> We got to my hotel on International Drive (a main drag down there),
> and at the entrance of a double wide drive, is a removable sign that
> says "STOP!! SECURITY CHECK". Now, I had no problem with that, as you
> only want registered guests at the hotel to park there. But, behind
> the sign in his car, was the security guard in his car...we got boxed
> in with International Drive at the back of the bus, and this sign, and
> the guard's car at the front. The driver hit the horn, wanting the guard
> to move...no response. He gets out of the bus, and the guard hauls off
> and punches the driver in the face, knocking him to the ground!!
> The ladies on the bus started screaming...the guard kept pummelling
> the driver, until another guard pulled him off. The driver, disoriented
> and bloodied, staggered back to the bus. I got on my ham radio handi-
> talkie (HT), keyed up a local repeater, and announced "QST!! QST!! QST!!
> MAYDAY!! MAYDAY!! This is N5VLZ, Portable 4. I have Emergency Traffic!!
> Can anyone copy?? Over??". A close lightning strike resulted in a static
> crash, and no response...so I repeated it. A ham in nearby Kissimmee heard
> my distress call, and I told him what happened, and where the emergency
> was. He called 911, and the police and paramedics showed up.
> The driver had to be taken to the hospital, and ended up having major
> surgery...and the guard ended up being arrested and charged with
> aggravated assault. 

So the same as a cellphone, just not lesser chance of anyone picking up?

I got a crash course in Ham rules when I got the bright idea(I thought) of  recruiting local Ham clubs, through a fellow I worked with in Communications  for a big Seniors' Sports event here in town.

He explainmed, as you have, too, that ni any disaster/emergency, there's a  fixed order of priority demand on Hamn operators & they can't contract that  oput privately. (I hoped to use them for the sharing of information  (medical/breathing status of relatives of our clients in disaster zones, or if  our area got hit by a disaster)

Another perfectly good idea ruined by a previously unknown fact getting in the  way!

> what amateur radio operators prepare for...emergency communications".

So you have a portable Ham unit that has enough broadcasting power to reach the next county? (but only if there are operators near their own devices, eh?)

> Indeed, as far as the FCC is concerned...if you have a situation that
> involves the safety of life, or the protection of property, you can
> throw the rule book out. 

I would hope so! Thast dshould be the case in 'most anything!

Traffic rules? Not if I have a person in the back seat bleeding out all over my brand new leather seats! (J/King, this is only about their bleeding out, not my material crap)

I've had my high speed damngerous ridee already -- with a stock car racer's  custom builr engine in a Camaro, through the BC Frader Canyon -- miles of  hairpin curves with one side of your road ending in a mile-deep drop off down  to the rocks below.

Thrilling. I was a hitchhiker, & was a bit scared until I realized this guy was turning hairpins with ZERO TIRE SQUEAL, then I relaxed./  At the end of the  ride he confirmed he was a professional driver at high speeds.

He was passing double or triple long .ines of semni trucks on thees samecurves 
-- this also freaked me out until I paid more attention & noticed howfar ahead 
you can see oncoming traffic, by looking over he canyon, & there's no way a car could appear from nowhere, so what you see as on your road, 5 miles up, is  still what's there after you go 3 miles!

Part of my big adventure sat age 17!

But, I was shaking so bad when I got back to
> the Convention Center (from the adrenaline rush), that I couldn't go
> back to dancing. So, I headed back to the hotel to pack up, and get
> ready for the flight back home in the morning.

That's a normal reaction.  Your adrenaline (fight, flight, or {breed} response  hormone) kicked in & using a radio doesn't do much to flush it out of your  blood.

You couldn't gonefor a flat out run around a few blocks to calm down & be back  to normal more quickly.

> The guard could've very easily moved the car and sign, and let us
> get in, then put it back.

Nuts.  Ego got in the way.  ("Don't you DARE tell me what to do"); of course  perhaps the driver could've been more diplomatic in his request.

But even if the driver said, "Hey, *******, move!" that's no legal basis to  respond with a punch to the face.

>> True story. TV encourages his, as they can sell stuff to pretendedly
>> satisfy eros needs.
> The advertisers know that "Sex Sells".

Not to me. I'm married, & not stupid. I knowthe real beer ads should mix in  some shots of old homeless drunks lazed on the sidewalk, covered in their own  vomit after ingesting the a case or two of the product.

> Basically. Peter denied The Lord 3 times before the crucifixion, but
> elivered
>a fiery sermon at Pentecost. Tradition says he requested to be crucified upsid
> down.

Jesus never said he'sd ultimately turn againsy him -- only a three-time  betrayal, which implies he knew Peter would repent of it.

Where does it say Peter requested to be crucified upside down?

>> Lost in translation:
>> BF: .. .----. -- / ... --- .-. .-. -.-- [translation: I+M SORRY] GF:
>> What's that? BF: Remorse code.
> Cute.

Is that what it actually says above?

> My dog was named 5 miles, so I tell folks I walked 5 miles today.

Find an oblong piece of wood.  Puit it in your living room.  Walk around it as  often as you like & you can honestly tell people, "I walked around the block x  times this morning."

>> "Is this the Spanish word for 'nap'?" She asked, pointing to a word on
>> the page.
>> "Si, estß."
> I need to sleep on that one.

If it's sunny, you may want a large sombrero first.

>> German children are kinder.
> Most kids today are just spoiled brats...whether they bathe or not.

Lots of decent kids, still.

We have a city in Saskatchewan named Biggar.

True story (Google image search for it) Their welcome billboard says "New York City is big, but we're Biggar."

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