The three S variable in play it would seem. Thanks CCG!
Shoot scoot and shut up?
The three S variable in play it would seem. Thanks CCG!
Road noise, exhaustion, closed up vehicle, and so on and so forth. Sudden noise woke them up, but they weren’t awake fast enough to identifyThey were so sound asleep they didn't hear gunshots near the truck? I was guessing he did it with a knife.
Thank you.
And rapid controlled pairs can roll pretty fastI have found that sleepers do not hear the first shot, it is the second one that always woke the kids up.
+20 years ago that was a option. I was almost involved in a shooting. I did not fire, pulled a fade. Today you will be caught on a couple camerasShoot scoot and shut up?
Even out of urban areas. There've been cameras at road-side or tourist rest areas for many years.+20 years ago that was a option. I was almost involved in a shooting. I did not fire, pulled a fade. Today you will be caught on a couple cameras
But we are talking about this particular situation in this story. I’m not sure how many resources “they” will have to look into cameras, and our family group needs to survive the trip north for any potential prosecution to happen even if they have cameras.+20 years ago that was a option. I was almost involved in a shooting. I did not fire, pulled a fade. Today you will be caught on a couple cameras
Daily checks of all fluids, tire pressures et al help avoid such conversations. OK I haven't done those religiously like I did when in uniform but every fill up, it's part of the routine.Dave turned and reached into the engine bay and pulled out the oil dipstick. Taking a paper towel he had been using, he put it under the dipstick.
“You see the oil here?”
“Yeah?”
“Doesn’t look right, does it?”
Stephen tried to see what he was talking about. Dave was right. It didn’t look right, but he couldn’t put his finger on why.
“No, sir. What’s wrong with it?”
“If it had been a long time since you changed it, or you ran it hard with too many miles, it’d be dark and smell burnt. If it was freshly changed, it would be about the color of lager and the consistency of warm honey. This is neither. This looks like chocolate milk. The only thing I know that causes that to happen is water or antifreeze in the oil. Since I don’t think you mixed up the filler caps, it’s mixing on its own somewhere in the engine. That’s why it quit. Bill will be back tomorrow and he might know something I don’t that makes this happen, but you’re not driving this truck anywhere until it gets fixed.”
Yeah when the ride is no-start, no-go you might as well unload particularly when you can do that in a fairly secure, somewhat defensible and hidden from prying eyes location.Don’t wait till the morning to unload the pillage-able content.