Besides for what Nascar said, it also helps to spend time in the forums and let people get to know you. Quite often I wont reply to anybody's mail if they don't post here at least a little (except maybe if I'm really bored or if their profile intrigues me).

3-5? Damn! I only got 1 or 2 so far today. Guess I gotta try harder to look gullible......

Finding a girlfriend is easy. All I do is drive around in an old van with the words "Free Coach purses" spray painted on the side and they come running from all sides. Those relationships usually don't last very long though. Normally just till they find out that there are no purses. Maybe they'd last longer if they shared my interest in driving around in spray painted vans with a rubber chicken...

To collect underpants. It's all part of my master plan.
Step 1. Collect underpants.
Step 2. ??????
Step 3. Profit.

There are some scammers here (there are on practically any site), but I've met quite a few people on here that are very much real. Only a handful I've met in person due to distance, but I've known them long enough and talked to them long enough (some for almost a decade now) other places than here. After a while on here you kind of get a second sense of who the scammers are after about 30 seconds....

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Floreffe, PA

There might be less crime in small towns, but there is still crime. If there wasn't, there wouldn't be a need for cops in the first place. And don't believe there isn't corruption in those small towns either. If anything, it might be worse than big cities for the pure fact that they aren't getting watched over as closely.

Yeah, funny how there's always a 'malfunction' when there's something that might not show something that's not in their favor.....

Not all depts have traffic cams, military gear and such. In LOTS of smaller towns there is very little budget for much of anything. In more cases than you'd think, even a uniform allowance for officers high enough to where they don't end up paying for stuff out of their own pockets. Just recently in my town they had to take donations just to get K-9 unit.

Body/head cams are getting more and more popular in depts and it's just a matter of time before all of them have one. I think the main reason there aren't more of them yet is just because of budget restrictions, especially in small towns. Which is also a primary reason that alot of those LEO's are only part-time and working for $8-12/hr. Kind of a catch 22 actually. The depts that can pay their cops $36-80k/yr and have cams generally have the 'better' cops who more often don't need 'big brother' while the poorer depts get the...... well...... you usually get what you pay for....

It's not really selfish just as long as the people helping are actually learning something. If they're learning, that's just as good as cash in the longrun, ain't it? It's like skipping the middleman (the schools). And if they aren't learning anything, it's not like they can't pick up and leave anytime they want. Then if it's in an ad, it's completely voluntary and the people know what they're signing up for. It's not like asking friends to do it and they do it because they feel that they need to.

I was referring to internships in general (and not necessarily connected to any school). Of course it's good to be able to afford to live, but if you want to get into a career and can't afford/or just want to skip school and get right to it, internships are a good way to go. Obviously, an uneducated noobie to the field isn't 'worth' what somebody who is experienced would get paid (and often not even worth a 'living wage'), but working for free gets them that experience to help them make decent money later. For my rich getting richer comment, you make it sound like people who can't afford to hire help shouldn't start a project. If they need help to the project to work, but are too poor to pay anybody, the project remains just dream and they stay poor. At the same time, the people who DO have the money can hire the help to get the projects done and in turn keep making more money.

I'm all for internships. In my field (automotive repair) I paid a boatload of cash and a few years to get a degree which means very little. Especially since experience is the best teacher and most shop owners know that the majority of schools will give you that paper just as long as you keep paying them. On top of that, I learned more in the first 6 months on the job (and got paid in the process) than I did the entire time I was in school. If I could go back and do it again, I'd gladly work in a shop for free gaining real-life experience rather than paying and getting less out of it educational-wise. So what if somebody is looking for interns? I only wish I had the opportunity to be one when I was starting out. If somebody can't afford to pay wages for help, but have a ton of experience in the field that they can teach, are the interns actually working for free? If somebody has a vision and a goal, why should lack of cash be the cause of it never coming to fruit? Especially when there are people who are more than happy to help. With your way of thinking, that only people with the money can make things happen, only the rich will get richer and the poor will stay poor.

Yeah, I was kidnapped for a while there, but now I'm back and free to Mingle again!

Owning (and still living, unscathed) can to a point make one more safety conscious. However, ultimately the darts seek out the slowest and stupidest of the herd early on, therefore preventing them from reproducing and creating even more idiots.

I blame it on humanity tampering with natural selection. Gone are the days of lawn darts, kids riding bicycles without helmets, and 'good' fireworks. It's not that peop have gotten less intelligent, it's just that society has safetyized everything so that the stupid people have a harder time killing themselves off therefore decreasing the smart/window licker ratio.

Single once again.......

VERY bad! There's way too many cops out there who think they're the lawmaker, judge, jury, and executioner. Since the courts typically 'side' with the cops in the first place (innocent till proven guilty my a$$), citizens need to be able to have their own proof of 'the truth'. Cops certainly tape incidents and use that in court (as long as it shows things in their favor), so why shouldn't we have the same courtesy?

Rubber chickens.

1. They don't make a mess.
2. They don't eat much.
3. You can let them free range and they wont wander off.
4. They always open the opportunity to make c*ck and pecker jokes.
5. They're stretchy.
6. They don't mind if you accidentally step on them.
7. They're good for swatting flies.
8. They're much more interesting than a pet rock.
9. They don't need much room.
10. They always seem interested in what you say to them.

Yeah, I know. We're only suppose to give 3 reasons, but with 10, they're clearly the most awesomest pet!

I'd buy my town, declare myself king, then build a race track and the most badassed garage you've ever seen.