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RE: How to stay safe at night
We spread a perimeter of claymores and man a machine gun nest providing overwatch with good fields of fire. We use alternating watches of 4 hours each. Our love life sucks but we feel safe.
Love is preparing a range card together.
Aiming Stakes, hand grenades, prearranged call for fire and a retrograde POA (plan of action) via a defolaide along with an after action report to CYA ( cover your a#@ ) for local LEOs should we engage hostiles!:B
Oh, and cold chardonnay For the M.R.E.s
Fred S
NYC
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SHADOWMCPD
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01/17/12 10:18pm |
Beginning RVing
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RE: Illegal Parking
You are not alone, I have driven vans all my life, and haven't yet figured out a safe way to back out of those types of parking situations. I just avoided them unless I absolutly had to park in one. Busy grocery store lots are not a lot of fun either.
The easiest way to avoid this holds true for any vehicle, don't drive straight into the parking spot but rather Back into it, this way when it is time to come out of the spot you can ease the nose of the vehicle out into the lane as aposed to blindly pulling out rear end first. ( a standard car backing out projects about 75% of the vehicle into the lane before he or she can see traffic flow out the side windows a van about 80% that is if there are no taller vehicles parked on either side of you.)
There is hope however, practice by first going to an empty end of a parking lot with multiple 90 degree parking spaces ( far end of malls, supermarkets, and some theater and big store parking areas work well.
Pull up parallel with the spot you want to back into visible in the passenger mirror, then, slowly cut the wheel toward the passengers side glancing in both rear mirrors, keeping an eye out for people and vehicle traffic while you ease the rear passenger bumper and tire into the white outline of the parking spot.
Adjust your angle by pulling forward slightly to ensure that the drivers side rear bumper and wheel are angled into the opposite line of your selected parking spot.
Make extensive use of your mirrors even when you are lined up directly into the square U shaped parking spot, you will still need to back in and out slowly.
If you are uncomfortable and will still prefer to drive nose first into a parking spot then at minimum lightly tap on your horn (small quick taps not long ones) as you back out, you need to back out slow, slow, slow. ( it is amazing how drivers fall to see even in broad daylight a large vehicle backing out!)
The larger the city the more careful you need to be backing out. ( more people equals more idiot drivers who zoom inside parking areas!)
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SHADOWMCPD
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01/15/12 10:50am |
Class B - Camping Van Conversions
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RE: I Just Got Attacked
Here in New York in a place called Zucatti Park we have a large vermin problem that has been growing out of hand for several weeks.
The park is infested by 99% of them. You think any of the solutions here would work on them or should we leave those anarchistic rodents to just eventually feed on themselves?
Guess comments should be addressed to the Mayor of the city as it seems to be more and more his problem lately but some of the ideas to clear out the rats in the MoHo sure sound good for the rats down there, hey they even have a name for em' OWS,
AKA Occupy Wall Street or is it; Oh,******on Wall street?
And you guys thought you had a rat and rodent problem!
Fred S
NYC
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SHADOWMCPD
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11/11/11 12:34am |
Class A Motorhomes
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RE: Class B with slide out
The problem I face is I have a garage that is 20 feet long from wall to the inside of the garage door and we are not allowed to park this type vehicle in the driveway or side of the house. I can raise the garage door but cannot lengthen the garage. Storage takes me out of the market. There would only be my wife and I, and lots of traveling.
Humm?
Lets see!
If you are able to drive it into the garage and are willing to raise the garage door, how about doing a front garage extension bringing the garage forward a few feet and match it to the house so no one can complain. You're not lengthening the garage so much as extending the entry onto the driveway, sort of like, a two foot add-on if done right. If you can salvage and use your old garage front facade it should not look out of place. Heck some folks might not even notice.
Just a thought.
(The things that make you go Humm!)
Fred S
NYC
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SHADOWMCPD
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05/13/11 12:22pm |
Class B - Camping Van Conversions
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