Literal Odds and Ends

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Barrington Woman Used Flamethrower to Torch Her Infiniti QX70 in Barrington, Reported Vehicle Stolen in Schaumburg

Barrington police and firefighter/paramedics responded about 10:30 pm. Friday November 10, 2017 to a report of a vehicle fire in the block of 1500 South Grove Avenue in Barrington. The vehicle on fire was an Infiniti QX70 registered to Julie Gagne, who lives in Barrington about 1.5 miles north of the scene of the vehicle fire.

Julie Gagne, 47, of the block of 500 South Summit Street in Barrington, allegedly used a flamethrower to torch her QX70 luxury sport utility vehicle and falsely reported it stolen to Schaumburg police, police said Wednesday.

Gagne has been charged with arson, disorderly conduct, and filing a false police report.

Schaumburg Deputy Police Chief Dan Roach said Gagne was in the village when she reported auto theft of her SUV. “She was at a restaurant, and she called to say her car was missing when she came out of the restaurant,” Roach said.

Gagne later retracted the report that her 2016 Infiniti QX70 was stolen, and a police investigation discovered that Gagne used an X15 Flamethrower manufactured by Ohio-based XMatter to torch the SUV. The flamethrower, which costs about $1,600 uses a mixture of about 3 gallons of fuel and napalm, which is a mixture of gel and gasoline or other flammable fuel, to facilitate using about 4,000 PSI to “throw” a stream of fire as far as 50 feet for a duration of 60 seconds.

Barrington Police Chief David Dorn said the flamethrower, which is legal in Illinois, was left near the SUV on Grove Avenue. Police learned that Gagne bought the device online. The manufacturer, XMatter, lists a starting price of $1,600 for the X15 model personal flamethrower. XMatter’s official website publishes that the flamethrowers are used for controlled burns and ground-clearing, clearing brush, clearing snow and ice, incineration of weeds and insect pests, and pyrotechnic events and movie props.

Must've been spectacular. But why?

[SuburbanFarmer]

Ex-husbands car, I bet.

[TheReal_ND]

4k saved over 2 years assuming 2 week paychecks would be 83.3 out per paycheck.

If you put it into an HSA (Health Savings Account) then the 83.3 is taken out pre-taxes.

with 4k you can pay most any deductible on a catastrophic plan.

Put away 160+ bucks away per month as a teenager when you are living with your parents, most likely are on their health plan and can be so until 26.

Know that it is just part of growing up and working is to take responsibility for your own health.

Health insurance REALLY isn't that hard. You just have to think ahead and start early.
That's literally it.

[TheReal_ND]

What is this snow shit? It's all white and sitting around doing nothing. What kind of stupid shit is this?

[Okeefenokee]

Can you imagine the extra smiles there would be if trains started hauling cabooses on the end again?

Also, teach your kids how to get truckers to blow their horns. That doesn't seem to happen nearly as much as it did when I was a kid.

[Okeefenokee]

it's spoderman!

[K@th]

Meanwhile, in the land of sticky tables:

Man cooks his own food after finding Waffle House staff asleep

[Fife]

21st century archeology FTW!

Original 80s Time Out Arcade Found in a Dead Mall in Virginia

Among the many firsts Crossroads Mall pioneered in “mall history,” was that it was the first mall in the State of Virginia to not only have an arcade, but the first one to have a Time Out, the arcade chain that was also the very first chain to move into shopping malls on the East Coast.

Last week, workmen ripping into a wall discovered the “buried remains” of Crossroads Mall’s historic Time Out arcade, opened in 1978 and closed since approximately 1992, preserved in time. Unfortunately someone took the “TIME OUT” logo-sign before photos could be obtained.

https://www.peterhirschberg.com/mirrors ... meout.html

[SuburbanFarmer]

21st century archeology FTW!

Original 80s Time Out Arcade Found in a Dead Mall in Virginia

Among the many firsts Crossroads Mall pioneered in “mall history,” was that it was the first mall in the State of Virginia to not only have an arcade, but the first one to have a Time Out, the arcade chain that was also the very first chain to move into shopping malls on the East Coast.

Last week, workmen ripping into a wall discovered the “buried remains” of Crossroads Mall’s historic Time Out arcade, opened in 1978 and closed since approximately 1992, preserved in time. Unfortunately someone took the “TIME OUT” logo-sign before photos could be obtained.

https://www.peterhirschberg.com/mirrors ... meout.html

Woh

All the old machines still there?? Those would be worth a mint now.

[Speaker to Animals]

Original (working) machines are worth a shit ton of cash, dude. That's like discovering pirate treasure or something. For real. A whole arcade with the machines just left in there for years? Fuuckk I would nut my pants if I found that and knew I could claim those machines.

Would be a basis for a really cool short story where somebody discovers a forgotten arcade and in the middle of the fucking thing stands a Polybius machine.