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Pure BWM being aged 15 starting fires and then being ordered to repay almost $37m.quote:The Oregonian reports that Hood River County Circuit Judge John A Olson issued the opinion on Monday (local time), awarding the restitution totaling US$36,618,330.24 to cover the costs of firefighting, repair and restoration to the gorge and damage to homes. Victims include the US Forest Service and Oregon Department of Transportation. https://www.stuff.co.nz/world/americas/104113031/teen-ordered-to-repay-nz53-million-for-starting-oregon-wildfire At least he's got his whole life ahead of him to pay it off. 
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Devian666 posted:At least he's got his whole life ahead of him to pay it off.
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TheLastManStanding posted:He's also lucky they withheld his name, as I'm sure having a 37 million dollar wildfire pop up when people search your name would hinder your job hunt. Also people here in western Oregon might actually maim or murder him. The little fucker shot fireworks into a canyon during the peak of fire season in the middle of a burn ban, costing people their homes and livelihoods. Many people's favorite hiking spots will not be the same for a really long time and the impact on tourism is awful. People also had to live with choking black smoke for weeks. I have asthma and couldn't go outside without a respirator. He got no jail time, and his parents won't have to pay anything either. People are still really pissed off. If they hitched him to a post in Cascade Locks at night there would be nothing left of him by morning.
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May 22, 2018 05:47
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CitizenKain posted:I was at a family get together a few years ago, the guy hosting it at his house ran a popular bar in a resort town. Someone mention that it must be going well because he's obviously doing well. He says that the bar does ok, and for years he was only just breaking even. Then the state loosened gambling restrictions, and he put in a few multigame machines. After a few months of those going in, he cleared enough to hire more people, and was able to take vacations. If he cleared out more space for more machines, he could rake in even more, but he'd rather keep the space for tables. So the secret is gambling. My brother-in-law was a manager at a bar in Vegas that catered to locals (so no tourists). The gaming machines there brought in $30k a month.
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May 22, 2018 12:33
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A ton of bars, restaurants and sports clubs in Australia are basically excuses to have a room full of gaming machines.
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May 22, 2018 12:36
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Ghost Leviathan posted:A ton of bars, restaurants and sports clubs in Australia are basically excuses to have a room full of gaming machines. A relative of mine owns a regulars bar; the only reason it's still open is the gambling income.
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Guest2553 posted:Yes it is. I got you fam. Oh man what a great story, it's so cringeworthy I don't think I can even re-read it. "So instead of helping out in the back, or doing market research, or advertising, I just calmed my nerves by getting drunk all afternoon and then making a spectacle of myself in front of the customers" "My friend owns a restaurant and offered to hire me so I could learn the ropes, but no way, kitchen work is hard and I bet I'm too good for it, and let me back up that bet with my house and my retirement plan"
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A relative of mine is about to land a great online job, but I'm worried it might be a scam. posted:
How on earth are people still falling for this poo poo in the year of our lord 2018?
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Hi I am a prominent government official in an African country, I am so loaded that I can pay you well above industry standard salary for your work, but I'm a bit short right now could you do me a solid and make a minimum opening deposit for my company bank account tia
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May 22, 2018 22:25
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What don't you understand about his assets being seized?
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Moneyball posted:What don't you understand about his assets being seized?
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Devian666 posted:Pure BWM being aged 15 starting fires and then being ordered to repay almost $37m. Wife and I went hiking in that area the weekend that fire started and half the beautiful hikes and waterfalls we saw burned down. gently caress that kid.
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Hoodwinker posted:The part where he has assets worth seizing. Can't blame homeboy for trying to break that $100,001 glass ceiling. What's the USD:ZWL exchange rate again? Guest2553 fucked around with this message at 23:21 on May 22, 2018 |
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Parents go to court to boot 30-year-old son from homequote:SYRACUSE, N.Y. (AP) — In a real-life case of “Failure to Launch,” an upstate New York judge Tuesday ordered a 30-year-old man to move out of his parents’ house after they went to court to have him ejected. https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/judge-sides-with-parents-boots-adult-son-from-new-york-home/
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Hyrax Attack! posted:Parents go to court to boot 30-year-old son from home There are so many words worth reading. I'm guessing his business is stealing podiums to sell the journalist's microphones.
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Genderfluent posted:Very good with money There was a decrepit but beautiful boned Victorian style home on a busy commercial drag near where I grew up. It had sat vacant for years before some people bought it, renovated it, and turned it into a brewpub that was really popular. They didn't have much cash, so they have small ownership stakes to various plumbers, contractors, etc. in exchange for bringing it up to code. Rumor has it there may have been as many as 750 people with stakes in it. Place was hugely popular from the beginning until the end, but died due to all the profit being divided up so many ways that the owners couldn't pay their own bills. It's now an Indian buffet that serves microbrews.
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Can I Afford a 2014 Audi A6quote:Hi r/PF, I mean, I guess? But why? quote:I'm also a young driver
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Sure I guess he can sort of "afford it" with that income, but holy poo poo at $370/mo insurance. An A6 is not an enticing enough car to pay that much just to insure, jesus christ. If you're going to pay that much at least get something exciting.
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Cacafuego posted:Can I Afford a 2014 Audi A6 Guinness posted:Sure I guess he can sort of "afford it" with that income, but holy poo poo at $370/mo insurance. An A6 is not an enticing enough car to pay that much just to insure, jesus christ.
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Devian666 posted:There are so many words worth reading. I'm guessing his business is stealing podiums to sell the journalist's microphones.
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If your take home pay is $4000 every two weeks (around $160k/year) and you’re questioning a $22000 car purchase it seems like you’ve probably got some other problems. Yeah $370/month is crazy expensive for insurance but you can shop around and get that lowered. What else are you blowing your insane disposable income on?
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very stable genius posted:If your take home pay is $4000 every two weeks (around $160k/year) and you’re questioning a $22000 car purchase it seems like you’ve probably got some other problems. Yeah $370/month is crazy expensive for insurance but you can shop around and get that lowered. What else are you blowing your insane disposable income on? He's probably in the bay area, in which case $160k is used Corolla money, not entry-lux VAG car money.
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Hyrax Attack! posted:Parents go to court to boot 30-year-old son from home http://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/local/article211676059.html *Swishes hair* I should be, like you know, *Swishes hair* provided with 30 days, um leave notice, *Swishes hair* 
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Twerk from Home posted:He's probably in the bay area, in which case $160k is used Corolla money, not entry-lux VAG car money. the bay is not that expensive and the car market is a national market
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He means that with the rest of the expenses you’re looking at, you have a lot less disposable income to pay that $4,440 a year in car insurance. Plus another $5,000 a year or whatever it would end up being for the payments themselves.
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L.A. spent $330 million on electric buses from China that don't work: http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-electric-buses-20180520-story.html quote:When Chinese battery maker BYD Ltd. approached Southern California officials in 2008 touting ambitious plans to build electric cars, local politicians jumped at the promise of thousands of jobs and cleaner air. That could maybe have something to do with the chairman of the Metro board owning stock in BYD, I dunno. Or BYD hiring transit officials' family members for administrative positions and flying them on trips to China and Ecuador. Or maybe it wasn't corruption, maybe it was just the standard con when a company comes in and swears that if you give them a bunch of money for their miracle product they'll create jobs and grow your tax base. quote:BYD came close to also losing the 40-foot contract because its initial bus design didn't meet requirements, but Metro extended bid deadlines to allow BYD to submit a redesigned model, packing more power and with a promise that it can climb Los Angeles hills. After vowing to create 68 jobs, BYD won the $47-million contract. Sigh. It's amazing how well the "keep making promises and stringing them along so they keep giving you money" aspect of scamming works at all levels of scam.
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Hoodwinker posted:My guess is he's a crypto nut. Probably is and they might want him to leave because of insane power bills. I like the article where the judge has requested Adult Protective Services to investigate. He also seems to be lacking perspective. If your parents take you to court to try to get you to leave their basement this has gone beyond any recoverable relationship with your parents. Then throw in holding a media interview (of which he clearly has no training or understanding of the angle they will apply to the story) for a matter that would be best addressed with his parents directly rather than acting like a loving man baby. e: Oh yeah the reporting is international now. https://www.stuff.co.nz/world/americas/104138523/judge-orders-30yearold-man-to-move-out-of-parents-house Devian666 fucked around with this message at 05:01 on May 23, 2018 |
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May 23, 2018 04:56
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Dude looks like somebody who's way too into crypto.
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Hoodwinker posted:Dude looks like somebody who's way too into crypto. Look man, once bitcoin goes to the moon I'll be able to buy a mansion with my 1 satoshi.
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Devian666 posted:Look man, once bitcoin goes to the moon I'll be able to buy a mansion with my 1 satoshi.
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blackmet posted:There was a decrepit but beautiful boned Victorian style home on a busy commercial drag near where I grew up. It had sat vacant for years before some people bought it, renovated it, and turned it into a brewpub that was really popular. Is it the Yak and Yeti in Arvada???
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Elysium posted:http://www.tampabay.com/sold-everything-to-sail-the-world-boat-sank-next-day Remember this couple? They're back on the water! They bought their new-to-them (but actually 33-year-old) boat for $1 from a retired doctor, and have spent the past three months doing repairs. Tampa Bay Times posted:As they prepared to shove off, Walsh told the Tampa Bay Times they were "keeping an eye" on the weather system rolling north in the Gulf of Mexico, which meteorologists gave a 40 percent chance of developing into a tropical depression or tropical storm over the next five days. At the least, it’s expected to drop a lot of rain along Florida’s gulf coast in the next few days.
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They are terrible at making decisions. I bet the thing that kills them won't be the boat. They'll probably fail to run from pirates and end up being raped to death by them.
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Renaming a boat is bad luck. I bet they didn’t even perform the requisite rechristening ceremony. Bad With Money and Bad With Seafaring. Also, I can’t imagine that 5 adults and 3 dogs on a 36 foot boat in tropical heat will be comfortable for any extended length of time.
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Yond Cassius posted:Remember this couple? They're back on the water! quote:Tanner Broadwell (right) and Nikki Walsh sold everything they had in Colorado, bought an old 28-foot sailboat and planned to live their dream of sailing the Caribbean. That dream turned into a nightmare Wednesday night at John's Pass when their boat, the Lagniappe, crashed into something underwater, severing the keel and causing it to sink. Now the couple and Remy, their 2-year-old Pug, have lost everything. Remy did not share his owners' optimism. "These loving people," he said. "It's cheap as poo poo to live in Florida. We could've had a nice little place a short drive from the beach, but nooooo. Idiot from the mountains thinks he can live on a sailboat. The headline writes itself. gently caress." "I lost my squeaky toy on that boat," he added wistfully. "I have nothing left."
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The Macaroni posted:That first article has an amazing caption: This is solid gold.
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If they can’t even afford slip fees, is there any plan on how they’re going to pay for anything even assuming they don’t promptly sink this boat too? Food? Fuel? Spare parts? Do they know how to fix a marine diesel engine in open water? Do they still plan on using 2 year old charts when those same outdated charts caused them to sink their boat after two days? Also I assume they’re just along for the ride temporarily but 5 people and 3 dogs on a 36 ft sailboat for a multi day trip sounds like hell. The cabin would be fine for 2 people but you’ve likely got one small bed and a built in couch. Probably one compost toilet and a tiny galley. Maybe 100 gallons of water. They won’t be dying of dysentery or anything but it doesn’t sound like a fun voyage. Either you’re hot bunking or some lucky person gets to experience why sailors didn’t enjoy “sleeping under the stars.” GamingHyena fucked around with this message at 17:17 on May 23, 2018 |
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StormDrain posted:Is it the Yak and Yeti in Arvada??? Ding ding ding. I do love the food there.
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blackmet posted:Ding ding ding. That’s hilarious, you definitely described it well. I love the food there too, but a pro tip as a weenie, don’t order spicy food and a jalapeño Lena beer, no relief. I was sweatin hard!
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Phanatic posted:L.A. spent $330 million on electric buses from China that don't work: This is Metro.txt. They are shady from top to bottom, and are more than willing to keep shoveling money into the fire as long as the brass get their kickbacks. It's why I voted "no" on Measure M. They complain about people not buying tickets then don't install basic turnstiles at train stations. You know, something every major subway system has done for decades. At some stations they installed them but they didn't lock. (For example, Lake Ave Gold Line stop.) Literally you just walked through them and a light flashed red if you didn't swipe a fare.
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