coffee club.

[tullibee]

Hey Grumpie - next coffee club let's compare notes about the excitement at the Leamington Ramp on Friday...  check the grapevine on your end (Lt Heimerl might be one source!) and you can fill me in on the over-reaction to the scuba tanks and spud gun that were in the back of my truck!!!   ;D  my friends have all had a pretty good laugh about it!

edited to add the scenario description:

I guess I made a Nat'l Guard nervous - I had gas cylinders (scuba tanks) and something made out of PVC and wires and a switch - and get this - the positions of the switch were labeled with "safe" and "boom"...(pneumatic spud-gun)  and I had driven past open spots and parked at the far side of the ramp from the elevators (I've parked in that same spot for years since it is a wide spot so I don't get door dings and it's easy to remember where you park if you take the same spot every day!)  It is interesting when you walk by a couple cops at a desk on the sidewalk, smile and nod, take a couple more steps and one of them says "excuse me sir, can I talk to you... are you Jon?" (I only know personally a couple people involved in law enforcement circles, and he wasn't one of them...)  he's got a print out with my license info and picture and I agree that it is me!  He starts to explain that they had sealed off the ramp and the street so the bomb squad could check out the stuff in my truck and that the FBI will likely want to talk to me, and that he would walk me to my truck so he could talk to the Natl Guard so they would let me leave!!!  We go up and have a nice chat with the three of them and then another officer, who calls another guy (FBI I think - I wasn't too good on getting names).  He'd like to send someone to my home Friday night to follow-up, but I explained I was heading north so they'd have to call my cell phone instead!  When I talked later on my drive, they thought they might do another follow-up call Tuesday too - I hope they do so I can find out to whom I should send a bill for replacing a missing screw and straightening out 3 metal hunks they bent when breaking into my topper!  >