@P.G.:
About 8 ounces… NOT black powder… Enclosed space (concrete) walls. Details in person only.
@GallopingCamel:
In my home town, someone would likely have been met at the exit from the FIRST house with the muzzle of a gun…
I had a rental house there for a while. The whole place is about 2 miles across, with a couple of extra miles of ‘lead in’ along the highway. When I’d drive up, the tenant would come meet me at the door, having been told of my car entering town by a local with a phone… One of the downsides of a small town You can’t spit without it being the topic of gossip for 2 days… So someone “unknown” or “unlikely to belong” bringing something out of a house? I’d give ‘em about 2 minutes to “cops arrive” and / or “neighbor on porch with shotgun”… At least, ‘back in the day’…
We had road side fruit stands too. Open box. Sometimes a sign like “$2 / bag for peaches” or whatever. Occasionally still see one. (Saw one down south of Gilroy a few months back). House in the background about 1/4 mile away with view of the box, though…
The place isn’t completely shot to hell yet ;-)
I left a bike on the driveway once for a couple of days. Never moved. Went away for a long weekend. Garage with tools and stuff in it. Hit the door close on the remote, but didn’t hang around to watch. “Something” was in the way, so the door closed, almost, then re-opened. Came back 3 days later to wide open garage (and figured it out…) with not a thing touched. I like my neighborhood ;-) Occasionally we’ve had times when things were not the best (and a similar garage door open had a box of cheap tools ‘go walkies’ right after the ‘poor gardeners’ did the house 2 doors down… and we were gone.) But most of the time it’s very comfortable…
Atlas Shrugged sounds pretty good. I couldn’t finish the book, so been planning on the movie. Like completion, though, so likely will do it ‘all in one go’ on DVD when part 3 is out…
