Harry P. Posted February 6, 2014 Posted February 6, 2014 Changing the subject... I can't get a friggin can of paint here in Pennsylvania! I saw One Coat Lacquers in their locked paint case... what a pain in the tail! Ring the little bell... some one comes all the way to you to ask if you rang the bell. Yes? Okay they'll go get the key... At the local Hobby Lobby, they sell spray paint in two different aisles. In one aisle, the spray paint is locked in a glass-front case, and you have to get a store employee to unlock the case if you want a can of paint. In the other aisle (the aisle with the model kits), the spray paint is out in the open. Can anyone explain this? Apparently not, because I asked the store employee that exact question! Why is the spray paint in one aisle under lock and key, while the spray paint in another aisle is out on open shelves? The answer from the HL employee: I don't know.
Joe Handley Posted February 6, 2014 Posted February 6, 2014 It's been a couple years since I was in one last so............when did Hobby Lobby start locking up their spray paint?
cobraman Posted February 6, 2014 Posted February 6, 2014 My Hobby Lobby has ALL the spray paint locked up in both aisles.
Agent G Posted February 6, 2014 Posted February 6, 2014 My Hobby Lobby has ALL the spray paint locked up in both aisles. Same here. Clark County ordinance says so. G
Harry P. Posted February 6, 2014 Posted February 6, 2014 It's been a couple years since I was in one last so............when did Hobby Lobby start locking up their spray paint? It's been that way as long as I can remember.
Joe Handley Posted February 6, 2014 Posted February 6, 2014 It's been that way as long as I can remember. Really? The West Chicago store usually had their's open and in racks like my store had.
2000-cvpi Posted February 6, 2014 Posted February 6, 2014 Both Hobby Lobby's here have the spray paint out in the open. Along with Micheal's and every other place that sells spray paint. Even Walmart has it out in the open where all the paint huffers can get their fixes right in the isle.
Modelbuilder Mark Posted February 8, 2014 Posted February 8, 2014 At the local Hobby Lobby, they sell spray paint in two different aisles. In one aisle, the spray paint is locked in a glass-front case, and you have to get a store employee to unlock the case if you want a can of paint. In the other aisle (the aisle with the model kits), the spray paint is out in the open. Can anyone explain this? Apparently not, because I asked the store employee that exact question! Why is the spray paint in one aisle under lock and key, while the spray paint in another aisle is out on open shelves? The answer from the HL employee: I don't know. Locked in some isles, and not in others is odd. The Hobby Lobby's here have all paints locked up as well.....unless they go on clearance, then all of a sudden it is ok to set them out!? I know that here in Phoenix, you are supposed to be 18 to buy paints, and in some stores like Hobby Lobby, some clerks will not let you carry the paint. They take it to the checkout and have it waiting there. I am sure it has to do with taggers and trying to cut back on graffiti. Also, the Tamyia can primers are separate from the other paints, and they leave them out near the airbrush supplies.
1930fordpickup Posted February 9, 2014 Posted February 9, 2014 Destination Wedding. LOOOOONG time friend but come girl. It is not my thing.
Greg Cullinan Posted February 9, 2014 Posted February 9, 2014 Is it because of grafitti that they lock paint, that's what I always assumed. Destination Wedding. LOOOOONG time friend but come girl. It is not my thing. Where ya headed?
Ramfins59 Posted February 9, 2014 Posted February 9, 2014 What irked me today...??? It's snowing again......need I say more..!!!
Tom Geiger Posted February 9, 2014 Posted February 9, 2014 Destination Wedding. LOOOOONG time friend but come girl. It is not my thing. So far I've ducked those! A bunch of years ago we were in St Thomas and there was one going on at the hotel. It seemed to be awful self indulgent on the part of the couple to assume everyone could afford / would want to spend / that much money on their wedding. Especially having older relatives forced to make a trip that might be a physical strain on them. We are going to the wedding of one of our friends' son this fall in Atlantic City. We are staying over since the casino rooms are only $35 but it's close enough that we have the option to go home if we chose. That was in the era before you needed passports to go to islands etc. Now they even want to see a passport when you go to possessions like the Virgin Islands. Guess you could just say, "Oops, we don't have passports."
Tom Geiger Posted February 9, 2014 Posted February 9, 2014 What irked me today...??? It's snowing again......need I say more..!!! So far so good. We were expecting snow yesterday afternoon, which would have interfered with my club meeting in NJ. We can't afford to miss a meeting before NNL East! But we lucked out and there was no snow. I even went to dinner with my daughters and drove back to PA without a problem. The weather report for today was snow, starting around noon. My wife takes those reports like they are an exact schedule and is miffed that it's not snowing now...
FASTBACK340 Posted February 9, 2014 Posted February 9, 2014 I think I/we had a close call today! A good friend is car shopping for a beater for work. He find a too-good-to-be-true `97 Maxima for sale cheap on Craigslist. My buddy calls me & another friend to go look at it with him We get directions and the three of us drive down to the absolutely worst area of the Rockaway section of Queens. We drive to the street, turn right, and proceed to the address: an empty lot with abandoned buildings all around it. We call the seller and get no answer. I tell my friend whom was driving to get us the hell out of their NOW! We drive to the corner and get 3 blocks away while calling the seller again. He answers on the first ring and says "The car is sold" and hangs up. I wonder what would have happened if my friend was trusting enough to go by himself to look at this car. I also wonder if he would have made it off that street without incident being he had a few thousand dollars in his pocket….. That irked me today.
1930fordpickup Posted February 9, 2014 Posted February 9, 2014 So far I've ducked those! A bunch of years ago we were in St Thomas and there was one going on at the hotel. It seemed to be awful self indulgent on the part of the couple to assume everyone could afford / would want to spend / that much money on their wedding. Especially having older relatives forced to make a trip that might be a physical strain on them. We are going to the wedding of one of our friends' son this fall in Atlantic City. We are staying over since the casino rooms are only $35 but it's close enough that we have the option to go home if we chose. That was in the era before you needed passports to go to islands etc. Now they even want to see a passport when you go to possessions like the Virgin Islands. Guess you could just say, "Oops, we don't have passports." Is it because of grafitti that they lock paint, that's what I always assumed. Where ya headed? Have no idea were this is going to take place other than on a Cruise ship someplace. Already have the passport , had to have that to go fishing in Canada (a must for me) . I am wondering if she forgot that I missed my sisters wedding to go fishing , well she changed the date to move up a year and I already had money on the fishing trip. Not only the cost of the trip on a ship I could care less about being on , it is going to be over the new year also. That being said I will have to try and get an answer from the boss a year ahead of time for vacation that will span two years of payroll problems. I just did not like her statement of you better start saving money. I have been out of town for weddings before , what a pain. They always say it is like a vacation, no it is not. You will never get those three days (of already planned for you time) back.
1930fordpickup Posted February 9, 2014 Posted February 9, 2014 I think I/we had a close call today! A good friend is car shopping for a beater for work. He find a too-good-to-be-true `97 Maxima for sale cheap on Craigslist. My buddy calls me & another friend to go look at it with him We get directions and the three of us drive down to the absolutely worst area of the Rockaway section of Queens. We drive to the street, turn right, and proceed to the address: an empty lot with abandoned buildings all around it. We call the seller and get no answer. I tell my friend whom was driving to get us the hell out of their NOW! We drive to the corner and get 3 blocks away while calling the seller again. He answers on the first ring and says "The car is sold" and hangs up. I wonder what would have happened if my friend was trusting enough to go by himself to look at this car. I also wonder if he would have made it off that street without incident being he had a few thousand dollars in his pocket….. That irked me today. Did you guys call the cops and give them the number? That had to be scary.
cobraman Posted February 9, 2014 Posted February 9, 2014 I have heard some horror stories about dealing with Craigslist adds. You have to be careful. I only did one deal through a add I found and that was for a china cabinet I bought a couple of weeks ago to use as a display case.
Tom Geiger Posted February 9, 2014 Posted February 9, 2014 Did you guys call the cops and give them the number? That had to be scary. Cops in NYC may not even want to do a report on something that doesn't involve blood! I know when my grandparent's were alive and living in Jersey City, NJ they couldn't even get the cops to respond as my grandfather watched (from safe indoors) someone break into and try to steal his car. The guy was in the car at least 15 minutes when he gave up and left. He had destroyed the entire steering column. Dispatcher said that all their resources were out responding to more important calls. Per Craig's List, I've done some nice deals on both sides of buyer or seller. I bought both my Celica convertible and Jaguar S off the list. If you've got something big that the garbage company would charge to take, post a FREE ad and it will be gone in an hour. When I moved to PA, I had a huge wood swing set / jungle gym in my yard. I posted a "Take it down, take it free" ad and the phone rang off the hook. A couple guys came and took it away that day! You just need to be cautious and stay in the 'burbs!
FASTBACK340 Posted February 9, 2014 Posted February 9, 2014 When I bought my Camry wagon as a beater I got it from CL. I met the guy in a supermarket parking lot. He showed up with his 10 speed in the back. I left my friend & my Maxima as collateral and test drove it. I came back, checked the VIN to the title, handed him the cash, he handed me the keys, and he pedaled off down a side street….. But today was in a different league. This is the type of neighborhood where they find dead cab drivers slumped over the steering wheel…..as they're stripping the car.
FASTBACK340 Posted February 9, 2014 Posted February 9, 2014 Did you guys call the cops and give them the number? That had to be scary. As noble a gesture that is, it would have been a waste of time. The fellow whom was doing the shopping today recently had his Honda Del Sol V-TEC 5 spd. stolen. He called the Police at 2:00PM in the afternoon They showed up at 10:30PM that night And even then they screwed up and posted it as just the plates being stolen, not the car…... We operate on a different set of rules out here, unfortunately.
Agent G Posted February 10, 2014 Posted February 10, 2014 Unfortunately in this time of budget crisis and ever increasing crime rates, prioritizing calls is a must. No cop ever wants to "let one get away" but when you are running from violent crime to violent crime, it happens. Let's look at numbers you can relate to, NYPD has right at 39,000 cops. Cool until you dig deeper, roughly 500 retire every week. It takes about a year to get a new hire trained and on the street where they are just proficient enough to get themselves killed. NYPD has academy classes that number 1400-1500 about twice a year. Factor in a 30% washout rate and you see where administrators are pulling their hair out on a daily basis. The two biggest budget items in any department are salaries and fleet. City fathers know deep down public service agencies are a black hole for finances. Police, Fire and EMS render services, which at first glance are pretty straight forward for Fire and EMS. Saving lives, God Bless them. Cops work in that gray area of public perception. Everybody wants cops when they need them, but nobody wants to see them all the time. Realize this, for every cop car there has to be anywhere from 6-8 cops assigned to it. 24/7/365 operations, total manpower, days off, vacations etc. all effect the final total of boots on the ground or as I always said "butts in seats". Divide that by total workload and you see how thinly spread some departments are. Even then, total numbers of cops out there at any given time has absolutely no impact whatever on the crime rate. None, zip, zilch, nada. I was assigned to supervise a precinct of 12 people, 8 of which were working at any given time, to fill 4 cars daily. Cool, 4, two man cars and me in arguably the worst neighborhood in the US. I return from a spring vacation to find I now have 6 guys assigned to me, 4 of which are working at any given time to fill 4 cars daily. With my use of basic math that makes 4, one man cars for the same area. Did I mention that Headquarters, aka the "Tower of Babel", decreed my area was to have 4, two man cars at all times? I was admonished to maintain a level of manpower decreed by higher authority, ie 4, two man cars, to which I asked if I was supposed to $#!^ policeman. Yeah I was tossed out of the captains office that afternoon, made my point but gained a reputation. I wouldn't have had it any other way. Now realize all this applies to EVERY darn police department anywhere in this country. City cops, county cops, sheriff's, State Troopers, Highway Patrol's etc. EVERYBODY. Even where I'm at now, a small state police agency, has these same issues. Jersey City? Oh My that's one of the places that routinely trades the title of "Most Dangerous City" with Camden, St Louis and Detroit. In my last two years, the district I was assigned too averaged 4 shootings a week. I have seen three unrelated shootings going on at the same time. My little slice of heaven accounted for 1/3 of all homicides in the St Louis area every year. Las Vegas Metro PD and Henderson PD will not respond to burglar alarm soundings, ever. You must contract with private security for that. The cops will respond if a crime is confirmed which in my mind is ridiculous. Yes I know most alarm soundings are false and a waste of time, but darnnit I want to catch someone! It's a sign of the times. A viscious circle of financing. Raise taxes for more cops? Or, cut the cops budget and pay making more of the kids quit? (It's a calling true, but ya gotta feed the family) Cops have a Marine Corps mindset, left to themselves they will improvise, adapt and overcome. No excuses, I just wanted you all to hear the other side of the issue from a retired police boss. G
FASTBACK340 Posted February 10, 2014 Posted February 10, 2014 (edited) The problem here is not an over-worked staff. It's blatant laziness & indifference.... The stolen car example I used I was kind in describing the two lazy SOB's whom eventually showed up. One handed the paper work to my friend and napped while the other was texting as my friend filled the report. Yeah, they were prioritizing.... BTW: I live not even a mile from the station house. We went there and was told to go to the spot the car was stolen and wait. We didn't know it was going to take them 8 hours to get there. Edited February 10, 2014 by FASTBACK340
Agent G Posted February 10, 2014 Posted February 10, 2014 Unfortunately John, that stuff happens too. No matter what you do you can't ride with them and hold their hands all the time. I'll be honest, folks who didn't work for me thought I was a pri%&. Those that did knew my expectations and worked accordingly. I AM a pri%&, but a fair one. Big agencies have a hard time keeping policy up to date with the times. Having the victim respond to the scene of occurrence is typical 70's era policy. I understand why, but it's mostly useless today. G
1930fordpickup Posted February 10, 2014 Posted February 10, 2014 Unfortunately John, that stuff happens too. No matter what you do you can't ride with them and hold their hands all the time. I'll be honest, folks who didn't work for me thought I was a pri%&. Those that did knew my expectations and worked accordingly. I AM a pri%&, but a fair one. Big agencies have a hard time keeping policy up to date with the times. Having the victim respond to the scene of occurrence is typical 70's era policy. I understand why, but it's mostly useless today. G It just sounds like you were doing your job to me. If it took you being a ---- well so be it. My sister was known as Atila The Bun at the fast food stores she ran. But when she went to a different store to fix a problem they were calling for her return within a month . She was proud of that. She said the same things about being fair. Everyone knows what you expect that way.
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