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Walmart customers “unruly” after store closes, police called

Not yet, but my black book is getting pretty full.

For those wondering why I do this, it's simple, you write down the store you visit, save all receipts, dates and times, and when you think you're not getting the deal today as you got two weeks ago, you can reference to see if you are or not. This is especially useful when it comes to car repairs, which might have had a warranty.

But, have I ever tried to force my way into a store, any store that was closing? no.

I have gone to the back of Gonella Baking and Cardinalli's Bakery early before opening, to acquire warm fresh bread straight out of their ovens.

I had an uncle who kept logs of every penny he spent, he noted it even if it was just a 50¢ candy bar.

When he passed away, we went through drums of old jounals, dating back to the 1950's. Discovered that he had purchased 100 ozs of gold in the 70's, then we found 50 little certificates which said that the gold coins were 999 fine. One note made in the 1980's said "not interested in gold", so we thought that maybe he sold then gold at that point, but there was no corresponding deposit in any account to indicate that.

Sometime during the 1970's he had told my mother that he had buried treasure beside an outbuilding. We rented a backhoe and dug down to the water table, didn't find anything. We even hired a psychic and dug where he told us he "felt something".

One day, I was cleaning out one of his outbuildings and a felt like I needed a break, so I wondered into a different outbuilding, and noticed an ammo can sitting on a table. Opened it up, and there was the gold (not really, it was empty). I glanced over at a shelf, and under a pile of trash I saw something that looked like a large cloth money bag, much like the ones that we picture bank robbers with. I tugged on the bag, it was quite rotten, and pennies started flooding the floor. Turned out that there were around 50 $50 bags of pennies in there, plus quite a few ammo cans of pennies.

I've always wondered if that empty ammo can contained the gold coins, and if someone else found them first.
 
But you don't give credence to Obama for the positives in the current economy.
Such as 4.6% and 5.0% GDP growth in the last two quarters.
How do you think this 4th quarter will go?
Our gas war is down to $1.85 a gallon for petrol before food store discounts .

The same people who demanded that Obama take ownership of the economy and to stop blaming our bad economy on Bush, now desire Obama not to take credit for our economic successes.
 
Once again Joe you fail to comprehend and only choose to attack me from word one. Notice I said from both "right and left".... What more do you want?

Maybe it just didn't come out like you meant it, but it sounds that you are claiming that only the left lies, blames, and taxes. I think we are taking it that way because most people equate the "progressive" with "the left".

"I for one hope that America is waking up to what progressive rule actually means in real terms....All the lies, all the blaming, all the subterfuge, and most importantly all of the hidden taxation, and loss of true liberty that goes on with a progressive thought process in place "
 
Maybe it just didn't come out like you meant it, but it sounds that you are claiming that only the left lies, blames, and taxes. I think we are taking it that way because most people equate the "progressive" with "the left".

"I for one hope that America is waking up to what progressive rule actually means in real terms....All the lies, all the blaming, all the subterfuge, and most importantly all of the hidden taxation, and loss of true liberty that goes on with a progressive thought process in place "


And you just did the same thing...Putting me in a box, while failing to quote me in context will not help your argument.
 
I had an uncle who kept logs of every penny he spent, he noted it even if it was just a 50¢ candy bar.

When he passed away, we went through drums of old jounals, dating back to the 1950's. Discovered that he had purchased 100 ozs of gold in the 70's, then we found 50 little certificates which said that the gold coins were 999 fine. One note made in the 1980's said "not interested in gold", so we thought that maybe he sold then gold at that point, but there was no corresponding deposit in any account to indicate that.

Sometime during the 1970's he had told my mother that he had buried treasure beside an outbuilding. We rented a backhoe and dug down to the water table, didn't find anything. We even hired a psychic and dug where he told us he "felt something".

One day, I was cleaning out one of his outbuildings and a felt like I needed a break, so I wondered into a different outbuilding, and noticed an ammo can sitting on a table. Opened it up, and there was the gold (not really, it was empty). I glanced over at a shelf, and under a pile of trash I saw something that looked like a large cloth money bag, much like the ones that we picture bank robbers with. I tugged on the bag, it was quite rotten, and pennies started flooding the floor. Turned out that there were around 50 $50 bags of pennies in there, plus quite a few ammo cans of pennies.

I've always wondered if that empty ammo can contained the gold coins, and if someone else found them first.

That's an excellent story, I really enjoyed it, and thank you for posting.

I think back to my buddy Greg, whose dad was a farmer. At harvests, he would go to the grain weigh station, and after all the trips were made with the haulers, he'd go in and collect the money for the grain he sold. He'd then drive over to the local bank and cash the drafts, make deposits, and take a little bit out and salt it away.

We his dad was killed during a farming accident, it was tragic, Greg was at a loss for sometime on what to do. He decided to sell what he could and tried to hold onto the farm. He was cleaning his dad's pickup truck one day to sell it, when he'd found an old mailbag under the bench seat, and in it was $20K. Now Greg didn't need to sell the truck, or the farm, and had money enough for the funeral expenses and a little extra to get by on.
 
And you just did the same thing...Putting me in a box, while failing to quote me in context will not help your argument.

You are correct.

I suspect that you just phrased that in a way that rubbed people wrong, and that it didn't at all communicate what you really meant.
 
That's an excellent story, I really enjoyed it, and thank you for posting.

I think back to my buddy Greg, whose dad was a farmer. At harvests, he would go to the grain weigh station, and after all the trips were made with the haulers, he'd go in and collect the money for the grain he sold. He'd then drive over to the local bank and cash the drafts, make deposits, and take a little bit out and salt it away.

We his dad was killed during a farming accident, it was tragic, Greg was at a loss for sometime on what to do. He decided to sell what he could and tried to hold onto the farm. He was cleaning his dad's pickup truck one day to sell it, when he'd found an old mailbag under the bench seat, and in it was $20K. Now Greg didn't need to sell the truck, or the farm, and had money enough for the funeral expenses and a little extra to get by on.

At least it was folding money and not pennies.

Banks won't accept wheelbarrows full of coins, they require that they be rolled. It took four days for me, my wife, my mother and my son to roll $3000 worth of pennies.

In the process of rolling those pennies, my wife exclaimed "here is an old one", I took a look at it, and it was a 1914-D in great condition. I recognized that date and mintmark to be one of the key coins in the series, so we listed it on ebay. Within hours of listing it, we got a notice from ebay that we had been accused of trying to sell a counterfit item. I took a close look at the enlarged picture, and realized that there was this big gap between the 9 and the 1 in the date. It was actually an 1944, and someone had scraped part of the 4 off to make it look like a 1. I was so embarrassed, and immediately removed the listing.
 
At least it was folding money and not pennies.

Banks won't accept wheelbarrows full of coins, they require that they be rolled. It took four days for me, my wife, my mother and my son to roll $3000 worth of pennies.

In the process of rolling those pennies, my wife exclaimed "here is an old one", I took a look at it, and it was a 1914-D in great condition. I recognized that date and mintmark to be one of the key coins in the series, so we listed it on ebay. Within hours of listing it, we got a notice from ebay that we had been accused of trying to sell a counterfit item. I took a close look at the enlarged picture, and realized that there was this big gap between the 9 and the 1 in the date. It was actually an 1944, and someone had scraped part of the 4 off to make it look like a 1. I was so embarrassed, and immediately removed the listing.

Oh wow....
 
But you don't give credence to Obama for the positives in the current economy.
Such as 4.6% and 5.0% GDP growth in the last two quarters.
How do you think this 4th quarter will go?
Our gas war is down to $1.85 a gallon for petrol before food store discounts .

Since the cost of fuel is down so much, I'm hoping food prices will begin to get lower too, after all, retailers base what they charge consumers partly upon transportation of the goods sold.

We have shale exploitation and OPEC to thank for the oil price war going on now.
 
At least it was folding money and not pennies.

Banks won't accept wheelbarrows full of coins, they require that they be rolled. It took four days for me, my wife, my mother and my son to roll $3000 worth of pennies.

In the process of rolling those pennies, my wife exclaimed "here is an old one", I took a look at it, and it was a 1914-D in great condition. I recognized that date and mintmark to be one of the key coins in the series, so we listed it on ebay. Within hours of listing it, we got a notice from ebay that we had been accused of trying to sell a counterfit item. I took a close look at the enlarged picture, and realized that there was this big gap between the 9 and the 1 in the date. It was actually an 1944, and someone had scraped part of the 4 off to make it look like a 1. I was so embarrassed, and immediately removed the listing.

I've heard of people trying to pay fines and court costs with pennies, even some have tried to pay their taxes with pennies, now that's what we call revolting.
 
Once again Joe you fail to comprehend and only choose to attack me from word one. Notice I said from both "right and left".... What more do you want?

I comprehended fine. You have not, however.
 
First, this is not about the Bush administration anymore, although, I will say that Bush was anything but a true conservative. In fact, I would call him a progressive centrist. And as for the patriot act, that was not done through dictate as I recall. Congress, both left and right passed that out of fear, and a great lack of intel, caused by the very same left that is now going about "stovepiping" intel today all over again. Oh, and I notice that Obama, has not only left these programs in place, but to some degree expanded on them. Do you support Obama Jack?

Look, I think you know that I supported Bush during his administration, but to say that "Booosh did it" and nothing at all to do with Congress, including the demo's there is as dishonest and partisan as Feinstein and her silly one sided, cherry picked report.

YOU were the one cherry picking. Supposedly pointing out a loss of liberty by one party only. Not even a mention that BOTH parties do it, when it serves their special interests who paid for them to get their job.

I merely pointed out that the OTHER side did what, to me, was an unprecendeted taking away of our civil liberties, without a peep or questioning of their party's supporters. I saw how easy it was to get people to turn in their freedoms on the basis of fear and loyalty.

The comments I heard from GOP supporters was along the lines of "What's wrong with that? I don't have anything to hide. Anyone with nothing to hide should have no problem with it." When we all know that the point of liberties is not because we have nothing to hide.

As a GOP co-worker said to me, "But there's good that comes out of it, if they catch some terrorists." I replied, "There is ALWAYS good to come out of taking away liberties from the citizens. That's how they talk the citizens into not objecting. But that's not what our civil liberties are about."

As for me, I regarded it as historical...the taking away of our privacy. I actually had nightmares of finding wiring in the walls that the govt had put in to spy on residents.

It is true that the more restrictive our freedom is, the less likely bad guys can do their bad deeds. But the founding fathers found that the liberties were more important than finding bad guys through spying on the citizens.
 
YOU were the one cherry picking. Supposedly pointing out a loss of liberty by one party only. Not even a mention that BOTH parties do it, when it serves their special interests who paid for them to get their job.

I merely pointed out that the OTHER side did what, to me, was an unprecendeted taking away of our civil liberties, without a peep or questioning of their party's supporters. I saw how easy it was to get people to turn in their freedoms on the basis of fear and loyalty.

The comments I heard from GOP supporters was along the lines of "What's wrong with that? I don't have anything to hide. Anyone with nothing to hide should have no problem with it." When we all know that the point of liberties is not because we have nothing to hide.

As a GOP co-worker said to me, "But there's good that comes out of it, if they catch some terrorists." I replied, "There is ALWAYS good to come out of taking away liberties from the citizens. That's how they talk the citizens into not objecting. But that's not what our civil liberties are about."

As for me, I regarded it as historical...the taking away of our privacy. I actually had nightmares of finding wiring in the walls that the govt had put in to spy on residents.

It is true that the more restrictive our freedom is, the less likely bad guys can do their bad deeds. But the founding fathers found that the liberties were more important than finding bad guys through spying on the citizens.


:dohGood Grief! Did you also not read where I said "Both right and left"??? Or just ignored that part like Boo because then you wouldn't be able to post your neat little rant here? Look, I'll make it as clear as possible for you, and if you still don't get it, then I can't help you...

Yes, I did support Booooooosssssshhhhhh! after the attacks of 9/11 as many if not ALL of the demo's did. And I also know of just how duplicitous demos were when they turned on a dime shortly after, and all of the sudden picked up some sort of amnesia about their own words, and votes prior to that day, and immediately after, to pick up a populist narrative of being against the actions of the administration. They did so, nearly to the point in many cases that they could be accused of rendering aid and comfort to the enemy.

Look JJ, the Patriot act was passed in the house 357 to 66, and in the Senate 98 to 2....So, don't give me that BS that it was a partisan adventure...The President is NOT a King, regardless of how Obama views his powers today, and these votes matter. It is simply disingenuous to sit there and type like demo's in the house an Senate had nothing to do with this. It is only now, that you don't like what a demo is doing with the law that all of the sudden you want to continue to bring it up as a bludgeon politically use against your opposition as if no one can look and see who voted on what....Do yourself a favor, and Educate yourself here:

Senate Vote Roll Call on U.S. Patriot Act 2001 & 2006

If demo's like yourself and Boo, are so against the provisions that yours, and his representatives keep voting for, then I suggest that rather than constantly looking for new, and irritating ways to blame it all on your political opponents, that you both get ahold of your elected reps, and bitch to them...You elected them, and they keep putting it in place...To do what you are doing is only being a dupe for them, and furthering a narrative fed to you by them.
 
I agree, this is what liberalism brings, an air of self-importance and entitlement that everyone owes you something and you have no responsibility to anyone but yourself.

must go brake in to stores the left compels me
 
"Attention, All Walmart Shoppers", you are losers and always will be. We have gone from "we shall bring him silver and gold" "I want that big screen and I will kill you and burn your store if you don't let me have it.
 
"Attention, All Walmart Shoppers", you are losers and always will be. We have gone from "we shall bring him silver and gold" "I want that big screen and I will kill you and burn your store if you don't let me have it.

Why do you hate poor people so much?
 
"Attention, All Walmart Shoppers", you are losers and always will be. We have gone from "we shall bring him silver and gold" "I want that big screen and I will kill you and burn your store if you don't let me have it.

So you have never shopped at a discount retailer?
 
This really doesn't surprise me today.

But I'm 71-years old and I never saw, or heard of anything like that happening when I was a child. :roll:

Sure, but your access to news in the 1940s and 50s was also far more limited.

I don't think people are becoming more selfish over time, just less civil.
 
"Attention, All Walmart Shoppers", you are losers and always will be. We have gone from "we shall bring him silver and gold" "I want that big screen and I will kill you and burn your store if you don't let me have it.

Wow, do you honestly think this is representative of anyone?
 
Sure, but your access to news in the 1940s and 50s was also far more limited.

I don't think people are becoming more selfish over time, just less civil.



I believe I would survive if I never read a lot of the 'news' posted on the internet. :roll:

How much does anyone really need to know about the Kardashians?
 
must go brake in to stores the left compels me

The attitudes of the left, yes. The "everyone owes me" ideology that the left has generated over the last 40 years, where holding your hand out gets you not only sympathy, but money, that's how the Democratic Party operates. Surely you knew that, right?
 
The attitudes of the left, yes. The "everyone owes me" ideology that the left has generated over the last 40 years, where holding your hand out gets you not only sympathy, but money, that's how the Democratic Party operates. Surely you knew that, right?

Speaking of that, will you cut me a check for $50? I lost my fantasy league.

Thanks.
 
Funny thing - the more you try to convince people that they are entitled to their entitlements, the more convinced they get. Pretty soon, they're convinced they're entitled to your entitlements too. It's the whole principle behind wealth redistribution.
 
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