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[3rookie]

Originally Posted by Patience

He was driving a van and she could see his penis - was she driving a tank?

Is the sex act the problem or an exposed penis in your car? because to be honest I have peed into a cup while driving

Are you a female astronaut?

[Patience]

Originally Posted by 3rookie

Are you a female astronaut?

no x2

[NoName]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/46832892/ns/us_news-life/

Relatively small errors by surveyors using stakes, hatchets and mental arithmetic 240 years ago could mean the end of Victor Boulware's tiny convenience store.

For decades, officials thought the land where the store sits was in South Carolina, because maps said the boundary with North Carolina drawn back in the 1700s was just to the north.

But modern-day surveyors, using computers and GPS systems, redrew the border to narrow it down to the centimeter. Their results put the new line about 150 feet south of the old one and placed Boulware's Lake Wylie Minimarket in North Carolina, where the gas prices are 30 cents higher and the fireworks that boost his bottom line are illegal.

"If I end up across the line, it is going to shut this business down," Boulware said.[...]

"I'm having a hard time being funny about this when mysterious forces bigger than you are shoving you around," said Frederick Berlinger, who suddenly has been told that he goes to bed at night in Spartanburg County, S.C. after 15 years in what he thought was Polk County, N.C.

He studied maps when he bought more than 60 acres of land in the mid-1990s. About two-thirds was in South Carolina, but he picked the spot for his home in North Carolina. Or at least he thought he did.

The problems for Berlinger and the other property owners began before the United States was even a country, when the king of England sent surveyors to draw a boundary between the two Carolinas. His instructions in 1735 were explicit: Start 30 miles south of the mouth of the Cape Fear River and have surveyors head northwest until they reached 35 degrees latitude. Then the border would head west across the country to the Pacific Ocean. But the surveyors didn't follow the instructions exactly, and future instructions led to the state line's twists and turns around Charlotte and in the mountains.

The surveyors used poles and measured chains, determining what direction to head from the sun and stars, doing math in their heads, and putting hatchet blows on trees to mark the boundary. Over time, those trees disappeared, but the state line still needed to show up on maps.

I'm having a hard time understanding why they can't agree to let the boundaries fall where they have always been, possibly with a payment from one side to the other.

[llcooljabe]

I am not a geologist, but would the river expand or contract, based on rain fall or erosion or some such?

[Actuary321]

First the 4 corners controversy and now this?

I am losing my faith in 18th and 19th century surveyors.

[asdfasdf]

Because as actuaries ew're always so precise.

[A Student]

Originally Posted by asdfasdf

Because as actuaries ew're always so precise.

We're incredibly precise. Just not necessarily accurate.

[tgadd]

http://www.wcax.com/story/19180748/m...olice-cruisers

Man drives over all the police cruisers at the station in retribution for getting arrested for marijuana possession.

[douglan]

Originally Posted by tgadd

http://www.wcax.com/story/19180748/m...olice-cruisers

Man drives over all the police cruisers at the station in retribution for getting arrested for marijuana possession.

lol, i saw this one too. apparently, when asked how he got the tractor, he said that he comes from a "farming family"

[tgadd]

https://twitter.com/ObscenityLawyer

This lawyer is defending a guy in the UK charged of having obscene porn (ala fisting). He live tweeted today's court appearance.