What has been stolen from you?

[Ernest T. Bass]

So... The good person wins because he was dishonest? Sounds like a paradox...

Sorry, couldn't help it. I know there are times when one might have to tell a "white lie," but personally I would try to avoid it.

[MountainDon]

A good person loses because they are honest and the criminal "get's lucky" because of the rules. I've decided that if I'm ever in a situation like this I will say I saw them doing the crime.  

It would be tempting, but ill advised. You never know what quirks fate may toss your way, and end up with egg on your face. Or worse. OMMV.

[peternap]

A good person loses because they are honest and the criminal "get's lucky" because of the rules. I've decided that if I'm ever in a situation like this I will say I saw them doing the crime.  

It would be tempting, but ill advised. You never know what quirks fate may toss your way, and end up with egg on your face. Or worse. OMMV.

I've broken the rules a number of times .....but somewhere along the line I came down with a Conscience. It's a terrible thing to catch but improves your looks when you shave.

[MountainDon]

I've broken the rules a number of times .....but somewhere along the line I came down with a Conscience. It's a terrible thing to catch but improves your looks when you shave.

[glenn kangiser]

The officer couldn't be the witness because he didn't see the guy steal the gas from my equipment.  I couldn't be the witness because I didn't see anything but the evidence that he did it.  If I said I did then I would have to swear to it in court that I saw him, but I did not.

An old mining friend once told me "If you can't trust a man for his word you can't trust him at all," when I bought some equipment from him on credit.  When I paid him off as agreed, he said maybe we would do some mining together some day.  That is a high recommendation, because most miners will not easily let you in on their information or knowledge.

Your word is worth a lot even if it is not always to your own benefit.  This, unfortunately, does not hold true or the principal is not adhered to, in much of the political or business world.

[Sonoran]

"If you can't trust a man for his word you can't trust him at all"

Just because you lie about something you know happened doesn't mean that you are a dishonest person in all other aspects of life like everyone seems to be insinuating. 

The good person wins because he was dishonest is a paradox. I just labled it as good guy, bad guy for the sake of an easy description. I should say...the person who had things unrightfully taken from him will not lose them due to "the rules" which the criminal hides behind because he knows other people will not break them.     

The idea of a paradox is fun though...do you think that batman is good or bad?

[Whitlock]

One word-Carma

[glenn kangiser]

That's a hard one....


I think Batgirl is good...

[peternap]

That's a hard one....


I think Batgirl is good...

I son't know Glenn. Seems using personal torpedos is a little unsportsmanlike!

[glenn kangiser]

Sorry about that , Peter.  It wasn't my intent.

I  meant to use this Batgirl picture but every time I do, my wife gets upset at me....

[Sonoran]

As of this weekend...my car.  Hmmph.

[MountainDon]

That's a real bummer, sonoran.

[pagan]

Had a radar detector stolen while I was on Ft. Bragg. The window cost more than the detector. Three days later I got a ticket for going ninety-five in a fifty-five zone, so does the speeding ticket count as well?

Over all in forty four years that's all that's been stolen, which is pretty darn good.

[Sassy]

Sorry to hear about that, Sonoran 

[Sonoran]

Thanks guys.  I was in class and the teacher mentioned a student who was in an accident.  She was hit buy a person who ran a red light. Both cars are totalled and she has been in the hospital for over a week now.  He said she can use our prayers.  I feel lucky that my car was stolen.

I really hope that I can get in with the CHP because I would love the chance to make the roads a safer place to be.

[firefox]

Many, many years ago I had a 1942 indian motorcycle all neatly stowed away in parts  boxes. I was getting ready to restore it, but had to ship out. When I returned,
My apartment in NYC which I had boarded up the windows solidly, had been completely stripped. They didn't even leave any litter on the floor.
I was completely devastated. It still bothers me to this day. It had been given to my by my mentor/foster father who had sort of adopted me.
He had been a motorcycle instructor in WWII. He had already modified the engine for water injection. Yes, water injection. A teqnique used in the war to give aiplane engines a boost of power.
Bruce