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Belgium said:
I suppose it's because I live in a small rural town with a population of just a few thousand people. Neighboring other small towns. Big sense of community. People know eachother, are eager to talk to eachother, ... so word goes around pretty fast about many things. With this being a rural area and forests etc. being nearby, there's a large number of hunters around here and in the neighboring small towns. My dad has been hunting for a very long time, held a provincial hunting title and as an alcoholic he was a regular at most of the bars around here. I'm assuming that's how all these people (most of them I've never met before) know about my dad owning numerous hunting guns, possibly knowing how many or which models, ... and me recently having inherited them after his passing. Part of the small rural town charm I suppose is that the people are generally comfortable around eachother, friendly, eager to strike up a conversation, and they also generally don't ask too many questions.
Obviously these men coming to my house are feeling comfortable enough to just come to my house and straight up ask me to illegally sell them a firearm. They've probably done it before they way they just casually came to my house and asked those kind of questions.
I presume they're hunters as you need to either have a hunting license or a shooting club license to have a firearm permit. The case is often that hunters have firearm permits and properly registered guns but also have one or multiple unregistered guns in their possession. My dad for example had 2 registered guns with updated paperwork and 4 unregistered ones with outdated or no paperwork.

While the cop in uniform and presumably on duty coming by to ask for an off the record firearm certainly baffled me at that time, there was another occasion that was much weirder to me. It didn't involve anything with firearms but instead it was about the car I inherited, a 2015 Toyota Rav4. Some guy contacted my aunt saying he had heard about my dad's passing and wanted to know what was gonna happen with the car as he was interested in buying it if it was for sale. Which is what I intended to do with it eventually. My aunt referred him to come to my house. I wasn't present at the time he came by our house and my mom answered the door. The man, middle aged white and "giving off a shady vibe" according to her, immediately asked to see the car. It was parked further up the driveway around a corner so he gave it a quick look and then went straight to offering my mom €21500 in cash to "sell the car off the record in cash" right there in that moment, using a specific slang term for an off the record cash deal. No negotiations, nothing; straight to that offer. My mom tried to change the subject and replied that we still needed to get the proper paperwork for the car, get it checked at the garage, ... to which he again insisted to buy it right there for €21,5k cash. She declined again and said she'd get the car checked at the garage next morning and get the paperwork in order. The man replied that he was interested and would visit again in a day or 2 for an update.

Never heard anything from the man again. Don't know his name, where he lives, any contact information and certainly not why he was so insistent on trying to buy a car off the record in cash for what I and later the garage believed to be at least a few grand more than the car is worth at this time. I wasn't there in person but the way my mom described it he didn't come off as threatening or anything, just a normal looking middle aged white man who acted shady in the way he tried to go about purchasing this car.

When she told me this I was just baffled at the lack of logic behind his actions moreso than the audacity, since people had already been asking the same about firearms. Our local garage later appraised the car's resale price at roughly ~€19000. Which is significantly lower than the shady man's offer of course. Why on earth was this man out to purchase a car off the record in cash for at least more than €1000 over the market rate? He insisted twice in that moment to purchase it at that very moment for €21,5k. The guy hadn't even properly inspected the car, just walked around it for a few seconds and took a peek inside through the windows. He also wouldn't have known which exact options it had, ... Basically just looked at the car and offered right away to buy it off the record.
Then I also have to think, why this car? What's so special about a Toyota Rav4 and why does he want this rather expensive car so badly without any paperwork, ...If you want to illegally buy a car I'm sure there's cheaper options.
Inheritance brings out some very strangle people I suppose.
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Never had those unfortunately. One day hopefully


Man honestly, my fav would have to be mexican. Second would be turkish. Third would be itlaian with their orgasmic pastas
 
HOU$TON said:
Should I evacuate for this hurricane?
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Man it's looking like this one is gonna be a bad one. If you have somewhere to go north then go.

All the gas, bread and water in my area is gone :{
 
ahat20 said:
Cubans good. Had some when i was in miami.


I like all foods except balut
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Cuban bistec (steak w/ onions) and their rice and beans together are insane.. A lot of other Spanish cultures make the same dishes, but this was the best when I compare..

Portuguese BBQ serves both chicken with ribs/yellow rice/fries on a platter family style..it could feed up to 3 people anywhere from $8-10..the fries with the rice so bangin' ..unbelievable..the best restaurants are in Newark, NJ where there is a huge Portuguese population..when I was working in the area..I would have this a few times a week..I miss North Jersey..these restaurants get so busy they are filled completely.. A lot of times it is too packed to wait..so u have to drive to another to order..and most of them are good in the area
 
hurricane harvey is trippin


all stores are out of water and gas stations are running out of gas.
 
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