Random Thoughts Thread

[BurningDoom]

This is not a challenge, but I bet shoplifting a Christmas tree in broad daylight would be pretty damned difficult.

The irony of stealing a Christmas tree.

[Luke]

This is not a challenge, but I bet shoplifting a Christmas tree in broad daylight would be pretty damned difficult.

Considering I knew a guy in high school that stole a surf board out of a mall store, I wouldn't put it past anyone.

Unfortunately stealing from a mall* is as easy as picking a booger. I'd imagine that stealing a X-Mas tree would be as difficult as stealing a car off a lot.

*I have never shoplifted, but around Junior and Senior year in high school it became a "thing" with a bunch of my friends. Only a few got caught, and the biggest snags included jewelry. Most jewelry cases in department stores are, or were, left unlocked, and they would easily reach over the case, slide the glass open and it was open season.

[prfsnl_gmr]

This is not a challenge, but I bet shoplifting a Christmas tree in broad daylight would be pretty damned difficult.

The irony of stealing a Christmas tree.

My mother-in-law and father-in-law woke up one morning last December and noticed that a small fir tree they had planted on their front lawn a few years earlier was missing. Since they live in Maine, they noticed footprints in the snow between the tree stump and the road. Apparently, someone - under the cover of night - walked across their law, sawed the tree down by hand, removed the wire and pole shaping the tree, and stole it, presumably for use as a Christmas tree.

They are both fine, charitable people, but the theft of a tree they had been cultivating for several years made them more than a little upset.

[Luke]

Why not?

[Hobie-wan]

My mother-in-law and father-in-law woke up one morning last December and noticed that a small fir tree they had planted on their front lawn a few years earlier was missing. Since they live in Maine, they noticed footprints in the snow between the tree stump and the road. Apparently, someone - under the cover of night - walked across their law, sawed the tree down by hand, removed the wire and pole shaping the tree, and stole it, presumably for use as a Christmas tree.

My parents live in a wooded area outside of town. Multiple times, people have bought the lots on either side of them, cleared a little,then not proceeded to actually build a house. My parents are fine with this as it grows back over and they get their privacy back and no next door neighbors.

Anyway, so about 10 years ago, someone had cleared the lot on the east side and had been out there with kids in the fall. Then a cheesily built coop that was way too small showed up with a turkey in it on the corner of the lot. The poor thing was there without a lot of room making noise for weeks. We figured they were fattening it up for Thanksgiving out in the rural area as they probably lived in a house or apartment in town. They'd come out on weekends, kids in tow to feed it and whatnot.

Thanksgiving passed and the turkey was still there. So we thought that the kids didn't want it to be eaten, but it was still stuck in the coop and being noisy all day. A week or two before Christmas it disappeared. My parents didn't notice them coming out for it or animal control visiting, so we think someone else relieved them of it in the middle of the night. There are lots of outdoorsy hunter people that live in that neighborhood.

[BoringSupreez]

I live in anticipation of the occasional three day weekend. Yet whenever I get one, I'm invariably bored by the third day.

[BurningDoom]

I bought one of those packs of cheapie common comics at the Dollar Tree the other day. One of the comics in it was Robotech: The Macross Saga #7:



Well, I've never been a Robotech fan, other than playing that crappy PS2 game (Robotech: Battlecry). So I just learned where Breetai's username came from by reading this.

[BoneSnapDeez]

Robotech is awesome. I have some of the mini-DVDs.

[Jmustang1968]

http://www.xojane.com/it-happened-to-me ... venge-porn

I found this quite fascinating. Notmally I am not a fan of Anonymous' tactics but they did good here.

[AppleQueso]

http://www.xojane.com/it-happened-to-me ... venge-porn

I found this quite fascinating. Normally I am not a fan of Anonymous' tactics but they did good here.

I don't know about attributing anything to Anonymous as if they were any sort of actually unified collective group, but yeah they do do positive things sometimes.

That was a nice read though, cathartic to hear of that guy getting a taste of his own medicine.

I find it disturbing that this guy had so many followers and lackeys. How fucking depraved do you have to be to get your kicks out of mocking and harassing people and trying to ruin lives for no good reason?