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Dec 03, 2008, 09:41 AM
#1
dont do the right thing
last Saturday out metal detecting at the old airbase i ran across some sensitive material near the Army helicopter repair depot. There was paper laying around with names an phone numbers of security and just about every phone number dealing with the installation. Some of the other stuff i had no clue. OK what i thought was a good idea turned sour. I drove over to the main gate to turn in what i found and was greeted by a M 16 and for some reason i didn't see the man behind the rifle. I explained why i was there and he took the papers then wrote down my licence number. I understand the way things are everyone is uptight but that made me nervous. I had this voice in my head saying just take the papers home and throw them away but i thought i was doing the right thing. The gentleman at the gate was cool but i regret doing what i thought was the right thing...aa
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Dec 03, 2008, 09:45 AM
#2
Re: dont do the right thing
' no good deed goes unpunished' takes on new meaning doesn't it?
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Dec 03, 2008, 09:47 AM
#3
Re: dont do the right thing
perhaps he was wanting to make sure you didn't announce the stupidity of one of them losing the thing to begin with. ooooops, too late! rofl I am glad you did the right thing and it is really sad that it was not received in that way!
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Dec 03, 2008, 09:55 AM
#4
Re: dont do the right thing
 Originally Posted by Cynangyl
perhaps he was wanting to make sure you didn't announce the stupidity of one of them losing the thing to begin with.  ooooops, too late! rofl I am glad you did the right thing and it is really sad that it was not received in that way!
i also found out last year not to turn in live ammunition i found out metal detecting the old airbase. They get a little jumpy.
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Dec 03, 2008, 09:57 AM
#5
Re: dont do the right thing
lol sounds like you are just out there to make sure they are a bit jumpy!
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Dec 03, 2008, 10:00 AM
#6
Re: dont do the right thing
 Originally Posted by Cynangyl
lol sounds like you are just out there to make sure they are a bit jumpy! 
naw these guys served time overseas so the last thing i want to do is make um nervous .
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Dec 03, 2008, 10:14 AM
#7
Re: dont do the right thing
i was yard sailing once..found an old japanese ammo can loaded with money...ten bucks...cool
so about two pounds of silver japanese occupation money, some paper script...and two anti aircraft artillery fuzes...LIVE, pins pulled...i am at 5,500 ft....yikes...
drive over to the police station in prescott, ya guys. i have these artillery rounds i would like to turn in....
go kick a beehive, same result.
2 plus hours later....bomb squad arrives...sheesh.
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Dec 03, 2008, 10:18 AM
#8
Re: dont do the right thing
 Originally Posted by pippinwhitepaws
i was yard sailing once..found an old japanese ammo can loaded with money...ten bucks...cool
so about two pounds of silver japanese occupation money, some paper script...and two anti aircraft artillery fuzes...LIVE, pins pulled...i am at 5,500 ft....yikes...
drive over to the police station in prescott, ya guys. i have these artillery rounds i would like to turn in....
go kick a beehive, same result.
2 plus hours later....bomb squad arrives...sheesh.
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Dec 03, 2008, 11:28 AM
#9
 MR.
Re: dont do the right thing
While inventorying a CERAP (FAA) antennae farm site in Diamond Head Crater, Honolulu, I was confronted at gun point by two spooks...a coworker and I inadvertently triggered a security camera covering a steel doored cavern on the upper rim.
You wouldn't beleive how simple it is to soil one's shorts
The more one learns the more he understands his ignorance. I am simply an ignor ant man trying to lessen his ignorance Those with the most birthdays live the longest
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Dec 03, 2008, 11:50 AM
#10
Re: dont do the right thing
 Originally Posted by stefen
While inventorying a CERAP (FAA) antennae farm site in Diamond Head Crater, Honolulu, I was confronted at gun point by two spooks...a coworker and I inadvertently triggered a security camera covering a steel doored cavern on the upper rim.
You wouldn't beleive how simple it is to soil one's shorts 
oh yes i do
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Dec 03, 2008, 03:18 PM
#11
Re: dont do the right thing
 Originally Posted by aa battery boy
 Originally Posted by stefen
While inventorying a CERAP (FAA) antennae farm site in Diamond Head Crater, Honolulu, I was confronted at gun point by two spooks...a coworker and I inadvertently triggered a security camera covering a steel doored cavern on the upper rim.
You wouldn't beleive how simple it is to soil one's shorts 
oh yes i do 
mmm
Who needs Cartwheel Pennies anyway?
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Dec 04, 2008, 01:24 AM
#12
Re: dont do the right thing
I thought you were all on the same side nowadays 
Mike
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Dec 04, 2008, 09:06 PM
#13
Re: dont do the right thing
sometimes it's easier just throw something away.....
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Dec 05, 2008, 04:16 AM
#14
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Re: dont do the right thing
 Originally Posted by aa battery
last Saturday out metal detecting at the old airbase i ran across some sensitive material near the Army helicopter repair depot. There was paper laying around with names an phone numbers of security and just about every phone number dealing with the installation. Some of the other stuff i had no clue. OK what i thought was a good idea turned sour. I drove over to the main gate to turn in what i found and was greeted by a M 16 and for some reason i didn't see the man behind the rifle.  I explained why i was there and he took the papers then wrote down my licence number.  I understand the way things are everyone is uptight but that made me nervous. I had this voice in my head saying just take the papers home and throw them away but i thought i was doing the right thing. The gentleman at the gate was cool but i regret doing what i thought was the right thing...aa
I know what you mean aa
When it comes to Officials,
no good dead goes unpunished 
I think the main Criteria of getting a Government job
is you have to be Paranoid.
& Hate Good people
discriminate out Spike TV and American Diggers !
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Dec 05, 2008, 09:51 AM
#15
Re: dont do the right thing
 Originally Posted by prospector40
I am a fed employee. None of this is a suprise to me. I work with OPM and let me tell you, I spend as much time keeping notes on what I do as I spend doing my job cause someday I will have to cover my backside. The people here will sell you out so fast just to protect themselves that even I cant hardly believe it. Working for OPM is the most unappreciating, underhanded, insulting, backstabbing job I have ever had. Why do I stay? Thats easy, I have regular opportunity to help people out. That would be people like our troops overseas. I am former military, and I could tell you some stories about how willing OPM is to throw some of them overboard just because of their bottom line. That would be their budget.
 Originally Posted by jeff of pa
 Originally Posted by aa battery
last Saturday out metal detecting at the old airbase i ran across some sensitive material near the Army helicopter repair depot. There was paper laying around with names an phone numbers of security and just about every phone number dealing with the installation. Some of the other stuff i had no clue. OK what i thought was a good idea turned sour. I drove over to the main gate to turn in what i found and was greeted by a M 16 and for some reason i didn't see the man behind the rifle.  I explained why i was there and he took the papers then wrote down my licence number.  I understand the way things are everyone is uptight but that made me nervous. I had this voice in my head saying just take the papers home and throw them away but i thought i was doing the right thing. The gentleman at the gate was cool but i regret doing what i thought was the right thing...aa
I know what you mean aa
When it comes to Officials,
no good dead goes unpunished
I think the main Criteria of getting a Government job
is you have to be Paranoid.
& Hate Good people
just when you thought it was time relax things get worse
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Dec 23, 2008, 06:40 PM
#16
Re: dont do the right thing
try turning a case of ww2 jap hand grenades over to the state cops sometime. the cop and I ended up bombing the carp in the millpond rather than turn it in and explain how they got here from the pacific. PS all but one exploded. Bob
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Dec 23, 2008, 07:17 PM
#17
Re: dont do the right thing
 Originally Posted by lonesomebob
try turning a case of ww2 jap hand grenades over to the state cops sometime. the cop and I ended up bombing the carp in the millpond rather than turn it in and explain how they got here from the pacific. PS all but one exploded. Bob
oh yea
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Dec 23, 2008, 07:20 PM
#18
Re: dont do the right thing
the one thing i learned about hand grenades is i can't throw one far enough to feel good about it going off... :P
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Dec 23, 2008, 07:49 PM
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Dec 23, 2008, 07:53 PM
#20
Re: dont do the right thing
 Originally Posted by pegleglooker
you bad
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