"I am still trying to find a movie that isn't about a bunch of guys doing stuff, let me know if you know of any."

It's not just movies. I think life is just a series of episodes of doing stuff.
I'm a little wary of the Hangover sequel. There's no way they could have made a better movie than the first one.



This thread has some serious potential. Well done, Alz.

I don't know why this one is still stuck in my head, but it's a police log item that happened about a dozen years ago. There's a company in town called New England Lead, which, as you can probably surmise, manufactures products made out of lead.
If you're making products out of lead, chances are you're going to need to store large quantities of lead. This company chose to store its lead under a canopy. The fence around the storage area is locked, but there are no security cameras. No big deal. It's a lead factory. Not a jewelry store.
So these two geniuses figure it's a pretty easy mark. They rent a box truck, cut off the lock, and start loading 100-pound lead bars into the back of the truck. This probably takes a 4-5 hours of undoubtedly back-breaking work. Now, there aren't a lot of places where you can just walk in and re-sell tons and tons of lead, but these guys have done their homework and found a place in another town about 10 miles down the road where the owner doesn't ask questions.
They fence the lead, which has a low re-sale value, for about $200. Well, that's not enough. So they go back the following night and go back for another load.
This is where the crime tends to unravel. The cops have a whole day to investigate. They've pretty much gotten a description of the suspects, the license plate of the truck, and they've even traced the lead to the lead company, so they set up surveillance.
The cops wait for these two yahoos to load up the truck again, and they're pulled over about 30 seconds after they leave the parking lot of the lead company.
They're charged with two counts of b+e, felony larceny, and maybe a couple of other things. They're small-timers, so they get off with probation.
So let's do the math. The best possible outcome for these yahoos is they clear $200 each, for about 10-12 hours of arduous work. Add on another hour for travel each night, and you're talking about 14 hours of labor. Now deduct the cost of the rental truck for two nights and they probably pocket 100 bucks each. I don't know what McDonald's was paying a dozen years ago, but these two clowns were probably off working the shake machine for a week, with no heavy lifting.

artie_fufkin wrote:

I don't know why this one is still stuck in my head, but it's a police log item that happened about a dozen years ago. There's a company in town called New England Lead, which, as you can probably surmise, manufactures products made out of lead.
If you're making products out of lead, chances are you're going to need to store large quantities of lead. This company chose to store its lead under a canopy. The fence around the storage area is locked, but there are no security cameras. No big deal. It's a lead factory. Not a jewelry store.
So these two geniuses figure it's a pretty easy mark. They rent a box truck, cut off the lock, and start loading 100-pound lead bars into the back of the truck. This probably takes a 4-5 hours of undoubtedly back-breaking work. Now, there aren't a lot of places where you can just walk in and re-sell tons and tons of lead, but these guys have done their homework and found a place in another town about 10 miles down the road where the owner doesn't ask questions.
They fence the lead, which has a low re-sale value, for about $200. Well, that's not enough. So they go back the following night and go back for another load.
This is where the crime tends to unravel. The cops have a whole day to investigate. They've pretty much gotten a description of the suspects, the license plate of the truck, and they've even traced the lead to the lead company, so they set up surveillance.
The cops wait for these two yahoos to load up the truck again, and they're pulled over about 30 seconds after they leave the parking lot of the lead company.
They're charged with two counts of b+e, felony larceny, and maybe a couple of other things. They're small-timers, so they get off with probation.
So let's do the math. The best possible outcome for these yahoos is they clear $200 each, for about 10-12 hours of arduous work. Add on another hour for travel each night, and you're talking about 14 hours of labor. Now deduct the cost of the rental truck for two nights and they probably pocket 100 bucks each. I don't know what McDonald's was paying a dozen years ago, but these two clowns were probably off working the shake machine for a week, with no heavy lifting.

Either lead is worthless or scrape was really low back then.  Copper is the hot item right now.  A couple arm loads of copper pipe and you have cleared $200.

artie_fufkin wrote:

I don't know why this one is still stuck in my head, but it's a police log item that happened about a dozen years ago. There's a company in town called New England Lead, which, as you can probably surmise, manufactures products made out of lead.
If you're making products out of lead, chances are you're going to need to store large quantities of lead. This company chose to store its lead under a canopy. The fence around the storage area is locked, but there are no security cameras. No big deal. It's a lead factory. Not a jewelry store.
So these two geniuses figure it's a pretty easy mark. They rent a box truck, cut off the lock, and start loading 100-pound lead bars into the back of the truck. This probably takes a 4-5 hours of undoubtedly back-breaking work. Now, there aren't a lot of places where you can just walk in and re-sell tons and tons of lead, but these guys have done their homework and found a place in another town about 10 miles down the road where the owner doesn't ask questions.
They fence the lead, which has a low re-sale value, for about $200. Well, that's not enough. So they go back the following night and go back for another load.
This is where the crime tends to unravel. The cops have a whole day to investigate. They've pretty much gotten a description of the suspects, the license plate of the truck, and they've even traced the lead to the lead company, so they set up surveillance.
The cops wait for these two yahoos to load up the truck again, and they're pulled over about 30 seconds after they leave the parking lot of the lead company.
They're charged with two counts of b+e, felony larceny, and maybe a couple of other things. They're small-timers, so they get off with probation.
So let's do the math. The best possible outcome for these yahoos is they clear $200 each, for about 10-12 hours of arduous work. Add on another hour for travel each night, and you're talking about 14 hours of labor. Now deduct the cost of the rental truck for two nights and they probably pocket 100 bucks each. I don't know what McDonald's was paying a dozen years ago, but these two clowns were probably off working the shake machine for a week, with no heavy lifting.

"but i'm my own boss."

it reminds me of the smiths song, "i was minding my business, lifting some lead off the roof of the holy name church.  it was worthwhile living, a laughable life . . ."

"the smiths"

Odd. I never envisioned you as the type who would moan along to one of Morrissey's dirges about how unfair life is.

In Indonesia there is some quirk of language or culture that leads to exchanges like this:

Me: Hi, do you have cheeseburgers?
McD's employee: Yes, we do!
Me: OK, then I'll have a cheeseburger.
McD's employee: I'm sorry, we're all out of cheeseburgers.
Me: But I thought you said you have them.
McD's employee: Yes, we do.  We do have them.
Me: But you just said you're all out.
McD's employee: Yes, we're all out.

Same thing with chicken at KFC.

Max wrote:

In Indonesia there is some quirk of language or culture that leads to exchanges like this:

Me: Hi, do you have cheeseburgers?
McD's employee: Yes, we do!
Me: OK, then I'll have a cheeseburger.
McD's employee: I'm sorry, we're all out of cheeseburgers.
Me: But I thought you said you have them.
McD's employee: Yes, we do.  We do have them.
Me: But you just said you're all out.
McD's employee: Yes, we're all out.

Same thing with chicken at KFC.

I think I'd be more worried about what Indonesian cheeseburgers are made from.

"Neil Diamond has an ironic coolness about him these days"

Unfortunately, all of this happened about 1985, when Neil Diamond was about as cool as a pair of wingtips.

i recall the days of waiting in line at ticketron, but 8 am is pretty lame.  you get there about 4 am if you want a chance at decent seats.  before i could drive i remember walking about 5 miles to the nearest ticketron--leaving about midnight, or so. 

anyway, in LA 1985-1990, the two hottest tickets in town were neil diamond and babs.  scalping is legal, as long as its not at the venue. i worked part-time in a used record store, and most of the people there made side money by scoring tickets to hot events (one of them coincidentally wrote a biography of neil diamond).  i quickly learned about neil diamond.  any old ticket sold for $200, which was an enormous amount of money for a concert back then.  i once scored 4 seats for sting on his 'soul cages' tour, 3rd row center orchestra pit.  i sold a pair for several hundred dollars, sold a single to a lady who flew down from the bay area, and sat on aisle myself.  funny thing, i was mid 20's, she was mid 30's, well-kept and decent looking.  i met her at her hotel to give her the ticket, we went to the show together, we went back to her hotel together, she bought me some drinks . . . i didn't go up to her room with her.  i was a weird guy back then.  i remember my friends saying, 'didn't you feel obligated to sleep with her after you sold her a ticket for 200 bucks and she bought you drinks."  funny things i'll remember when i am old, too old to score chicks.

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Sorry for the long link... but .... yeah

boy the genius just keeps coming

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110520/ap_on_fe_st/us_found_money

People herald this man as a man of honor, a man of integrity. I consider him a moron, and if my wife ever pulls some stupid shit like this I'm filing for divorce and sueing her for half of this.

Unless I've read this wrong... Isn't the IRS limit for a gift $10,000.00? Since he bought the $45,000.00 with the house (covered by the abandoned property clause), and gave the property to the kids of the previous owner, he's on the hook for taxes on this.

That will teach you "honorable" man... Dumbass.