grumpyMSG wrote:Kreutz wrote:FiremanBob wrote: If I recall from other posts you grew up on Long Island, NY. If I recall one of the hobbies of many bored young kids up there was vandalism, whether it was running over trashcans with a car, running through some body's shrubbery with a car ( or the removal of mailboxes with M80s or baseball bats..
don't knock Mailbox baseball - it is the time honored tradition of my Long Island people - and those trick mailboxes people would reinforce with wood or steel; well that was one of the hazards -if it wasn't for those were was the challenge?
In defense of Long Islanders with restrictive Ny gun laws and Suffolk's county stricter local ordinances (just behind the city) we couldn't go around shooting varmints with .22s : (
Guns are villified by the authorities from a young age; in school, in everywhere. Hell, even though it is legal, NYPD will arrest you if they catch you driving through city limits to go hunting upstate with a rifle in your trunk -sure you will get off after the hassle and a lawyer and waiting months to get your rifle back if you do(and there is no way to get off long island unless you take a boat without going through NYC)
As for reading the classics, everybody can benefit from that, but I think everybody could also benefit from working on a farm and knowing how to grow their own food or dig their own well; the two aren't mutually exclusive-hell our founding fathers did them both