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#197,741
Miles_ONeal said:
Too bad they didn’t take off. That’s good stuff.
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There were a lot of good local bands around my area back then. This one's great except for a bad splice, I played with this guitarist off and on during the 70's he was great. This band used to be the house band at a local teen club called The Comic Strip, they opened for all the big bands of the day, among many others The Young Rascals, Yardbirds during the short period when they had Jimmy Page on bass and Jeff Beck on guitar. He jammed with the two guitarists in the cellar dressing room, I asked him what they thought of him, he said "Huh? I think they thought I was this fat young kid" :laugh:




These guys almost went national but nope.

 
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#197,744
Engle said:
It’s true that locks only stop honest people, but while the box @JIO installed could be defeated by a number of methods, it does take the package out of sight and stop the opportunist thief.
Security is never absolute, but you can add layers.
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This is my thinking - it's a deterrent. (and the box is bolted to the wall) My entry is in plain sight and there's lots of activity/traffic every day. If it was more secluded/un-exposed it could lead to the described lock-picking or physical force. The advantageous 'porch pirate' see's an exposed package, walks up, grabs it and walks off with it - it's a hit and run operation. I may go the route of having something delivered to a facility, but for day-to-day package delivery I think this will be sufficient to thwart an easy steal. It's already worked over the last couple of weeks since I installed it.

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#197,746
GonePlaid said:
Perhaps a camouflaged Go-Pro activated by the opening of the lid?
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Security cameras will film the thief - and then what? When I lived in Pacifica my motorcycle was knocked over in broad daylight and caught on a security camera down the street. It showed my neighbors (a couple) who lived across the street attempting to right it after they (being bad drivers) knocked it over with their car. It clearly showed their car, but you couldn't read the license plate. I made a police report and sent them the footage. They might have visited them and asked if they did it and because nothing was ever done about it, I'll assume they played dumb and that was that. It would have been the same if I approached them - their word against mine. Another example, a good friend had his pu truck (parked in front of their house) bolted tool box broken into and expensive power tools stollen in the middle of the night. It was caught on a security camera showing grainy silhouettes doing their hit & run. No use other than (barely) seeing what happened.

I'll get Q on it... he'll come up with something involving smoke and spreading slippery oil on the landing along with a loud siren so the thief falls down our long stairway when he try's to run away.
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JIO said:
Security cameras will film the thief - and then what? When I lived in Pacifica my motorcycle was knocked over in broad daylight and caught on a security camera down the street. It showed my neighbors (a couple) who lived across the street attempting to right it after they (being bad drivers) knocked it over with their car. It clearly showed their car, but you couldn't read the license plate. I made a police report and sent them the footage. They might have visited them and asked if they did it and because nothing was ever done about it, I'll assume they played dumb and that was that. It would have been the same if I approached them - their word against mine. Another example, a good friend had his pu truck (parked in front of their house) bolted tool box broken into and expensive power tools stollen in the middle of the night. It was caught on a security camera showing grainy silhouettes doing their hit & run. No use other than (barely) seeing what happened.

I'll get Q on it... he'll come up with something involving smoke and spreading slippery oil on the landing along with a loud siren so the thief falls down our long stairway when he try's to run away.
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DON"T DO THAT! He/she will sue and you'll support them for the rest of their miserable life. Better a phaser that zaps them outta existence.
Mainly I figured on photo-ing the driver.
 
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GonePlaid said:
DON"T DO THAT! He/she will sue and you'll support them for the rest of their miserable life. Better a phaser that zaps them outta existence.
Mainly I figured on photo-ing the driver.
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Well, once the thief tumbles down the stairs, a truck (that looks like an ambulance) pulls up, carries the thief inside and drives to the top of Devil's Slide on HW1 just south of Pacific and sends it over the slide "Toonces" style.

 
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#197,751
JIO said:
1.8-liter inline-4 paired with a 4-speed manual transmission - twin SU carburetors

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That's a Volvo? It could be almost any British car from that era. I had a 1954 Triumph and a 1973 MG. Both had motors that looked like that for the most part. The engine paint was a different color, or maybe no engine paint. I don't remember now. The engine bays were different, but many of the details were the same. All the mechanical noise from those engines was great.
 
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Engle said:
It’s true that locks only stop honest people, but while the box @JIO installed could be defeated by a number of methods, it does take the package out of sight and stop the opportunist thief.
Security is never absolute, but you can add layers.
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Yep. The goal of security isn't to make something absolutely secure, it is to discourage the malefactor, to make other assets more attractive targets, and make things suitably difficult that it takes longer to defeat the security than the expected detection time.
 
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OT :laugh: but I have owned many basses over the years and have found the NR Bird to be the most satisfying bass I've ever owned so far. I love the neck, it's not a thin neck by any means but I LOVE the 12" radius, it makes it very easy and inviting to play all up and down the neck. It's also very even up and down with no dead spots, I love the placement of the neck pickup, very warm and deep but has a lot of presence. Both pickups blend very well too. I've been playing this 90% of the time since I got it and am discovering more and more how to get the best out of it. It also sounds really good with a flannel mute.
 
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bobyoung53 said:
OT :laugh: but I have owned many basses over the years and have found the NR Bird to be the most satisfying bass I've ever owned so far. I love the neck, it's not a thin neck by any means but I LOVE the 12" radius, it makes it very easy and inviting to play all up and down the neck. It's also very even up and down with no dead spots, I love the placement of the neck pickup, very warm and deep but has a lot of presence. Both pickups blend very well too. I've been playing this 90% of the time since I got it and am discovering more and more how to get the best out of it. It also sounds really good with a flannel mute.
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Oh one more thing, the neck and fretwork is so good I'm able to really lower the action using 105 Rotos with virtually no fret buzz and I'm not a light player. The neck is almost set flat too with just a hair of relief. I'm very happy with this bass.
 
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JIO said:
Security cameras will film the thief - and then what? When I lived in Pacifica my motorcycle was knocked over in broad daylight and caught on a security camera down the street. It showed my neighbors (a couple) who lived across the street attempting to right it after they (being bad drivers) knocked it over with their car. It clearly showed their car, but you couldn't read the license plate. I made a police report and sent them the footage. They might have visited them and asked if they did it and because nothing was ever done about it, I'll assume they played dumb and that was that. It would have been the same if I approached them - their word against mine. Another example, a good friend had his pu truck (parked in front of their house) bolted tool box broken into and expensive power tools stollen in the middle of the night. It was caught on a security camera showing grainy silhouettes doing their hit & run. No use other than (barely) seeing what happened.

I'll get Q on it... he'll come up with something involving smoke and spreading slippery oil on the landing along with a loud siren so the thief falls down our long stairway when he try's to run away.
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Poison darts with a slow acting poison. Put out public notices that you have the antidote and it is available for the price of a suitable act of contrition (return of the goods).
 
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Gaolee said:
That's a Volvo? It could be almost any British car from that era. I had a 1954 Triumph and a 1973 MG. Both had motors that looked like that for the most part. The engine paint was a different color, or maybe no engine paint. I don't remember now. The engine bays were different, but many of the details were the same. All the mechanical noise from those engines was great.
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I know! I loved the way my 122s sounded. When I bought it from the Dr, it had oil blow-by issues and I found a guy who lived outside of town (KC/MO) on a farm who rebuilt the engine. (for a really fair price - this was 1976) While the engine was out of the bay, I cleaned and re-sprayed it - it looks like new. When I picked it up and turned the key - the sound was glorious! I used to get offers on that car all the time.
 
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