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Southern Cops Have a Way With Words

Dave

These are actual comments made by South Carolina Troopers that were taken off their car videos:

1. “You know, stop lights don’t come any redder than the one you just went through.”
2. “Relax, the handcuffs are tight because they’re new. They’ll stretch after you wear them a while.”
3. “If you take your hands off the car, I’ll make your birth certificate a worthless document.”
4. “If you run, you’ll only go to jail tired.”
5. “Can you run faster than 1200 feet per second? Because that’s the speed of the bullet that’ll be chasing you.”
6. “You don’t know how fast you were going? I guess that means I can write anything I want to on the ticket, huh?”
7. “Yes, sir, you can talk to the shift supervisor, but I don’t think it will help. Oh, did I mention that I’m the shift supervisor?”
8. “Warning! You want a warning? O.K, I’m warning you not to do that again or I’ll give you another ticket.”
9. “The answer to this last question will determine whether you are drunk or not. Was Mickey Mouse a cat or a dog?”
10. “Fair? You want me to be fair? Listen, fair is a place where you go to ride on rides, eat cotton candy and corn dogs and step in monkey poop.”
11. “Yeah, we have a quota. Two more tickets and my wife gets a toaster oven.”
12. “In God we trust; all others we run through NCIC.” ( National Crime Information Center )
13. “Just how big were those ‘two beers’ you say you had?”
14. “No sir, we don’t have quotas anymore. We used to, but now we’re allowed to write as many tickets as we can.”
15. “I’m glad to hear that the Chief (of Police) is a personal friend of yours. So you know someone who can post your bail.”

And the winner is…

16. “You didn’t think we give pretty women tickets? You’re right, we don’t. Sign here.”

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Historical Old Photos in Color

Dave

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Henry Ford, 1919

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Cornell Rowing Team 1914

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Brothers Robert Kennedy, Edward ‘Ted’ Kennedy and John F. Kennedy outside the Oval Office.

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Sophia Loren and Jayne Mansfield

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Two Boxers after a fight

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Brooklyn Bridge in 1904

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Louis Armstrong plays to his wife, Lucille, in Cairo, Egypt 1961

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An Oklahoman farmer during the great dust bowl in 1939

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Boys buying flowers in 1908

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Red Hawk of the Oglala Tribe on horseback 1905

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WWII soldiers on Easter

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Union Soldiers taking a break 1863

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Madison Square Park New York City around 1900

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Burger Flipper 1938

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Helen Keller meeting comedian Charlie Chaplin in 1918

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Lee Harvey Oswald, 1963, being transported to questioning before his murder trial for the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.

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Times Square 1947

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Lou Gehrig, July 4, 1939. Photo taken right after his famous retirement speech. He would pass away just two years later from ALS.

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Girls delivering ice, 1918

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Louis Armstrong practicing backstage in 1946

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American Poet Walt Whitman, 1868

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Baltimore Slums, 1938

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View from the Capitol in Nashville, 1864

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Clint Eastwood working on his 1958 Jag XK 120 in 1960

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Babe Ruth’s 1920 MLB debut

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An RAF pilot getting a haircut while reading a book between missions

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Joan Crawford on the set of Letty Lynton, 1932

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Marilyn Monroe

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1920s Australian mugshots from the New South Wales Police Dept.

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W.H. Murphy testing the bulletproof vest in 1923

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Unemployed Lumber Worker and His Wife 1939

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Country store in July 1939 Gordonton, North Carolina

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Winston Churchill, 1941

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Samurai Training 1860

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Albert Einstein on a Long Island beach in 1939

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British Soldiers Returning from the front in 1939

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Hindenburg Blimp crash

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Clint Eastwood, 1962

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Charles Darwin

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Big Jay McNeely, Olympic Auditorium, 1953

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Alfred Hitchcock

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Elizabeth Taylor in 1956

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Pablo Picasso

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Brigadier General and actor Jimmy Stewart. Stewart flew 20 combat missions over Nazi-occupied Europe, and even flew one mission during Vietnam.

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Albert Einstein, 1921

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A car crash in Washington D.C. around 1921

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Claude Monet in 1923

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Charlie Chaplin at 27 years old in 1916

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Mark Twain in 1900

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Audrey Hepburn

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Nazi Minister of Propaganda Joseph Goebbels scowls at a Jewish photographer, 1933

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Washington, D. C. filling station in 1924

 

President Lincoln with Major General McClernand and Allan Pinkerton at Antietam in 1862

 

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Working Mammals

Dave


Drove over to San Diego to see the pens where the United States Navy holds and cares for dolphins. I have absolutely no doubt in my mind that the United States Navy gives these dolphins the very best care that they can give them, but it made me think about if the Navy should be using dolphins as working animals. The police use dogs as working animals to help sniff out drugs and bombs. Blind people use dogs to help aid for their loss of vision. Autistic people even use dogs to assist them. Is an animal’s life less valuable than a human life? Should dolphins be used to help find and identify potential threats to naval ships? If they are used in that regard why not use them to attack and do harm to others as well? Where do you draw the line for working animals? Should animals be used as combatants or kept as non-combatants? Koreans use dogs to smell out and track down north Korean defectors. Then again Koreans eat dogs too, so they might not hold animals in the highest regard. Should it be acceptable for the United States to use animals to protect the lives of American combatants and naval ships?

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Monterey, California – Sea Otters

Dave

Took a trip to Monterey, California because I wanted to see some sea otters and take some photos of them. Here are some of the photos I took.

Here is a short video of one of the otters eating breakfast.

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Monterey’s Flower Burglar

Dave

This morning I was driving to the ocean in Monterey, California in hopes to take some photos of some sea otters when I noticed a movement out of the corner of my eye.  When I looked over there was a young deer walking along the side of a house.  I stopped my car and watched to see what the deer was going to do.  He decided to snack on some vegetation in a flower bed. I’m sure the owner will appreciate that.

All of a sudden my windshield wipers went off because they were on a timer from it lightly misting rain this morning.  

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The noise startled the deer and it started looking around.

The deer spotted me and I decided that I didn’t want to see the deer get spooked and try running away, so I slowly drove my vehicle away and left it alone. What a pleasant experience.

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Bixby Bridge – Big Sur, California

Dave


As I drove up the California Highway 1 today, I decided to stop and take some photos of the Bixby Bridge. The Bixby creek bridge was opened in 1932. It is one of the tallest single-span concrete arch bridges in the world. It is located in Monterey County and is part of the California State Highway System. There are nice views both of the bridge and of the area because of it’s location on the Pacific Coast Highway.

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Elephant Seals Near San Simeon

Dave

As I drove up California Highway 1, I stopped off at a beach near San Simeon to check out some elephant seals. Being that I’ve never seen elephant seals before, I didn’t know what to expect. First off they are very dramatic. They are always making noise and getting into fights where it looks like they are trying to either bite or get the higher ground on their competition. Second, they are not very graceful on land. They move along and look like a slug. It’s funny because you can see all of their fat jiggle when they move. Third, I guess they get the name “elephant seal” because of the funny shaped nose they have that kind of resembles a trunk. Here are my photos from this interesting experience.

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Slices of Early History

Dave

Here are some old photos that are wonderful slices of history.  The descriptions are below each photo.


The rural kids in the 50’s rode bikes to school.  You took whatever path was best for you.  Bullet holes in the sign?


Camping out in 1918.


This was the 30’s, and this sharecropper’s son was working behind the plow, barefoot and all.  You can bet there was a mule on the front of that plow.


This couple pose in an early version of American Gothic, with a groundhog killed on their Manchester farm…….It’s dinner!  Note: Photo taken circa 1914, from a family photo album.


Standing over one of her many trophy mule deer, subsistence-and-sport huntress “Gusty” Wallihan appears every inch the frontier matron with her dressy bonnet, prairie-pattern cartridge belt, floral-embroidered gauntlets, hunting knife, and Remington-Hepburn rifle……1895


At least this one won’t be quite as dangerous as the old single wheeled models.  Look in the trailer over the back wheel.  “They have their baby in there!”


Ford Model T Street Light Maintenance Truck.  This was the approved way to change the street lamps in 1910.


A single Paddy Wagon.


Here is an early motorhome, built in 1926.


Old school camper?


These are vintage treadmills in the 1920’s.


This is a 1920’s refrigerator.  Only the elite could afford such a thing, and most still had the old ice boxes.


A hair dryer in the 1920 Salon.  What a contraption!


Chester E. Macduffee next to his newly patented, 250 kilo diving suit, 1911.


A postcard from the 1800’s advertising a knife throwing act with the traveling circus.


A Strong-woman balances a piano and the pianist on her chest.  1920


London, in the 1920’s, this was a telephone engineer.


Two young girls in a West Germans street chat with their grandparents in the window of their home in the Eastern sector, separated only by a barbed wire barricade.It was a common occurrence for families, who had once only lived on the opposite side of the street from one another, to become separated by the ever growing Berlin Wall.


A Gibson Girl in her corset in the early 1900’s.  Those poor women.  This was one fad that really hurt a lot of women for life.


Lillian Russell. A plus size beauty in the late 1800s. She was around 200 lb at the peak of her career.  She was considered “The American Beauty.”

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Kansas Highway Patrol Officer Traffic Stop Story

Dave

Story from a Kansas State Highway Patrol officer:

I made a traffic stop on an elderly lady the other day for speeding On U.S. 166 Eastbound at Mile Marker 73 just East of Sedan, KS.

I asked for her driver’s license, registration, and proof of insurance.

The lady took out the required information and handed it to me.

In with the cards I was somewhat surprised (due to her advanced age) to see she had a conceal carry permit. I looked at her and ask if she had a weapon in her possession at this time.

She responded that she indeed had a .45 automatic in her glove box.

Something—body language, or the way she said it—made me want to ask if she had any other firearms.

She did admit to also having a 9mm Glock in her center console..

Now I had to ask one more time if that was all.

She responded once again that she did have just one more, a .38 special in her purse.

I then asked her what was she so afraid of.

She looked me right in the eye and said, “Not a f*****g thing!”

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