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Crooked River Pete, SASS 43485

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  1. Posted this in the mouse trap thread, but thought it might belong here also.

     

     

    There were four churches and a synagogue in a small town: a Presbyterian church, a Baptist church, a Methodist church, a Catholic church and a Jewish synagogue. Each church and the synagogue had a problem with rats.

     

    The Presbyterian church called a meeting to decide what to do about their rats. After much prayer and consideration, they determined the rats were predestined to be there and they shouldn’t interfere with God’s divine will.

     

    At the Baptist church the rats had taken an interest in the baptistery. The deacons met and decided to put a water slide on the baptistery and let the rats drown themselves. The rats liked the slide and, unfortunately, knew instinctively how to swim so twice as many rats showed up the following week.

     

    The Methodist church decided that they were not in a position to harm any of God’s creatures. So, they humanely trapped their rats and set them free near the Baptist Church. Two weeks later the rats were back when the Baptists took down the water slide.

     

    But the Catholic Church came up with a very creative strategy. They baptized all the rats and consecrated them as members of the church. Now they only see them at Christmas and Easter.

     

    Not much was heard from the Jewish synagogue. They caught one rat and circumcised him. They haven’t seen one since …

     

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  2. 2 hours ago, Cypress Sun said:

     

    One of the reasons that a trailer could come loose is due to attaching the chains like that. The weight of the chains combined with a big bump overcoming the tension of the cotter pin, something in the road hitting the chains and yanking the cotter pin out or various other reasons could cause the hitch to come loose. If I was that worried about the trailer dragging me to my death, I would just not use the chains

     

    Loose trailers don't always go to the right side of the road, I hate to have to explain to the family of the people that hit the loose trailer (that went to the left side of the road) my reasoning behind attaching it to the cotter pin.

    That was 60 years ago, he didn't have a reese hitch. I think safety chains are the law, not an option, that's why people hook them up like in the picture or use shoe laces like my uncle did. I'm not saying it's a good idea, just explaining why some one might do that.

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  3. 5 hours ago, Buckshot Bob said:

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    My uncle used to do safety chains like that. He said he had seen to many wreaks caused by a loose trailer pulling the tow vehicle off the road. "If that trailer comes loose, better to let it go than drag me and my family with it." 

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