Meanwhile in Texas... (2 Viewers)

John, not sure if I'm a bit weird for even checking this {sm2} but it is good to see you keep your fuel ⛽️ topped up even though you've done less than 100 miles between posts!

I'm more a 'run on vapours' kind of guy but it's about a days pay 💰 to fill my tank in the UK.

That's a petrol tank.....I don't drive a tank {sm4}
 
simmo said:
John, not sure if I'm a bit weird for even checking this {sm2} but it is good to see you keep your fuel ⛽️ topped up even though you've done less than 100 miles between posts!

I'm more a 'run on vapours' kind of guy but it's about a days pay 💰 to fill my tank in the UK.

That's a petrol tank.....I don't drive a tank {sm4}
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Simmo,

Ha Ha thats a good one! Now that I think about it...I have never run out of gas in my life. I would never be "that guy" who is walking to and from the gas station with a gas can in hand and in this heat HELL NAW!

John from Texas

PS: Regular gas here is $1.89...you?
 
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Panzer ace said:
Since I live in both Texas and the Bay Area I like to compare the two on many different levels. So just as John has listed some "news" from the Texas Monthly I found this information from the Atherton Dispatch (a local free paper in Menlo Park and Atherton CA) interesting:

Police Blotter:

July 7: A garbage receptacle was left in front of a residence overnight.

Please note that was the only thing listed in the police blotter for July.
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Panzer,

Man...call the militia!

John from Texas
 
lancer said:
#2 on the list makes me wish that the death penalty could be applied to being 'terminally stupid'. Just unbelievable. -- Al
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Lancer,

Yeah man, that one is just hideous. Ugh!

John from Texas
 
hotel3alpha said:
Simmo,

Ha Ha thats a good one! Now that I think about it...I have never run out of gas in my life. I would never be "that guy" who is walking to and from the gas station with a gas can in hand and in this heat HELL NAW!

John from Texas

PS: Regular gas here is $1.89...you?
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:(:( about $7 a gallon although we measure petrol in litres........for now anyway. Might go back to gallons after Brexit. Who knows? :confused:
 
All,

In today's news from MySA.com:

"A vessel harboring 3,800 pounds of cocaine tied to drug cartels was recovered by the U.S. Coast Guard near Texas on Nov. 13, according to a release from U.S. Customs and Border Protection.
The drugs were found in a self-propelled, semi-submersible vessel, which is a low-profile vessel designed to navigate lower in the water to avoid detection."

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Full story here:

http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/houston-texas/texas/article/Vessel-3-800-pounds-cocaine-Coast-Guard-Texas-12424222.php#photo-14689961

John from Texas
 
John...

WOW!!!!

that is a MAJOR SEIZURE!!!

I wonder what the street value is on that?

there is a very interesting series on The National Geographic...
it's called Border Wars...

It is an American documentary television series on the National Geographic Channel. The program follows agents of the U.S. Border Patrol (USBP), U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), and other divisions of the Department of Homeland Security as they investigate and apprehend illegal immigrants, drug smugglers, and other criminals violating immigration laws.
the cartels are both innovative and ingenious in planning ways to get their drugs across the border...
and get their money back...

the customs agents and ICE match wits with them and it's flat out crazy...

the Border Custom's agent have all kinds of technology from X-ray machines for 18 wheelers to density testers to check for anomalies...
they have 70 year old grandmothers smuggling meth...cocaine...marijuana and money...
pregnant women...people with fake ID's...
it's fascinating how they try to hide the drugs or money...

you should give it a watch if you get time...

it's not unusual to see them confiscate a million dollars in cash in any episode...
and they say that is just a drop in the bucket...

a lot of the episodes deal with illegal immigrants trying to sneak in...
which I don't think our friends to the North realize what an issue this is...
but you in San Antonio are surely aware of...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Border_Wars_(TV_series)
 
Mike,

Thanks for the call! It is always great to hear from you brother. I am checking to find out the value of a pound of the white stuff is from some brothers in the PD. We'll take that number times 3800 lbs and see if it is time to start sub hunting in the Gulf of Mexico.

John you neighbor
 
Mike,

Okay, I was right when I said about 15K a pound...at least that's what vice just told me. Okay so lets see:

$15 x 3800 pounds = $57,000,000 million

minus some gas and tacos for the trip.

****...that is a lot of cash. Got a boat Mike? Wanna be a pirate?

Oh and another thing USPS is the #1 shipper of cash and Marijojuana in the US. 2nd is FEDEX. 3rd is Amtrak.


John down the street.
 
hotel3alpha said:
Mike,

that is a lot of cash. Got a boat Mike? Wanna be a pirate?
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no...no....no...no...noooooooooooo!!!!

I'm to pretty to go to prison...^&grin...

you know what they would do to me if I got locked up...

Mikey don't play that...
 
John...
I think the price you are getting is retail in bulk...

a whopping $150.000.00 is the street value...
this is for a kilo (US 2.2 lbs.)...
so about $75,000.00 for a pound...
read this quote from the article link...


To produce a kilogram (2.2 pounds) of pure cocaine requires about a ton of fresh coca leaf, Wainwright told Business Insider. "It then gets dried out, it weighs a bit less, but that ton of leaf to start with costs only about $400 or $500 in Colombia," he said.

Farmers who process that coca leaf into a base paste and then sell that to traffickers can get about $900 a kilo, an Associated Press report earlier this year found.

Once that paste is turned into cocaine and shipped north, it can fetch between $10,000 and $20,000 a kilo, depending on where it arrives.

"Then, by the time it makes it to dealers, it's worth maybe more like $70,000, $80,000, and by the time they cut it into grams, sometimes dilute it, a pure kilo is worth equivalent of about $150,000, so the markup is gigantic," Wainwright said.

http://www.businessinsider.com/how-much-does-cocaine-cost-in-the-us-2016-10
 
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Blake is an interesting person, and known to always be the life of a party. Farenthold’s father, Randy, likewise “a rounder,” was murdered on the eve of his scheduled testimony in a fraud case. Randy’s upcoming appearance at trial apparently didn’t sit well with the defendant in the case, a psycho named Bass who rode herd over the local gambling concession. The state went easy on the gambler, as they didn’t have a particularly strong case. He was sentenced to ten years. Bass was shot dead 12 years to the day after Randy’s murder, having been released from the state penitentiary. The perp in this second case claimed self-defense, and the locals seemed somewhat relieved that a measure of proper justice had been meted out, the timing of the killing being lost on no one. Randy’s stepmother, Frances “Sissy” Farenthold, had her name put into the mix for the Dem’s VP nomination in 1972, but finished second in the roll-call vote to Thomas Eagleton. Ensuing developments suggest that the Democrats might have been better served had they given Sissy a closer look. I’m not sure what it all means, except that we have these three generations of A Texas family, each of them filthy rich, and every dime of it inherited.:rolleyes:

-Moe
 
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HI GENTS and LADIES!

Yes, it has been a while, but two elbow surgeries and one septum surgery over the summer put me down. I guess I am getting old or it's time for my life tune up (s). Anyway, thinking about y'all and thought I would send some funny everyone's way. I took this pic a last week when it was 90 degrees outside (see next pic)

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The last time I said "ay chiwawa" is when I opened up my property tax bill. But, for a taco joint I guess that is alright.

Oh, and today's temp in San Antonio:

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Did I mention I loathe the cold weather...and it is coming early.

John from Texas
 
Nice to see you posting again. Hope all is well after the surgeries. Chr
 
Terp152 said:
Nice to see you posting again. Hope all is well after the surgeries. Chr
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Brother,

The week AFTER the deviated septum surgery was worst than both elbows. You got these two bic pen tubes up your nose and it feels like they are in your brain. Anyway, the doc says "do get up too fast, don't sit down too fast, don't walk to fast, don't bend over, don't talk to fast, don't sneeze, cough, laugh, smile, breathe, fart...don't do nothing". So, your just laying around felling like some sort of creeped out flo naze victim breathing through your mouth. Anywho, those 7 days I had to wait until the splints were taken out were torture. When the doc took them out it was like...the smell of victory...a la Lt. Col Kilgore from Apocalypse Now.

Went yesterday for a follow up on my left elbow because, well it wasn't healing right. The doc checked it out and they left a bunch of stitches in there. For a moment I thought they were going to pull out Mike Millers moustache, but they cleared it out and gave me a band aid and said CYA.

Thanks for the well wishes!

John from Texas
 
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