Non-political things that make you say...WTF?!?! (Welcome To Florida!) **NOT CV RELATED** NO TALKY!

How not to drop an anchor. (Wait for it).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T2DqAFeoqdk

 

Well that ain't comin' back...

 

That's some serious $$ in anchor chain, too.

 

The underlying WTF here is someone actually wanting to ride around with some of these choices. Though some seem legit, such as if you were registering a 1969 model year Mustang, Corvette, etc.

(Georgia) Rejected Vanity License Plates

Note: Georgia is a single-plate state, none of this front plate silliness common elsewhere.

 

Weekend at Bernies?

Body found in locked Walmart bathroom that employees assumed was out of order for days

 

When I bought my D100 I wanted to get '69-N' as a vanity plate but the girls at the town office said the state would say it was a no-no.

 

What about "DNR 4 2" instead?

 

Meh.
I might go with a vanity plate next year for it, one that says SWPTLN. We'll see.

 

A former substitute teacher in southwestern Missouri was arrested Sunday and charged in connection with alleged sexual contact with one of her students.

Loryn Barclay, 24, faces charges in two counties as a result of the alleged relationship with the 17-year-old boy while she worked as a substitute teacher at Monett High School.

According to court documents, Monett City Police Officer Jay Jastal, who works at the high school, was tipped off about the relationship in April. The officer said the student confirmed the relationship with Barclay on May 3. The following day, Barclay admitted having "an inappropriate relationship" with the boy.

According to the affidavit, Barclay said she performed oral sex on the boy in a car at a park located in Lawrence County, Mo. She also admitted she had intercourse with the teen at the boy's home in neighboring Barry County.

The Monett Times reported that Barclay was hired as a substitute teacher this fall and was promoted to a paraprofessional in November. She became a teacher assistant in January and was removed April 27, the day the relationship was first reported to police.

"When we became aware of potential involvement with a student, we followed all procedures" Monett Superintendent Brad Hanson told the paper. "We had a conversation with her and she was not employed from then on ... We dealt with it swiftly ... and now, we'll let the legal side do its work."

Barclay was released after posting $25,000 bond in Lawrence County, where her next appearance is set for July 24. Her bond is set at $10,000 in Barry County, where she has yet to appear.

 

Yes, please. With a big bucket of drawn butter.

http://www.nbcwashington.com/news/weird/TSA--430881903.html

 

About 4 winters ago I was pulling my 2 place clamshell trailer with 2 sleds in it. Stopped at a gas station and before I could get out the truck guy tells me "I think you're losing air". Sure enough one of my trailer tires was hissing due to a sharp rock puncture. I have a spare so I pop off the old one and put the spare on. I was on a dirt driveway and torqued the nuts down best I could. I drive probably 50 miles and I start hearing horrific vibration noise so I pull over. All the lugnuts had loosened and even though they were still on the lugs, I could jack the trailer up and take the wheel off without removing any lugnuts. That's how much it wore the bolt holes in the wheel! I wish I had pictures. What a shitshow on a Sunday evening, everything closed. Ruined the wheel and the hub.

Moral of the story... make sure you re-torque the lugnuts after driving 10 miles or so. That error cost me a lot of money- flatbed tow of the trailer to a local garage, a new hub and new tire/wheel.

Fuck that trailer- ended up snapping a main beam on me the following year.

 

Some of those are alarmingly cheaply made. I followed one not too long ago that had an axle that was so far off-plumb that you could actually see the trailer dog-walking behind the truck. And it was a newer trailer, too, not some old POS that'd been run hard for 20 years.

 

They just make them so freakin' light. All aluminum. I would guess that entire trailer weighed no more than 650lbs. and 250 of that is the axle and wheels.

 

I wonder if it's because everybody's towing with little unit body SUV's now. People used to tow trailers with trucks, but now it seems like everyone has a crossover or small SUV that they're using instead. When I was at the boat landing this past weekend probably half of the boat trailers that were hitched to a tall wagon instead of a truck.
Not that there's anything wrong with it; if you don't do truck things you don't need to buy a truck.

 

You just literally defined a Ridgeline.

 

The perfect vehicle for people who don't do 'truck' things but occasionally need to carry something bulky or dirty.

 

"Get marketing on the line - we have Honda's new catchphrase!"

 

New slogan: Ridgeline, for when you sometimes need to carry something icky.

 

this is old but from my home town...
http://www.foxnews.com/story/2008/10/24/dead-man-left-overnight-in-fitness-center-sauna.html

 

FTFY