AS

"Agki Strodon"

17/06/2004 5:33 PM

Shop-vac: a gloat

Yesterday I found a 20 gallon, 6 hp Shop-vac with hose in the dumpster
behind the local shopping area. I brought it home, cleaned it up, emptied
the body, put in a bag and started it up. It works POIFECT. Good strong
suction and no holes.

Agki



This topic has 15 replies

DH

Dave Hinz

in reply to "Agki Strodon" on 17/06/2004 5:33 PM

17/06/2004 11:54 PM

On Thu, 17 Jun 2004 23:25:46 GMT, Leon <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> "Agki Strodon" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> news:[email protected]...
>> Yesterday I found a 20 gallon, 6 hp Shop-vac with hose in the dumpster
>> behind the local shopping area.
>
> After you emptied the body, did you call the authorities?

You know, he probably completely ruined someone's day before getting
to the shop-vac they "threw out" before they could.

AS

"Agki Strodon"

in reply to "Agki Strodon" on 17/06/2004 5:33 PM

17/06/2004 11:30 PM


"Leon" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
>
> "Agki Strodon" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> news:[email protected]...
> > Yesterday I found a 20 gallon, 6 hp Shop-vac with hose in the dumpster
> > behind the local shopping area. I brought it home, cleaned it up,
emptied
> > the body, put in a bag and started it up. It works POIFECT. Good
strong
> > suction and no holes.
>
>
> After you emptied the body, did you call the authorities?
>
>

Authorities on what?

Agki

wH

[email protected] (Hylourgos)

in reply to "Agki Strodon" on 17/06/2004 5:33 PM

26/07/2004 4:29 PM

I don't know where the OP lives, but many communities have laws about
public consumption of liquor. NC, for instance, has such laws, and you
see the same behavior (beer or liquor being drunk from the can/bottle
within a paper bag) at any football game or fraternity party. It's not
a homeless thing.

But you're right about LV

H, who grew up in Reno, and was shocked as a teenager to find out that
other states would not sell liquor in the 7-11, next to the slot
machines. Thank goodness these other states were at least brave enough
to continue with prostitution....


"Victor De Long" <[email protected]> wrote in message news:<[email protected]>...
> Actually, I think it's because, if you're minding your own business, not
> causing trouble, and drinking out of a paper bag, the police, generally
> speaking, wouldn't technically have the right to search your bag to see if
> you're drinking in public. For a warrantless search, you would need at
> least some reasonably articulable, individualized suspicion that searching
> the guy would reveal some evidence of a crime.
>
> Of course, of the guy looks intoxicated, acts intoxicated, etc., that's
> probably enough to satisfy that requirement, and allow a warrantless search,
> and so any officer who did look in the bag would likely later indicate that
> he did so based on his suspicion that the guy was drinking because he looked
> intoxicated, regardless of whether that was true or not.
>
> Easier to just live in Vegas where you can drink on the street legally . . .
>
>
> "J.B. Bobbitt" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> news:[email protected]...
> > I asked. The guy I asked seemed like he should know.
> >
> > "Leon" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> > news:[email protected]...
> > >
> > > "J.B. Bobbitt" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> > > news:[email protected]...
> > > > No, its to hide the amount of hooch left in the bottle from the other
> > > > derelicts. A full liter bottle of MD 20/20 might be worth the risk of
> an
> > > > assault, a nearly empty bottle isn't.
> > >
> > >
> > > How would you know this?
> > >
> > >
> >
> >

b

in reply to "Agki Strodon" on 17/06/2004 5:33 PM

17/06/2004 12:22 PM

On Thu, 17 Jun 2004 17:33:44 GMT, "Agki Strodon"
<[email protected]> wrote:

>Yesterday I found a 20 gallon, 6 hp Shop-vac with hose in the dumpster
>behind the local shopping area. I brought it home, cleaned it up, emptied
>the body, put in a bag and started it up. It works POIFECT. Good strong
>suction and no holes.
>
>Agki
>
>



you <and your vac too> suck!

JB

"J.B. Bobbitt"

in reply to "Agki Strodon" on 17/06/2004 5:33 PM

18/06/2004 8:06 PM

> You know, he probably completely ruined someone's day before getting
> to the shop-vac they "threw out" before they could.

Dave, you hit it on the head.

Along similar lines, does anybody know why street derelicts hide their
bottles in paper bags when they're out drinking in public places?

Lr

"Leon"

in reply to "Agki Strodon" on 17/06/2004 5:33 PM

18/06/2004 12:40 AM


"Agki Strodon" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
>
> Authorities on what?


That body that you emptied out. I suspect the vacuum was thrown away with
the body inside to hide the evidence.

Lr

"Leon"

in reply to "Agki Strodon" on 17/06/2004 5:33 PM

18/06/2004 10:24 PM


"J.B. Bobbitt" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:MWHAc.1346$S%[email protected]...
>
> Along similar lines, does anybody know why street derelicts hide their
> bottles in paper bags when they're out drinking in public places?


Yeah, they are not hiding their bottles, that bag is what they can afford in
the way of a Koozie.

VD

"Victor De Long"

in reply to "Agki Strodon" on 17/06/2004 5:33 PM

28/06/2004 11:14 AM

Actually, I think it's because, if you're minding your own business, not
causing trouble, and drinking out of a paper bag, the police, generally
speaking, wouldn't technically have the right to search your bag to see if
you're drinking in public. For a warrantless search, you would need at
least some reasonably articulable, individualized suspicion that searching
the guy would reveal some evidence of a crime.

Of course, of the guy looks intoxicated, acts intoxicated, etc., that's
probably enough to satisfy that requirement, and allow a warrantless search,
and so any officer who did look in the bag would likely later indicate that
he did so based on his suspicion that the guy was drinking because he looked
intoxicated, regardless of whether that was true or not.

Easier to just live in Vegas where you can drink on the street legally . . .


"J.B. Bobbitt" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> I asked. The guy I asked seemed like he should know.
>
> "Leon" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> news:[email protected]...
> >
> > "J.B. Bobbitt" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> > news:[email protected]...
> > > No, its to hide the amount of hooch left in the bottle from the other
> > > derelicts. A full liter bottle of MD 20/20 might be worth the risk of
> an
> > > assault, a nearly empty bottle isn't.
> >
> >
> > How would you know this?
> >
> >
>
>

JB

"J.B. Bobbitt"

in reply to "Agki Strodon" on 17/06/2004 5:33 PM

18/06/2004 10:56 PM

No, its to hide the amount of hooch left in the bottle from the other
derelicts. A full liter bottle of MD 20/20 might be worth the risk of an
assault, a nearly empty bottle isn't.


"Leon" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
>
> "J.B. Bobbitt" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> news:MWHAc.1346$S%[email protected]...
> >
> > Along similar lines, does anybody know why street derelicts hide their
> > bottles in paper bags when they're out drinking in public places?
>
>
> Yeah, they are not hiding their bottles, that bag is what they can afford
in
> the way of a Koozie.
>
>

JB

"J.B. Bobbitt"

in reply to "Agki Strodon" on 17/06/2004 5:33 PM

19/06/2004 12:29 AM

I asked. The guy I asked seemed like he should know.

"Leon" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
>
> "J.B. Bobbitt" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> news:[email protected]...
> > No, its to hide the amount of hooch left in the bottle from the other
> > derelicts. A full liter bottle of MD 20/20 might be worth the risk of
an
> > assault, a nearly empty bottle isn't.
>
>
> How would you know this?
>
>

Lr

"Leon"

in reply to "Agki Strodon" on 17/06/2004 5:33 PM

17/06/2004 11:25 PM


"Agki Strodon" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> Yesterday I found a 20 gallon, 6 hp Shop-vac with hose in the dumpster
> behind the local shopping area. I brought it home, cleaned it up, emptied
> the body, put in a bag and started it up. It works POIFECT. Good strong
> suction and no holes.


After you emptied the body, did you call the authorities?

SB

"Scott Burright"

in reply to "Agki Strodon" on 17/06/2004 5:33 PM

17/06/2004 5:06 PM


"Agki Strodon" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> Yesterday I found a 20 gallon, 6 hp Shop-vac with hose in the dumpster
> behind the local shopping area. I brought it home, cleaned it up, emptied
> the body, put in a bag and started it up. It works POIFECT. Good strong
> suction and no holes.

Oh man, I hate your guts. Congratulations.

---Scott Burright
(owner of a Ridgid wet-dry vac that he bought at slightly under retail)

PS: *hatred*

jJ

[email protected] (Jeff Jonas)

in reply to "Agki Strodon" on 17/06/2004 5:33 PM

17/07/2004 3:19 AM

re: finding a good vac in the trash:
I used to have great luck with salvaging computers, electronics and such,
but I no longer work in Manhattan.
Many folks discard things for the slightest reason.
It seems folks are too stupid to maintain things,
let alone fix anything. No more "fix it shops" either.
I just unclogged a shop vac at school because nobody understood
that the inner "Y" adapter clogs easily.
I'm pleased that new vacs eliminated that sharp bend.


re: drinks in a plain paper bag:
there are actually laws against exposed bottles.

Lr

"Leon"

in reply to "Agki Strodon" on 17/06/2004 5:33 PM

18/06/2004 11:02 PM


"J.B. Bobbitt" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> No, its to hide the amount of hooch left in the bottle from the other
> derelicts. A full liter bottle of MD 20/20 might be worth the risk of an
> assault, a nearly empty bottle isn't.


How would you know this?

JT

"Joe Tylicki"

in reply to "Agki Strodon" on 17/06/2004 5:33 PM

18/06/2004 3:00 AM

It was only a 20 gallon vac. Maybe it was Joey Peeps. As Paulie said
""Joey peeps? Couldn't have been too much to clean up."



>
>
> That body that you emptied out. I suspect the vacuum was thrown away with
> the body inside to hide the evidence.
>
>


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