During normal business hours, a bank or a gun store could do in a pinch. (Some towns don't do a good job of pointing you to the police department or fire department.) Both have generally good security, and Darwin gladly sorts out the people stupid enough to try to start violence in either one.
Ive called ahead to the sheriff department and explained i was being either followed or road raged and was heading towards their station before and gave my car type and what I could of the guy behind. They pulled him over and had me, as I was still on the phone continue to the station. Apparently I looked like his girlfriend who has the same type car as I did and he was drunk and they had been fighting. 🤦♀️ but oof! Scared me.
My daughter, a small lab owner, had a new customer demanding to see the owner. My daughter said she would get the owner, turned and walked into the office. She stayed about a minute and then walked back out and said, "I'm the owner and you can leave, we will not be doing any work for you". The customer's husband called and begged us to do their work. We did for a few times but they got behind in paying. We held up test results until they paid and refused to do any more of their work after that.
Why is it always the people with the most "precious time" who have no concept of time itself? "I've been waiting for over an HOUR for basic service!" "Ma'am/Sir, we opened five minutes ago and you just walked in the front doors." "...WhErE iS yOuR mAnAgEr?!"
Yup! If I'd been OP's Dad, as soon as the house was finished being built, I'd have called the City and reported Jim for building his "Shelter" without the proper Permits...and if I could find out who Jim's Insurance Company was, I'd report the Illegal Construction to them too...
@@HappilyHomicidalHooligan But, where's the fun in that? This way they learned a valuable, and costly, lesson that they'll never repeat...hopefully. Think of it as economic Darwinism.
Hi RedWheel hope you are well. Thanks for sharing. Please stay safe.🏴😷😁👍. Hi everyone hope you are all well and safe too. Have a great day. Sorry for the same comment I'm thinking of a new one. Thank you for your twice daily uploads. Stay safe
Several professionals and your neighbor told you that the plan was stupid. The day laborers you hired told you the plan was stupid. Your plan ends up being stupid and you're shocked.
My mom owned a condo on the beach. A swimming pool was in front of the condo community. During Hurricane Hugo, a two-story pile of broken pilings was dumped on the pool which was also full of sand. After the pilings were cleaned up, workers began to shovel out the sand. During the next high tide, the pool began to float upwards. Lots of horrified screaming from the workers, and the concrete broke apart. They were never able to replace it.
I thought the water tank idea was a good one, but poorly executed. You can buy them second hand cheap (not that he needed to) and due to its shape it would make a perfect "central hub" where you could have rooms leading off from it (attach shipping containers?). The problem with a water tank is that it's built to hold water in and not hold earth out, but all that would be needed would be internal bracing and reinforcement (along with proper painting, ventilation and burying in concrete etc etc). I thought the story would lead to it crumpling in on itself, not floating lol. Ah well.
So Jim buries a big cork under his house and is suprised whrn it's suddenly underwater, it floats! Had he gotten an Engineer to olan it, I'm sure they could have factored in a better way to make his cork into a boat anchor. I live not far from Southern Oklahoma across the border and our dirt is on;y 4 feet deep here. After that, it's solid rock for about 10 feet minimum. Our storm shelters/ root cellars are buried and bolted to the rock base then covered over with dirt a couple of feet over the top. Yeah, they are big ugly mounds behind the house, but a proper below the rock shelter woudl eat up his $2 Mil fast.. A few have some rolling hills and can bury one against a hill, which works a little better. But flatlanders mound their Root Celllar roofs so the mower can still mow over the top of it. Entertains the kids when they have to drive the riding mower.
If they had poured a concrete floor in the bottom of the tank it probably would have not floated. But then, it would take an engineer to factor in how much weight would be needed to hold down the tank. Weight of concrete per yard, number of yards, etc. Pour it with a high slump, and it would about level itself.
Since it had already popped up like a fishing bobber, the ground would have already moved under it. They'd have to dig it out just to remove the shifted dirt that's underneath.
@@cindydott452 Probably, or driving a pylon or two down to bedrock and attach it to those. But even still, his idea was idiotic, in that he put it directly under the house. If he was smart, he would have placed it away from the house, with a concrete drainage pipe between the trap door, downward passageway, and the bunker, as well as have a secondary exit, such as to a decorative wishing well or something, also using a drainage pipe as a tunnel. The reason for that is if the house burned down or was destroyed by tornado, the rubble would be on the only exit (the trap door). If no one knew they were there, they'd be trapped for who knows how long. In some areas where natural disasters have occurred, it has taken months or even years to clear debris (think of Katrina). If he was looking more as a Tornado shelter, a concrete box (or even a new septic tank) would do the same job, and be resilient enough to install hydraulic jack(s) to push off debris. Yes, I did think about this quite a bit, as I even drew up blueprints for my own. Concrete drainage pipes can be 2-10 feet in diameter, so a 4-6 foot pipe is not that hard to get, and can even be made at home, if you are crafty enough. People have used all kinds of things to make bunkers. School buses, shipping containers, and yes, septic tanks. The difference is they've also taken into consideration things like drainage, plumbing and anchorage. Jim just didn't bother to think it through.
With the water tower story the first thing that came to mind wasn't the thing rising from the depths but was rather more dangerous and I expected a more sinister outcome. When you have an enclosed space made of steel there is a strong likelihood of some rust (think a ship's bilges or the like) and rust never sleeps. The chemical reaction that produces rust will use up all the oxygen - go into that space without first thoroughly ventilating it or wearing an air pack like firefighters use and the lack of oxygen can quickly render one unconscious and then dead. Any would be rescuers can suffer the same fate if not properly trained and equipped. Something much like that happened about 10 years ago near me when some guys were doing maintenance inside a steel barge - killed three all told. Ask anyone who's worked in oil and gas - they'll tell you how seriously they take the risks of entering enclosed spaces. Mr. Rich was lucky to have not killed himself with his harebrained scheme.
Sadly true. I wouldn't want to ride it out in a water tower thought. OMG, as I'm writing this, I just remembered that my avatar, Dott Warner, lives in a water tower with her brothers!
Well then, that would be most of them. It's called the "Lottery Curse" since well over half of all multi-million dollar winners end up in deep debt, mostly for taxes. And a statistically significant portion of the rest end up dead not terrible long after their windfall. So, if you were bad with money before you won the lottery, winning millions just means you can be spectacularly bad with money. If you win millions and millions of dollars do the following: 1) Do Not Tell Anyone! 2) Hire a lawyer. 3) Do Not Tell Anyone! 4) Hire a money manager. 5) Do Not Tell Anyone! 6) Pay your Taxes 7) DO... NOT... TELL... ANYONE! Once your money is safe in appropriate long term investments (Trusts, Bonds, Stocks, property, etc.) that will increase your wealth over time, then you can splurge, buy a few toys, take a trip.... and maybe tell someone, now.
I've heard over and over that people who win the lottery end up in a couple of years to be worse off than they were before their winning, because they do stupid things with the money. Here's another example.
@@cindydott452 That is the way to do it I sorta hit the US Government Lottery in between SS and on the job disability In a bit over 25 years I will receive close to $1,000,000 tax free of course I have to live to be 90 YO but that's the gamble you accept. Of course $1M isn't what it was before the mid 1970s but still I will not suffer as long as da gubberment don' fall.
@@cindydott452 Well like some Lottery Winners I quit my job after I got the disability. SS was not enough and I had taken it because the difference between 66 or waiting till 70 would have taken 20+ years to payoff so I had that money to add to retirement for 4 years or so. Then I hit the Disability Lottery 17 days latter I was retired.
I'm skeptical of the water tower rising out of the ground. Soil normally doesn't become liquescent enough to raise a tank out of the ground. We'd never be able to keep a prefab tornado shelter or propane tank down otherwise 😆
Large underground tanks at a service station will float up if left empty after the initial installation. We always had a partial load of product dropped as soon as possible after the tanks were installed. I believe the newer fiberglass tanks which weigh less are worse about floating than the older steel tanks.
@@larrykeenan598 Ha, I didn't know that. I wonder if the type of soil has an effect on whether stuff floats up. The soil where I live is mostly hard clay and calcium carbonate deposits, sheds more rain than it soaks up.
@@TotallyNotRedneckYall I think it has mostly to do with the fact that you dig out a huge hole, put in a tank that takes up lots of space, and then fill around the tank with some dirt. You can't really pack the dirt so it stays porous, allowing water to penetrate into the hole. We backfilled the tanks with sand and then dropped about half a tank full of product in it. Gasoline weighs about 6 pounds per gallon. Putting a few thousand gallons in a tank adds quite a bit of ballast.
Slightly related. The first deep diving bathyspheres used tanks of gasoline for buoyancy. They would drop lead weights, and rise to the surface. Gas is lighter than water, and cannot compress like a tank of air would.
That last story woke up a few memories for me. Quite some time ago I worked for a newsagent chain in the UK, as a substitute manager, and my job was to cover for managers who were on holiday or off sick. Pretty hectic schedule, but I quite liked it. I have had runins with Karens like the woman in the last story too, similar tales, similar endings.But I always remember one of my fellow sub managers one day saying, 'Know what? Life in retail would be great if only we didn't have to deal with customers' lol
My dad has driven eighteen wheelers for his whole life. I once asked him why didn't he drive a bus, it's way easier. His answer? "I can't. I hate people." Dad is really a gentle kind man, but he has no patience for Karen type people! 😂
My advice if someone is following you, drive to the nearest Police or Fire Station.
During normal business hours, a bank or a gun store could do in a pinch. (Some towns don't do a good job of pointing you to the police department or fire department.) Both have generally good security, and Darwin gladly sorts out the people stupid enough to try to start violence in either one.
Ive called ahead to the sheriff department and explained i was being either followed or road raged and was heading towards their station before and gave my car type and what I could of the guy behind.
They pulled him over and had me, as I was still on the phone continue to the station. Apparently I looked like his girlfriend who has the same type car as I did and he was drunk and they had been fighting. 🤦♀️ but oof! Scared me.
That first boss is an absolute stalker.
My daughter, a small lab owner, had a new customer demanding to see the owner. My daughter said she would get the owner, turned and walked into the office. She stayed about a minute and then walked back out and said, "I'm the owner and you can leave, we will not be doing any work for you". The customer's husband called and begged us to do their work. We did for a few times but they got behind in paying. We held up test results until they paid and refused to do any more of their work after that.
First rule of any new project. Know what you don't know. Second Rule: Listen to the people who know what you don't.
Why is it always the people with the most "precious time" who have no concept of time itself?
"I've been waiting for over an HOUR for basic service!"
"Ma'am/Sir, we opened five minutes ago and you just walked in the front doors."
"...WhErE iS yOuR mAnAgEr?!"
"However, Jim believed this was simply laziness on their part ..." I expected him to claim they were all part of some vast conspiracy of some sort.
If your time is so important, make a damned appointment.
that jim guy clearly never heard of why they bury people above ground in some areas.
Good morning fellow RedWheel Rollers!!☕☀️⛅
I absolutely LOVE working for clients that have more money than common sense.
More dollars than sense.
'A fool and his money are soon parted'
I second that saying and agree with it 💯
Just coming in here to say that! You beat me to it.
Good morning RedWheel
Good morning everyone 😊😊
Second story. 2 millions is just not enough to do crazy things. Spend wisely or go broke.
That last story was just...😚👌💋❤ so satisfying.
Sounds like 'Jim' is the perfect example of the saying, "More money than brains."
Yup!
If I'd been OP's Dad, as soon as the house was finished being built, I'd have called the City and reported Jim for building his "Shelter" without the proper Permits...and if I could find out who Jim's Insurance Company was, I'd report the Illegal Construction to them too...
@@HappilyHomicidalHooligan But, where's the fun in that? This way they learned a valuable, and costly, lesson that they'll never repeat...hopefully. Think of it as economic Darwinism.
@@zuzax1656 They would still have learned a costly and valuable lesson...
ALWAYS GET THE REQUIRED PERMITS!
The " Jim " story was great!
We aren't far from a collapse honestly
Hi RedWheel hope you are well. Thanks for sharing. Please stay safe.🏴😷😁👍. Hi everyone hope you are all well and safe too. Have a great day.
Sorry for the same comment I'm thinking of a new one. Thank you for your twice daily uploads. Stay safe
Good morning RedWheel ! Have a great day everyone !
"Jim" is bonkers. Dad was right.
The second story fits better in Entitled People.
Several professionals and your neighbor told you that the plan was stupid. The day laborers you hired told you the plan was stupid. Your plan ends up being stupid and you're shocked.
Brights from a tailgater? He's lucky he didn't get shot
Good Morning RedWheel. Thanks For Making My Day.
My mom owned a condo on the beach. A swimming pool was in front of the condo community. During Hurricane Hugo, a two-story pile of broken pilings was dumped on the pool which was also full of sand. After the pilings were cleaned up, workers began to shovel out the sand. During the next high tide, the pool began to float upwards. Lots of horrified screaming from the workers, and the concrete broke apart. They were never able to replace it.
Good morning RedWheel take care and have a great day 👍 Have a great day everyone 👋😃🤗😎
I thought the water tank idea was a good one, but poorly executed. You can buy them second hand cheap (not that he needed to) and due to its shape it would make a perfect "central hub" where you could have rooms leading off from it (attach shipping containers?). The problem with a water tank is that it's built to hold water in and not hold earth out, but all that would be needed would be internal bracing and reinforcement (along with proper painting, ventilation and burying in concrete etc etc). I thought the story would lead to it crumpling in on itself, not floating lol. Ah well.
So Jim buries a big cork under his house and is suprised whrn it's suddenly underwater, it floats!
Had he gotten an Engineer to olan it, I'm sure they could have factored in a better way to make his cork into a boat anchor. I live not far from Southern Oklahoma across the border and our dirt is on;y 4 feet deep here. After that, it's solid rock for about 10 feet minimum. Our storm shelters/ root cellars are buried and bolted to the rock base then covered over with dirt a couple of feet over the top. Yeah, they are big ugly mounds behind the house, but a proper below the rock shelter woudl eat up his $2 Mil fast.. A few have some rolling hills and can bury one against a hill, which works a little better. But flatlanders mound their Root Celllar roofs so the mower can still mow over the top of it. Entertains the kids when they have to drive the riding mower.
If they had poured a concrete floor in the bottom of the tank it probably would have not floated. But then, it would take an engineer to factor in how much weight would be needed to hold down the tank. Weight of concrete per yard, number of yards, etc. Pour it with a high slump, and it would about level itself.
Why remove the water tower, just fill it with ballast or concrete, it ain’t going to move no matter how hard it rains.
It literally already did. That was the problem.
Since it had already popped up like a fishing bobber, the ground would have already moved under it. They'd have to dig it out just to remove the shifted dirt that's underneath.
I wonder if it would have stayed in place if they filled it about a third full of concrete after burying.
@@cindydott452 Probably, or driving a pylon or two down to bedrock and attach it to those. But even still, his idea was idiotic, in that he put it directly under the house. If he was smart, he would have placed it away from the house, with a concrete drainage pipe between the trap door, downward passageway, and the bunker, as well as have a secondary exit, such as to a decorative wishing well or something, also using a drainage pipe as a tunnel. The reason for that is if the house burned down or was destroyed by tornado, the rubble would be on the only exit (the trap door). If no one knew they were there, they'd be trapped for who knows how long. In some areas where natural disasters have occurred, it has taken months or even years to clear debris (think of Katrina).
If he was looking more as a Tornado shelter, a concrete box (or even a new septic tank) would do the same job, and be resilient enough to install hydraulic jack(s) to push off debris.
Yes, I did think about this quite a bit, as I even drew up blueprints for my own. Concrete drainage pipes can be 2-10 feet in diameter, so a 4-6 foot pipe is not that hard to get, and can even be made at home, if you are crafty enough.
People have used all kinds of things to make bunkers. School buses, shipping containers, and yes, septic tanks. The difference is they've also taken into consideration things like drainage, plumbing and anchorage. Jim just didn't bother to think it through.
@@zuzax1656 I read a novel once "Getaway Special" where a guy used a plastic septic tank as the hull of a space ship!
I just realized. My avatar, Dott Warner, lives in a water tower! How apropos!
Yay, it's RedWheel! Love the videos and thank you for entertaining us every single day.
I loved that last one!
Jim had more money than he had sense. 😣
Hello Hello Hello, I also have a crazy boss! 🤪I'm self employed
@@maggiemae9099 over fired myself several times. The guy who signs my check keeps hiring me back
With the water tower story the first thing that came to mind wasn't the thing rising from the depths but was rather more dangerous and I expected a more sinister outcome. When you have an enclosed space made of steel there is a strong likelihood of some rust (think a ship's bilges or the like) and rust never sleeps. The chemical reaction that produces rust will use up all the oxygen - go into that space without first thoroughly ventilating it or wearing an air pack like firefighters use and the lack of oxygen can quickly render one unconscious and then dead. Any would be rescuers can suffer the same fate if not properly trained and equipped. Something much like that happened about 10 years ago near me when some guys were doing maintenance inside a steel barge - killed three all told. Ask anyone who's worked in oil and gas - they'll tell you how seriously they take the risks of entering enclosed spaces. Mr. Rich was lucky to have not killed himself with his harebrained scheme.
Thank you
Jim wasn't so far off on the societal collapse. It partially happened.
Sadly true. I wouldn't want to ride it out in a water tower thought. OMG, as I'm writing this, I just remembered that my avatar, Dott Warner, lives in a water tower with her brothers!
@@cindydott452 as a water department worker, I appreciate you guys keeping the place mostly clean. Well, clean other that Wakko.
@@LegendStormcrow . Whatta ya gonna do? Boys will be boys!
I love stories about lottery winners losing all of their winnings in stupid ways. 😆
Well then, that would be most of them.
It's called the "Lottery Curse" since well over half of all multi-million dollar winners end up in deep debt, mostly for taxes.
And a statistically significant portion of the rest end up dead not terrible long after their windfall.
So, if you were bad with money before you won the lottery, winning millions just means you can be spectacularly bad with money.
If you win millions and millions of dollars do the following:
1) Do Not Tell Anyone!
2) Hire a lawyer.
3) Do Not Tell Anyone!
4) Hire a money manager.
5) Do Not Tell Anyone!
6) Pay your Taxes
7) DO... NOT... TELL... ANYONE!
Once your money is safe in appropriate long term investments (Trusts, Bonds, Stocks, property, etc.) that will increase your wealth over time, then you can splurge, buy a few toys, take a trip.... and maybe tell someone, now.
Jim should've bought one of those pre built shelters. I forget the name of the company tho
or should of just went with a company that does doomsday bunker crap and have them build one.
@@Sound_Spark that's what I'm talking about
Well good morning to you to redweel
I've heard over and over that people who win the lottery end up in a couple of years to be worse off than they were before their winning, because they do stupid things with the money. Here's another example.
I always like to think that I would do well if I won. Pay off the house, and get a nice (regular people car) and save the rest for retirement.
@@cindydott452 That is the way to do it I sorta hit the US Government Lottery in between SS and on the job disability In a bit over 25 years I will receive close to $1,000,000 tax free of course I have to live to be 90 YO but that's the gamble you accept. Of course $1M isn't what it was before the mid 1970s but still I will not suffer as long as da gubberment don' fall.
@@GhostRider-sc9vu . Good for you 👍👍👍
@@cindydott452 Well like some Lottery Winners I quit my job after I got the disability. SS was not enough and I had taken it because the difference between 66 or waiting till 70 would have taken 20+ years to payoff so I had that money to add to retirement for 4 years or so. Then I hit the Disability Lottery 17 days latter I was retired.
I'm skeptical of the water tower rising out of the ground. Soil normally doesn't become liquescent enough to raise a tank out of the ground.
We'd never be able to keep a prefab tornado shelter or propane tank down otherwise 😆
Large underground tanks at a service station will float up if left empty after the initial installation. We always had a partial load of product dropped as soon as possible after the tanks were installed. I believe the newer fiberglass tanks which weigh less are worse about floating than the older steel tanks.
@@larrykeenan598 Ha, I didn't know that.
I wonder if the type of soil has an effect on whether stuff floats up. The soil where I live is mostly hard clay and calcium carbonate deposits, sheds more rain than it soaks up.
@@TotallyNotRedneckYall I think it has mostly to do with the fact that you dig out a huge hole, put in a tank that takes up lots of space, and then fill around the tank with some dirt. You can't really pack the dirt so it stays porous, allowing water to penetrate into the hole. We backfilled the tanks with sand and then dropped about half a tank full of product in it. Gasoline weighs about 6 pounds per gallon. Putting a few thousand gallons in a tank adds quite a bit of ballast.
Slightly related. The first deep diving bathyspheres used tanks of gasoline for buoyancy. They would drop lead weights, and rise to the surface. Gas is lighter than water, and cannot compress like a tank of air would.
Good Tuesday morning all. Thanks for the stories RedWheel.
The water tower debacle was great. I can't stop laughing.
That last story woke up a few memories for me. Quite some time ago I worked for a newsagent chain in the UK, as a substitute manager, and my job was to cover for managers who were on holiday or off sick. Pretty hectic schedule, but I quite liked it. I have had runins with Karens like the woman in the last story too, similar tales, similar endings.But I always remember one of my fellow sub managers one day saying, 'Know what? Life in retail would be great if only we didn't have to deal with customers' lol
My dad has driven eighteen wheelers for his whole life. I once asked him why didn't he drive a bus, it's way easier. His answer?
"I can't. I hate people."
Dad is really a gentle kind man, but he has no patience for Karen type people!
😂
Thanks, the comment you made in story 1 made me laugh 😂👍👋😃🤗😎
You're the best Red! Hope you're having a great day
Have you heard the tragedy of darth Plaguies the wise?
No, I haven't. Would you care to share it with me?
@@lokigodofmischief9816 he was so wise and powerful he could bring the ones he loved back from death
@@Breadbandit720 That sounds more like a gift than a tragedy. Was there a catch to his ability?
@@lokigodofmischief9816 the only person he could not save was himself. He was killed in his sleep by his apprentice
Morning Redwheel.
Good morning RW from mid Tn. Hope you have a great day brother.
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Specialist bra fitting shop How many men did you employ according EOC to the should have at least 50%
Let me guess. Is this your dream career? 😂
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Woo hoo I am early!! I love watching these videos on my breaks
Morning RedWheel! Morning everyone!