| Author | Message | ||
     Vegasbueller |
Good grief! My wife owns a business on eBay (and her own ecommerce site) selling boots, shoes, and leather goods. I make a bi-weekly trip to the post office for the shipping ritual. During that I normally make several trips back and forth from the truck. well, during one of the trips some asshat decides that they want a stack of boots for themselves. We lost about $500 in boots. Merry Christmas you thieving buttwhipe! We live in a "smallish" town (Deltona, Fl) where the post office folks know us by name. As usual no one saw a thing, etc, etc. I guess the best we can do now is hope to spot some chick in the WalMart wearing a new pair of thigh high boots and ask her where she bought them??  Well.. at least I have the BadWeb to vent my frustrations at!!  | ||
| Essthreetee |
Gotta love people...don't ya.  | ||
| Natexlh1000 |
They don't have cameras in the office? You went to the police, right? | ||
| Vegasbueller |
No cameras in the parking lot, and well, no witnesses, no crime! fa la la la la humbug! Nahh.. I am not letting it get me down that bad! | ||
| Natexlh1000 |
ohhh I see. Car was left unattended for 15 seconds and bam! I was having trouble understanding how it could have happened inside. | ||
| Billfish |
Please take the time to file a report with the police. You'll have a leg to stand on should they turn up. Plus the police will be alerted to the theft in the Post office parking lot. They should increase patroling the area so others will not be made victims of this scum bag. Hope they catch this butt-hole and he starts off the New Year in JAIL. MERRY CHRISTMAS!!! | ||
| Tramp |
Oh. "'tis the fishing season". I agree. i got a decent Pickerel yesterday afternoon. Thing had a 4" crappie inside. Won a meat grinder attachment on ebay to us eon our old sunbeam mixmaster, so we can use all those ultra-bony, albe'em delicious, pickerel filets as fishcakes. Gonna make 'em like Maryland-style crabcakes, only they'll be Pickerel. feeeze 'em by the dozen. dems good eats. MMMh-HMMMM! | ||
| Taxman |
if you have car insurance it would pay for that. i've had a similar thing happen to me before. and i was reimbursed by my car insurance. i do beleive i had to specify that i would be hauling merchandise in my vehicle when i got the insurance though. | ||
| Tramp |
car insurance will cover a meat grinder from ebay? | ||
| Light_keeper |
Why would you want to cover a meat grinder? Wouldn't that make it hard to get the meat in?  VB hope you get yours back and who ever gets the boot. | ||
| Tramp |
well...keeps the flies and dust out, for starters... | ||
| Road_thing |
Wait a minute... ...you're grinding up fish bones in your pickerel patties and you're worried about flies and dust?? Priorities, man, priorities... rt Wasn't Pickerel Patty a Peanuts character? | ||
| Tramp |
yes she was, 'Chuck'... (say- isn't "chuck" usually sent through a meat-Grinder?) * * * (and now that you mention it, RT, look at the very first phrase in this entire thread) ("Pop's Pickerel Patties"...new fish-fry stand along the road in The Hudson Valley) (Message edited by tramp on December 19, 2005) | ||
| Dragon_slayer |
VB, report the theft to the Police. Insist that it will be on record. And watch yourself, if they got away with it once, they may try again. It's the season for these kinds of thefts. Tramp, can you say "Pickled Pickerel Patties" three times quickly? | ||
| Vegasbueller |
Tramp: you slay me.... We'll try that with the car insurance (not the meat grinder), and yep we filed a report. And yes... left them unattended for about 30 seconds while I made a run inside. I hope Karma deals a swift one on them..maybe none will be in their size! | ||
| Xring |
If only immediate karma was a law of nature. But I believe it is not. "No matter how low you set your expectations, people will still disappoint you." Good luck, VB. Bill | ||
| Cataract2 |
Sorry to hear that VB. My season hasn't gone well neither. Got laid off from work last friday. | ||
| Diablobrian |
The Karma train may be slow coming, but it tends to have a lot of mass when it hits. (mass x velocity = force) | ||
| Vegasbueller |
Thanks guys! Dang Catarct, man I hate to hear that. Get back to work before summer man, you'll have to have the gas to make it up for a BBQ! Diablo: I sure hope that formula works out to be true. We won't let these bums ruin Christmas for us anyway! I guess a part of me still believed in the "old south", where you could go to bed with your windows open and the front door unlocked. | ||
| Cataract2 |
Depends Vegas. I might be in boot camp by then. | ||
| Tramp |
VB- 'tis the season, hence I sleigh ye. seriously, I feel lousy about the larceny. don't look at me though- those boots wouldn't go with this bag.... remember- it could have been MUCH worse. watch ebay as well, as many skels are just stupid enough to fence items there. | ||
| Twig |
It's been a lousy day for me also. Had to go down to the magistrate's office for the second time within 30 days to have my son picked up. Mental illness...is a disgusting affliction that hit my beautiful son in his late teens. I'll be lucky if I can eat solid food tomorrow,the way my jaw feels right now.Vegas and Cataract,please hang in there... I'm gonna give it my best shot. P.S. my son won't be able to live with us again. It's gotten too dangerous for me, my wife, and his younger brother . That's why I started riding again after a twenty year layoff. | ||
| Vegasbueller |
Twig: sorry to hear about that bro. I know where you are with that somewhat, except that I had to deal with my father being that way. Not sure what is wrong with your son, but they have done some amazing things with meds these days. Best of luck my friend. VB | ||
| Vegasbueller |
tramp: It could have been worse, I guess they could have stolen the wife's new truck! One good piece of humor in all of this is that two of the stolen pairs where in very large sizes... for two of her Female Impersonator type clients!  | ||
| Tramp |
...what a drag  | ||
| Arbalest |
Tramp, I agree about the pickerel. Some of the best tasting fresh water fish out there, and a blast to catch. The bones suck, though. So are you just grinding the floating bones up with the flesh? I like the idea of a fishcake made up like a crab cake. Can you tell me a little more? | ||
| Tramp |
They say (I've always eaten my Pickerel fileted, so this grinder bit's new to me, too) to just run the filets ('y' bones and all) through a coarse-set grinder, twice. being that the bones aren't the hard type that most folks are accustomed to, the 'y' bones evidently grind really easily and the tiny, short pieces aren't really noticeable. Most of the old-timers who pull pickerel through the ice, around here, do it this way. Then, just form patties, so's I'm told. I'm excited to stockpile pickerel cakes, I get kinda tired of the tedious process of pulling 'y' bones outta my mouth whilst enjoying my filets. I've eaten pickerel cakes and always loved 'em, just never made them myself, always eaten my catch fileted or just cleaned. it's funny- a nice pickerel (they pretty much eat other tasty fish like perch, crappie and smaller pickerel) tastes incredible, but most folks avoid eating them because of the annoying bones. I'll letcha know how it works out. | ||
| Road_thing |
I hear they're real good with okra... | ||
| Jackbequick |
I catch a few pickerel up here from time to time. I generally set 'em free because they are smaller so and I'm doing mostly catch and release fishing for smallmouth. But I do keep a limit when I want to eat fish and I have filleted a couple of the larger ones and cooked them right along with the smallmouth. People ate them right along with the bass with no complaints. Ignorance is bliss sometimes. The native smallmouth does not get as big as the largemouth, a 4 or 5 pound fish is a real bragging fish up here in Maine. But I think I get twice as much fight out of them pound for pound. A day on a lake in Maine is hard to beat. Jack | ||
| Tramp |
yep- smallies like clear water and crawdads. Pickerel, esp. populations of smaller fish, tend to do a number on your more desirable gamefish, including, believe it or not, trout and muskies, due to the early spawn of pickerel and their voracious feeding. pickerel fry and fingerlings will hack through any new population of muskie fingerlings (the pickerel, by the time the muskies hatch,are bigger than them) and certainly of trout and smallmouth. Personally, I way prefer the taste of pickerel to that of any bass, large, smallmouth or hybrid. Guess what I'm saying is it's good thing to keep those pickerel from your favoutite spots, it'll help the populations of the other fish. | ||
| Natexlh1000 |
If he took the bones out, it wouldn't be crunchy. |
