02-17-2019, 10:11 AM
(02-16-2019, 11:20 AM)BIAD Wrote:(02-16-2019, 06:21 AM)Ninurta Wrote: ...I do not have a land line myself, so the shiny new E-911 plaque they've placed just off my property is useless to them
- no one will ever be calling from it. Mobile phone signals do not penetrate to my location, because of the intervening
mountains, so I technically have no phone service here at all...
The real question here is how much shotgun damage is there to this 'plaque' and what is constitutes a target?
None. It's alleged to be on "public property", although it is not - it's attached to one of my outbuildings at the roadside. "Negotiations" are ongoing to have the state place it on a pole that is actually on their right of way, so that they stop defacing my property with their silly-assed and utterly useless signs.
If not, I have an urge to paint that outbuilding for it's own protection come spring, and of course everything attached to it. Wouldn't do much good to coat it and leave a glaring opening for the weather to get into the structure, now would it?
I have, however, had occasion to find it useful as a range marker for distances involving trajectories...
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