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RE: The Thread!!! - 12/5/2006 1:42:43 PM

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RE: The Thread!!! - 12/5/2006 2:08:00 PM

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RE: The Thread!!! - 12/5/2006 2:11:50 PM

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Now that I scratched his back, I wonder if he can scratch mine...I got this ticket last weekend...

Close but not quite. I am looking for "Anyone..anyone...Bueller?"

If it was in NJ I could help more. In TX I think you can attend traffic school to get out of a ticket.

Well, this one has "Bueller?... Bueller?... Bueller?... Bueller?" and "Anyone know what this is? Class? Anyone? Anyone? Anyone seen this before."

Maybe you could edit them together...

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RE: The Thread!!! - 12/5/2006 2:42:41 PM

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Post-Statistics-Exam-Tithe...

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RE: The Thread!!! - 12/5/2006 2:55:28 PM

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Post-Statistics-Exam-Tithe...

How'd it go??

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RE: The Thread!!! - 12/5/2006 3:04:21 PM

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Pretty well. It's a pass, though probably not much more than an average one. As expected...

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RE: The Thread!!! - 12/5/2006 3:23:05 PM

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I am looking for Ben Stein in Ferris Bueller's Day off "Anyone...anyone....Bueller?"

Well, i spent a good deal of time looking for this... you know, as many times as people quote this, you'd think there would be a scad of WAV files of it, but, no...

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RE: The Thread!!! - 12/5/2006 4:09:02 PM

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OK - since we were playing presidential trivia earlier, i just now stumbled on a fact too good to keep to myself:

What men who were (at one time or another) Presidents of The United States played high-stakes poker together, with one man losing his car to the other (and what was the car?) a bit of a hint: it was a car i hadn't heard of until recently, and pretty rare (only a few hundred manufactured).

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RE: The Thread!!! - 12/5/2006 4:15:37 PM

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No one here accept me... hmmm, don't think i'll have many answers for a while...

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RE: The Thread!!! - 12/5/2006 4:22:58 PM

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Quickly-passing-through tithe.......

I will look that one up later Robert. Since there are cars involved, it cuts out a good many possibilities......

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RE: The Thread!!! - 12/5/2006 4:29:06 PM

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Okay, I need some serious advice here:

I just used a local train to get home. The train was almost empt, and when I got ready to exit at my station (the terminal station), I noticed a women's hand-bag that someone had forgotten. No one was around. At first I thought "just leave it there, the conductor will notice it when he walks through the train" (they always do this at the terminal station), but then I saw that lots of school children were about to enter the train, which would leave for the other direction in a couple of minutes. So I decided to take the purse, and started walking towards the railcar, were the conductor was. I opened the hand-bag.

Holy sh!t: three purses (didn't open them, but they were PACKED with stuff), a cell phone and lots of other stuff. No calls on the phone. I closed the hand-bag, as I was near the conductor now. I talked to her, said that I found the purse, and gave it to her. She said she would give it to the raillines "lost and found". I walked away...

Now I'm back home, and think that I'm an idiot. I haven't left my name, nor my address - so no chance for a reward for the honest finder (ME!). Should I call the lost and found and leave my address? Or should I just let it go?

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RE: The Thread!!! - 12/5/2006 4:32:54 PM

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Okay, I need some serious advice here:

I just used a local train to get home. The train was almost empt, and when I got ready to exit at my station (the terminal station), I noticed a women's hand-bag that someone had forgotten. No one was around. At first I thought "just leave it there, the conductor will notice it when he walks through the train" (they always do this at the terminal station), but then I saw that lots of school children were about to enter the train, which would leave for the other direction in a couple of minutes. So I decided to take the purse, and started walking towards the railcar, were the conductor was. I opened the hand-bag.

Holy sh!t: three purses (didn't open them, but they were PACKED with stuff), a cell phone and lots of other stuff. No calls on the phone. I closed the hand-bag, as I was near the conductor now. I talked to her, said that I found the purse, and gave it to her. She said she would give it to the raillines "lost and found". I walked away...

Now I'm back home, and think that I'm an idiot. I haven't left my name, nor my address - so no chance for a reward for the honest finder (ME!). Should I call the lost and found and leave my address? Or should I just let it go?

if it were me, i'd let it go. First, you don't know if the stuff got to the lost and found, or if the person you gave it to looted the stuff before turning it in. You might be expecting a nice reward, and instead get some p!ssed off person demanding their stuff back.

Then again, i am a bit of a cynic about this stuff. But - you did the right thing, and you can feel good about yourself, and that is worth something.

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RE: The Thread!!! - 12/5/2006 4:45:46 PM

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Haven't thought about that... On the other hand, I gave it to the conductor, and I can tell exactly what train I was on. I would be able to identify her again too - she had pink hair, for chrissake...

In hindsight, I should have taken the hand-bag home, and wait for someone to call on the cell phone, or look for a name/address in one of those three (!!!!) purses.

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RE: The Thread!!! - 12/5/2006 4:49:37 PM

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Haven't thought about that... On the other hand, I gave it to the conductor, and I can tell exactly what train I was on. I would be able to identify her again too - she had pink hair, for chrissake...

In hindsight, I should have taken the hand-bag home, and wait for someone to call on the cell phone, or look for a name/address in one of those three (!!!!) purses.

Something weird about those three purses - why would someone carry three? Or maybe someone collected them, got what they wanted and left them (maybe missing the cell phone?) The whole thing seems strange...

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RE: The Thread!!! - 12/5/2006 4:51:28 PM

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That's what my sister said, too. But the purses were neatly arranged within the hand-bag, and the cell was in its own 'compartment'. Everything looked neat and orderly inside.

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RE: The Thread!!! - 12/5/2006 4:54:41 PM

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That's what my sister said, too. But the purses were neatly arranged within the hand-bag, and the cell was in its own 'compartment'. Everything looked neat and orderly inside.

Sorta sounds like a purse-snatchers hideout bag... guy snatches purse, hands it off to confederate who stashes the purses in the hand-bag. Carrying one bag wouldn't look suspicious, but carrying three would look d@mn odd. Person maybe left it when some cop started looking at them...

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RE: The Thread!!! - 12/5/2006 5:51:07 PM

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RE: The Thread!!! - 12/5/2006 5:53:27 PM

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Vewy shushpishus........

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RE: The Thread!!! - 12/5/2006 5:59:52 PM

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Haven't thought about that... On the other hand, I gave it to the conductor, and I can tell exactly what train I was on. I would be able to identify her again too - she had pink hair, for chrissake...

In hindsight, I should have taken the hand-bag home, and wait for someone to call on the cell phone, or look for a name/address in one of those three (!!!!) purses.

Something weird about those three purses - why would someone carry three? Or maybe someone collected them, got what they wanted and left them (maybe missing the cell phone?) The whole thing seems strange...

I'm with Robert, there is something odd about it. I'd like to hear our resident police officers weigh in on this but I suspect the person snatched the purses from unsuspecting women on the train, took the cash and left the rest.

An easy way to tell would have been to look for wallets or IDs.

In this day and age, if I found an unattended handbag on a public transportation train I'd be as likely to call a bomb squad as anything. In particular with kids getting on the train. Terrorists love to target children.

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RE: The Thread!!! - 12/5/2006 6:04:05 PM

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If it was in NJ I could help more. In TX I think you can attend traffic school to get out of a ticket.

I got a ticket driving through Texas once. The ex and I were driving along a highway with cars zipping by us like we were standing still. Next thing you know a cop pulls us over for going 15 miles an hour over the speed limit. When I as him why he pulled us over and not all the cars that were passing us he says "you were the ones going slow enough for me to catch"

Lesson learned...in TX don't be the slowest speeder on the road, be the fastest.

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RE: The Thread!!! - 12/5/2006 6:25:05 PM

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YOu probably got the ticket because you had out-of-state plates...

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RE: The Thread!!! - 12/5/2006 8:02:49 PM

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YOu probably got the ticket because you had out-of-state plates...

My thoughts exactly...Guess it's standard MO.

In Serbia they still don't have mobile radars, so one can use some gamey tactics...like driving behind a speeding car.

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RE: The Thread!!! - 12/5/2006 8:37:13 PM

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The tactic i hate is some car starts tailgating you at night... you speed up, and it's a cop who pulls you over...

i heard about it from my dad (who refused to speed up) and i've had it tried on me a few times, but so far have avoided the ticket.

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RE: The Thread!!! - 12/5/2006 10:26:34 PM

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The tactic i hate is some car starts tailgating you at night... you speed up, and it's a cop who pulls you over...

i heard about it from my dad (who refused to speed up) and i've had it tried on me a few times, but so far have avoided the ticket.

When I was driving my little red sports car i used to get this all the time from cops. After my fourth ticket in that car I learned to spot a cop car from a 100 yards away on a pitch black night.

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RE: The Thread!!! - 12/5/2006 10:40:30 PM

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When I was driving my little red sports car i used to get this all the time from cops. After my fourth ticket in that car I learned to spot a cop car from a 100 yards away on a pitch black night.

What I find to be effective in spotting police cars is young children, in particular boys. Apparantly I used to be good at it when I was about 4, even spotting an unmarked car 10 minutes after it left the station for the first time, and seeing police cars through gaps in hedges. My 4 year old nephew is quite good at it as well. It's a shame that I lost that skill really

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RE: The Thread!!! - 12/6/2006 12:12:50 AM

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Seems you lost the turn sending skill as well...

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RE: The Thread!!! - 12/6/2006 2:25:19 AM

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RE: The Thread!!! - 12/6/2006 2:36:26 AM

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In this day and age, if I found an unattended handbag on a public transportation train I'd be as likely to call a bomb squad as anything. In particular with kids getting on the train. Terrorists love to target children.

I thought about it for a second, but the hand-bag wasn't very large.

So I've tried to call the lost and found at the nearest city.

Hotline No. 1 (national lost and found of the rail company) of the rail company told me to call the local center, but was unable to connect me or give me their number.
Hotline No. 2 (national service number of the rail company) gave me the number of hotline No. 3.
Hotline No. 3 (telefon information of the company) said they have the number for that lost and found, but it's an 'internal' number, and they can't give it to me. They couldn't connect me to the 'train station in general' either. Appantly this huge station has no telephone conncetion...

Welcome to Germany!

I think I'll just forget about it...

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RE: The Thread!!! - 12/6/2006 2:44:50 AM

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What happened to the famed German efficiency?

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RE: The Thread!!! - 12/6/2006 2:46:34 AM

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It's alive and kicking: they got rid of me rather efficiently...

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