alduckhunter

Several years ago, my son got stung on the tongue by a yellowjacket. We were at a skeet tournament, and he was sitting on a bench eating a hotdog while watching some other kids shoot. The yellowjacket landed on the hotdog and he didn't notice it was there when he took a bite. His tongue swelled up huge and the er doc said we were very fortunate that it stung him on the front of his tongue instead of the back, closer to his airway. It was a pretty scary situation.

“The guy who raped my 89 year old mom was caught because of the license plate readers. He stole her car and they tracked him to a 7 eleven where he was trying to sell my grandpa's shotgun that he stole later that day.

The cops showed us the pictures of her car from the cameras.

When you have a crime committed against you, they are good.

I can see how they can be missed.

Maybe they can be up, but only can be used in certain instances like a crime or missing person”


It’s a shame somebody didn’t use grandpa’s shotgun on that guy.

I only know one person that I can think of. He is a lawyer, but he keeps around 100 rattlesnakes in a building at his house that he milks for the venom and then sells it to an antivenom manufacturer. His hands are all mangled up where he has been bitten several times.

He showed me his process of milking them, but I kept a healthy distance away. LOL. He's already an obviously successful guy professionally, so I asked him why he fools with the snakes. He told me that he loves rattlesnakes first of all, but every time he gets one out and milks it he makes $100. I suppose with 90-100 snakes, that adds up pretty quick.

ETA... This was around 15 years ago. No idea what he may be getting for the venom these days.

Thank you Tigress!

I wondered how long it would take for somebody to say $350. lol.

My supervisor at a part-time summer job while I was in HS killed his wife and went to prison.

A man I used to go to church with killed his wife, and then himself.

He wasn't a killer himself, but a classmate (who was a cross dresser) was shot in the face and dumped in a ditch right outside of Ft Rucker shortly after we graduated HS.

I have been on chemo now for four months, along with an additional targeted therapy drug, with very few side effects. I am relatively young and strong. Otherwise healthy with no other co-morbidities. My cancer has responded well to the treatments.

Other than the days I have chemo, I have been able to go to work every day without feeling miserable.

I know that is definitely not everybody’s experience, but I will pray for you and your wife that she will have a good reaction to her chemo and that y’all will have minimal disruptions to your normal routines. A positive attitude goes a long way! My oncologist told me immediately after he got done explaining all the horrible possible side effects, that if you go in there expecting the chemo to make you sick, then it likely will.

I think the thing here that might cause the most controversy is that the gay man is already a church member and that membership status was attained before he came out as gay. He would basically have to be removed as a church member if the church is following sound doctrine. That’s assuming he wants to continue living in a sinful relationship, and it sounds like he does.

I go to a small, country church with a pastor who is not shy about calling out sin of all types. I frequently leave services feeling convicted of sin in my life, and moved to repent of that sin.

I feel like a gay person would be welcome to attend our church, but if they were honest about being gay, they absolutely wouldn’t be allowed to be an official church member or have any type of leadership role in the church. Now, I doubt that person would want to attend very long, because that particular sin gets called out often, and very bluntly from the pulpit. Many other sins do too.

We recently had a young man and woman ask to be church members. They lived together and were not married. The pastor told them that they were certainly wanted and welcome to attend every Sunday, but could not be members until they were married. I feel like he would say the same to a gay person, or even a gay couple that wanted to attend. That’s how I personally feel about it anyway.

It's definitely not typical, but two of Alabama's draft picks this year came from my small little corner of SE AL. Emmanuel Henderson Jr and Bauer Sharp. I went to school with Bauer Sharp's mom and uncle. Good family.

The creamery is owned by a Co-Op of the area dairy farmers. The factory is a nice place to visit and they have an ice cream shop on site. You can also taste all the different cheeses they make. The mudslide flavor is my favorite ice cream too.

It’s in a beautiful area. My wife and I went there for our 20th anniversary in JULY of that year. We rented a house on the beach, and the temperature never got over 65 degrees. We went offshore fishing one day and it was a completely different experience than fishing in the Gulf for sure. First time I was ever cold fishing offshore.

It’s not just big time athletes at big schools. My son plays a spring sport at a smaller school and he graduated a year and a half early (no redshirt year either).

He’s working on his masters degree now, while still playing his sport. He will never step foot in a classroom while doing the masters program. It’s done completely online. He could have easily come home and done it, but the Athletics Director offered him a full ride to be a GA in his office. He didn’t get a dime of NIL money, but a nearly free college education along with a free masters is good enough for us.