Things That Are Bothering You, Got You All Hibbeldy-Jibbeldy, or just downright pissed, RIGHT NOW!

[SixOhNine]

Gotta ask- what kind of vehicle was he driving?

 

[imatlas]

While driving home from the gym early this morning I got passed on my residential street by some idiot kid on his way to school. I followed at a safe distance and watched him quickly roll through two stop signs AND pass two other cars WHILE TURNING in an intersection and then he turned into the parking lot of one of the private high schools next to my neighborhood. This was around 7:40 AM when my daughter was walking down our street to her high school and a neighbor girl was walking the other way to her high school and there are a bunch of other kids out walking or riding their bikes to school or waiting for the bus to the public middle school.

I was livid.

I wanted to follow the kid into the parking lot but might have tried to pull him out of his car and beat his a55 so I went home and had my coffee and did a little work and then walked over to the school, talked to one of the Deans who was also in charge of safety and who happened to be outside, got pictures of the car in question, and went full Karen-mode and sent a more calm email to the administration of the high school school, the principal of the elementary they share a parking lot with, the head of the associated church diocese, the township PD and the PD for the neighboring city (a block away) and the police officer from another neighboring city who is a school resource officer at that campus, and to the head of our do-nothing HOA (because why not?).

Within about 15 minutes I had a phone call from the school and an email from one of the deans at the high school and the student had had his driving privileges revoked for the rest of the calendar year. Then a little after that the school resource police officer stopped by my house to tell me they get these complaints from the neighbors every once in a while and take them very seriously. The police couldn't issue the kid a ticket at that point but he did have the kid call home to come take his car off the campus (hopefully they had to drive like 40 miles to get there) and the school has a zero tolerance policy with these types of issues (I had found their code of conduct in their online Student Handbook and made sure to reference the relevant points in my message).

I've also now received a written apology from the kid for his reckless driving in the neighborhood (which I then posted to our neighborhood Facebook page, because public shaming is good) and a phone call from the priest at the Catholic church that the school is part of to apologize and express his concern. Hopefully they make this kid say some Hail Mary's (or whatever they're called) or maybe the priest will do whatever it is priests do to kids over there. I don't know that they have nuns at that school but somebody probably needs a beating with a ruler.

He ruined my morning and put me in a bad mood so it felt good to ruin his day, week, month...

Great, way to radicalize a future school shooter

 

[Michigan Planner]

Gotta ask- what kind of vehicle was he driving?

Brand new looking Chevy Blazer. Would have been more fitting if it were a BMW though.

Great, way to radicalize a future school shooter

Because we live so near to the school and church, we get advertising mail from them every once in a while and something about the uniforms that the high school boys wear makes them all look like a bunch of date rap1sts.

Always reminds me of that episode of Law & Order with Philip Seymour Hoffman.

 

[patrickBOOTH]

Just had one of the worst and most expensive steaks I’ve ever had. I’m still in Chicago.

 

[venividivicibj]

my neighbors still set off fireworks, just for fun

 

[venividivicibj]

God Rodgers is such a dumbass

Jets' Rodgers finds 'fountain of youth' in new drink

Jets quarterback Aaron Rodgers said he has been drinking cayenne pepper and water as part of his rehab regimen, calling it his "fountain of youth."

www.espn.com

 

[Texasmade]

God Rodgers is such a dumbass

Jets' Rodgers finds 'fountain of youth' in new drink

Jets quarterback Aaron Rodgers said he has been drinking cayenne pepper and water as part of his rehab regimen, calling it his "fountain of youth."

www.espn.com

He's also extremely overrated and sucks as a QB now.

 

[edinatlanta]

Just had one of the worst and most expensive steaks I’ve ever had. I’m still in Chicago.

Where did you go? Went to Hugo's a long time ago where we were shocked by our hosts profligate spending on us to the point we talked about it for years.

Food was good.

 

[Omega Male]

Just had one of the worst and most expensive steaks I’ve ever had. I’m still in Chicago.

I'm going to guess Maple & Ash?

 

[Texasmade]

I'm going to guess Maple & Ash?

Salt Grass Steakhouse

 

[patrick_b]

I'm going to guess Maple & Ash?

I wasn't overly impressed with Maple & Ash, however one of the better steaks I've ever had was at Gibson's in Chicago. Probably ten years ago, still remember it fondly.

 

[SixOhNine]

This one's for you, @Michigan Planner-

Senior Enlisted Marine Reduced to Sergeant for Wearing Unauthorized Awards, Including Purple Heart | Military.com

www.military.com

 

[Texasmade]

This one's for you, @Michigan Planner-

Senior Enlisted Marine Reduced to Sergeant for Wearing Unauthorized Awards, Including Purple Heart | Military.com

www.military.com

Don't forget @smittycl

 

[Michigan Planner]

This one's for you, @Michigan Planner-

Senior Enlisted Marine Reduced to Sergeant for Wearing Unauthorized Awards, Including Purple Heart | Military.com

www.military.com

I saw this, it's making the rounds on a Marine message board I occasionally view. I usually DGAF but f*ck that guy.

What I don't understand is how on earth he got away with it for so long? I saw one of his bios from when he was a Staff Sergeant (so probably at least 12 or 15 years ago) and he already had a massive rack, complete with his fake Purple Hearts, way back then. He was Motor T and, from what I've read, was never even in any units that did much of anything.

When I worked in Admin, if some MoT Staff Sergeant, or even a Gunny or 1stSgt checked in with fruit salad like that, we would have been all over his SRB and researching his prior units to verify... and because we were nosy. A lot of the times when a new Marine would be checking into the unit, we'd also go over their awards and everything just to make sure their uniforms were squared away before the inevitably went in front of the SgtMaj on that first day. I wouldn't be surprised if some enterprising young clerk somewhere did look into it long ago and brought it up to their AdminO and then the AdminO just dropped the ball.

 

[HRoi]

I saw this, it's making the rounds on a Marine message board I occasionally view. I usually DGAF but f*ck that guy.

What I don't understand is how on earth he got away with it for so long? I saw one of his bios from when he was a Staff Sergeant (so probably at least 12 or 15 years ago) and he already had a massive rack, complete with his fake Purple Hearts, way back then. He was Motor T and, from what I've read, was never even in any units that did much of anything.

When I worked in Admin, if some MoT Staff Sergeant, or even a Gunny or 1stSgt checked in with fruit salad like that, we would have been all over his SRB and researching his prior units to verify... and because we were nosy. A lot of the times when a new Marine would be checking into the unit, we'd also go over their awards and everything just to make sure their uniforms were squared away before the inevitably went in front of the SgtMaj on that first day. I wouldn't be surprised if some enterprising young clerk somewhere did look into it long ago and brought it up to their AdminO and then the AdminO just dropped the ball.

Ive never been in the military, but i can relate - who doesn’t thoroughly check out a new coworker with a massive rack?