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City of Tampa
May 6, 2007

by zen death robot

Brannock posted:

community policing is proven and very effective and it involves constant engagement with the area and the people living there instead of sitting in the station all day long

lol never saw this once in my life, maybe it works? anything is better than "drive around in a car until you see people on foot or bicycles that you can shake down and hopefully arrest for marijuana" which seems to be the main objective of every police department that I've lived near

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reallivedinosaur
Jun 13, 2012

Ogdober subrise! XDDD
i think if kids (20+ year olds) would put as much time into walking around looking for jobs as they do walking around looking for pokemon maybe they might have a brighter future

Solice Kirsk
Jun 1, 2004

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Is there a way to trade pokemon between players? If so then they can sell rare ones to others and create their own business!

Jonny 290
May 5, 2005



[ASK] me about OS/2 Warp

reallivedinosaur posted:

i think if kids (20+ year olds) would put as much time into walking around looking for jobs as they do walking around looking for pokemon maybe they might have a brighter future

its pretty hot out, i dunno man

Riot Bimbo
Dec 28, 2006


george w bush spoke at a service in dallas today & i just wish he never ran against ann richards because he kind of rules as a retarded old grandpa

Moridin920
Nov 15, 2007

by FactsAreUseless

City of Tampa posted:

I definitely would never call the cops for stolen property other than a car because I already know that they don't give a poo poo and won't do poo poo

High school me had his iPod stolen and I was really upset about it. The teacher suggested I go file a police report with the school officer so I did that. Dude was super annoyed at me and then finally was like 'look we can file it but it won't do anything to be honest, the most that will happen is if he tries to take it to an Apple store the serial number will be flagged' and I said 'aw fine' and left.

I even knew who took it. He didn't care.

Lesson learned.

City of Tampa posted:

edit: in Florida you are legally required to pay the loving pawn shop whatever they paid the burglar to get your own stolen property back so maybe that gives you some idea

lmao is it not on the pawn shop to not buy stolen goods?! doesn't that essentially mean pawn shops function perfectly well as fences?

Solice Kirsk
Jun 1, 2004

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Moridin920 posted:

lmao is it not on the pawn shop to not buy stolen goods?! doesn't that essentially mean pawn shops function perfectly well as fences?

My guess is that if the police don't want to get involved you could take the pawn shop to civil court to get your property back, but it may be cheaper to just let them keep it or buy it back than move forward with a lawsuit. Seem to remember something like that happening to my friend in AZ or CA. Can't remember what state he got broken into and found his girlfriend's necklace from her mother in a pawn shop like a week later.

Spunky Psycho Ho
Jan 26, 2007

by zen death robot
How would a pawn shop be able to determine an item was stolen in every case. Also, couldn't you scam pawn shops by faking burglaries

Riot Bimbo
Dec 28, 2006


Spunky Psycho Ho posted:

How would a pawn shop be able to determine an item was stolen in every case. Also, couldn't you scam pawn shops by faking burglaries

it relies on pawn shops self reporting, there is software, and police can run stuff sold at pawn shops against stolen items and potentially match something to a license. and usually they do, especially firearms and expensive electronics, but they may not always, idk what they have to do versus what they mostly do.

Spunky Psycho Ho
Jan 26, 2007

by zen death robot
Have friend steal item, report missing after he sells it to pawn shop, claim item at pawn shop

Moridin920
Nov 15, 2007

by FactsAreUseless

Spunky Psycho Ho posted:

How would a pawn shop be able to determine an item was stolen in every case.

Obv they can't in every case but if the law is "if you bought a stolen item you have to give it back to the owner and just be out what you paid, maybe get insurance for that" a pawn shop owner is much less likely to accept high value items like jewelry and whatever from sketchy looking dudes asking 1/20th of their retail price.

If the owner has to compensate the pawn shop, where is the motivation for the pawn shop to not just buy every single super cheap valuable a crack head brings in and not give a poo poo if they are stolen or not? Best case you just made a ton of money, worst case the original owner has to compensate you for whatever you're out of pocket.

Spunky Psycho Ho posted:

Also, couldn't you scam pawn shops by faking burglaries

Spunky Psycho Ho posted:

Have friend steal item, report missing after he sells it to pawn shop, claim item at pawn shop

K so that's still larceny, conspiracy to defraud someone, and fraud. It's hella illegal.

Moridin920 fucked around with this message at 22:09 on Jul 12, 2016

Riot Bimbo
Dec 28, 2006


I'm glad people are cooking up baby's first scam ITT but they should know they might get away with that once tops before someone involved gets arrested and lol if you use a friend, you should sell something like an older television to what is clearly a crackhead, note the serial number, and report it stolen. It will show up at a pawn shop sooner than later. You better make it look like a break in happened so make sure the cost of repair and poo poo is such that you're still making a profit ofc.

City of Tampa
May 6, 2007

by zen death robot

Spunky Psycho Ho posted:

Have friend steal item, report missing after he sells it to pawn shop, claim item at pawn shop

they take your ID and even a thumbprint when you sell something to most pawn shops, so your friend would get arrested and he would owe the money to the pawn shop. If Florida wasn't barbaric

the St Pete Times had a long article around Xmas a few years ago about a woman that had her digital camera stolen out of her car, reported it stolen, and it turned up at a pawn shop discovered by police during one of their checks or whatever.

So the police call her and tell her where her camera is, and she drives to the pawn shop expecting to get it back and the shop owner was like "no you owe me the $100 that I paid the guy that stole your camera". So she called the cops and they came down there and verified that the shop owner was right.

the punchline was that the woman was like "gently caress that" and didn't buy the camera back, then she went home and thought about how her kid's pictures and their first birthdays and poo poo like that were on the memory card, so she goes back and pays for the camera and guess what? the memory card was gone anyway.

Jonny 290
May 5, 2005



[ASK] me about OS/2 Warp
poo poo, i had to lay down a print when I bought a fuckin' $29 weed eater at the local pawn.
Paid with a card and showed ID and everything. I tried to argue but the dude was like "No print no sale" and went back to his meth
It broke 10 minutes later. I found the same model brand new at home depot for $29. owned

Dandywalken
Feb 11, 2014

FuhrerHat posted:

work on a roof, yo. starts at $22 here (socialist paradise)

Roofing is good. Masonry is also good.

Excavation is good if the weather isnt horrific. Where I worked, anyone could operate a non-tracked vehicle. This included up to the big articulated Terex trucks, which were like the baby-version of those mega giant mining dump trucks. They were fun, but a bitch to back-up and park for loading.

The Bananana
May 21, 2008

This is a metaphor, a Christian allegory. The fact that I have to explain to you that Jesus is the Warthog, and the Banana is drepanocytosis is just embarrassing for you.



I think the overall lesson that's beginning to crystallize here in the Dallas cop shooting thread is: gently caress pawn shops.

ethanol
Jul 13, 2007



How many more police officers have to die before gbs will realize the truth

Zombiepop
Mar 30, 2010

The Bananana posted:

I think the overall lesson that's beginning to crystallize here in the Dallas cop shooting thread is: gently caress pawn shops.

Also: Work in roofing

Pimpcasso
Mar 13, 2002

VOLS BITCH
knoxville is making a full time swat team now

now we have more pigs you dumb racist shooter man

Dandywalken
Feb 11, 2014

ethanol posted:

How many more police officers have to die before gbs will realize the truth

The truth about roofing? Only time will tell.

ethanol
Jul 13, 2007



Roofing is fun easy and fulfilling I wouldn't choose any other career

hawowanlawow
Jul 27, 2009

Ya you guys should get into roofing in Dallas that sounds fun as hell

And I mean that literally

The Bananana
May 21, 2008

This is a metaphor, a Christian allegory. The fact that I have to explain to you that Jesus is the Warthog, and the Banana is drepanocytosis is just embarrassing for you.



radiatinglines posted:

Ya you guys should get into roofing in Dallas that sounds fun as hell

And I mean that literally

its like... 100 degrees out there man... idk about working on a hot tin roof :shrug:

Zombiepop
Mar 30, 2010
But think about all the good sniper positions!

The Bananana
May 21, 2008

This is a metaphor, a Christian allegory. The fact that I have to explain to you that Jesus is the Warthog, and the Banana is drepanocytosis is just embarrassing for you.



^^I'll have you know I think about good sniping positions all the time, sir :colbert: ^^^^

like, the heat makes it a little more desirable to be working in a vat of Blue Bell Creamery's "Tin Roof" flavor Ice Cream instead. :yum:

spacetoaster
Feb 10, 2014

Pawn shops are great if you want to buy jewelry or a playstation 4.

I got a nice diamond ring for 500 bucks that was 1200 at the legit jewelry store up the street. Also, PS4 games are all 10 bucks.

Pimpcasso
Mar 13, 2002

VOLS BITCH

spacetoaster posted:

Pawn shops are great if you want to buy jewelry or a playstation 4.

I got a nice diamond ring for 500 bucks that was 1200 at the legit jewelry store up the street. Also, PS4 games are all 10 bucks.

:vince: how i have a not heard of these

etalian
Mar 20, 2006

spacetoaster posted:

Pawn shops are great if you want to buy jewelry or a playstation 4.

I got a nice diamond ring for 500 bucks that was 1200 at the legit jewelry store up the street. Also, PS4 games are all 10 bucks.

Also if the engagement doesn't work out you can tell your ex-fiance that you got the ring at a pawn shop.

hawowanlawow
Jul 27, 2009

I've been in several pawn shops and they have all been garbage. Just a bunch of poo poo burner phones, overpriced electronics, and stolen lawn and construction equipment.

The Bananana
May 21, 2008

This is a metaphor, a Christian allegory. The fact that I have to explain to you that Jesus is the Warthog, and the Banana is drepanocytosis is just embarrassing for you.



radiatinglines posted:

stolen lawn and construction equipment.

ohhhhhhh :aaaaa:

Zombiepop
Mar 30, 2010

The Bananana posted:

^^I'll have you know I think about good sniping positions all the time, sir :colbert: ^^^^


As any intelligent man should! You make me proud.

Dandywalken
Feb 11, 2014

New GBS project: Let's get this roof done, because it looks like rain and I'm not about to drive down here tomorrow for like thirty minutes work.

Woof Blitzer
Dec 29, 2012

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Roofing sucks.

Zombiepop
Mar 30, 2010

Dandywalken posted:

New GBS project: Let's get this roof done, because it looks like rain and I'm not about to drive down here tomorrow for like thirty minutes work.

Im on it! handla me the ehhh roofing hammer? roofies?

Duckaerobics
Jul 22, 2007


Lipstick Apathy
One of the major temp agency's in the south recently got in trouble for sending black workers to only the worst jobs.

In their defense they said most of the companies they delt with would send all the black workers back with comments like, "They just didn't fit in", or "We want some good country boys."

Morzhovyye
Mar 2, 2013

hemophilia posted:

george w bush spoke at a service in dallas today & i just wish he never ran against ann richards because he kind of rules as a retarded old grandpa

he literally has dementia

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MlC01CcHhF4

Riot Bimbo
Dec 28, 2006



I just see a devout dude digging the hymns sorry bout your blasphemous sodomite lifestyle.

Kirk Vikernes
Apr 26, 2004

Count Goatnackh

Zombiepop posted:

re construction chat: Can you really show up and apply for a job without certs or and education in construction and get a job?
That would be freaking impossible over here in socialist paradise, it's atleast 3 years in high school, and probably another 3 years in college after that If you want the possibility to move up.

My retard brother-in-law dropped out of high school at 18 (with credits for a freshman) joined the military (on the contingency of getting a GED) and was kicked out a few months later. When he's not shooting up, beating up his 17yo girlfriend, in jail, stealing from his family, walking around town shoeless and shirtless preaching about Jesus door to door, making welfare babies with underage girls, or loses a decent job while medicated...he works construction.

Welcome to USA land of freedom and low quality residential construction.

radiatinglines posted:

I've been in several pawn shops and they have all been garbage. Just a bunch of poo poo burner phones, overpriced electronics, and stolen lawn and construction equipment.

That's how the chain pawn shops are around here. They are full of bad jewelry and sketchy electronics like reflowed YLOD PS3/PS4s that little Billy used his mom's hairdryer and a YouTube video before pawning it off and might provide 3hrs of gaming fun before it dies again. The rest of the store looks like a bad yard sale. The couple local mom/pop pawn shops are neat, clearly priced, and sometimes have cool stuff for decent prices.

Kirk Vikernes fucked around with this message at 14:55 on Jul 13, 2016

spacetoaster
Feb 10, 2014

etalian posted:

Also if the engagement doesn't work out you can tell your ex-fiance that you got the ring at a pawn shop.

Oh, I've been married forever. The ring was one of those with the diamonds actually in the band vs stuck on the top. My wife is a dr and poky rings are a nono.

radiatinglines posted:

I've been in several pawn shops and they have all been garbage. Just a bunch of poo poo burner phones, overpriced electronics, and stolen lawn and construction equipment.

I'm sorry your town has such crappy stores.

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Pollyanna
Mar 5, 2005

Milk's on them.


spacetoaster posted:

Oh, I've been married forever. The ring was one of those with the diamonds actually in the band vs stuck on the top. My wife is a dr and poky rings are a nono.

awww you really care :3:

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