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Rats and snakes
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
I’m going to Raleigh to see my 22-year old daughter Lindsay. I don’t get to see her nearly as much as I would like but thanks to e-mail I can keep up with her latest cause. Linds champions many causes and is a natural activist. Her latest cause had to do with the way rats were treated in the pet stores. Ironically, when she called to tell me that she was protesting this particular pet store, I was holding the phone in one hand and the snake’s dinner, by the tail, in the other. I didn’t say a word to her about it.
We got a lot of responses to last night’s TV spot on our man Mr. David Allen Newton who’s posing as a wealthy guy looking to relocate. He’s here looking at homes in the $1.5 million neighborhood. He likes to check the attic, basement, and master bedroom closet very closely. He got a $5000 necklace early last month so he may be lying low for the moment.
It does bring up some awareness issues with a declining real-estate market and the need to sell a home to make some money. Real estate companies have very good guidelines and standards for showing houses to clients.
This guy specifically requested to see homes shown by only one female agent. He saw a bunch of homes through several agents but so far the only documented crime we have is the theft of the necklace. I think that most if not all agents record some info on clients including tag numbers and sometimes driver’s licenses. They also let other agents know where they are at all times when they are showing homes.
This guy had a flaw though. He said he’s a fat-cat from New Jersey and flew down on his plane but showed up in an older car. Aside from Ted Turner, who used to drive an old Toyota way back when, most younger folks (he’s 48) like the new and nicer cars. This guy’s car was a 2005 Honda Accord; nice car but not the first choice of guys who own their own big airplanes.
The other thing about this guy is that he looks like a goober. Some Internet millionaires have that goober look but sometimes the look can make you question things. Don’t be afraid to do that. Bottom line I guess is to try and verify everything you can.
My youngest son and future millionaire (he’s only 15, girls) has his account in a bank, in Cumming, that was robbed earlier in the week. The bad guy walked in, robbed the bank, walked out of the bank and got on his bicycle and rode it over near the Publix where the dye-pack exploded. He’s red now if you see him. A couple of years ago we had a bank robber, who I wrote about, who was the most ill-prepared robber I can recall. He had tight jeans so the money he took filled his pockets so fast he had no other place to put it. He left a trail of money, alongside the woods, leading towards his car. According to the blue dye all over the place and the witnesses, he was about to get in the car when the dye-pack exploded. It blew out his pockets and most likely burned his legs. The witnesses said the blue man limped to the car and drove away slow enough for them to get his tag.
Ya’ll have a good weekend. With any luck I’ll be protesting something like more parking places downtown or forcing fancy coffee stores to sell coffees in flavors that we can pronounce. I’m packing my “Free James Brown” T-shirt.
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By WTF
November 9, 2007 11:48 AM | Link to this
Free James Brown? James is about as free as any soul can get! Dead.
As for the “wealthy” home buyer, the first red flag was him requesting to see homes shown by one female agent! Sounds like a rapist to me, and even if not that, that’s deifinitely cause for alarm! And when I read about the 05 Honda Accord, I was done. That alone should have let them know he was “perpetrating a fraud”!!! Come on now……
By Bre
November 9, 2007 2:58 PM | Link to this
Do you have any idea how much commission you can get for the sale of a million dollar home? A LOT. Some agents are just money hungry with no regards for their safety.All they see is $$$$$$$
By Debra Jenkins
November 10, 2007 12:02 PM | Link to this
Speaking of rats, I had one in my garage. This packrat would steal the cheese off of mousetraps and leave a turd or a dead cockroach in it’s place. Yeah, I was getting peeved and had many nervous breakdowns requiring intense psychotherapy.
Anyway, I figured it was time I struck back. After I read Officer Steve Rose’s column today, I placed an entire baggie of Boars Head American Cheese in the garage. I only had to wait five minutes when the dye-pack exploded. So if anyone sees a purple mouse eating purple cheese, call me. I’ve got a bone to pick with a rat.
By Glenda
November 11, 2007 6:12 AM | Link to this
I saw a snake eat a mouse once, but that was during a lap dance in vegas. It reminded me of my prom night in high school. I guess I’ll never understand the animal kingdom. Do gerbils have proms?
By Joseph
November 11, 2007 7:48 PM | Link to this
People who own snakes and feed them live animals for fun are dirty evil perverts. I hope you don’t fancy yourself a Christian, cause either way if you keep torturing innocent animals you’re going to Hades when you pass on.
By Rob Smith
November 11, 2007 8:58 PM | Link to this
Take a look at this article in The Miami Herald and see if someone with Red Rock Global should be going to jail. Or if Michael Tabb, Tyrone Rachal or David Sweet should lose their Real Estate Licenses…
Miami Herald Link… Poverty Peddlers Series ! http://www.miamiherald.com/multimedia/news/povped/part7/index.html
By chris broe
November 12, 2007 5:55 AM | Link to this
I just realized how to commit the perfect bank heist: Train giant boa constrictors to enter bank vaults and swallow whole $50K packs of dough (about the size of a large rat), and then have them just slither back to your house, like homing pigeons. It…..could…….work!
Disclaimer: do not try this at home. Bank Robberies are for trained professionals. Serious injury or jail time could result in any attempt to make unauthorized withdrawals from any financial institution. Death penalty is possible in Dubais, Sri Lanka, and Syria. Hand amputation is possible in Turkey, Pakistan and Litchenstein. Eye gouging is mandatory in Iran, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon and Grenada. Waterboarding, cigarette torture, 50 lashes with a cat-o-nine tails, being tied to a yardarm, keelhauled and stabbed is getting off lightly in China, Russia, N. Korea, Switzerland and Peru.
The idea to steal money was strictly a hypothetical and no conspiracy was meant or proffered. This disclaimer is void where prohibited by lynch mobs, marshall law, posses run amok, and roving bands of renegade shia militia.
Have a nice day.
By Lex Luthor
November 12, 2007 1:52 PM | Link to this
Set that alarm. Put a motion detector in your garage. Don’t rely on door, glass-break, or window sensors alone.
I don’t have a garage, but someone tried to enter my house twice last week from my open car port. They got past the door sensor, but the motion detector watching the room caught them. Twice. The second attempt six minutes after the first one. Nothing was gone. Appearantly loud alarm sounders are just a good a lights at running off rodents.
Now if I can get the AJC to quit throwing their “free” papers into my yard when I’m on vacation then that crap might have not even happened.