Originally Posted by zzrmark (Post 13266250)

I don’t doubt your assessment but the area I was referring to is a historical nickname given to the area that can best be described as Pickens and Oconee counties.
Greenville and the building in the mountains has changed the access and brought money in but there are still huge swathes in the upstate that still struggle with the loss of the textile industry,



My wife has just returned to our local high school after a year elsewhere and I’d forgotten how much of a shithole the place is. Despite the fact that the county has a lovely up to date courthouse/county admin building and there is a multi million dollar leisure center being built in the county the school has been forgotten about.
When she was first there three years ago the roof leaked and the concrete floors were shifting, breaking up the floor covering. The roof is only now being recovered, the floors are still a major trip hazard. The kids desks date from the 70”s and are falling apart, despite the custodians best attempts. I was in there last weekend fixing the ones in her class so that they are usable and I took pity on the teacher in the classroom next door and rebuilt his desk as it was in two parts and looked like a tornado victim, totally unusable as it was with both surfaces sloping at about 15degrees off horizontal.

I’m fairly certain that I could find similar throughout many of the non-urban counties in the state and many other places. Keeping somewhat within the bounds of the thread topic, I’m sure rural Florida has similar but I never saw anything that remotely compares as under invested my travels of the area between Naples, Ocala, Melbourne and Port St Lucie .

Originally Posted by HDWill (Post 13266263)

I'll admit I haven't explored the particularly remote parts of Upstate SC. ....

Originally Posted by robin1234 (Post 13266933)

That was the most reliable method of detonating the bomb that he could think of??

Originally Posted by BristolUK (Post 13266940)

It works in the movies ....

Originally Posted by Pulaski (Post 13266941)

It works in the real world too. :nod:

Google "tannerite".

Originally Posted by robin1234 (Post 13266947)

Whoa, interesting. It seems weird that you can buy that with few restrictions in several states.

Originally Posted by Pulaski (Post 13266948)

Merica! :nod: 🇺🇸 :rofl: 🇺🇸

What could possibly go wrong if you shoot a fridge containing tannerite? :unsure: :blink: :eek: :scaredhair:

Originally Posted by Pulaski (Post 13305526)

Bus driver in Miami gets into argument with passenger, shoots and kills passenger, and another passenger who wasn't involved in the altercation! 😢

I can't help but think that the bus driver is facing years of incarceration at very least for the reckless killing of the other passenger.

I have other questions too - are Miami bus drivers allowed to "carry" while on duty? Why did the bus driver think that the passenger he argued with had stolen the bicycle he had with him? And why did the bus driver even care if the bicycle was stolen, he's a bus driver, not a cop.

Originally Posted by Pulaski (Post 13305526)

Bus driver in Miami gets into argument with passenger, shoots and kills passenger, and another passenger who wasn't involved in the altercation! 😢

I can't help but think that the bus driver is facing years of incarceration at very least for the reckless killing of the other passenger.

I have other questions too - are Miami bus drivers allowed to "carry" while on duty? Why did the bus driver think that the passenger he argued with had stolen the bicycle he had with him? And why did the bus driver even care if the bicycle was stolen, he's a bus driver, not a cop.

Originally Posted by robin1234 (Post 13305533)

(From the Miami Herald)