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Message 98981 - Posted: 15 Apr 2005, 4:15:34 UTC
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Message 98984 - Posted: 15 Apr 2005, 4:18:24 UTC - in response to Message 98981.  

I think the attacks on Tom delay Sucks!

Just wanted to be the first......




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Message 99004 - Posted: 15 Apr 2005, 5:44:57 UTC
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<I><B>Anybody need any frozen chickens?[/b][/i]

Tractor-trailer tips, spills load

April 14, 2005

The driver of a tractor-trailer lost a load of frozen chickens on a freeway ramp in Mission Valley early yesterday when his rig tipped over, police said.

The accident occurred shortly before 6 a.m. on the ramp connecting westbound Interstate 8 to southbound Interstate 805. "Driver fatigue" was tentatively blamed, said CHP Officer Mark Gregg.

The driver, 75, was treated for minor bumps and bruises. He was hauling 80,000 pounds of frozen chickens from Texas to a Chula Vista business, Gregg said. The man, who was not identified, was not cited and the crash was still being investigated.

The driver had turned onto the ramp and left the road where it curved, Gregg said. The rig tipped onto its left side and slid down an embankment, spilling much of its load along a shoulder of I-8.

Authorities closed one freeway lane for several hours to allow crews to remove the chickens, lift the rig and tow it, Gregg said. Traffic returned to normal around 10 a.m.
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Message 99009 - Posted: 15 Apr 2005, 5:50:09 UTC

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Message 99014 - Posted: 15 Apr 2005, 5:56:07 UTC

Erratum, Chairman NeoAmsterdam. Technically, this should be Political Thread [8]. This was the long forgotten thread 7.
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Message 99021 - Posted: 15 Apr 2005, 6:03:23 UTC - in response to Message 99014.  
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> Erratum, Chairman NeoAmsterdam. Technically, this should be Political
> Thread [8]. This was the long forgotten thread 7.

'cept he violated the forum copywrite laws. As creator of the original thread I own the rights and lease them when necessary.
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Message 99024 - Posted: 15 Apr 2005, 6:09:01 UTC - in response to Message 99004.  

> <I><B>Anybody need any frozen chickens?[/b][/i]
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> Tractor-trailer tips, spills load
>
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> The driver, 75, was treated for minor bumps and bruises. He was hauling 80,000
> pounds of frozen chickens from Texas to a Chula Vista business, Gregg said.
>
> Authorities closed one freeway lane for several hours to allow crews to remove
> the chickens, lift the rig and tow it, Gregg said. Traffic returned to normal
> around 10 a.m.
>

What the hell does a 75 yr old Truck driver spillin his chickens
on the hiway have to do with politics?....

Anyway I guess the driver got his chicken choked!



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Message 99028 - Posted: 15 Apr 2005, 6:15:13 UTC - in response to Message 99021.  

> 'cept he violated the forum copywrite laws. As creator of the original thread
> I own the rights and lease them when necessary.

I'm afraid the Supreme Court case of "BradR69 vs 1_suthrn_bel_277" established legal acknowledgement of child threads even in cases of copyright infringement, with specified damages to be compensated as a separate issue.
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Message 99033 - Posted: 15 Apr 2005, 6:24:19 UTC - in response to Message 99024.  

> What the hell does a 75 yr old Truck driver spillin his chickens
> on the hiway have to do with politics?....

More to the point, what on earth with having a 75-year-old truck driver???!!!

Are your old-age pensions that bad already???
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Message 99034 - Posted: 15 Apr 2005, 6:27:50 UTC - in response to Message 99033.  

> Are your old-age pensions that bad already???

Why do you think our social security issue has been such a hot debate? Direct pensions practically don't exist anymore.
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Message 99036 - Posted: 15 Apr 2005, 6:45:42 UTC - in response to Message 99021.  

As creator of the original thread I own the rights and lease them when necessary.
Not anymore you ain't!

A few of us have stepped in to spawn the thread when you were busy fondling -- I mean, pondering BOTD nominees...
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Message 99039 - Posted: 15 Apr 2005, 6:51:02 UTC - in response to Message 99014.  
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> Erratum, Chairman NeoAmsterdam. Technically, this should be Political
> Thread [8]. This was
> the long forgotten thread 7.

Murasaki san,

I thought it was understood, that the other thread of the same name should have been called the "I hate Bush/Republicans" thread. The subject ought to reflect the content . . . Misfit?
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Message 99046 - Posted: 15 Apr 2005, 7:02:51 UTC - in response to Message 99033.  

> > What the hell does a 75 yr old Truck driver spillin his chickens
> > on the hiway have to do with politics?....
>
> More to the point, what on earth with having a 75-year-old truck driver???!!!
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> Are your old-age pensions that bad already???
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Now Now There M Don't start knocking the USA;s Retiree welfare program....

My Dad is 76 and still put's in at least 30hrs a week!
If it weren't for his Job I think he would be dead a long time ago....

G'D Nite all!



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Message 99074 - Posted: 15 Apr 2005, 10:42:26 UTC - in response to Message 99046.  
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> My Dad is 76 and still put's in at least 30hrs a week!
> If it weren't for his Job I think he would be dead a long time ago....

So is he taking away a job from some workless for his recreation, or does he realy need the money?

I can't get my mom'n'dad on the phone since they retired, because they a) don't like cellphones (or 'Handys', as we Germans call them ;), and b) are on some holiday/event/village meeting/next-of-kin visit... or in the garden most of the time.

They were in desperate need for an answering machine when my grandma died, because no-one answered the phone most of the time ;)

That's one of the things that you work for: Do not have to work in the 'evening of your life'. And that's what social security (in a broader sense) is meant to be for.

If a 75year old trucker has to work still, there is imho something badly wrong in that country.
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Message 99089 - Posted: 15 Apr 2005, 11:52:47 UTC - in response to Message 99074.  

Well said, mein freund.
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Message 99135 - Posted: 15 Apr 2005, 14:11:13 UTC - in response to Message 99074.  

> > My Dad is 76 and still put's in at least 30hrs a week!
> > If it weren't for his Job I think he would be dead a long time ago....
>
> So is he taking away a job from some workless for his recreation, or does he
> realy need the money?
>
> That's one of the things that you work for: Do not have to work in the
> 'evening of your life'. And that's what social security (in a broader sense)
> is meant to be for.
>
> If a 75year old trucker has to work still, there is imho something
> badly wrong in that country.

If this guy was like my dad in anyway, he screwed up earlier in life, and wised up later. My mom and dad are the greatest role models in my life. She raised 5 kids, and worked for 30 yrs in a factory. Dad after wising up, Worked for The local schools cleaning floors for 20yrs. Their Medical insurance alone is over 700 a month.. even with retirement Dad needs to work Plus he volunteers in the community. Mom is so active giving of herself it's like a full time job.

Dad's job is not recreation, but is good for him. he has a little red truck
he his paying for, The Camper now sits rotting because it's too hard to tug around and set up. Not everyone in this country is wealthy. Some of us actually had to work for a living.

It's the same in most countries. I don't like the judgments made about the U.S.
Everyone’s social system is different and there is good and bad for all of us.

I bet you have older workers in your country also.....

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Message 99140 - Posted: 15 Apr 2005, 14:26:11 UTC - in response to Message 99089.  

My 2&cent; say that if I'm gonna be working at 70, I should be doing so for pleasure, not a paycheck. Hopefully the nest egg I'd have been working on would hatch by then.
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Message 99170 - Posted: 15 Apr 2005, 15:30:48 UTC - in response to Message 99021.  


> 'cept he violated the forum copywrite laws.

I can only plead 'ignorance' of customary thread ettiquete....


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