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General Categories => Non Gun Stuff => Topic started by: RobertH on June 25, 2013, 10:50:26 AM
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my wife and i decided to go to Chicago for a few days coming up. we'll be staying at a really nice hotel and watching a Cub's game and doing other stuff. however, i will not be able to CC or carry a knife over 2.5".
wish me luck.....
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Luck!
May the Force be with you.
And just remember if you puke on them and pee yourself, the bad guys will go away. ???
As for the missus, she can run away as they are laughing at you! :laugh: :laugh:
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I spent three days earlier this year in a nasty part of South Chicago. The place I was working at had a security guard escort their female employees to their cars at night even though the parking lot was within spitting distance. I somehow managed to leave the keys unlocked in a brand new Dodge Charger rental car and it was still there that night. I should have bought a lottery ticket.
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well we've been back for about a day or two. i can say that we made it safely there and back. Chicago was an experience... an experience in how to spend money. parking for less than 2 days was $86, no valet, just parking in the hotel parking garage. food and tolls were also very spendy. good thing we saved our money before going. we went to a Cubs game, visited the "Bean", Field Museum and did a bunch of other small things. and for awhile, i will not curse parking in Lincoln, unless its a Husker football game day.
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Glad you made it back safe, RobertH
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Chicago is on my list of places I never want to visit again.
I flew to Chicago on a business trip. When I arrived at the private aviation airport on the north side of town I contacted the tower and got landing instructions. I entered the base leg of the landing pattern, had full flaps and idle throttle. The speed was trimmed to 65 knots. I was about 100 feet above the runway and about 300 feet from touchdown when a twin engine Bonanza, which was behind me on the downwind leg, with no radio traffic, tower permission or warning, made a steep diving u-turn in front of me and levelled out 25 feet above the runway and about 100 feet in front of me. The tower shouted for me to go around. It was a fine, crop-dusting piece of flying, though. I did a go around and on the next down leg exactly the same thing happened again!
Again I did a go-around. But, this time I didn't reduce throttle, or put in flaps. I dove at the runway like I was going to strafe it! It was only as I flared three feet off the runway that I idled the engine, started putting in flaps and pushed hard on the yoke to keep the Skyhawk from climbing. Call it "air-braking". That's how you land in Chicago. Thankfully, my flight instructor trained me for it.
The FAA apparently doesn't visit Chicago or the tower folks are too afraid of certain folks to report them. The first guy who butted in parked his aircraft with the nose sticking out of the line by about 3 or 4 feet, deliberately. When he and his body guard walked by me he was had a sneering smile on his face. Classic goon.
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Geek, did you flash them some "Universal Sign Language"??
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It was probably Mayor Daley's private plane.....
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Greygeek, the Texans have a phrase for it. " Some folks just need killin". A strong pair of hands around the offending throat would have done the job nicely, I'm thinking!!!!
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A strong pair of hands around the offending throat would have done the job nicely, I'm thinking!!!!
I was 6'6" and weighed 240 lbs at the time, but his body guard looked like Arnold Schwarzenegger. I wasn't going to push my luck. :D