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[spleen1015]

I had the same thing happen a few weeks ago when trying to pay an speeding ticket online. Every time I would hit the submit button, it would say there was an error and I should try again later. I tried it 5 or 6 times that day and never got it to work.

My wife called me later and was like WTF!!!, there are 6 pending charges on your bank account from them, each for the amount of the ticket. That hurt for a couple of days.

[stevew]

Originally Posted by JonInMiddleGA

This seems like a possibility.

Have run into several instances of "holds" lately, far above & beyond the norm.
The latest are a couple of gas chains that have started placing holds in excess of $100 when you pay at the pump, tying up available credit until the actual charge processes.

While I'm on that subject, Pilot, hell will freeze over before I buy gas from your sorry asses again. A $150 hold for a $48 charge is unacceptable. Thanks to a heads up from my c.c. company Texaco can also kiss my ass, I don't find a $125 hold any more tolerable.

I buy a ton of gasoline, so I'm glad I haven't seen those kinds of holds. I'm guessing that maybe people have been exploiting the 1.00 holds in your area? For example someone who needed money could pump hundreds of gallons of gas with not much money in their account(obviously there is a downfall here).

[JonInMiddleGA]

Originally Posted by stevew

I buy a ton of gasoline, so I'm glad I haven't seen those kinds of holds. I'm guessing that maybe people have been exploiting the 1.00 holds in your area? For example someone who needed money could pump hundreds of gallons of gas with not much money in their account(obviously there is a downfall here).

C.C. company said this level of hold is still pretty new to them, only started about a month or so ago, & specifically mentioned Pilot & Texaco, as well as Shell in only certain states.

In Pilot's case, it apparently made the news in Texas (where it seems to have started with ATM cards).
http://www.connectamarillo.com/news/...2#.Tjr6WGX0smw

Shell made the news in Chicago for it as well
Why Gas Stations Hold Your Cash Hostage - NBC Chicago

BP does $75 holds
Hosed at the gas pump -- by your debit card - MSN Money

I guess I hadn't seen the sudden surge because probably 80% of our gas is bought at the same station (Murphy's).

[Ksyrup]

I've seen fairly steep holds, but only because my CC started showing them instantaneously online. Until then, I'd never noticed. And really, it doesn't have any effect on my CC use whatsoever. Are you guys using debit cards or something, or just CCs where you're pushing the limit?

[JonInMiddleGA]

Originally Posted by Ksyrup

or just CCs where you're pushing the limit?

They make another kind? {insert sad winky emoticon here}

[Scoobz0202]

Originally Posted by Ksyrup

I've seen fairly steep holds, but only because my CC started showing them instantaneously online. Until then, I'd never noticed. And really, it doesn't have any effect on my CC use whatsoever. Are you guys using debit cards or something, or just CCs where you're pushing the limit?

I was using my debit card. Money wasn't an issue. I just assumed it was a battle.net issue..

Although 400+ dollars for a couple days that I cant touch for a game I don't have is slightly annoying.

[Julio Riddols]

I've learned over the last half hour that TCY Junkie is one of the more interesting posters on this board.

[TCY Junkie]

Originally Posted by Julio Riddols

I've learned over the last half hour that TCY Junkie is one of the more interesting posters on this board.

Knowing the punch lines before letterman can say them isn't a big deal one way or the other but after meeting a girl that can make me laugh its not so great being me at times regretting turning down some women. So if you are the type that is satisfied by a hot woman than just be grateful you're not like me.

[Julio Riddols]

Sounds like a plan.

[Pumpy Tudors]

Mount Rushmore of Booty:

Me
Me
Me
Draft Dodger

[Draft Dodger]

I agree

[Ronnie Dobbs2]

Iron Bowl Sting to Catch Deadbeats

Video is priceless.

[Logan]

Not to turn into the morality policy but why did they take that first guy down?

[rowech]

Originally Posted by Ronnie Dobbs2

Iron Bowl Sting to Catch Deadbeats

Video is priceless.

I read this story earlier...not a clue how what they did to get these people is legal.

[Easy Mac]

Dear old guy at the Y, please close the curtain to your shower stall. Those of us looking for an empty shower stall have to pass by your old naked-ness. If you want to let it all hang out, at least take the last stall on the left, not the very first one as you turn the corner. Some of us want to keep our naked old man viewing to less than one a day, but you're like the affirmative action of old naked white guys.

[gstelmack]

Originally Posted by rowech

I read this story earlier...not a clue how what they did to get these people is legal.

Why would it be illegal? They're only using it to get them out in the open rather than hunting them down in hiding. These stings are used all the time for deadbeat parents and the like so they don't have to go kicking down doors and stuff.

[JediKooter]

Looks that police department had a Serpico movie night.

[terpkristin]

I am looking for you fine folks at FOFC to entertain me tonight. Hopped up on pain pills, exhausted from a very long month at work, I'm not sure I'll be able to read more of A Dance With Dragons tonight. So I need something else to amuse me.

/tk

[Sun Tzu]

Originally Posted by terpkristin

I am looking for you fine folks at FOFC to entertain me tonight. Hopped up on pain pills, exhausted from a very long month at work, I'm not sure I'll be able to read more of A Dance With Dragons tonight. So I need something else to amuse me.

/tk

QWOP

[molson]

Originally Posted by Logan

Not to turn into the morality policy but why did they take that first guy down?

It looks like he was resisting with his arms (keeping them apart so they couldn't be cuffed), and then he shifted his body a little. That one's pretty popular, "I'm not fighting, I'm not fighting!," (as he resists the cuffs and kind of falls into the officer.) He knows that if he gets an elbow or something on the way down he might get a 6 figure settlement from the city. Whatever though, he'll live (and maybe his kids will be able to eat more often now).

[ColtCrazy]

Originally Posted by gstelmack

Why would it be illegal? They're only using it to get them out in the open rather than hunting them down in hiding. These stings are used all the time for deadbeat parents and the like so they don't have to go kicking down doors and stuff.

Yeah, it's not. I remember watching something awhile back where they did this in D.C. in the 80s offering Redskins tickets. Seems like there was a guy that asked if he would still get his tickets then too.

[molson]

It's always better to lure criminals out than go into where they are.

[CU Tiger]

Originally Posted by JonInMiddleGA

This seems like a possibility.

Have run into several instances of "holds" lately, far above & beyond the norm.
The latest are a couple of gas chains that have started placing holds in excess of $100 when you pay at the pump, tying up available credit until the actual charge processes.

While I'm on that subject, Pilot, hell will freeze over before I buy gas from your sorry asses again. A $150 hold for a $48 charge is unacceptable. Thanks to a heads up from my c.c. company Texaco can also kiss my ass, I don't find a $125 hold any more tolerable.

I frickin' wish!
I would give them all my business. I am sick and damn tired of having to do three hang up the nozzle. Get my receip then scan my card again transaction just to fill up my truck. Every store around here is set to $50 max and it drive me nuts when a fill up cost ~$115

[sterlingice]

Oof. $115 to fill up? It takes me a month to get to that even now.

SI

[CU Tiger]

heck thats weekly...before I quit my job that was a darn near daily occurence.

[B & B]

I put 40 bucks in my car and that should get me to the start of the third week of preseason. Thats at 20 mpg.

Back in HS, I was spending about 50 bucks a week on my gas guzzling V8 350that got about 11 mpg. Of course I was also spending about 2k a year on insurance that was liability only.

My how times have changed.

[sabotai]

Am I the only one that finds it weird when adults refer to their parents as "mommy" and "daddy"?

[CU Tiger]

Originally Posted by B & B

I put 40 bucks in my car and that should get me to the start of the third week of preseason. Thats at 20 mpg.

Back in HS, I was spending about 50 bucks a week on my gas guzzling V8 350that got about 11 mpg. Of course I was also spending about 2k a year on insurance that was liability only.

My how times have changed.

Well diesel is right at $4/gallon...I get 19-20 mpg..but the clsoest stoe is 16 miles away. Heck just this morning I rode to Lowes and back and that was a 85 mile trip.

[molson]

Originally Posted by CU Tiger

...I get 19-20 mpg..but the clsoest stoe is 16 miles away. Heck just this morning I rode to Lowes and back and that was a 85 mile trip.

Damn, that's some country livin'.

[DaddyTorgo]

Do I need to be worried at all if i just got a battle.net account creation verification addressed to "zhang" in my inbox (and no, i'm not zhang). Why would someone verify an account with my email account?

just to be sure...i just changed my PW again.

[mckerney]

Originally Posted by DaddyTorgo

Do I need to be worried at all if i just got a battle.net account creation verification addressed to "zhang" in my inbox (and no, i'm not zhang). Why would someone verify an account with my email account?

just to be sure...i just changed my PW again.

Phising?

[DaddyTorgo]

Originally Posted by mckerney

Phising?

Didn't look like it...I checked the return path and such of the original. Didn't respond or click the links anyways - and I don't play WoW or anything, so I'm not really concerned. Was just weird.

[Julio Riddols]

Is your email address seomthing that could easily be typed in as the result of a typo? IE: [email protected] vs [email protected]?

Saw this a lot when I worked for CCBill. People would call, furious, claiming they did NOT subscribe to porn and want to know HOW THE HELL we got their information. Later we would get a call from someone else, claiming they were never sent their login information, then we would be able to put 2 and 2 together. Fun times. 2 pissed off people, all because one tard mistyped his email address when subscribing.

[DaddyTorgo]

Originally Posted by Julio Riddols

Is your email address seomthing that could easily be typed in as the result of a typo? IE: [email protected] vs [email protected]?

Saw this a lot when I worked for CCBill. People would call, furious, claiming they did NOT subscribe to porn and want to know HOW THE HELL we got their information. Later we would get a call from someone else, claiming they were never sent their login information, then we would be able to put 2 and 2 together. Fun times. 2 pissed off people, all because one tard mistyped his email address when subscribing.

It potentially is, but not by someone named "zhang." Unless it's my doppleganger-guy (guy who has an email address that's very very similar to mine - so much so that I get email from his parents/roommates/university login credentials/etc. But he's a) older, and b) his name isn't "Zhang" or anything close to that (it's actually the same as mine)).

Oh well. just weird.

[Julio Riddols]

Are you Spiderman?

[DaddyTorgo]

Originally Posted by Julio Riddols

Are you Spiderman?

Nope. But the guy is pretty interesting. He was apparently the founder of the European-version (or UK version?) of hotels.com. So he's an internet millionaire. He was/is a guest professor at a university in the UK (they accidentally sent me his professorial login credentials), and is now involved in VC, and gets invites to parties (not personal ones, but like he's on the email guest list) for Richard Branson parties and stuff. Actually got an invite to a Playboy-sponsored party a while back.

But he's also a bit of a douche...used to get emails from someone who he apparently rented an apartment in NYC with (I get the sense he wasn't there that often?) who was constantly like "HEY...PAY YOUR HALF OF THE RENT!!"

Interesting shit.

[Julio Riddols]

Those types of stories are what makes life in the internet age interesting.

[RainMaker]

Women are all irrational beings. There are no exceptions to this rule.

[B & B]

My nextgirl...

yeah

will be nothing like my ex girl...

[Vince, Pt. II]

Originally Posted by Karlifornia

You play at Twin Creeks?

I do. I've also played at Mission College and in some San Jose and Los Gatos city leagues, but I'm at Twin Creeks every Tuesday night. I've actually been going there every year since the place opened, as my parents used to play there. It's super expensive, and most of the umps are horrible, but it's fun to play under the lights. Just as long as you're not on field 4...the wind out there is freaking awful.

[JonInMiddleGA]

For all the aggravations that some FB users have experienced with the latest "You know you're from Town XYZ if ..." viral explosion, the one from the town you grew up in can be pretty darned entertaining if you get a good group going all at once.

I have to think that the smaller the town, the more fun the posts. Or at least that'd be true up to at least a certain bottom limit so that you have enough people posting that they aren't all related to each other. I suspect the limit on that is about 2 high schools for the area, maybe 3 max. A 1 high school town like my hometown seems nearly perfect for it though, references like an inside joke about a specific principal made sense to at least three generations in the conversation.

With a small enough town, a simple sentence like "Hey Mr. Craig, got a Camel?" was pretty damned funny stuff tonight ... so long as you knew that the ex-POW used to chain smoke in the halls of the high school but paddled any student caught smoking in the bathroom.

[Suburban Rhythm]

If haircut day is the best day, the first day back to work after vacation is the worst.

[M GO BLUE!!!]

Quit my job a few weeks ago. The woman that handles the paperwork on everything gave me a quote on COBRA for only myself that happens to be the same amount that a former coworker is paying for himself + his wife & son. She is insane & does not take criticism well at all (typical woman, but even crazier.)

How the hell do I say "this cannot be the right amount" AGAIN? I tried circumventing her & calling the health plan. They are not the COBRA administrator. Dammit!

[jeff061]

Waterboard.

[JediKooter]

Bring some rope, a candlestick, a horse, 3 National Geographic magazines (no newer than 10 years ago), a number 2 pencil, a pair of novelty hypnotizing glasses, and a bucket of water. Tell her that, depending on the situation, each item is useful, however, they have nothing to do with what you are asking about COBRA. She'll be so distracted by all those things, she won't realize you are criticizing her work and she won't freak out on you.

[Ksyrup]

Meant to post this when I got in this morning:

Is ESPN radio trying to run off listeners? Late last week, either Thursday or Friday, they had SKIP F'N BAYLESS sitting along side Greenie, and this morning I get in the car and it's no less than STEPHEN A. SMITH!!! yammering about shit he doesn't know. I mean really...is it going to be Bayless and Smith tomorrow? Because that's about the only way it could get worse.

[spleen1015]

Originally Posted by Ksyrup

Meant to post this when I got in this morning:

Is ESPN radio trying to run off listeners? Late last week, either Thursday or Friday, they had SKIP F'N BAYLESS sitting along side Greenie, and this morning I get in the car and it's no less than STEPHEN A. SMITH!!! yammering about shit he doesn't know. I mean really...is it going to be Bayless and Smith tomorrow? Because that's about the only way it could get worse.

There is not a decent morning drive time sports radio show that I can find right now. When Czaban left FSR, there was nothing left.

[Ksyrup]

I don't mind Greenie and Golic's shtick, particularly when they have the Olneys or Schefters on giving info. But that just drove me nuts. And then I made the mistake of switching on MLB on XM and heard Rob Dibble. So I listened to comedy.

[spleen1015]

Originally Posted by Ksyrup

I don't mind Greenie and Golic's shtick, particularly when they have the Olneys or Schefters on giving info. But that just drove me nuts. And then I made the mistake of switching on MLB on XM and heard Rob Dibble. So I listened to comedy.

The Fantasy Sports channel on XM is doing it for me since it is fantasy football season. I don't know when I will do when it is over.

Zack and Jack on FSR are tolerable some days.

Mad Dog radio was good until they put Steve Phillips on in the morning. That dude don't know shit about shit.

[M GO BLUE!!!]

Originally Posted by JediKooter

Bring some rope, a candlestick, a horse, 3 National Geographic magazines (no newer than 10 years ago), a number 2 pencil, a pair of novelty hypnotizing glasses, and a bucket of water. Tell her that, depending on the situation, each item is useful, however, they have nothing to do with what you are asking about COBRA. She'll be so distracted by all those things, she won't realize you are criticizing her work and she won't freak out on you.

I was thinking about just bringing up the worst kept secret in the world: She's having an affair with the sales manager.