#471247 - 12/19/07 02:59 PM
Re: This really happened to me !
[Re: Vinke]
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LT GREY
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Loc: Central Ohio
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36 degrees will be real cold with a stiff wind and one soakin' wet....under those conditions it would be cold enough to kill you! Don't be fooled by that. Hypothermia is extremely deadly....Isn't that right Mr. Jameson?  Hopfully your vehicle was close by. 
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#471481 - 12/19/07 05:14 PM
Re: This really happened to me !
[Re: LT GREY]
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Bob Jameson
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Loc: SW Pa
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I can speak from experience that I was swimming and holding on in 39-41 degree water for about 4 hours and it was about as long as I physically could tolerate without losing total strength, mental alert capacity,and then ultimate consciousness ultimately resulting in death no doubt.
I cant describe the trauma that I had on that early fateful morning in the ocean bay. I do hope no one I know has to feel that as I did and live to talk about it.Those temps are certainly no childs play. Accidents happen just that quickly. I am glad you escaped without anything more then a chilling dip and a breathless moment or two. NO one can describe that total emersion over your head into water temps like that.
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#474082 - 12/20/07 10:56 PM
Re: This really happened to me !
[Re: Bob Jameson]
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foxtail
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Registered: 12/23/06
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Loc: MN
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NO one can describe that total emersion over your head into water temps like that.
I have done the upside down swim in among the ice chunks too.
Nothing like Newt and you did though.
It IS impossible to explain that feeling to someone who has never gone in though. I was only wet for a little under a half hour and in the water for maybe 30 seconds. (feels like a year)
My friend Ryan went down all of the way in current and popped uo out of a hole about 50 yards downstream. Took about 15 seconds before he was out of the water.
That was you with Newt, right?
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#474329 - 12/21/07 07:18 AM
Re: This really happened to me !
[Re: foxtail]
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Bob Jameson
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#474606 - 12/21/07 10:49 AM
Re: This really happened to me !
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MikeFlick
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Registered: 12/25/06
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Loc: Wisconsin
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I cant even come close to that. I dont like walking or driving on frozen bodies of water. Im kind of a big woosie that way!
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#475507 - 12/21/07 05:06 PM
Re: This really happened to me !
[Re: Bob Jameson]
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Cragar
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Registered: 02/19/07
Posts: 116
Loc: New England
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Bob , I heard the tale from Newt.
Glad to see you posting about it , the story Newt told was quite the ordeal.
Amazing survival , glad you all made it.
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#475511 - 12/21/07 05:07 PM
Re: This really happened to me !
[Re: Cragar]
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LT GREY
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Loc: Central Ohio
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I still cry when I read about it....and I know the outcome! Ha!
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#476059 - 12/21/07 09:52 PM
Re: This really happened to me !
[Re: LT GREY]
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Bob Jameson
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Loc: SW Pa
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We all had a great blessing that day.I had accepted my fate as we all had and it was just a matter of time before we checked out.
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#476204 - 12/22/07 12:11 AM
Re: This really happened to me !
[Re: Bob Jameson]
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robert evanscwcp
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Registered: 12/23/06
Posts: 532
Loc: central New York
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You had work left undone. We will all get the call when he is ready for us to come home.
bob evans cwcp
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#476432 - 12/22/07 08:30 AM
Re: This really happened to me !
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Bob Jameson
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#476546 - 12/22/07 10:13 AM
Re: This really happened to me !
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MikeFlick
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Registered: 12/25/06
Posts: 607
Loc: Wisconsin
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Yea, when you are all tired of kicking and fighting, what else is there to do? Accept it and make peace with our maker.
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#477272 - 12/22/07 06:09 PM
Re: This really happened to me !
[Re: MikeFlick]
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LT GREY
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Loc: Central Ohio
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......ain't ready to go just yet though!
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#505304 - 01/07/08 11:53 AM
Re: This really happened to me !
[Re: LT GREY]
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LT GREY
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Registered: 04/09/07
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Loc: Central Ohio
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Vinke...you still breathin' out there?
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#530876 - 01/20/08 09:24 PM
Re: This really happened to me !
[Re: LT GREY]
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LT GREY
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Loc: Central Ohio
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Vinke? Dang......hope he hasn't drown up there.
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#542639 - 01/26/08 05:49 PM
Re: This really happened to me !
[Re: LT GREY]
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LT GREY
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Registered: 04/09/07
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Loc: Central Ohio
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Doing a mouse job in an attic...when the home owner comes out and says to me, (as I'm climbing up the ladder) "I hope you get some...I wants to see dem lil' boogers". Making sure she got her wish , I reached the first trap,( a Katch-All) which held two dead mice....so I opened the door and dumped them out....down to the garage floor....didn't think much about it really.
A few minutes went by, as I'm checking the other traps and the lady says, "Did you get any"? To which I yell down," Sure didn't you see them? "No" she says, "Where is 'dey"?...I point down and say,"They're right there at your feet"!
You have never heard a woman scream that load in all your life!
She didn't want to see the others I had caught....... 
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#542658 - 01/26/08 05:55 PM
Re: This really happened to me !
[Re: LT GREY]
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LAtrapper
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Registered: 12/22/06
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Loc: Lower Alabama (Daleville)
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#565989 - 02/07/08 01:11 PM
Re: This really happened to me !
[Re: LAtrapper]
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LT GREY
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Loc: Central Ohio
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Came home last night about 6:30, walked in to find glass vases broken, flower pots over turned, pictures knocked off the coffee table, a small chair over turned, lamps knocked over,(one broken) window drapes pulled down and blood spots all over the tile flooring and a number of other places.........First thing I do, check all doors and windows...all secure! Then I go looking for whatever is in the house! 
Turns out a female Fox squirrel got trapped in the chimney and came through the damper,(or where the damper should be) into the house and did about $300. worth of damage before I spotted it... then I spotted it a second time but this time with a RED DOT on the .177 ! Who said Fox squirrels don't get into houses....(be the last time that one ever does)! 
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#566152 - 02/07/08 03:31 PM
Re: This really happened to me !
[Re: LT GREY]
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LAtrapper
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Registered: 12/22/06
Posts: 1130
Loc: Lower Alabama (Daleville)
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#566355 - 02/07/08 05:31 PM
Re: This really happened to me !
[Re: LAtrapper]
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LT GREY
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Loc: Central Ohio
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Well I bought an old farm house (1890's) and there is no damper. I had it blocked off...with 6" styrofome (to prevent drafting/loosing heat). Worked pretty well 'till that squirrel chewed through it too. Gotta go....the timer bell just went off. Guess who's comin' to dinner.....Ha!
A) the squirrel, of course!
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#566919 - 02/07/08 09:28 PM
Re: This really happened to me !
[Re: LT GREY]
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stan58
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Registered: 08/22/07
Posts: 213
Loc: Maine, USA
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I think " Boss " Critter put out a contract on LT Grey for total home distruction, the critters have it in for you LT
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#569440 - 02/09/08 12:12 PM
Re: This really happened to me !
[Re: stan58]
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LT GREY
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Registered: 04/09/07
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Loc: Central Ohio
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Yep and I'm a'gonna return the favor!
Got sprayed again today too.......
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#570775 - 02/10/08 07:13 AM
Re: This really happened to me !
[Re: LT GREY]
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stan58
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Registered: 08/22/07
Posts: 213
Loc: Maine, USA
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Hey look on the bright side, Sometimes it goes on like that for days .. and... days .... and ... days ... and then it gets worse....
Skunk http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aJuNvrwZx_U
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#590480 - 02/20/08 10:01 PM
Re: This really happened to me !
[Re: stan58]
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Cragar
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Registered: 02/19/07
Posts: 116
Loc: New England
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Ok , tonight I get a call from a local police dept about a frantic woman with a critter loose in her house. The dispatcher gives me the woman's name , address and phone number. I call the woman up and she tells me there is some kind of animal hanging on her 3yo daughter's window on one side of the bedroom.
I try to get some kind of a description of the animal , but she is unsure whether it is a bat or something else but she ran out of the room , closed the door and called police. So I get her information and tell her to put a towel under the door and I will get there as soon as I can.
20 minutes later I pull into her driveway , grab my gloves , net and a small cage and head to the front door with flashlight in hand. She meets me at the door looking like she had seen a ghost. I do my best to calm her and her kids down as she tells me what she saw and the last place she saw it.
As I open the door to the bedroom , she screeches in fear even thought she is downstairs and the room is upstairs. I go into the room and close the door behind me and start looking in the place they saw it last.
On the window in question there is something gray and kinda fuzzy looking right where the top and bottom windows meet. I get closer and find.....
Two Ostrich feathers stuck in the latch for the window , left by the house cleaners that were there that afternoon dusting with a feather duster.
LOL!!!
I tell the woman this and she now goes from totally freaked out to feeling like a total idiot...LOL!!!
I still got paid , and , stopped by the cop shop and got a few laughs from the guys in the dispatchers room....LOL !!
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#590982 - 02/21/08 10:31 AM
Re: This really happened to me !
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LT GREY
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Registered: 04/09/07
Posts: 5593
Loc: Central Ohio
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.....Hahahahahahaha
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#591970 - 02/21/08 07:38 PM
Re: This really happened to me !
[Re: LT GREY]
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Vinke
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Registered: 12/22/06
Posts: 1909
Loc: Pacific Northwest WA
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Soooooooo dead animal call.....My Favorite!!!!! I am told there is a dead raccoon under the mobile home,,,,
Easy job I can see the raccoon thought the vent....but there is Two????,,,,,Remove some shirting and start to grab the first with my gloved hand......And It sits up and growls,,,,,,,,
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#593023 - 02/22/08 11:32 AM
Re: This really happened to me !
[Re: Vinke]
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LT GREY
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Registered: 04/09/07
Posts: 5593
Loc: Central Ohio
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.....as Vinke says " [Please excuse my language... I'm an idiot] " and shoves it back under the trailer.
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#604963 - 02/28/08 10:47 PM
Re: This really happened to me !
[Re: LT GREY]
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Vinke
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Registered: 12/22/06
Posts: 1909
Loc: Pacific Northwest WA
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So today was one of them Kinds of Days,,,,,I was driving along singing the Muppets song to myself when I Came to an Intersection,,,The was a lady walking her dog.....Soooo...I motioned for her to cross,.....As she did I noticed that THE Dog had to Carry its own "Crap Bag".........I laughed........ Sorry.....Maybe ya needed to be there
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#607467 - 03/01/08 02:26 PM
Re: This really happened to me !
[Re: Vinke]
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LT GREY
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Registered: 04/09/07
Posts: 5593
Loc: Central Ohio
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Which Muppet song was it Vinke?
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#618093 - 03/06/08 03:46 PM
Re: This really happened to me !
[Re: LT GREY]
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LT GREY
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Registered: 04/09/07
Posts: 5593
Loc: Central Ohio
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On the way to do a attic inspection for mice late one afternoon, a farmer friend of mine calls me, while I'm on the other line with a new customer. Recognizing the number on the caller I.D., I let "voice mail" take his call. By the time I get to his message,I am only 3-4 miles from his house...so I just decide to show up without calling him back.
His voice mail says," Hey, this is Dale. I have a muskrat and a skunk for you, if you want them".
Now Dale is an ol' sheep farmer/friend of mine that I do coyote work for from time to time and he is always picking up "road kills" for me...so I think nothing of it. 
When I get there, I find a very flattened muskrat hanging on the fence and one very agitated skunk in a Havajunk trap out by the front porch. Worst part is...( Other than it's a Havajunk)...I haven't any trap to transfere it in and his trap is packed full of mud!......Okay!??
As I walk up the sidewalk, out comes Dale with a grin on his face. I say, "You didn't say it was a LIVE skunk"...."Oh, maybe I did forget to mention that", he chuckles.
Remembering an old story my Grandpa told me as a kid, I explain that I don't have a smaller trap to transfere the skunk in and ask him if he has any burlap sacks..... He says, "Sure got lots of the old good ones". So I ask him to get me one and a long piece of bailing twine. When he shows up with them, I slip around the front of the cage and ease open the door and wedge a stick in it so it won't spring shut. Then I proceed to slip the burlap sack around the open end of the cage trap and "fluff up" the end of the sack to form a tunnel. This is of course hoping the skunk will crawl into it...and in a few minutes, it does. 
By the time the skunk hits the "end" of the sack, I have it tied off and in my hand...to which Dale shouts, "YOU GOT IT"!...and just about then, I did! The skunk "went off" inside the sack and I quickly tried to decide which way the wind was blowin' ....Holding it down wind as far as I could reach, I headed for the pond, some 100 yards away.
As I get almost there, the skunk sticks his head out of a hole I hadn't noticed....which makes me pick up the pace a little quicker. By the time I reach the bank, the skunk is "outa the sack", which causes me to toss the sack, (skunk and all) into the pond...somehow, I slip and end up with one leg in there myself. Meanwhile the skunk, who is a fairly good swimmer, heads for the distant shore... "Dale," I shout...."I think I'm gonna need a .22"!
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#622692 - 03/08/08 11:29 PM
Re: This really happened to me !
[Re: Derek Christen]
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Vinke
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Registered: 12/22/06
Posts: 1909
Loc: Pacific Northwest WA
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Soooooooooo...... I'm Standing there telling the Costumer what the Plan of attack is for the job...........She is elderly and had a Heavy German or Swiss ascent......... As I am taking to her, She Interrupts me..........." Um.....Vhat is dat shmell"...
..........Is was Me........ 
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#623040 - 03/09/08 08:56 AM
Re: This really happened to me !
[Re: Vinke]
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robert evanscwcp
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Registered: 12/23/06
Posts: 532
Loc: central New York
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Took a call about a noise in the attic.SOO went to the house climbed into the attic started my search.Smelled something funky?
Looked around and found the chimney(light metal vent for GAS )was rotted off below the roof line? Got down as quick as possible as I hit the ladder the squirrel beats me to the ground!
I calmly tell the customer it wasn't safe in the attic and they agreed even the rats were leaving!Called a furnace company to fix oh yes pulled fuse on the furnace. Nice lady gave me a tip and I was on my way.
I like to think that my inspection may have saved their lives,co poisoning!
bob ebvans cwcp
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#624472 - 03/10/08 03:12 AM
Re: This really happened to me !
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coonmasterx
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Registered: 12/25/06
Posts: 2611
Loc: Southern Michigan 54
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Went to a house to set up a skunk job, Knocked on the door and a "VERY BUSTY" young lady with a low cut blouse came to the door.
While I was talking to her,Her dog was barking and growling at me.She bent over and grabed the dogs collar and I caught myself talking to her cleavage.I kept forgetting what I was saying to her and when I got In my truck, I realized I'd forgotten to get the set up fee from her. I just sat there LMAO
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#625440 - 03/10/08 06:00 PM
Re: This really happened to me !
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robert evanscwcp
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Registered: 12/23/06
Posts: 532
Loc: central New York
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up on the roof doing a bat exclusion with AL.Young (18-19 ?girl) throws open the window and screems "get in here NOW there's a bat in here" she forgot she was nude!I'm not sure who was more enbarassed Al or the girl? I nearly fell of the roof!
bob
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#683568 - 04/16/08 06:18 PM
Re: This really happened to me !
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LT GREY
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Registered: 04/09/07
Posts: 5593
Loc: Central Ohio
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 Dang...of all the bad luck!
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#689650 - 04/21/08 05:39 PM
Re: This really happened to me !
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LT GREY
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Registered: 04/09/07
Posts: 5593
Loc: Central Ohio
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A lady calls to complain of a raccoon up on the roof. It seems the "yardman" has cleaning gutters and came face to face with an adult raccoon tucked away where two rooflines come together,(just several feet away from the gutter).
I show up, set up a ladder and find not one, but two raccoons, (sub adults from last year), nicely tucked back in the corner.I explain to her the options to successfully get BOTH OF THEM...but before I can finish...she screams,"LOOK, I DON'T CARE HOW YOU GET THEM, I JUST WANT THEM GONE"!
"But if I..." "GONE", SHE SCREAMS "I JUST WANT THEM GONE...BOTH OF THEM AND I DON'T CARE WHAT YOU HAVE TO DO TO DO IT, JUST GET RID OF THEM"! 
Well alright then....
I go out to my sevice vehicle and come back with a .177 air rifle, (which because of the red dot scope and mounted light looks more intimadating than it actually is)...
"Well you're not gonna hurt 'em are ya"? she says .... 
(What was plan B again....?)
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#690488 - 04/22/08 08:21 AM
Re: This really happened to me !
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MikeFlick
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Registered: 12/25/06
Posts: 607
Loc: Wisconsin
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Just gonna hurt em for a second.
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#705052 - 05/03/08 10:07 AM
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Vinke
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Registered: 12/22/06
Posts: 1909
Loc: Pacific Northwest WA
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SSSsooooooooooo..........I am setting up a job and I notice a "Guam" plaque......Attached to the house......When the lady come out side, I mention the plaque and that i had Just watched a video about wildlife in Guam........She Says........"Ummmmm.....The fruit bat,,,,,,,,,they are good cooked in Coconut milk"
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#706082 - 05/04/08 09:43 AM
Re: This really happened to me !
[Re: Vinke]
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Vinke
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Registered: 12/22/06
Posts: 1909
Loc: Pacific Northwest WA
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I Arrive at a job were the home owner called to inform me that there was a raccoon in the trap.(coon in attic job}
....It was a beautiful day, People playing in there yards, gardening ect....I walk around back and there is as Possum in one trap,,,,,,,,She opens the window,,,,,,,I Tell her that there is a possum in the other cage....."What do you want me to do with it (RELEASE OR REMOVE)..........."KILL Him"..........She YELLS in a VERY Load voice......Cops were therein about 3 1/2 minutes........
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