Recent content by The Night Rider

I met him in an A.A. Meeting in Colorado Springs in the mid ninties. He was a nice guy but dumber than soup. He made sure everyone in that room knew exactly who he was. His woman looked like (a porn star really) she wanted to crawl under the table.

Tied for first place best security assignment I ever had. For what it's worth those trees on the horizon or the other side of the fence line. The other one was the FedEx warehouse I worked at where I found my cat. Anyway, the first place was a propane storage facility so if somebody decided...

My last employer sent me to the 5.11 store in Colorado Springs to get sized for my uniforms. It seems like they were going to issue me three pairs of pants and four shirts. The pants alone would have cost almost $300. And I think the shirts were 60 bucks a piece. If my employer is paying...

Given that The Castaways were supposed to be a thousand miles off the shipping lanes out in the middle of the ocean I always wondered how they were picking up FM radio Transmissions. I also always wondered how it was the professor could make batteries out of seaweed and coconut milk but he...

This should be obvious, but since nobody said it I'm going to KEEP THAT PAPERWORK!!!!! Get notarized copies keep it in your files. That way if you ever need it again you have it

I'm a firm believer that if I have to up armor to go someplace I shouldn't go there

There used to be a video on YouTube of another instructor going over Tom Givens' stats. I have posted it before but I can't find it now. But according to what I've read 63 of Tom given students have been involved in a shooting incident. Number 64 was robbed at gun point. He was armed but the...

I've got 2 or 3 of the Old NBC Decon kits full of MRE Toilet Paper packs. They're At Least 20 years old. I suppose they'd turn into dust if I ever actually try to use them.

Why should I buy six rolls at $2 a roll when I can buy a case of it at Costco for .75 cents a roll? You're always going to need it. Right during the middle of the toilet paper shortage I want to take my trash out one day and I found a case of toilet paper and half a case of paper towels...

I saw a thing on the internet once and I wish I could find the meme but I can't. It was in reference to the covid shortages It basically said there were three types of people. Type one was usually middle aged and bought things on sale and probably already had 6 months supply of toilet paper...

That's what the stores in Florida looked like every time there was a hurricane when I lived down there. The thing that amazed me the most is that people never learned. I'd see my same neighbors every time there was a hurricane getting caught short and having to run to the store. The covid...

When I was a security guard I worked around homeless people most of the time. I never ran into one that wasn't armed with something. I can't speak for any place else but in Colorado Springs homeless people kill each other frequently and you almost never hear about it on the news. I think...

Never buy anything with moving parts from Harbor Frieght

They do them on Fort Carson and the USAFA all the time.

As far as a campfire goes, I never light one in the bush because it's usually more of a pain in the ass than it's worth. I certainly wouldn't do it in a survival situation because it would give my position away. A most I'd go with a Dakota Hole fire. Which shouldn't be a high risk of starting...