The town can do whatever they wish, but there’s really not a way to make drivers pay more attention. Tickets for distracted driving have increased over the years and not done anything. Enforcement has gone up pre Covid and nothing changed. There are constant messages/commercials in media on dangers of distracted driving (I think they may now outweigh drunk driver commercials now) and nothing changes.

People just seem to not care anymore and I don’t think there is a whole lot a town board can do to change it.

You have that option to continue to go there. Also, it’s day 2. MA has been open for awhile (like 6 years now or so?). They’ve had much longer to reduce their prices and streamline things.

The argument for years was “they should legalize and use the taxes on it to fund xyz.” And now that it’s legal and the prices are higher than on the street where it’s not taxed, people are confused or angry at the higher price.

The failure to connect the dots here is astounding. Legalized purchases from stores was ALWAYS going to be more expensive by a pretty substantial amount than buying from your dealer hookup.

So the independent vet didn’t notice it either? Again, that’s part of the adoption process before you bring home. If no one noticed until you got home, that’s not on the shelter.

Edit: Ah I guess delete your posts and run away because you got caught in a lie. Classic Reddit.

I’d love to see how you can prove your adopted cat has eye issues specifically from the shelter and not just because she caught an illness at any point or is a genetic issue. Part of their adoption process is having an independent vet give an exam before bringing cat home.

And if you knowingly adopted a cat with an eye problem and then you’re mad at the shelter….I’m not sure what to tell you. Maybe choose a perfectly healthy cat next time. Or if it developed the eye issue after adoption, it’s either genetic, luck of draw illness, caught something from an existing cat at home, or on you yourself.

Some of their cats are sick because they take in cats found on the street barely alive or who are already sick. They don’t just magically heal when dropped off at shelter, it takes time.

It smells like cats in there….I’m not sure what you’re expecting to smell in an indoor shelter with 20 or so cats. You could clean every hour and it will still smell like cats.

And if you actually had adopted cats from there, you would know that they cover all care for the 6 months or so, I forget the exact amount of time.

Sounds like you have a personal vendetta, but you can’t just lie and make things up.

CT cat connection in Windsor is a great shelter

That’s my point; situations are not always equal. Some people (not saying you, just in general) will say the same things or kids will be kids when it’s TPing a house, smashing pumpkins in the street, or similar and they would be correct. There’s no damage, cost, etc.

But other people still excuse more serious behavior issues as kids will be kids like the scenario I described so it’s never as simple as give the kids a break across the board without knowing exactly what is happening; each situation is fairly unique.

Sir this is a wendys.

In all seriousness, you’re just realizing now that most commercials are annoying? Where have you been the past 20 years.

Gee I guess you missed the part where I said the cop was an idiot hothead who should probably lose their job. Nowhere did I excuse behavior by the adult in this situation.

But I also know teens lie constantly. You’d be amazed at how many teens come into the outpatient facility where I work and tell me to my face no I don’t use drugs (certain ones can have really dangerous effects when paired with anesthesia or similar), I tell them we are going to test you anyway, they say no again, and their tests come back as they actively have stuff in their system. Literally could have killed them if test comes back incorrectly.

If the beginning of the story hinges on their word of “we were just sitting on the curb on Halloween night” and that part of the camera footage isn’t available, I’m sorry for being skeptical. That’s why I was asking if anyone had a link to the whole timeline of footage and not just one clip, I want to know whether this is completely one sided ridiculous behavior by the cop or the teens are lying about what happened in their first place.

It’s weird that me saying “I’d like to see the whole incident if available because the cops reaction was complete lunacy” is somehow me defending the actions of this person when at no point did I do that.

It depends on the situation. If teens TP a tree on someone’s property, sure it’s annoying to clean up but that shouldn’t be a misdemeanor.

What happened on my cul de sac on Halloween last year was 3 people (likely teens but who knows for sure) went in backyard of several houses and brought chairs and other patio/deck furniture out in front and threw it in the street. Items were obviously damaged. Cameras picked up pieces of them doing it but with masks on and no car within view it made it impossible to get any helpful descriptions. Would misdemeanor charges (if identified obviously) be appropriate there? I think absolutely yes.

I missed the part about the cops sister saying she was drunk, so obviously that changes things.

And it’s not a knee jerk defensive reaction to want to know how the incident started; that’s the complete opposite of knee jerk reaction since I want the whole picture of events before coming to any conclusions and not just pick it up halfway.

I don’t agree (obviously) with how the cop handled the situation but again, I always want to know the complete story.

I would love to see that Ring camera footage but the few sources I’ve read like wtnh and fox 61 haven’t mentioned if that was released to public: because if there’s one thing a group of teens do on Halloween, it’s sitting innocently on a sidewalk not doing anything mischievous at all.

Does anyone know or have a different link with the cam footage? Specifically the first interaction, not just the two seconds of the teens being chased. Or even if the footage was released to local authorities because none of the articles state that either.

If true that the teens were just sitting on a sidewalk, yeah the cop should be suspended or probably lose the badge if the review board thinks that’s appropriate. But if they were TPing house, property damage, or doing some other usual Halloween prank that involves trespassing or costing property owner money to fix, it’s hard for me to feel too badly for them. Cop is still an idiot hothead for chasing them but at least it makes some iota of sense rather than them just freaking out for no reason.

What is it about 384? Is it not patrolled as much or something? I keep seeing posts about drag racing and news blurbs about accidents related to speed and it seems like a lot for such a short highway.

https://youtu.be/2C4D-2MTfXk

Iron Maiden - paschendale (ww1) and longest day (ww2, specifically Normandy beach landing).

Both are chilling and epic looks into specific battles and moments in each war. Incredible song writing.

Usually a lower tuning like drop C will naturally make everything sound angrier, moodier, and more aggressive.

With both giants and pats playing at 1 (I think) it might be crowded. You can always call when they open and see if they do reservations, not sure if that’s a thing there. Otherwise maybe just get there a before game time and make sure you’re settled and have a spot.

Unfortunately a town selectman doesn’t have much sway in state politics outside of their immediate town. Haven’t heard a peep from my local state reps in months about eversource including rate hikes besides messaging that is “we can’t do anything, don’t get mad at us.” Meanwhile our legislators voted to give themselves a raise for 2023.

If it’s above 30 degrees (that’s the cut off for me, some people go when even colder) winter hiking is great. Not humid, no mosquitoes/gnats, not ridiculously sweaty, and views are sometimes better because no leaf cover.

Because it’s truly a bizarre request to ask for professional references for someone you’re hiring for 2 hours for a family party. And i also tried help you out a little earlier by telling you that you don’t need that level of person where you will spend maybe a thousand dollars for a few hours when you can find someone who knows how to deal it but doesn’t work at a casino for probably $30 an hour.

Best not to freak out when people are trying to help you.

I’m not reading too much in…there’s absolutely no reason you need a person who’s worked in a casino and professional references for a themed family party. Bj is probably the easiest game to deal out of all casino table games and by no stretch of the imagination do you need a professional to do this. Hiring someone like the other poster who was talking about bachelor party type things will cost you a ton of money and this could be a much cheaper expenditure.

Like you can hire someone to do this who knows the game very easily without seeing references or them having casino employment experience. If you were hiring for wal mart would you need people to have a masters degree in order to apply?

I can only imagine a shift supervisor or pit boss having to take a phone call asking for a reference for a former employee to work at a kids party.

I’m very curious on why you need a professional with references for a family friendly party with kids. Seems like a bit (or a lot) of overkill.

How self absorbed does someone have to be to think this random thought is worthy of both a tweet and post to Reddit? Oh wait it’s bulky mao, I’m no longer surprised.

They need to pat themselves on the back for holding eversource accountable…wait