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ORIGINAL: morvwilson

More proof that the old saying I go by is the right one.
"I won't say I have seen it all, but I am not much surprised anymore!"
I came to this after 5000 inspections over the last 15 years.

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ORIGINAL: Zap

This is no reflextion on all Texans but check this out!

FORT WORTH, Texas - Charles Ray Fuller must have been planning one big record company.
The 21-year-old North Texas man was arrested last week for trying to cash a $360 billion check, saying he wanted to start a record business, authorities said. Tellers at the Fort Worth bank were immediately suspicious — perhaps the 10 zeros on a personal check tipped them off, according to investigators.

Fuller, of suburban Crowley, was arrested on a forgery charge, police said. He was released after posting $3,750 bail.

Fuller said his girlfriend's mother gave him the check to start a record business, but bank employees who contacted the account's owner said the woman told them she did not give him permission to take or cash the check, according to police.

In addition to forgery, Fuller was charged with unlawfully carrying a weapon and possessing marijuana, Fort Worth police Lt. Paul Henderson said.

Officers reported finding less than 2 ounces of marijuana and a .25-caliber handgun and magazine in his pockets, police said.

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ORIGINAL: Zap

This is no reflextion on all Texans but check this out!

FORT WORTH, Texas - Charles Ray Fuller must have been planning one big record company.
The 21-year-old North Texas man was arrested last week for trying to cash a $360 billion check, saying he wanted to start a record business, authorities said. Tellers at the Fort Worth bank were immediately suspicious — perhaps the 10 zeros on a personal check tipped them off, according to investigators.

Fuller, of suburban Crowley, was arrested on a forgery charge, police said. He was released after posting $3,750 bail.

Fuller said his girlfriend's mother gave him the check to start a record business, but bank employees who contacted the account's owner said the woman told them she did not give him permission to take or cash the check, according to police.

In addition to forgery, Fuller was charged with unlawfully carrying a weapon and possessing marijuana, Fort Worth police Lt. Paul Henderson said.

Officers reported finding less than 2 ounces of marijuana and a .25-caliber handgun and magazine in his pockets, police said.

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ORIGINAL: 2ndACR

I work in the HVAC new home sector. Home inspectors just drive me crazy..........I just love some of the things they toss at me. PVC P trap must be insulated (funny, the city inspectors pass it), clean out's must be capped......never mind that it is a positive flow evap coil and capping the clean out will cause the unit to go into air lock and flood the house. And I positively hate the way they take air readings. I watch them shoot the grill with the laser, but yet, I use a thermocouple and get a perfect reading. Of course they only let the system run a few minutes before they shoot the grill. Or I stab the plenum.

I never have anything to hide.......I have never had a red tag in my 17 year career. I do every job to what I consider the most exacting standards. Mostly work custom homes and major remodels. I am not cheap. But just drives me crazy when a home inspector "finds" something on one of my house.

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ORIGINAL: 2ndACR

I work in the HVAC new home sector. Home inspectors just drive me crazy..........I just love some of the things they toss at me. PVC P trap must be insulated (funny, the city inspectors pass it), clean out's must be capped......never mind that it is a positive flow evap coil and capping the clean out will cause the unit to go into air lock and flood the house. And I positively hate the way they take air readings. I watch them shoot the grill with the laser, but yet, I use a thermocouple and get a perfect reading. Of course they only let the system run a few minutes before they shoot the grill. Or I stab the plenum.

I never have anything to hide.......I have never had a red tag in my 17 year career. I do every job to what I consider the most exacting standards. Mostly work custom homes and major remodels. I am not cheap. But just drives me crazy when a home inspector "finds" something on one of my house.

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ORIGINAL: Twotribes

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ORIGINAL: morvwilson

More proof that the old saying I go by is the right one.
"I won't say I have seen it all, but I am not much surprised anymore!"
I came to this after 5000 inspections over the last 15 years.

Had a Marine LCpl in an all service school that was a real work of art. He had is girl friends sister cut his hair ( wrong I might add) after being given the money to get a haircut and ordered to get one. He actually brought her in to his Office Hours to defend him.

He had no drivers license cause he "lost" (read stolen after he left it on a towel on the beach) his wallet. He was ordered to stop driving until he got it replaced, so he bought a motorcycle and when confronted while driving it illegally, stated " You only ordered me not to drive my car".

Every piece of clothing he owned was dirty wadded up on the bottom of his wall locker. I ordered him to wash his cloths and clean up his wall locker. The next morning at inspection everything he owned was in two laundry bags soaking wet in the bottom of his wall locker. His defense " I washed them like you ordered me too ".

I further instructed him to finish washing AND drying his clothing and to remove any wet cloths from the wall locker for another inspection. The next inspection nothing at all was in his wall locker, he had moved his wet cloths to the trunk of his car. So in 2 and half days he only managed to find time to get his cloths wet.

This guy was in a tech school on an Army base, the Marine Corps does not like to send rejects to other services to make us look bad. He followed all this by not going to school for 3 days cause he was " doing other things".