Anyone want to guess the conversations in the insurance office durinng this claimant’s call?

From NJ.com:

HUDSON COUNTY NOW

From the Jersey Journal newsroom

Flaming squirrel ignites car in Bayonne

by N. Clark Judd

Thursday October 18, 2007, 7:29 PM

It’s Rocky the Frying Squirrel!

A kamikaze squirrel fell from the sky and detonated a Bayonne woman’s car yesterday, police said today.

Lindsey Millar, 23, and her brother, Tony, 22, were both home Wednesday at about 12:45 p.m. when Lindsey’s car suddenly started burning outside their 42nd Street home.

It’s all the wonderful wife’s fault.  We went in there “just to see” and came out with a new car radio and an XM Radio unit.  After all these years of marriage who knew she’d go for a second marriage to a radio service, one I’d criticized as total folly from Day One.  I guess she figures anything I criticized so badly can’t be all that bad for me to play with now. 

However, I have also been informed that Christmas, Father’s Day, Birthday, and all other Gift-Appropriate Days have now been accounted for for the next couple of years

It was quarter to five when I dropped the wife off for another of her after-hours classes and it was seasonably hot out there.  Of course, when the place place was built they stripped every tree and bush from the large acreage, so there was no shade anywhere to hide.  I had bottled water and plenty of reading material for the two-hour wait, but there had to be a better place.  Sweaty hands while reading the newspaper make a bit of a mess, and I do not perspire, I do indeed sweat.  Profusely.

The 60,000 mile thing was due last week, so I took the car in.  One does that when there is the continuation of a 10-year/100,000-mile warranty at stake, and the 60K is a major milestone — a refurb in one sense.

“My” service writer is super — he and I hit it off nicely from the beginning some time ago.  Turns out we’re originally from the same area of Louisiana and his father’s back problems very much track what I’ve already gone through.  We have much in common other than that, my most recent discovery being that our opinions of NFL announcers (where have the good ones gone?!) are pretty much the same.

Pennsylvania Man Jailed After Paying for Groceries With $1 Million Bill

Tuesday, October 09, 2007

  

PITTSBURGH —  Change for a million?

That’s what a man was seeking Saturday when he handed a $1 million bill to a cashier at a Pittsburgh supermarket. But when the Giant Eagle employee refused and a manager confiscated the bogus bill, the man flew into a rage, police said.

The man slammed an electronic funds-transfer machine into the counter and reached for a scanner gun, police said.

As I read of the ”300 marathoners stricken by heat; 1 dead” headline of the marathon in Chicago over the weekend I’m thinking about the conditions we had here for our races.

On Friday and Saturday, for the Cross Country Classic, we had periods of moderate to heavy rain falling from some very ominous, low and very dark clouds with rain continuing to fall during the night Friday. 

On Saturday we luckily encountered only a brief delay for lightning that was far off and quickly moved out of range.  

After paying my Comcast bill on-line by credit card I received a confirmation email.  The lead paragraph reads:

Video here.

Video here.

Maybe could have been a bit more graceful, but I’m sick of the PC approach and am more and more in favor of in-your-face.

The local PD says theft is involved and it’s up to the business owner to file charges.

The far left jackasses at the ACLU have their usual to say about it:

Nevada ACLU Releases Statement on Mexican Flag Flying Over American Flag  News4 Reno
Oct 3, 2007 01:42 PM CDTThe ACLU of Nevada is concerned about recent media reports that it is “illegal” to fly foreign flags over the U.S. flag.

Fifteen months before I joined the Air Force for what would turn out to be a long and enjoyable career, while I was still in high school, General Douglas MacArthur delivered an oft-quoted speech.

I remember the first time I read it with youthful eyes. It was two years later, just before my birthday, and I was stationed at Carswell Air Force Base, Texas.  The General had died and his death was a major news item with many references to his farewell address at West Point.

Since that time I have re-read it often and each time it stops me in my tracks and makes me think.

Wow.  Have a look here.