so what I see is no body lives in North Dakota. Well let me tell you

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Frodee

Frodee

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I live in a small town of Bisbee and drive to Cando every morning about 20 miles traffic jamb consist of ??? nothing. only one stop sign from home and work. when I take my old car to work it's slow and easy but on the way home it's to the floor but no traffic. last summer a cop pulled me over and said you were doing 80 in a 65 I told him i'm so glad you got me only doing 80 my speedometer was pegged at over 120 and was slowing down when you came over the hill.he told me well ok then have a nice day and let me go.when I do get a ticket for doing 10 over it cost me 20 bucks and go to the court house to pay it I know all the people there. yea so you think North Dakota is bad because we have cold winters. Iv'e never locked my house or shop when i'm gone... peace of mind is better than all the **** everyone calls warmer
 
mopar head said:
A full name. town, and state, and inform the country you leave your house unlocked is something you should consider NOT doing.
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but when i'm gone you have no idea what I leave behind
 
Fred Scigliano said:
...........yea so you think North Dakota is bad because we have cold winters. Iv'e never locked my house or shop when i'm gone... peace of mind is better than all the **** everyone calls warmer
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Hey Fred, we can get pretty darn cold around here too. But you're absolutely right about having to lock our doors. Once upon a time we were more trusting to the communities and could leave the house open. Over the years many have learned the hard way not to. Times have really changed around here. Then too, a lock only keeps honest people honest.
 
In my neighborhood, you can leave the doors unlocked and even the garage door open and nothing will ever likely happen.

Except for that one day when someone decides to start robbing. The last incident here was several years ago when a trio of thieves decided to go on a break-in spree across the county and smashed their way into two houses in the neighborhood. They threw large rocks through the glass slider doors on the rear of the house.

Interestingly, one of the houses had left the rear door unlocked. The thieves never even tried to open the door first, just tossed the rocks through. The other house had an alarm system that went off, but the robbers grabbed stuff anyway and went on their merry way.

They were caught a few weeks later. Turned out one of the houses they hit along the way in the county was the home of an FBI agent with inside cameras. He made sure they were ultimately captured.
 
When my wife was growing up in the '50's in Mexico, the townsfolk left their keys in the cars without any worries. When I was growing up in the '70's on an isolated cattle ranch, we left the keys in the vehicles for a completely different reason. We wanted any unwelcome strangers to take our cars and leave us alone. The reason:

The view outside our kitchen window at night were the lights of Soledad State Prison which was 4 or 5 miles straight away, with nothing between us and them but open land. This California Correctional Institution would give us a courtesy phone call whenever they discovered an escapee. Dad preferred the convicts take our car and try to further their escape rather than enter our home and mess with us some more. (One day Dad was out on the property and saw two guys driving down the frontage road on a tractor wearing overalls-got back to the house to find it was two escaped inmates).
 
That's the kind of place I want to live!

We moved to Rome, Georgia this past May to get further outside the Atlanta area. We live in a somewhat hidden neighborhood of 20 homes in the woods. While moving in, we left the garage door up for 5 hours by mistake. And the inside door was unlocked also. Nothing out of place. I think it's a safe place, but I always lock by car doors and house doors just in case. We're close enough to town that any crack head could find it and need money.
 
I don't lock my doors at home, sleep with the windows open (when it ain't as cold as a well diggers *** outside), never lock my shop and leave my keys in the car.

That said, if you're here and I don't know you, most likely a gunshot will be the last thing you hear.
 
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Daves69 said:
Hey Fred, we can get pretty darn cold around here too. But you're absolutely right about having to lock our doors. Once upon a time we were more trusting to the communities and could leave the house open. Over the years many have learned the hard way not to. Times have really changed around here. Then too, a lock only keeps honest people honest.
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when I lived in washington state in the mountains my wife and young children went from our house to the river about an 8th of a mile down hill nice sunny hot day me and some friends were shooting crow that were eating my chickens we herd gun shot and went down to the river to see my wife with her gun in her hand with three illegal immigrants that were trying to rape my wife and oldest daughter. sooo you see where i'm at with my 6 boys. we just want to live and be honest
 
sorry about leaving my name and were I live in the open. I guess I lived in North Dakota to long. my wife died young leaving me with 8 kids still at home. I'm still single but still have one boy left at home we have all been having fun with the old scamp and wish to just to have good times with good friends
 
Too bad we don't live closer. Even in this crowded suburb, it's hard to find a friend that wants to work on Mopars together. Life is just too busy I guess and few share the interest.
 
Ddaddy said:
Too bad we don't live closer. Even in this crowded suburb, it's hard to find a friend that wants to work on Mopars together. Life is just too busy I guess and few share the interest.
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yea even if you had a Ford i'd still help
 
I'm very familiar with North Dakota. I've been all over that state. My Dad was raised there. No matter what state I've lived in, it's always been small town atmosphere.
Welcome :)
 
Fred Scigliano said:
sorry about leaving my name and were I live in the open. I guess I lived in North Dakota to long. my wife died young leaving me with 8 kids still at home. I'm still single but still have one boy left at home we have all been having fun with the old scamp and wish to just to have good times with good friends
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Bless you Fred. I became a single dad through divorce when my son was 6 years old. Raised him by myself for 4 years until I met my current wife. It wasn't hard for me at the time because I knew I had to do it.

Now...raising 8 like you are, I know its hard work. Bless you sir.
 
Illegals in WA state? Where...from Canada? " Hey hoser, got any work, eh?"

I had a buddy in Bellingham, from the Navy base. We drove north to White Rock with some young ladies to partake in some over 18 libations. Its funny to approach the border as the US side gets more desolate the farther north you go and the Canada side is housing right down to its border.
 
Fred Welcome to the site. I lived in Minot in the late 60's for 4 years. I went car parts hunting in a lot of small town junk yards and found some nice parts back then.
 
[/QUOTE]I had a buddy in Bellingham, from the Navy base. We drove north to White Rock with some young ladies to partake in some over 18 libations. Its funny to approach the border as the US side gets more desolate the farther north you go and the Canada side is housing right down to its border.[/QUOTE]

80% of Canadians live within 100 klicks of the US border.
 
Fred, if this was your way to introduce yourself, welcome to the site and good luck with your Plymouth. I wonder though if you have some reservations or regret for your location. I don't recall anyone talking bad about you before so it seems random for you to just start defending your situation.
I appreciate your opinions though...We should all be able to live as free and enjoy our lives as you seem to be doing. I think about why people choose to live or stay where they are, I think about it quite often. Being here in California, I get the great weather and scenery but have to deal with the biggest fuckface idiot Liberals you can ever imagine. The stuff they do here would get them shot or hung from a tree in your state. There may be no perfect place. If the weather is great, the price of living is high and there are too many Liberals. If the jobs pay real well, it is too crowded. If it is cheap and wide open, it gets too cold or there are no jobs.
My Parents moved here in 1967. Most of my family has passed on except for the nephews. I am tempted to move but to where? I hear from the Wisconsin/Michigan/Illinois members that talk of snow and ice all the time and I wonder why they stay. It often does come down to where their family is, so often that is the anchor that keeps them there.
 
Welcome Fred I have relatives that live up there and they love it. Seems the cold is more tolerable than than the heat of South Texas. Post a pic of your Car. :poke:If not already winterized. And it was cold here this morning had to put on my jacket 62F
 
Kern Dog said:
Fred, if this was your way to introduce yourself, welcome to the site and good luck with your Plymouth. I wonder though if you have some reservations or regret for your location. I don't recall anyone talking bad about you before so it seems random for you to just start defending your situation.
I appreciate your opinions though...We should all be able to live as free and enjoy our lives as you seem to be doing. I think about why people choose to live or stay where they are, I think about it quite often. Being here in California, I get the great weather and scenery but have to deal with the biggest fuckface idiot Liberals you can ever imagine. The stuff they do here would get them shot or hung from a tree in your state. There may be no perfect place. If the weather is great, the price of living is high and there are too many Liberals. If the jobs pay real well, it is too crowded. If it is cheap and wide open, it gets too cold or there are no jobs.
My Parents moved here in 1967. Most of my family has passed on except for the nephews. I am tempted to move but to where? I hear from the Wisconsin/Michigan/Illinois members that talk of snow and ice all the time and I wonder why they stay. It often does come down to where their family is, so often that is the anchor that keeps them there.
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sorry I guess I was defending ware I live. get **** from people all the time. Last time I was in Calif. was 1968 I'm sure it's changed but loved the weather.
 
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