Wouldn’t you be a bit mad too if you drove up to a banks drive-through window and you were told that the teller only had candy?
That happened to a man in Stone Lake, Wis recently when he drove up in his ATV.
Angered the man then held up a bag that he claimed contained a bomb, but the teller told him all she had was lollipops since her till had already been emptied. I guess he was perhaps attempting to rob the bank? In the end he drove away in frustration.
After leading a police chase that went on at 115 miles per hour and tossing beer cans out his window, William Joseph Galloway wrecked his pickup truck. After he wrecked his truck the man took another swig of beer and gave the deputies who’d been chasing him the middle finger.
According to the authorities Galloway told them he was going to die fighting and swinging, however the use of a taser put that threat to an end.
Galloway of Winter Park is now being held on $8,000 bail in the St. Johns County jail. He’s been charged with driving under the influence, driving with a suspended or revoked license, aggravated fleeing, attempting to elude and resisting arrest without violence. No one was hurt.
The chase began about 7:30 p.m. Tuesday when a Florida Highway Patrol trooper began following a pickup truck with no headlights heading north on Interstate 95 in Flagler County. Troopers and deputies watched the driver throw beer cans from his truck as he weaved through traffic at high speeds in heavy rain. The truck eventually spun off the road and crashed into a tree.
“The suspect rolled down his window and drank from a beer can while displaying his middle finger in defiance,” the report said.
When Galloway would not get out of the truck and started to reach for his glove box, a deputy fired a 15-second Taser stun gun burst, the report said.
Galloway told deputies he would have fought them all if he had not been jolted with the Taser, the report said.
Galloway passed out several times after telling officers he had been taking methamphetamine and drinking alcohol all day, the report said.
Why do a lot of these type of stories happen in Florida?
This weeks theme is Music I know my wife has talked about our elderly neighbor, Sofie, on a few of her sites. She calls Sofie her stalker because she follows my wife around whenever she’s outside and even stares at her from her windows. She’s a cool lady though. She’s Macedonian and likes to pretend she doesn’t understand English very well, but she does … oh she does. Anyway … one day I was in my backyard playing guitar and I got an idea for a photo. I ran back in the house and got one of my other guitars and coaxed Sofie into holding it. It does look like we are playing music, doesn’t it? Her kids and grandkids just love this photo.
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Well it looks like it’s time for my wife and I to look for a new car. It’s not like our car’s broken down or anything like that, it’s just that our Ford Contour is 11 years old and we think it’s time to trade it in while it’s still in good shape and running well.
We haven’t had our Ford since ‘96, no, we bought it used in the year 2000 I believe. Prior to that we’d had two hand me down cars that my parents had been kind enough to give to us when we needed a car so our Contour was the first car that either of us had ever owned.
Our Used Ford is a four cylinder. We’re mostly city drivers - occasionally driving a few hours out of town here and there, but the majority of our driving is short trips within the city so we didn’t need to purchase a car with a powerful engine. Believe me, 4 cylinders is enough and we get great gas millage too.
My wife really didn’t like the other two cars we had. The first car was an old Buick and it had very loose power steering among a number of other problems so she didn’t drive it much. The second car was a Prelude and while we both enjoyed that car ours was a standard and she had never drove a standard before and uh I was pretty lazy about getting around to teaching her so she never did drive that car. Believe me, she never let me forget that!
So our Contour, which we’d purchased at one of the local Ford Dealers from a friend who works there as one of the top salesmen, is an automatic. The wife was adamant that we had to buy a car that she felt comfortable driving. The car actually handles really well. The steering is tight, but smooth.
We’ve never had any major problems with this car either. No engine trouble, no electrical problems - nothing big. Just a few small problems.
For example, we just had part of the manifold replaced. We had a hole in the manifold for oh about a year. Man we had a noisy muffler as a result. Unfortunately we were originally told that to repair the hole in the manifold that they’d have to replace the whole thing and it was going to cost about $1200 - money we didn’t have at the time. Finally, about a month ago when our muffler was making a deafening sound we folded and I took it in to be repaired and the mechanic discovered that the hole could be replaced with a small replacement part. It was still expensive to have the work done, but only about a third of the price we’d originally been quoted.
Other minor problems we’ve had with Ford Contour were a problem with the ball bearings in the wheel freezing up on us when we were on a road trip, and the mechanism inside the door that holds the passenger side window in place broke a couple of years ago resulting in a window that wouldn’t go up anymore. We had both problems fixed quickly and easily.
Considering we’ve had our 11 year old car for seven years we’ve had very few problems. I’ve been really happy with the car. Did I mention that it doesn’t even have any rust on it even though it’s a 100% outdoor car even during our cold winter months? Both of our other Used Cars had quite a bit of rust so I’m really surprised that this one doesn’t have any.
We’ll start looking for a replacement car soon. I think we’ll try to get through the winter with the Ford and then start looking for a new or another used car in the Spring. Since we’ve had a good experience with the Contour we might end up getting another Ford. I guess it will depend on pricing and whichever car we like best when we are shopping for another car.
Anyone else drive a Ford Contour? If you do have you had a good experience with yours?
