), so we're keeping it.

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    A long-simmering feud between the flamboyant and pugnacious tow truck company owner Lee “Big Lee” Martin and an elderly neighbor ended Saturday morning with the older man killing Martin in his front yard in Metairie.

    Martin, 53, the owner of Big Lee’s Towing and a self-styled LSU sports superfan, was shot about 10:30 a.m. after spraying his neighbor with a water hose, Jefferson Parish Sheriff Joe Lopinto said. Martin died next to his house, feet away from his trademark colorfully outfitted truck.

    Neighbor Wayne Higgins, 78, was detained on the scene and would be booked on a count of second-degree murder, Lopinto said. He faces life imprisonment if convicted on that count. 

     
     
     
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    The entire confrontation was caught on a neighbor’s surveillance camera, Lopinto said, bemoaning the feud’s bloody conclusion.

    “This is no way to start off a Saturday morning or end one, either. ... People can fight over a bunch of things, but none of it has to lead to this,” Lopinto said.

    Neighbors said they weren’t shocked that there was violence between Martin, a businessman known as much for his big mouth as his love of LSU athletics, and Higgins, a retired plumber known for his quick temper.

    Both men had lived in the 600 block of Bonnabel Boulevard for decades, neighbor Deborah Kirkley said.

     

     

     

     

    According to Lopinto, the confrontation started as Martin was watering his palm trees. Higgins was pulling out of his driveway onto Bonnabel in a black Toyota Tundra, with distinctive flame decals, when Martin splashed his vehicle with water.

    Higgins rolled down his driver-side window, and Martin — never one to shy away from a confrontation — sprayed water in through the opening.

    An enraged Higgins got out of his truck and shot Martin, who died near an LSU tent flag and a children’s car that was under his own parked, oversized vehicle. The tow truck magnate made it to the side of his house before collapsing, Lopinto said.

    A young girl who lives nearby discovered Martin's body, neighbors said.

    Higgins went inside his house and later surrendered to deputies.

    One shell casing was collected from the scene, and neighbors described hearing a single gunshot.

     
    Higgins lived in a neat white one-story house with green trim, while Martin’s house next door was a well-known local landmark. He had LSU flags, Tiger mascot cut-outs and an LSU mailbox — and he talked about how inside the house he had a purple-and-gold casket that he hoped to be buried in when he died.
     
     

     

     

    The neighbors had been at odds for years. Kirkley recalled that the feud stemmed from the placement of a fence between their properties. It escalated beyond that with trash and leaves being pushed from one yard into the other.

    “Over time, they’ve always argued back and forth,” said Chris Lee, who lives on the other side of Martin. “We’d hear them yell.”

    Martin was known to rub some people the wrong way, Lee said, and he described Higgins as irascible. “He’s an old man. You don’t want to mess with an old man,” Lee said.

    Kirkley also said Higgins had a temper. Yet he was also the neighborhood “guard dog” when most residents evacuated after Hurricane Katrina, she said.

    Martin had called authorities to report his neighbor drawing a gun in the past, Kirkley said. Still, neither she nor anyone else on the block knew of any incidents in the past few days. Martin had come over to her house the night before for a quick visit, she said.

    “I figured it might come to blows,” she said. “But I never thought in my wildest dreams (Higgins) would have the audacity to shoot him.”

     

    A search of online court records did not reveal any local criminal history for Higgins. 

    While his colorful support for LSU sports drew Martin some favorable local news coverage, he also made headlines for negative reasons.

    He was arrested last year on allegations that he intentionally hit a woman with his tow truck in Kenner. Prior to that, he pleaded guilty to punching the manager of a rival tow truck company, also in Kenner. The intentional ramming case was still pending. He received probation in the other matter.

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  7. 1 hour ago, heso said:

    This, so much this. There were maps that showed the danger levels for parts of the island. Almost the entire island has some level of threat. These people built their houses in a maximum threat area. 

    They should have viewed their houses being burried in lava as an eventual inevitably, not a remote possibility. 

    It's like having a house on the Gulf, except they're buying volcano insurance instead of hurricane insurance.  Or owning a home in a flood plain.

     

    That whole area (Puna?) on that side of Hilo is very weird, though.  There are a ton of people living over there in huge developments, set up in grids, all unincorporated; I think if you combined the whole area, it would be the second-largest city in the state.  (It's the cheapest land in Hawaii.)  Yet there's only one actual "town" (Pahoa) in that whole area with restaurants/grocery/gas/businesses.  I know a decent number of people who live there are retired, and I worked with a guy who had a vacation home there, but I have no idea what everyone else does out there.

  8. 3 hours ago, Brothahorn said:

    I buy cheap liquor for friends/family and refill the name bottles. Only been called out twice, because of Taaka Vodka.

    That shit is undeniable.

    Come on, man.  Gordon's is only like $4 more, and will pass the test.

  9. This is great: https://www.mlb.com/news/kerry-wood-astros-recall-20-strikeout-game/c-274851112
     

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    That day at Wrigley Field, a few Astros players watched Wood warm up in the bullpen and got what they thought was a preview to what they might see that day. They were wrong.

    Bagwell: I was like, "OK, he throws pretty hard, he looks all right, 93, 94 [mph] ... he has a curveball, maybe a slider." And then [Biggio] stepped in the box. And I saw the first fastball. And I go, "Where did that extra five, six miles an hour come from?" And it was all downhill from there.

     

    Biggio, Bagwell on Wood's gem
     
    Biggio, Bagwell on Wood's gem 02:30 May 4th, 2018

     

    Moises Alou, Astros outfielder: I was a cocky hitter and I didn't care who was pitching. Bags and [Biggio], they always knew who was pitching the next week. Sometimes I found out who's pitching when I was doing my sprints before the game. I pretty much knew a kid was pitching and that he was a phenom. Then I saw the electric stuff live and I said, "Oh [bleep]."

    Wood: I don't think I threw any strikes warming up. I was all over the place. Balls were all over the place. I think I actually shut it down early and flipped the ball to [pitching coach] Phil Regan and said, "We're done. I'm loose. It's only going to get worse. It's time to start save my bullets." It was an ugly warmup.

    That part continued -- briefly -- when the game started. Wood's first pitch -- a fastball -- missed catcher Sandy Martinez's glove and hit home-plate umpire Jerry Meals squarely in the mask.

     

    Kerry Wood pitch hits umpire

     

    Meals: I wasn't sure if I needed to eject somebody right there or what. It just didn't make a whole lot of sense to me at that time. It was shocking more than anything. I couldn't figure out how he didn't catch it. He knew a fastball was coming. He just couldn't get it. It was like the rest of the game -- the Astros couldn't catch up to him, either. It was a weird beginning.

    Wood: I'd gone 50 pitches in the bullpen and didn't throw one strike, and the first pitch of the game, I hit the umpire in the mask, and I'm like, "Here we go." It wasn't reassuring for me.

     

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    50 minutes ago, spystud13 said:

    Holy fuck, he truly is terrible. You’ll all see the play soon enough. 

     

    48 minutes ago, Radical Larry said:

    Yeah, that play was fucking awful. 

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