Month: November 2021

When Ego is involved, the winner is…

… nobody

https://videos.gunfreezone.net/videos/watch/1b96eb22-5f46-4f61-9787-ec6c20070d4c

 

On Friday, November 5, Lubbock Police found Chad Read, 54, dead at a home in the 2100 block of 90th street. Police say through the initial course of the investigation, it appears there was a fight between Read and another man related to a domestic incident, and shots were fired.

Carruth’s now-ex-wife filed a countersuit in her divorce proceedings to exclude her ex-husband from their Lubbock home on 9th Street.

In the affidavit, according to the newspaper, Anne-Marie Carruth wrote she was “notified that my husband, William Kyle Carruth, is under investigation for the shooting and killing of his girlfriend’s children’s father after he attempted to pick up his children late Friday afternoon. My knowledge of the incident is very limited at this time, and it is my understanding that the police are still investigating.”

Court records connect Kyle Carruth to deadly shooting of Chad Read (kcbd.com)

One dead and the other probably on his way to prison.

And I believe that was a Ruger PC Carbine.

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Air tank improvement

A little while ago I bought a 5 gallon air tank for $5 at a yard sale.  The old Schrader valve manifold was dead so I made a new one for $15 worth of parts from Harbor Freight.

It is easily filled using a 1/4 inch connector from another air compressor.  The 1/4 inch female connector allows me to attach another air hose to connect a tire inflator or blower.

It is great for daisy chaining to an 8 gallon air compressor and making a 13 gallon compressor.

Recently a coworker was cleaning out his garage and gave me a 10 gallon air tank with a dead Schrader valve.  Another $15 in Harbor Freight parts and it’s been improved too.

Here are pictures:

What you need is a 1/2 to 1/4 inch NPT adapter, two 1/4 inch T-connectors, a 1/4 inch ball valve, 1/4 inch male and 1/4 inch female air hose connector.

One thing I use it for frequently is using this instead of canned air.  I’ll fill the 5 gallon one up and hook a short hose with blower nozzle on it and let the wife use it to clean her sewing machine.  Given the price of canned air, this paid for itself quickly.

Works like a charm.

If you come across an air tank like this at a yard sale on the cheap (I’ve seen a few), this is a worthwhile modification.

Hollywood Elites and anyone who defends big city crime can choke on a cat turd and go to hell

This unbelievable Twitter conversation:

Holy fucking shit.

Readers may remember that in June my truck was broken into in a hotel parking lot.

They garbage who did it popped the window with a crowbar and damaged the window frame.  They had to replace the entire door.

I had to pay a $500 deductible for the repair and it took a month to get it fixed.  Not kidding.  COVID and stimulus checks meant the insurance company approved body shop was low on workers and had a backlog of cars to do.

So, 15 times is $7,500 in deductibles, assuming that your insurance company doesn’t drop your coverage, and six months to a year of combined time driving around with a window covered in plastic.

For a guy should makes $8 million per movie, paying out of pocket for a new door plus having the interior detailed is barely an inconvenience.  It’s a bigger hassle for his personal assistant who has to handle the paperwork and get Rogan limo service in the meantime.

For a working or middle-class person, it’s a massive pain in the ass.

And yes, it is a feeling of being violated.  Even if you don’t see your car as an extension of yourself, to have someone damage your property means they damaged you and the work you put into acquiring that property.

To say “yeah, some scumbag broke in to your car but thats just the local flavor of a big city” is an obscenity that can only be uttered by someone ridiculously rich and out of touch.

Maybe Rogan will feel differently if his mansion was hit by one of those 80 person Nordstrom looting mobs, a property crime proportional to his $8 miller per fim wealth as a broken car window is to person making $800 a week.