I knew a guy in Deer Lake who used one for the driver's seat in his old van.
We used to use them for "driver's seats" every single day in the automotive detail industry. Once in a while, things would get interesting. Especially if the vehicle was going across town to the paint shop, LMAO. Pulling forward 70' into a different bay was one thing (and reasonably safe if you weren't a <BLEEP>-up) - but driving in traffic, bumpy roads, CURVES, lol... Usually, when the seats were removed, so were the seat
belts. The steering wheel was
the device you used to keep yourself - and the milk crate - where you wanted it, and when you turned the wheel to go around a left turn or curve... and the milk crate (and
you) ended up moving to the right, well, that tended to cause the wheel to turn even more (since you were holding onto it for dear life).
I actually got pulled over once for not having a plate on the back. Cop took one look at my "seat," (whole interior was missing), found out what I was doing... and told me he didn't want to be involved with any part of it, got back in his car, and split. I really didn't blame him. Had it been me, I might have called for a tow truck and wrote some tickets. It really was a dangerous activity. Especially since half the detail crew at any one time (didn't matter the crew - or the specific detail shop) was on at least one "illicit" drug and the other half were pretty much burnt from the fumes/etc. Or youngins that thought this kind of thing was an excellent opportunity to
drive really fast and stupidly in someone else's vehicle. Or two, maybe even all three categories.
Yep. Buy a high speed buffer, random orbital polisher, et cetera and detail your own vehicles. Trust me
.
Those paintball guns can hurt if you get nailed with one unprotected. Even a toy airsoft gun can pack a punch. Me and a friend a number of years back decided to try shooting each other in the leg go see what it was like. Good enough to leave a noticeable bruise on each of us.
Sure. And I wouldn't want to be hit in the eye with any of them. But a
bruise isn't going to cause a wild animal to die after hours - or days, or weeks - of agony. An open wound might. That's all. I wasn't trying to be (overly
) moralistic or anything. If you want to shoot something that'll penetrate, shoot a person, lol. Some of them actually have health insurance (and/or can shoot back, which would only be fair). Or, if you
must shoot a wild animal with something that has a rather low chance of a quick kill... Go pick on a wild boar
. Big bull elk, maybe. Either of those are fully capable of letting you know if you've made the wrong decision. I once read a magazine article in which a truck driver hit an elk. Smashed his truck a bit (of course). Must have angered the animal something fierce, because it got up and charged the truck. Repeatedly. Oh, and the truck... was a class 8 one (tractor & trailer) and by the time the animal expired, the guy was all the way back against the rear (sleeper) wall of the truck, wondering if he was going to get out of there in one piece. I've been boar hunting years ago. Don't think I'd try the elk thing, though. Or cape buffalo, either (they might be herbivores - but they're still bad mofos).
My late father-in-law gave me his old guns a number of years back, and on the stock of the 15-shot .22LR there is a line of notches from each time he killed a deer with it.
My grandfather would have "notched" his rifle's stock down to sawdust - he had 13 children, if I haven't screwed up the count. Never could really understand that, but...
BtW, are you sure they were signifying
animal kills, lol? .22s (of various types) have been used by assassins, too. Relatively quiet (especially subsonic rounds), don't destroy homemade silencers all that quickly (ditto), and a person might actually survive a through-and-through head shot (it's rare, of course, but it does happen occasionally) but a .22 is FAR more likely to only have enough energy to make an
entrance wound - so it tends to bounce around in there, turning a brain to puree. Hard to survive that. Ammo is cheap and readily available almost everywhere (discounting regions with Hitleresque firearms control, of course), too. Stores tend to not have any special interest about why people buy .22 ammo (wasn't all that long ago that they sold boxes of the stuff to grade school aged
kids).
A friend of mine has an old Egyptian army semi-automatic (8.5mm, I think). It has some notches on the stock. I'm guessing those aren't signifying animal kills. That gun is
heavy. The user probably wouldn't have needed to use the (included) bayonet if/when he ran out of ammo, simply reverse it and start swinging. Actually fairly accurate (for what it is), though.
.... It must be the Holidays.....
Naw, just tired. Pain is up, food intake is down, you know... life. Think my cat is on the way out, too, and that's got me even more depressed than usual. She still purrs, though, so she'll be alive as long as she wants to be. Been thinking I might not replace her when she finally does expire. But I've been telling myself that for 20+ years, now. Keep finding abandoned strays, feral cats that follow me home when I take a moment to show them an atom of kindness, ones that have been injured nearly to death that manage to end up on my front porch (like I can afford to borrow money off of... someone or other in order to pay for emergency veterinarian treatment, FFS - but, well, you know... I always seem to go ahead and do so), etc.
Besides, I've been working on my
people skills . How am I doing?
I got mine at a gas station in town. They told me take as many as I like cause the truck won’t pick them back up half the time. They had a big pile of them so I got about 10 or 12 lol.
Nice. Around here, people seem to treat them like gold or something. Probably just don't have the authority to make the decision and CBA to ask their manager. Then again, it's not the store's property after all, lol, so if they give them to you they're effectively serving as a fence, I suppose. And the milk crate is then stolen property.
I've been known to ask the actual delivery people. Have gotten some that way (I consider myself free from any bad karma that way, as their company name is the one actually stamped on the things - and I can twist reality to suit me almost as well as the next guy, on a good day). Haven't tried for any milk crates lately, but I did score three of those plastic carriers that hold eight two-liter bottles each. Thinking they might come in handy for a SOG-style grow in the future. Maybe a bunch of mini-hempies, IDK.
It’s a big bag!
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