Re: Phoenix metro area design/installation recommendation

["Norm Mugford" <1alarm@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Mr. Bass wrote:

   " It would have been a lot less amusing if they had found my money
     belt and unburdened me of a few thousand dollars".

Are you saying Mr. Bass that they would have taken the money from you
that you probably stole from your customers by double billing credit cards
and
not shipping what your customers paid for......

Remember...You're the one with the BBB complaints.....
                     You're the one with the "Habitual Felony"
convictions......
                     You're the one that kills innocent people........


Tick, Tick,
Ti,,,,,,,,,,,,......................________________________________

Norm Mugford

"Group Moderator" <GroupModerator@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>
> "Robert L. Bass" <robertlbass@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> > Fast forward to Brazil in 2001.  I was driving just under the speed
limit
> > from Rio de Janeiro to Cabo Frio with my namorada when a pair of Policia
> > Militares pulled me over.  Asked in my broken Portuguese why they pulled
> > me over they said they needed to search my vehicle.  No problem, I don't
> > carry anything illegal so I figured this would only take a minute.
Wrong!
> >
> > Inside the trunk was my small backpack carrying several changes of
clothes
> > and bathroom kit.  The cop ordered me into the little building next to
the
> > highway which they used as an office and searched the pack.  Finding
> > nothing illegal, he ordered me to open my hygiene bag.  Inside were
> > toothbrush and paste, floss, soap and shaving gear, etc., plus a month's
> > supply of er... protection.  :^)
> >
> > Spotting the rubbers, the cop shouted, Ooooh, camasinha Americana --
> > TROJAN -- muito bom!!!  (Oh, American rubbers -- TROJAN -- very good).
I
> > said, "Gosta?" (Do you like)?  He said "Sim!" (Yes).  I tore off six,
> > pressed them into his hand and said "Feliz Natal" (Merry Christmas) with
a
> > big grin.  It was November but he got the idea.  He smiled and said,
> > "Obrigado.  Bom voyagem" (Thanks. Have a good trip) and we were on our
> > way.
> >
> > Told of these events my Brazilian friends said this was all too typical.
> > The police in Brazil, like those in Mexico are grossly underpaid.  Some
> > choose to supplement their income with theft, bribes, graft.  Others are
> > just honest cops trying to get by on their meager wages.  Because all it
> > cost me was some lost time and a couple of dollars I didn't mind very
> > much. It would have been a lot less amusing if they had found my money
> > belt and unburdened me of a few thousand dollars.
>
>
> Mike Said:
> Translation:
> They packed his fudge and found him a Brazilian Bitch who had hers packed
> for years. AKA Angela.
>
>