THAT WAS AWSOME !@ except for the panhandling at the end.

Dear Clumsy

You are wrong about my joke! I have tested it empirically with great success against all demographics that I encounter. It's a real winner. Even the Hutterites, Sir! Even the Hutterites.

No, I did not return one more time to your limp over-boiled mush to hear the Beatles, when I knew perfectly well that the Grateful Dead were still loitering there, panhandling for a vote in that tang of unwashed arrogance, and those "notes" that dribble on and on without ever a hope for clarity, or the slightest spark of anything that isn't wormlike and low. A sense of honour and the Terms of Service, my good boy. There's your explanation.

Leaving well enough alone is what that steaming lot of degenerates should have done back in the mid sixties, after their second try at their instruments.

As far as the single vote goes that belongs to me; an oversight, I ahshooooor you!

Pips

Dashcam video by Richardson police shows bullets from high-powered rifles flying through the window of a police cruiser, as the so-called Takeover Bandits made their getaway following a bank robbery on 11/04/2004.

Richardson officers responded to a call that the American First National Bank at 400 N. Greenville Ave. was being robbed. They caught up with the fleeing suspects and began a chase that took them north on Central Expressway and into Plano.

The video from one vehicle shows an officer attempting to follow the suspects' getaway car on to the highway when the suspect vehicle suddenly veers back onto the service road and unleashes a storm of bullets, shattering the rear window of their car and piercing the front of the police cruiser.

Another dashcam view from several minutes later in the chase shows the suspects, who by now had abandoned their first vehicle and stolen another, slamming into a pole at the intersection of Jupiter and Summit in East Plano.

The suspects jump out of the car, grab what appears to be some bags from the vehicle, and continue shooting at Richardson and Plano police officers.

Police: Lack of assault weapons results in disadvantage
Amazingly, no officers were shot; only one officer suffered minor injuries from flying glass.

One of the suspects in the robbery, 31-year-old Guadalupe Fajardo, turned himself in to authorities in the Panhandle town of Slayton, where he was apparently visiting relatives. Fajardo was transported back to North Texas Monday afternoon.

FBI is asking for the public's help to find the third member of the "takeover bandits." A $50,000 reward is being offered for information leading to the arrest of 22-year-old Ramon Gavina.

Gavina's brother, Roberto Gavina, was arrested earlier during an FBI raided an apartment complex in the 3700 block of Gus Thomasson in Dallas.

Update: March 14, 2005

DALLAS -- The third member of a violent gang of bank robbers responsible for 60 armed robberies and a shootout with Richardson, Texas, police has been arrested in Mexico, police said Monday.

Ramone Gavina, 22, believed to be part of the "Takeover" Bandits, was taken into custody by Mexican authorities on a charge unrelated to the bank robberies in North Texas. Mexican police released Gavina before realizing he was wanted in the United States. Police later rearrested Gavina.

Police said Gavina and the other members of the Takeover Bandits escaped Richardson police Nov. 4 during a gun battle that disabled five police cars while fleeing from a bank robbery.

brycewi19 asked me for clarification on my downvote:

My downvote because a) not funny b) not specific

a) the guy is incredibly ignorant about what brings someone on the street. Fine, it's funny from an ignorant rich capitalist perspective, and I'll chuckle, but at him and not with him.
I mean who doesn't say 'get a job', but these are kids who have parents who either beat them, or are alcoholics, or they're on drugs and don't know better. Those who say "get a job" - would they be the one to give them one? Do they have the skills to get a job, let alone deal with the societal and family problems they have?

No, because they're kids. Why aren't these kids in school? Single mother can hardly keep them under control when they're working 12 hours a day. You don't have to work with runaways or those on the street to know. They're can be your friends and family. Or my friends and familyh.

Spend a minute and talk with them. If you think they're lying or tricking you, give them a sandwich or a drink, and you'll be able to tell.

This idiot's propagating that it's the kids' problems, and not ours as a society.

b) Panhandling - Scotland - The devil.
Stick to one subject when posting. Not always possible, I grant, but it's not television, it's the sift.

I don't await to be proven wrong or have my opinion debated. It's mine. And one I expect to hold alone among 12 who can get this sifted.

LOL!! You need 17 inches of rain and your almighty and good God sent you one; thats like giving a panhandler a single penny.

Oh the irony that I must *beg for a Money themed clip... I feel like a placer miner Gold panhandling.

giving them ice cream is what started this panhandling in the first place! though that may not be a deterrent considering how cute it makes them. bleh. darn cute raccoons.

From their website:
Every year, hundreds of professional beekeepers forklift their wooden hives onto 18-wheel semis, strap down the loads, and head out on the highway.

Across the country - from the Imperial Valley in California to the Florida panhandle and the hills of Maine – farmers rely on honeybees to pollinate crops worth $15 billion every year.

But parasites, pesticides, and modern agricultural practices are making it harder and harder for beekeepers to keep their bees alive, and the crisis could affect what shows up on all of our dinner tables.

I only ever bought one pack of Gaulloises. They are, without a doubt, the harshest, most vicious cigarettes I've ever been on one side of.

Consider, if you will: smoking broken glass, thumbtacks, and barbed wire. On fire.

I gave up on the pack after three and carried two packs for a month afterward, happily giving them away to panhandlers. Yeah, I'm kind of a dick like that.

"The Red Pony" movie shows a "cleaned up" version of America's Nazi salute from 1949 (well after WWII was over). http://rexcurry.net/pledge2.html In the film, the Pledge is being distanced as the source of the salute of the National Socialist German Workers' Party, as exposed by the historian Dr. Rex Curry (author of "Pledge of Allegiance Secrets"). http://rexcurry.net/pledge-allegiance-pledge-allegiance.jpg The government and its government schools (socialist schools) were effective in their propaganda to cover up their truth about the Pledge even in the cinema. Even so, the film "The Red Pony" (1949) does it poorly, as it continues to show the mechanical chanting in unison, in military formation, on command in socialist schools. Note that even the original military salute (the initial salute) appears to have been dropped (the military salute was extended out and thus led to the classic palm-down stiff-arm salute). Also in this fictional film version, the arms are kept low. The arms are so low that the children are begging for handouts from their socialist government, like panhandlers asking for spare change. It fits with the National Socialist dogma of Francis Bellamy (the Pledge's author), Edward Bellamy (his cousin) and the socialist Wholecaust (of which the Holocaust was a part): the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (~60 million slaughtered), the Peoples' Republic of China (~50 million slaughtered), and the National Socialist German Workers Party (~20 million slaughtered).

I DARE you to find a single citation in any Universal Building Code that describes such a requirement for implosion. I don't know where you're doing YOU'RE research but I don't consider things like "loose change" to be any more reputable than the raving madman that panhandles down the street.

looks like he didn't get completely ignored. and to be fair, perhaps violin isn't exactly the best attention getting instrument in a place frequented by panhandlers and street musicians who play a livelier tune.

No problem, fletch, I've been at the bottom of a pile before.

Perhaps you didn't see the Winky after "I see many votes." It was a joke. As for the methods used in this film, I agree they are panhandling to New Ageism through historical mysticism with nothing more but a new spin on Peale's book, but hey...it certainly worked for Byrne's dreams of success, hmmm?

I certainly don't believe that you can think yourself into health or success the way this film describes. I do however, think that you can have a powerful affect on your life with positive thoughts. My mother woke every day as if she had a chance to make it good, and it was. I definitely think that you can attract negativism if you constantly complain, and that negativism is a huge stressor on the human psyche. I avoid negativism (and sometimes even controversy) at almost all costs: I just don't waste my time dwelling on the negative aspects of every day situations or events. I certainly don't take all this as far as The Secret people do, I just know that I can control a very large part of my psyche, even my life, by harnassing positive energy. Generally I just choose to be happy and make it good. And for the most part...it works.