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    Ugly, Obnoxious Armored Car Fights Crime With Cameras and Shame

    Armadillo Breadbox: Neat Enough to Post a Breadbox on Giz

    Armadillo Wins Lunar Lander Challenge Level 1, Crashes On 2
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    Image of Navin R Johnson Navin R Johnson
    09/14/09

    In reply to Armadillo Wins Lunar Lander Challenge Level 1, Crashes On 2
    For some reason it seems like it would be easier to achieve the hovering and landing on the moon due to it's lower gravity. The slower acceleration would require slower reaction times and therefore you'd have more processing time before making corrections.

    But I guess they figure if you can do it on Earth, you'll be able to on the moon.

    Cool stuff.
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    08/18/09

    In reply to Ugly, Obnoxious Armored Car Fights Crime With Cameras and Shame

    O brother
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    08/18/09

    In reply to Ugly, Obnoxious Armored Car Fights Crime With Cameras and Shame
    Do they have ice cream inside too?
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    Image of OMG! Ponies! OMG! Ponies!
    08/18/09

    In reply to Ugly, Obnoxious Armored Car Fights Crime With Cameras and Shame
    Don't worry, Mr. Canarino. No one knows you're cooperating with our prosecution and, just in case, we've got a vehicle parked outside. It's discrete and blends in with the neighborhood.

    I doubt if anyone will even notice it.
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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_Isn'tFreshPerked GitEmSteveDave_Isn'tFreshPerked
    08/18/09

    @OMG! Ponies!: I was going to say that's what they parked on the hood of your Red VW rental car in CA last week, but that vehicle looked different.
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    Image of OMG! Ponies! OMG! Ponies!
    08/18/09

    In reply to Ugly, Obnoxious Armored Car Fights Crime With Cameras and Shame
    Nice to know that half-assed policing will play in Peoria.
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    Image of phunnyballs phunnyballs
    08/18/09

    In reply to Ugly, Obnoxious Armored Car Fights Crime With Cameras and Shame
    lol, Peoria IL... will they ever learn? That used to be a pretty cool place to go, until their economy went bust about 10 years ago
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    Image of FuturePastNow FuturePastNow
    08/19/09

    @phunnyballs: Peoria was cool once? Really?
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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_Isn'tFreshPerked GitEmSteveDave_Isn'tFreshPerked
    08/18/09

    In reply to Ugly, Obnoxious Armored Car Fights Crime With Cameras and Shame
    It's true that 9 times out of 10, there is no one to review said footage, and it will only get pulled if something happens. Where I used to work, I had 4 cameras in my area, one in each corner of the room. There was no where you couldn't be seen while in there. yet everyday around 3pm, when I should have been eating Emerald Nuts, I would put my feet on my desk and sleep for an hour or so. Did anyone ever check the tapes? No, because nothing happened. Only if something happened would they have watched the tape from the event and then done an
    "audit" where they pull random footage from random days to see what was going on.

    This is almost exactly like something from the movie Clerks. Dante and his girlfriend, Veronica, were behind the counter, talking. And scene:

    Veronica: "How much money did you leave up there?"
    Dante: "Like three dollars in mixed change and a couple of singles. This time in the morning, people just get a paper or coffee."
    Veronica: "You're trusting."
    Dante: "Why do you say that?"
    Veronica: "How do you know they're taking the right amount of change or even paying for what they take."
    Dante: "Theoretically, people see money on the counter, no one around, they think they're being watched."
    Veronica: "Honesty through paranoia."
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    Image of iwishiwasjeff iwishiwasjeff
    08/18/09

    In reply to Ugly, Obnoxious Armored Car Fights Crime With Cameras and Shame
    I remember back in the 80's, the attack of the armadillos. There were armadillos as far as the eye could see. If it wasnt for our hoses, we may not be the civilization we are now.
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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_Isn'tFreshPerked GitEmSteveDave_Isn'tFreshPerked
    08/18/09

    @iwishiwasjeff: They carry leprosy.
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    Image of iwishiwasjeff iwishiwasjeff
    08/18/09

    @GitEmSteveDave_RunsFromBestBuy: And gonorrhea. Trust me.
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    08/18/09

    In reply to Ugly, Obnoxious Armored Car Fights Crime With Cameras and Shame
    so, instead of the Peoria Police admitting they pulled a Dude, where's my car they made this BS story up? stay classy illinois.
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    Image of aja175 aja175
    08/18/09

    In reply to Ugly, Obnoxious Armored Car Fights Crime With Cameras and Shame
    I see empty cruisers on the highways all the time. Every once in a while there's a dummy in them (sometimes the dummy isn't even real!)
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    08/18/09


    @aja175:
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    Image of Ronald Hicks Ronald Hicks
    12/26/08

    In reply to Armadillo Breadbox: Neat Enough to Post a Breadbox on Giz
    The bat mobile in the early Batman movies did this number. This begs the question, did Batman stash a loaf of country wheat in the glove box when he was out fighting crime?
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    Image of Purple Dave Purple Dave
    12/27/08

    @Ronald Hicks:
    Don't be an idiot. Batman is The Dark Knight. Clearly it was pumpernickel or nothing.
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    Image of Curves Curves
    12/26/08

    In reply to Armadillo Breadbox: Neat Enough to Post a Breadbox on Giz
    Its not too late for breadboxes...they were made to keep the mice out, and mice will be here long after we are gone.
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    12/26/08

    @Curves: Not if my cats have anything to say about that! Of course, the only way one of my old cats could have gotten a mouse is if she fell on it and smothered it.
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    Image of Kaiser-Machead Kaiser-Machead
    12/26/08

    @Curves: More for my cat to eat, and he sure loves to eat them.
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    12/26/08

    @Curves: If the mouse can open the fridge in my home then he's welcome to the bread and anything else he finds in there...
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    Image of Purple Dave Purple Dave
    12/27/08

    @Wowwee, a Zeppelin! SteveDave:
    Pfft, mice are for wuss-cats. I had a half-feral grey tiger when I was a kid, and she kept a steady stream of small rodent corpses coming, including two baby bunnies. I once found a headless snake in the garage. Birds were fair game as well. I mean, taking out several robins (our state bird) was bad enough, but my mom was pissed when Pepper took out a cardinal. My dad and I were simply impressed when she bagged a hummingbird. And then there was the time that my dad spotted her throwing a fit near the bushes running between our yard and one of our neighbors. He went around the front side of the bushes to see what had her all worked up, and all he saw was a little white dot in the middle of a big orange dot rapidly receding towards the woods out back. I miss that cat...
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    12/26/08

    In reply to Armadillo Breadbox: Neat Enough to Post a Breadbox on Giz
    You know Armadillos are the only animal besides us primates to carry leprosy, right?
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    12/26/08

    @Wowwee, a Zeppelin! SteveDave

    How the hell do you know that ?
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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_Isn'tFreshPerked GitEmSteveDave_Isn'tFreshPerked
    12/26/08

    @Its off the Hizzle fo $hizzle My Dizzle: B/c I fill my brain w/trivia, where important things like College Courses should be/still be.
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    @Wowwee, a Zeppelin! SteveDave:


    What the hell did you study at college ?

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    @Its off the Hizzle fo $hizzle My Dizzle: "What the hell did you study at college ?"


    Animal husbandry..

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    12/26/08

    @Its off the Hizzle fo $hizzle My Dizzle: I meant all the stuff I learned/should have learned has since been replaced with tons of useless trivia. Useless until the point when someone mentions an Armadillo, and I can state that they are the only other animals that can and do carry leprosy. My nickname amongst the teachers at my high school was Cliff Clavin.
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    12/26/08

    In reply to Armadillo Breadbox: Neat Enough to Post a Breadbox on Giz
    Aren't Cylons on the Atkins diet still?
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    Image of strider_mt2k strider_mt2k
    12/26/08

    In reply to Armadillo Breadbox: Neat Enough to Post a Breadbox on Giz
    I think this was Major West's armor helmet in that dreadful "Lost In Space" movie too.


    Begging The Bard's question:


    Where is fancy bread?


    In the heart, or in the head?

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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_Isn'tFreshPerked GitEmSteveDave_Isn'tFreshPerked
    12/26/08

    @strider_mt2k: Neither. It's in my KitchenAid Breadmaker. It also makes smaller breadmakers.
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    12/26/08

    @Wowwee, a Zeppelin! SteveDave:


    Where are fancy breadmakers...housewares? ;)

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