mowerman Posted January 2, 2023 Share Posted January 2, 2023 Yea it does… Bob Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/70948-the-nerve-of-some-people/page/2/#findComment-519566 Share on other sites More sharing options...
RowdyRebel Posted January 2, 2023 Author Share Posted January 2, 2023 19 hours ago, Mark T said: I get the invasion of privacy part. You have to remember though, in this day and age there's all sorts of a hole things like Google Earth and all those. You wonder how people find out stuff. Nothing is private anymore. Google maps satellite view of my house is at least 3 years old. Street view is blurred. Either way, can't see much. 1 Quote When approaching a 4-way stop, the vehicle with the biggest tires has the right of way! Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/70948-the-nerve-of-some-people/page/2/#findComment-519711 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post RowdyRebel Posted January 2, 2023 Author Popular Post Share Posted January 2, 2023 18 hours ago, mowerman said: Ahahahahaha so far you beat everyone your post was absolutely hilarious…. Like wait a minute,,,, chump, you do realize I’m not even thinking of getting rid of it … beat it!!!!!! Lol.. Bob Had a scrapper once knock on my door offering to haul off the pile of "scrap metal" next to my garage. I told him I don't have any scrap metal. He asked what that pile was next to the garage, and I told him "It's not scrap." He said he was glad he asked, and I told him I was, too, because I don't like thieves. He said he didn't either, and that they belong in jail. I lifted my shirt (exposing the .45 on my hip) and told him "No. They belong in the morgue." Haven't seen him since. 3 Quote When approaching a 4-way stop, the vehicle with the biggest tires has the right of way! Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/70948-the-nerve-of-some-people/page/2/#findComment-519712 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark T Posted January 2, 2023 Share Posted January 2, 2023 7 minutes ago, RowdyRebel said: Google maps satellite view of my house is at least 3 years old. Street view is blurred. Either way, can't see much. You get the point though. Privacy ? Not many have any respect for it anymore. 1 Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/70948-the-nerve-of-some-people/page/2/#findComment-519714 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post RowdyRebel Posted January 2, 2023 Author Popular Post Share Posted January 2, 2023 8 minutes ago, Mark T said: You get the point though. Privacy ? Not many have any respect for it anymore. Couple years ago, there was a cop sitting at the grain elevator catty-corner from the house as I was outside working in the driveway. After a couple hours, he slowly pulls out onto the highway, crosses the tracks, and eases up the driveway. I walk out to meet him. He started by apologizing & stating that he sat over there thinking long & hard about coming over to talk to me because I have a bit of a reputation. All he wanted was info. They'd had reports about someone on the tracks & wanted to know if I'd seen anything. He's a friggin COP and was nervous approaching my house. It'd be nice if more people felt that way. 2 1 Quote When approaching a 4-way stop, the vehicle with the biggest tires has the right of way! Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/70948-the-nerve-of-some-people/page/2/#findComment-519717 Share on other sites More sharing options...
mowerman Posted January 2, 2023 Share Posted January 2, 2023 Yes I’ve noticed a time or two Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/70948-the-nerve-of-some-people/page/2/#findComment-519719 Share on other sites More sharing options...
mowerman Posted January 2, 2023 Share Posted January 2, 2023 I was recently in a similar situation with a highway patrol man and he wound up being overly polite and way more so than I would have expected Bob Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/70948-the-nerve-of-some-people/page/2/#findComment-519721 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Licensed to kill Posted January 2, 2023 Popular Post Share Posted January 2, 2023 21 hours ago, RowdyRebel said: I live a little way off the main road, and nobody really has any need to drive around past my house. Where the Mack is parked (and with other vehicles parked in front of it), it's not exactly the most visible from the highway. Quite frankly, the only way anyone would get close enough to it to know they'd be interested in buying it is if they were somewhere they didn't need to be. I tend to get a little pissy when folks I don't know come snooping around to see what I may have sitting out. Hell, he's lucky he caught me in a good mood so he didn't get to stare down the barrel of my .45. Bottom line, if you don't have a good reason to be on my property, don't be on my property. You may assume too much. The 2 B-61's that I bought from a guy a couple years ago were in his shed and to get TO his shed you would have to walk right past the house and there was NO indication that he even had those trucks in there. In fact, there was so much junk piled in the shed and on and around the trucks that cursory glance and they would net even been seen. However, I went and knocked on the door and asked about them. Of course I started the conversation with "I am told that you have a couple B-61 Macks . I understand that they re not for sale but thought you might know of someone else with one that might be". Maybe the guy that stopped and asked was TOLD by someone else that you had it there and came to check if it was for sale. At any rate, this thread I find disturbing on a few levels. One being that I am a STAUNCH supporter of gun ownership rights but when I hear someone state that they would threaten someone with a gun just for stopping and asking a question, well it gets difficult to argue with the anti gun crowd when you hear of things like that. 4 1 Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/70948-the-nerve-of-some-people/page/2/#findComment-519724 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brocky Posted January 2, 2023 Share Posted January 2, 2023 I got my Diamond T that way.. The old man did not want to sell.. stopped by about every 6 months to BS and listen to his stories.. 2 years later he passed away on one of his sons called me to see if I still wanted it.. 1 Quote Brocky Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/70948-the-nerve-of-some-people/page/2/#findComment-519726 Share on other sites More sharing options...
RowdyRebel Posted January 2, 2023 Author Share Posted January 2, 2023 2 hours ago, Licensed to kill said: You may assume too much. The 2 B-61's that I bought from a guy a couple years ago were in his shed and to get TO his shed you would have to walk right past the house and there was NO indication that he even had those trucks in there. In fact, there was so much junk piled in the shed and on and around the trucks that cursory glance and they would net even been seen. However, I went and knocked on the door and asked about them. Of course I started the conversation with "I am told that you have a couple B-61 Macks . I understand that they re not for sale but thought you might know of someone else with one that might be". Maybe the guy that stopped and asked was TOLD by someone else that you had it there and came to check if it was for sale. At any rate, this thread I find disturbing on a few levels. One being that I am a STAUNCH supporter of gun ownership rights but when I hear someone state that they would threaten someone with a gun just for stopping and asking a question, well it gets difficult to argue with the anti gun crowd when you hear of things like that. Wasn't so much his asking as it was his attitude. I told him it wasn't for sale & he pushed, wanting to know what it would take for me to sell a truck I'd already told him wasn't for sale. He kept pushing when I told him it'd take more than he'd be willing to pay, wanting me to name a price. So I named my price & (as I anticipated) he wasn't willing to pay it. Then the way he said "That's too much" earned him the "Get the f*** out of here". Had he stuck around and kept pushing, I would've had to get more convincing about my desire to see him leave...which is where the .45 might have played a roll. How many times do you have to tell a trespasser to get gone before you think it's acceptable to make it unmistakably clear in a manner which drives home the point that they aren't welcome and need to get the f*** off your property? 2 Quote When approaching a 4-way stop, the vehicle with the biggest tires has the right of way! Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/70948-the-nerve-of-some-people/page/2/#findComment-519779 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Onyx610 Posted January 2, 2023 Share Posted January 2, 2023 4 minutes ago, RowdyRebel said: Wasn't so much his asking as it was his attitude. I told him it wasn't for sale & he pushed, wanting to know what it would take for me to sell a truck I'd already told him wasn't for sale. He kept pushing when I told him it'd take more than he'd be willing to pay, wanting me to name a price. So I named my price & (as I anticipated) he wasn't willing to pay it. Then the way he said "That's too much" earned him the "Get the f*** out of here". Had he stuck around and kept pushing, I would've had to get more convincing about my desire to see him leave...which is where the .45 might have played a roll. How many times do you have to tell a trespasser to get gone before you think it's acceptable to make it unmistakably clear in a manner which drives home the point that they aren't welcome and need to get the f*** off your property? That helps the story out a lot more haha. Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/70948-the-nerve-of-some-people/page/2/#findComment-519781 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Onyx610 Posted January 2, 2023 Share Posted January 2, 2023 (edited) Yea that guy can F off. Keep an eye for him now as he may be disgruntled about the whole situation and knowing he can’t have it. Like you said before, the whole situation is odd that he even knew it was there and possibly looked at it close enough to want to make an offer on it? Edited January 3, 2023 by Onyx610 Spelling Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/70948-the-nerve-of-some-people/page/2/#findComment-519783 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Hayseed Posted January 3, 2023 Popular Post Share Posted January 3, 2023 4 hours ago, Licensed to kill said: Quite frankly, the only way anyone would get close enough to it to know they'd be interested in buying it is if they were somewhere they didn't need to be. Just to Play Devils Advocate here.. maybe the Meter reader/Delivery guy/Utility worker Told Him about It..?? Having said that; Idjits that won't take NO for answer get on my Goat Too.. Had one here a while ago that right or wrong wanted to buy an Old Drop Deck Trailer I have sitting in the Yard. Him; How Much will you take for It..?? Me, Nothing It's NOT for sale. Him: Well What's It worth ?? Me: Nothing..!! Him: Well then, How much Does It owe You? Me: Absolutely Nothing...In Fact I owe It, Just about everything you can see here has been paid for with it's Earnings..!! What Part of NO Don't you understand..!! 3 1 Quote "Be who you are and say what you feel...Because those that matter...don't mind...And those that mind....don't matter." - Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/70948-the-nerve-of-some-people/page/2/#findComment-519790 Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Rubber Duck 006 Posted January 3, 2023 Share Posted January 3, 2023 I agree with Licensed to Kill on this one. Even if someone gives alil attitude it's still would be no reason for me to pull out a gun on them. I live in the country and I don't like people snooping around my land but I ain't gonna pull my 12ga on them just for Stopping and asking a question and giving me alil attitude in the process. Best bet would be to post No trespassing signs along with Not for sale signs etc. And yes I have a reputation with our local law enforcement as well on how I conduct myself when it comes to my property and my parents property etc. Cops I don't have a clue who they are all know me. 1 Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/70948-the-nerve-of-some-people/page/2/#findComment-519861 Share on other sites More sharing options...
storkmack Posted January 4, 2023 Share Posted January 4, 2023 We always joke that we should put a toll booth in at the driveway at the yard. Strangers in and out all the time. We should prolly shut the gates but then people may think we have something worth stealing 1 Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/70948-the-nerve-of-some-people/page/2/#findComment-519931 Share on other sites More sharing options...
mechohaulic Posted January 4, 2023 Share Posted January 4, 2023 in todays sad world , can't ever let your guard down. this yard things are locked and covered. doesn't have to be a delivery driver or stranger who come in the yard. could be the guy in a coffee shop, etc sitting near listening to a conversation from someone couple seats over talking about your stuff that has the negative ideas. darn sad there are scum that read the obits in the paper seeing when the funerals are knowing no one home and time to rob the house. 1 Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/70948-the-nerve-of-some-people/page/2/#findComment-519932 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post RowdyRebel Posted January 21, 2023 Author Popular Post Share Posted January 21, 2023 Happened again. Answered a knock on the door and it was another dumbass wanting to buy my truck. Told him it's not for sale, NOTHING around here is, that I'm getting tired of dip$#¡ts like him showing up thinking it might be, and that he needs to get the f*** off my property. Walked back inside & the look on my mother-in-law's face was priceless.😂 2 1 3 Quote When approaching a 4-way stop, the vehicle with the biggest tires has the right of way! Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/70948-the-nerve-of-some-people/page/2/#findComment-523487 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Mark T Posted January 21, 2023 Popular Post Share Posted January 21, 2023 Maybe you could try putting an Amway sign up. That's often enough to keep people away, or Mona Via 1 2 Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/70948-the-nerve-of-some-people/page/2/#findComment-523490 Share on other sites More sharing options...
other dog Posted January 23, 2023 Share Posted January 23, 2023 On 1/21/2023 at 5:24 PM, Mark T said: Maybe you could try putting an Amway sign up. That's often enough to keep people away, or Mona Via I know people in Florida who have the ADT Home Security sign displayed in the front yard. That's all, just the sign. But I have a Ring Camera sign on the shed door. We got a Ring camera for Christmas one year, but it didn't work. We called Ring security and found it was a refurbished unit that was still registered to the old number and they claimed they couldn't change it. So I just stuck the sticker on the door anyway, don't remember what I did with the camera. Quote Producer of poorly photo-chopped pictures since 1999. Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/70948-the-nerve-of-some-people/page/2/#findComment-523634 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joey Mack Posted January 23, 2023 Share Posted January 23, 2023 True that, O.D. I have ADT, 14 years now.. I was given 4 signs with it.. I gave two of my signs to neighbors, and to this day they still have them out front of their houses... But don't have the service 1 Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/70948-the-nerve-of-some-people/page/2/#findComment-523635 Share on other sites More sharing options...
tjc transport Posted January 23, 2023 Share Posted January 23, 2023 i have this on the front door: anyone that knocks on the door are asked "can you forking read" then i slam the door in their face before they can say anything. and then call the police and report them for soliciting without a permit........which is a BIG fine in my town. 1 Quote when you are up to your armpits in alligators, it is hard to remember you only came in to drain the swamp.. Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/70948-the-nerve-of-some-people/page/2/#findComment-523637 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joey Mack Posted January 23, 2023 Share Posted January 23, 2023 Well that's a nice way of putting it.. I put up no trespassing signs one year on my 400 foot long road side fence, and one of my neighbors got pissed at me and shot two of them a bunch of times with his BB gun.. The law man told me there was nothing they could do about it.. This same neighbor shot my shop 3 times last fall, and the law man told me the same thing.. And I said to him,. Well it wasn't me who shot holes into my shop that earns my living.. He said he needed proof... This neighbor has vandalized my property 6 times in ten years,. Same story from the law man every time.. anyway... Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/70948-the-nerve-of-some-people/page/2/#findComment-523638 Share on other sites More sharing options...
RowdyRebel Posted January 23, 2023 Author Share Posted January 23, 2023 58 minutes ago, Joey Mack said: Well that's a nice way of putting it.. I put up no trespassing signs one year on my 400 foot long road side fence, and one of my neighbors got pissed at me and shot two of them a bunch of times with his BB gun.. The law man told me there was nothing they could do about it.. This same neighbor shot my shop 3 times last fall, and the law man told me the same thing.. And I said to him,. Well it wasn't me who shot holes into my shop that earns my living.. He said he needed proof... This neighbor has vandalized my property 6 times in ten years,. Same story from the law man every time.. anyway... I was out in the driveway wrenching on the Suburban several years ago...had the intake manifold off doing something (can't remember what). Anyway, I'd hear a shotgun blast...then I'd hear the little lead pellets raining down on my roof, vehicles, etc. So, I jumped on the Harley & took off toward where the shots were coming from. Start to pull into a driveway to head back by some grain bins (where the shots seemed to be coming from) and an old man steps out of the house onto the porch & asks if he can help me. I not-so-politely informed him that whoever was doing the shooting was doing so in my direction, and that I didn't appreciate the lead shower they were bestowing upon me...and that if it continued I'd be returning fire, but it sure as hell wouldn't be birdshot coming their way. Shooting stopped & I've never had that problem again.👍 2 Quote When approaching a 4-way stop, the vehicle with the biggest tires has the right of way! Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/70948-the-nerve-of-some-people/page/2/#findComment-523644 Share on other sites More sharing options...
mowerman Posted January 24, 2023 Share Posted January 24, 2023 I was thinking this is the home of Jehovah witnesses that I get rid of all of them… Bob Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/70948-the-nerve-of-some-people/page/2/#findComment-523675 Share on other sites More sharing options...
tjc transport Posted January 24, 2023 Share Posted January 24, 2023 until you get a bunch of Jehovah's see the sign and swamp you as a "safe place" 1 Quote when you are up to your armpits in alligators, it is hard to remember you only came in to drain the swamp.. Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/70948-the-nerve-of-some-people/page/2/#findComment-523678 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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