What's your claim to fame?

[moparwacko]

What do you do?

Tell them Craig --- we all want to place orders!!

 

[Cranky]

8 complete 360's starting at 60 mph in my sister's 65 Mudstain on West Beach in Galveston when it was still a beach somewhere about 68.....and scaring the sheeet out of a buddy that was riding in the car.

 

[Thunderlugs]

I'm a longtime personal friend of Sonny Black!!

 

[Darter6]

I am proud to say "I'es a nobody".

 

[RT6PK]

First place at this year's pinewood derby. Set the track record.

 

[fwi]

my dog is famous

Is that a boxer?

 

[eldubb440]

Is that a boxer?

mastiff

 

[bschomske]

I'm related to "Luke harper" the wwe wrestler..He is married to my niece

 

[Big Bad Dad]

I'm a legend in my own mind.... Plus, I DO have an original part off of Sox and Martin's 67 GTX hanging in my garage.

 

[moparcrazy]

How was he?

LMFAO

 

[Dibbons]

I ran a Harley Sportster into a power pole on a blind curve in '79, turned the frame of the bike into a pretzel, but I'm still here (a little worse for wear though).

 

[33 IMP]

I shot and killed my across -the-street neighbors dog in my driveway.
Her two pit bull mixes were attempting to kill my next -door neighbor. He was lying in my driveway while they were biting his face and throat.
When I shot the first one, the other retreated.
My neighbor that was attacked was a 75 year-old cancer and heart attack survivor , and was hospitalized for his injuries. His offense? He waved hello to the dogs owner.
So-cal was in the midst of a series of dog attacks at the time, including a fatality, so police, fire department, ambulance , animal control, and five news choppers showed up. Everyone who spoke to me ,including a/c thanked me, said i may have saved my friends life.

 

[Cornpatch MO]

2017 April car of the month feature on the " 1962 to 1965 Mopar Web Site" and April 2018 feature car on their 2018 calendar. 1964 Dodge B body " Brutus" as pictured in my avatar on FBBO website. Front page coverage in the local newspaper. I won't go into my front page news coverage back in the mid 70's !!..........................MO

 

[chtampa]

Saved a women from drowning at a water crossing close to Cranfills Gap, Texas back in the 80's. Got the worst case of chiggers in my life!
Daily Show episode with Vance DeGeneres, (Ellen's brother). Kind of a mini Rod Serling looking guy, but fun to film with.
GMA remote feed show for an alligator in a kitchen.
Did two one hour shows on Discovery Channels HD "Fear Fighters", "Risk Takers", one for each series.
Part of a National Geographic Show.
Technical part in a British Reality Show filmed here.
Forbes Small Business Magazine wrote an article.
Lots of local News appearances over an eight year period.
Pulled an woman's arm and some ribs out of an eight foot lizards stomach. Actually, the Biologist had his arm inside, I was just holding him open.

Had a harpoon dart in an 10' alligator and the rope was around my wrist and he pulled me to the bottom of a lake. Thought I was not going to make it to shore before drowning. Barely did, and everything after that day is now gravy. Hey, that may have been my Karma from the drowning woman. Until today, few people know that embarrassing story. Half of my ashes are going on that lake (along with the Oakleys I lost when I hit the water) since I resolved myself just seconds before I touched bottom close to the shore. Life is liberating when you have already died, and now they are just bar stories and I don't drink. I have his head and his teeth though! haha Caught him while I was still soaking wet!

 

[68gtxman]

I’m the guy who discovered a 3 million gallon jet fuel spill in Korea after 5 buildings blew up (killed one USAF Captain and seriously burned three NCOs), 37 years ago. I was ordered to rush the paperwork to get emergency funding from Congress to rebuild these mission critical buildings, but I was also the base’s environmental officer, so I asked “where did the fuel vapors come from?”. The answer was it was a fuel spill but it alll burned up in the explosion. I didn’t believe that, so I went there (three hour drive from my home base) to investigate myself. I ended up drilling wells all over a 100 acre site and I found jet fuel in every single well. I invented a couple of measuring tools so I could determine how thick the fuel plume was, as it floated on top of the ground water underground. I found and proved where the fuel came from (old USAF fuel tanks that were given to the ROKAF when they began leaking - but the ROKAF kept using the leaking tanks for decades, because they got the fuel for free from the US). I calculated a conservative 2.8 million gallons of JP-4, but the brass wouldn’t believe that high number. I refused to comply with direct orders to push the paperwork for the rebuilding funds because I didn’t want to jeopardize other military lives (knowing the fuel would be just ignored and another explosion was in their future). When it was time for me to PCS, I was ordered to leave behind all the site plans, test results, reports, etc. regarding the spilled fuel. My replacement was ordered to do the paperwork that I refused on funding the rebuilds, on the day after I left. Fortunately, I got one full day with her before I left, so I could prove my case. (I ran into her years later and she told me what happened.) I suggested she hold off on the funding paperwork and instead demand an engineering firm be hired to perform a more in depth field investigation (they did). (I made the same demand, but it was rejected.) The professional firm calculated 3.2 million gallons of JP-4 was underground (this was believed by the brass because it came from a “real engineering firm”). They are still pumping it out of the ground today (only comes out a little bit at a time). I started writing a book about this, but it still needs to be finished. I still think it inconceivable that a mere 2LT could stand up against ill-conceived orders from a Colonel (wing commander) and not be courtmartialed. That wing king left a guaranteed post for promotion to one star with a follow-on assignment in the states as a deputy wing commander O-6. I PSCed to a HQ job at HQ AFSC at Andrews AFB. I was chosen for the job by an engineer O-6 because he liked what I did in Korea. BTW, my refusal to do the paperwork kept the base from being able to fly all planned missions at that base, as the buildings that blew up were mission critical buildings for the flying squadrons there. That was a very big deal!

I read a one page article on this in the Engineering News Record a couple of years after this all happened, but my name was conspicuously missing.

 

[MW 413]

Not a dam thing_________.

 

[Sonny Black]

Not a dam thing_________.

but you have a great car! & you know Sonny, ...now you are famous!

 

[not so famous bob]

mastiff


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bet his name is , guardian !

 

[not so famous bob]

but you have a great car! & you know Sonny, ...now you are famous!

I was never famous, or consistant as a lot . The old hemi car was a little well known around these parts, back in the day. One of the most memorable moments was when I overheard a chevy driver from arkansas, say in the staging lanes, that he wanted a piece of that hemi. Well I gave it to him , twice, caught him in the second gear change, (DONT REMEBER HOW FAR I SPOTTED HIM). He bitched and whined till they reran us saying the spot wasn't right. I caught him immediately after the second gear change. He said, " I didn`t know that hemi would run like that ! " Vengance is mine sayith the LORD, but I got mine that time. LOL

 

[FlagCraig]

What do you do?

I own a Flag Store 20 miles south of Nashville in Franklin, TN. Flag World....www.flagworldamerica.com.
Been doing it for 16 years. Store was downtown Nashville on Broadway at one time but moved it after the flood of 2010.