Better than putting whiskey in the baby bottle.

We A few friends of mine used to get a cat high by blowing hits into her ear. She never seemed to mind.

if you are the type of guy who gives joints to babies, you may not remember to take out the tape.

cerote: We A few friends of mine used to get a cat high by blowing hits into her ear. She never seemed to mind.

Pussy shotguns. Been there....

Babies don't take much to get stoned, what's the big deal?

how do you pwn a video camera?

or you could just wait for the parents to start pumping the child full of ritalins and what not.

I worked at a pawnshop for 7 years. In that time you would not believe the things I've seen. Yes, I had folks pawn their camcorder with decent vids inside them (see youporn) I've also had gold teeth pawned, complete with plier marks and I was robbed at gunpoint twice and actually killed the last one who tried. Pawn brokering is a tough and very boring job most of the time. It doesn't pay well and I wouldn't recommend it to anybody. The only benefit is getting any thing for 25% over what we loaned for it. When I worked there I always carried 2 guns, a S&W 1006 and a Kel-Tec 9mm. I ended up shooting somebody with the 1006. I will never forget it. I wish it was different. I blame myself every single day. I should have done it differently.

Ninja Wicked: how do you pwn a video camera?

That depends; if it's standard VHS or Betamax it's pretty much pwnd just by default.

you saying you could have used a different gun and done a better job?

Or maybe aimed differently to make the blood splatter on the linoleum instead of the carpet to ease cleanup?

More quality pawn shop stories and fewer Vista stories. That's what I'm looking for from this website.

pawn3d!

Maddogjew: ... The only benefit is getting any thing for 25% over what we loaned for it.

not bad, concidering they only loan for 10% of what something really costs. I once needed some cash for the week & took in few things. One was my Dyson vaccuum... and I left with them, laughing at the dude behind the counter.

I had paid $450 for the Dyson, he wanted to give me $40. Now, I know he typed in their computer to get pricing "vaccuum"... but a Dyson ain't your everyday vaccuum.

"Angel Daily?"

Too easy.

/Then again, she's a teen mother, so we knew that before.

The Aristocrats!

/obligatory

Maddogjew: I worked at a pawnshop for 7 years. In that time you would not believe the things I've seen. Yes, I had folks pawn their camcorder with decent vids inside them (see youporn) I've also had gold teeth pawned, complete with plier marks and I was robbed at gunpoint twice and actually killed the last one who tried. Pawn brokering is a tough and very boring job most of the time. It doesn't pay well and I wouldn't recommend it to anybody. The only benefit is getting any thing for 25% over what we loaned for it. When I worked there I always carried 2 guns, a S&W 1006 and a Kel-Tec 9mm. I ended up shooting somebody with the 1006. I will never forget it. I wish it was different. I blame myself every single day. I should have done it differently.

Holy shiat.

vegasj:
I had paid $450 for the Dyson, he wanted to give me $40. Now, I know he typed in their computer to get pricing "vaccuum"... but a Dyson ain't your everyday vaccuum.

Yeah, it blows instead of sucks. A good woman does that and vacuums.

And we still don't have an Ohio tag? Seriously Drew? I mean, parents giving their babies weed, sex with picnic tables, killing metal guitarists on stage? We're one clown rape away from Florida as it is, might as well just get the Photoshop out now and cook it up because the letter has already been mailed.

/drunk - obviously
//All Floridians are ex-Ohioans anyways
///hope Ordinary Average Guy is feeling better

Maddogjew

I worked at a pawnshop for 7 years. In that time you would not believe the things I've seen. Yes, I had folks pawn their camcorder with decent vids inside them (see youporn) I've also had gold teeth pawned, complete with plier marks and I was robbed at gunpoint twice and actually killed the last one who tried. Pawn brokering is a tough and very boring job most of the time. It doesn't pay well and I wouldn't recommend it to anybody. The only benefit is getting any thing for 25% over what we loaned for it. When I worked there I always carried 2 guns, a S&W 1006 and a Kel-Tec 9mm. I ended up shooting somebody with the 1006. I will never forget it. I wish it was different. I blame myself every single day. I should have done it differently.

Bolshevik.

vegasj: not bad, concidering they only loan for 10% of what something really costs. I once needed some cash for the week & took in few things. One was my Dyson vaccuum... and I left with them, laughing at the dude behind the counter.

I had paid $450 for the Dyson, he wanted to give me $40. Now, I know he typed in their computer to get pricing "vaccuum"... but a Dyson ain't your everyday vaccuum.

The guideline always was (if in new condition) 25% of retail price. that way we could sell it for twice what we loaned on it. Pawnshops don't want to keep the items you put on collateral, we wanted to earn the interest on the loan. Only use Pawnshops as a last resort. 25% interest compounded per month is ruinous to almost any consumer. Hell, I've had super bowl rings in the shop where I worked at and only loaned a max of $2000 on them.

I worked in a pawn shop for years and always loved the people that would forget to clear out the recycling bin or their memory stick in their camera. I have seen some good but the WORST porn in the world.

Really nothing new.

studebaker hoch: Bolshevik.

I don't care if you believe it or not. The name of the pawnshop I worked at was "All Cash Coin and Pawn" in Savannah, GA and the incident happened in Dec. 1998. I don't know why I related it to y'all, I don't talk about it to anyone else. I don't ask for vindication, I just feel the need to tell somebody. I am just reallly sorry about the whole thing.

My camera was stolen our of a government work truck in the middle of the night. And around 9:00am I found it in a pawnshop. They'd changed the strap and the lens, but the rest was my trusty Pentax K-1000 all right, with all the defects mine had such as the frame counter being 4 places off. I asked to see it, and the guy behind the counter was real nervous. Even told another guy in the store that someone was looking at the camera.

Sigh. It was a nice one, I'd used it for thousands of good pics over the years.

Couldn't prove it was mine, wasn't smart enough in those days to register things with the cops, so I just fiddled with it a while, wished it good luck in it's new life, handed it back, and walked.

I bet it happens all the time. Pawnshop dudes see the rightful owners of stuff walk in, find their stuff, have no way of proving it's theirs, and leave again.

/Never patronize pawnshops. It's all stolen stuff, and the owners aren't stupid. Don't promote that business model.

seminole87: for the price of that dyson you could have bought the head portion of a RealDoll and skull-farked it

Oh LAWD?!

/seminole you owe me a keyboard cause I just spit beer all in this one

Dad?

RE: the headline, I have a better idea:
Don't give pot to babies.

Maddogjew: I ended up shooting somebody with the 1006. I will never forget it. I wish it was different. I blame myself every single day. I should have done it differently.

You're right. Should have used the Kel-Tec.

studebaker hoch: /Never patronize pawnshops. It's all stolen stuff, and the owners aren't stupid. Don't promote that business model.

That really isn't true. I knew that some of the stuff I took in was stolen. I was required by law to report the model numbers and serial numbers of every item I took in. If an item was stolen, then the shop took the loss. It was in our best interest to not take in stolen items. There are of course exceptions. Pawnshops are only there to prevent the desperate from going to loan-sharks. I could almost always tell from the story that a client gave us if an item was stolen or not. Most of our customers where honest, hard working folks that just got a little behind in their bills. Some were low life tweakers looking for a fast buck. After awhile, any one could tell the difference. Loaning money to crack heads became an unacceptable risk and we never pursued those types of loans.

Maddogjew: I worked at a pawnshop for 7 years. In that time you would not believe the things I've seen. Yes, I had folks pawn their camcorder with decent vids inside them (see youporn) I've also had gold teeth pawned, complete with plier marks and I was robbed at gunpoint twice and actually killed the last one who tried. Pawn brokering is a tough and very boring job most of the time. It doesn't pay well and I wouldn't recommend it to anybody. The only benefit is getting any thing for 25% over what we loaned for it. When I worked there I always carried 2 guns, a S&W 1006 and a Kel-Tec 9mm. I ended up shooting somebody with the 1006. I will never forget it. I wish it was different. I blame myself every single day. I should have done it differently.

That is farked up, but I'd say it's better to have you here posting on Fark than have him alive and you dead.

ultraholland: You're right. Should have used the Kel-Tec.

You joke, I am serious. I never trusted the hard double action pull of the Kel-Tec. The guy had pulled a gun on me and I gave in completely to his demands. When he had turned his back, and was walking out the door I opened fire. The only reason I carried a Kel-Tec was that it was completely concealable. I could keep it in the front pocket of my jeans in case I was disarmed by someone who had cased out our establishment. I never wanted to kill anybody, it somehow was automatic. I could have let him go and he would have lived. Instead, I shot a 19 y/o in the back and killed him. Make as much jest about this as you wish. It will haunt me till the end of my days.

NURK AHA!

Maddogjew: Make as much jest about this as you wish.

I don't think anyone here is small enough to make jokes about this. At least I hope not.

Hey, wow, you can shoot fleeing robbers in the back in your state and not go to PMITA prison?

Maddogjew: studebaker hoch: Bolshevik.

I don't care if you believe it or not. The name of the pawnshop I worked at was "All Cash Coin and Pawn" in Savannah, GA and the incident happened in Dec. 1998. I don't know why I related it to y'all, I don't talk about it to anyone else. I don't ask for vindication, I just feel the need to tell somebody. I am just reallly sorry about the whole thing.

Hey man, If I were you I would broadcast your story as much as possible. People have to get it into their heads that other people might be armed. Believe me, If you were being held up, you had every right to do what you did. the more people that hear about it, the more of a chance that somebody will think twice about holding up a pawnshop. You may inadvertently save someone else's life.

Sometimes you have to look at a situation like that and and ask yourself what good can come from it other than just looking at the bad shiat.

Maddogjew: Instead, I shot a 19 y/o in the back and killed him. Make as much jest about this as you wish.

In that case I'm sorry that it weighs so heavily upon you. Right or wrong, what's done is done and you move on.


cerberus9: I don't think anyone here is small enough to make jokes about this. At least I hope not.

You should know better ;)

chakalakasp: Hey, wow, you can shoot fleeing robbers in the back in your state and not go to PMITA prison?

Maybe I should have. I don't remember making a conscious decision about the incident. It was automatic. I think about this guys family and his child every day. Maybe I should be in prison. I tried to send money to his family but they won't accept it. I even tried to set up a trust fund for his child to go to Armstrong state and the family refuses. I just want absolution for what I have done.

/I'm drunk and shouldn't be saying any of this but I can't help it.

chakalakasp: Hey, wow, you can shoot fleeing robbers in the back in your state and not go to PMITA prison?

Welcome to the South.

Maddogjew: chakalakasp: Hey, wow, you can shoot fleeing robbers in the back in your state and not go to PMITA prison?

Yeah, I'm kind of curious about that as well. You must have had one hell of a lawyer.

Maddogjew:

Jesus, man. End of the story, though, is that you were completely within your rights, and you tried to help out the family. Water under the bridge.

knownzero: Maddogjew: chakalakasp: Hey, wow, you can shoot fleeing robbers in the back in your state and not go to PMITA prison?

Yeah, I'm kind of curious about that as well. You must have had one hell of a lawyer.

I would have used the "he was coming right at me" excuse. However, explaining the bullet wounds in the back might be a barrier.

All I wanted to do was mention how poorly written that article was, but I seem to have stumbled into a very moving After School Special.

czerno: knownzero: Maddogjew: chakalakasp: Hey, wow, you can shoot fleeing robbers in the back in your state and not go to PMITA prison?

Yeah, I'm kind of curious about that as well. You must have had one hell of a lawyer.

I would have used the "he was coming right at me" excuse. However, explaining the bullet wounds in the back might be a barrier.

"He was moonwalking right at me"

Maddogjew, I'm sorry to hear about that. Your regret is really normal and I wish I could say something to make you feel better. I know two police officers who killed in the line of duty, were cleared, and still quit the force. These NRA types on Fark and elsewhere who talk big about shooting people have no idea. Unless someone is a psychopath, they inevitably feel guilty for the rest of their lives for killing someone, be it in self-defense, in combat, or in police work. Col. David Grossman wrote a book about that, called "On Killing." He mentions that people who kill really don't talk about it much, and if they do, they only talk to other people who have done the same thing.

knownzero: Yeah, I'm kind of curious about that as well. You must have had one hell of a lawyer.

No, I used Bobby Phillips (pops) (he was cheap). The grand jury never indicted me. GA, seems to have an understanding about things like that. It cost $600 (All Cash Coin and Pawn paid for it) and nothing ever became of it. I don't mind answering any questions about this. It makes me feel better if somehow, y'all understand.

Maddogjew: I shot a 19 y/o in the back and killed him.
wow. i've jacked a few threads in my time but wow.

Make as much jest about this as you wish.
OK.

It will haunt me till the end of my days.
Normally, I'd say: "you'll get over it." but that doesn't always work out so well.

Keep your chin up and your eyes open.