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Oglethorpe
Oct 12, 2013, 9:19:49 PM10/12/13
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I was walking my dogs a while back. I passed my neighbors' house four doors
down and there was six cars in their yard and a travel trailer set up in
their drive. The travel trailer was a mobile crime lab and the six cars were
for the 12 cops who were searching their home. It was a child porn bust.
THey were there from 8 in the morning until 10 at night. They waited for he
news crew to arrive before they took he guy out in cuffs. Not one word on
the "news": what kind of porn they found - if any. The rest of the
neighborhood doesn't give a crap. The men who lived there are life partners.
They've never done anything to hurt anyone. We all cannot figure out why it
took 12 cops to search a small one floor ranch house.
down and there was six cars in their yard and a travel trailer set up in
their drive. The travel trailer was a mobile crime lab and the six cars were
for the 12 cops who were searching their home. It was a child porn bust.
THey were there from 8 in the morning until 10 at night. They waited for he
news crew to arrive before they took he guy out in cuffs. Not one word on
the "news": what kind of porn they found - if any. The rest of the
neighborhood doesn't give a crap. The men who lived there are life partners.
They've never done anything to hurt anyone. We all cannot figure out why it
took 12 cops to search a small one floor ranch house.
Frank McCoy
Oct 13, 2013, 10:27:14 AM10/13/13
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apart all of the beds and furniture; leaving the place unlivable,
trying to find what *might* be there. Then, even if nothing was
found, not even an apology. After all, as said, there *might* have
been something illegal there. You never can tell what somebody
*might* have hidden you know. After all, they're a SUSPECT!
No, not all police are that way.
But it only takes a tiny percent to spoil things and people's
impression of them, in any business.
Case-in-point:
Friday I tried to get into the local Goodyear Tire Dealer to have the
tires on the car I just bought checked. They're busy through Monday;
and I'm not certain what *I* am doing the rest of the week. Somebody
suggested I go across the highway to NTB and have them do the
checkout. I responded, "I'd rather have you guys do the job because,
even though they're probably about 10% cheaper, the people over there
always try to sell you more than you need. HERE, you do what I ask,
and don't push. Sometimes over there, you are told, 'You have to buy
this service in order to get that (advertised) special.' I'd rather
wait and pay more, if I have to."
Of course, that's probably CORPORATE policy, not individual initiative
to push extra un-asked-for services on customers. But it seems to me
that the company loses more business in customers like me than it
gains by overselling.
Just MY opinion, of course. YMMV.
The soapbox is empty.
NEXT.
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