[s-cars] summer tires

[Steve Marinello]

Things are getting a little uncomfortable lately.  We have three dogs, but
they are usually kenneled inside when we go, due to new neighbors with dogs
on both sides who freak out until ours do...and I've got one that can and
will jump the six foot fence, shock collar and hot wire notwithstanding,

Saturday morning, a knock at the door and a little boy and an old
lady...Jehovah's Witnesses'?  Wife answered with the two big boys
growling/barking at door when she got there.  They didn't ID themselves as
with any group, but the wife told them this was a no soliciting neighborhood
and she didn't want to be solicited about anything.  Turn on the news that
night, and in a neighborhood just north of here, a lady opens her door to a
little girl...in swarm three or four guys with gun and walkie talkies who go
on to terrorize and rob everyone in the house before making a clean getaway
with neighbors not that far away doing their normal Saturday afternoon
(1:45) chores.  Using kids as a means to get the door open.  Just great.  I
think I'll let the dogs keep crashing the front door sidelights when their
sixth sense tells them somethings not right.  And besides, it's fun to see
solicitors drop their stuff and run when 150# of dog hits those sidelights.

Back to using the alarm...and letting the dogs bark a bit more.

-----Original Message-----
From: s-car-list-bounces at audifans.com
[mailto:s-car-list-bounces at audifans.com] On Behalf Of Ian Duff
Sent: Wednesday, March 17, 2010 10:13 AM
To: pkrasusky at ups.compkrasusky@ups.com
Cc: s-car-list at audifans.com
Subject: Re: [s-cars] summer tires

Garage got broken into while I was out for 45 minutes picking up kids from
school, they got about $11K worth of stuff, including summer sets of tires
for my car and for my wife's car. Plus snowblower, outboard, two bikes, all
my mechanics tools (carpentry and boatbuilding tools are safe in the
basement), all my 18v cordless DeWalt stuff, leafblower, weed whacker,
pressure washer, etc, etc, etc. Took the bastiges two tries to get in.
Deadbolt on the people door is keyed from both sides. Nice try, thank you
for playing. The windows are glass block, except for 12" square operable
ventilation panes, which one of the weasels managed to squeeze thru and open
the big door. Let me assure you, the alarm now gets set when I go outside to
mow the lawn, and the operable vent windows are getting replaced with more
glass blocks.

Fortunately I have replacement value homeowners, and the insurance company,
while incredibly slow so far, has agreed that the value I declared is
realistic. I get a check for the depreciated value, less my deductible, and
just have to submit receipts to recover the depreciation. It's an exercise
in frustration, replacing everything, but the only cash I'm out seems to be
my deductible. MAC, the summers for me will be Sumi HTR ZIII again, and the
Contis my wife had will get replaced with the same Sumis I'm getting.

They musta been watching us, as the house with the dog was left alone, and I
was only gone for about 45 minutes, as I work from home. Paranoid? Not me, I
KNOW I'm being watched. How? The voices tell me...

-Ian.

On 17 Mar, 2010, at 09:02, <pkrasusky at ups.com> <pkrasusky at ups.com> wrote:

> 
> Phil queried and Ian got gank'd:
> 
> 
> <<<Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2010 18:01:35 -0400
> 
> From: Ian Duff <iduff at comcast.net>
> 
> Subject: Re: [s-cars] summer tires
> 
> To: pmische at comcast.net
> 
> I was happy with the set of Sumitomo HTR ZIII that just got stolen from
me. Likely to replace with the same.
> 
> -Ian Duff.
> 
> 
> 
> On 16 Mar, 2010, at 16:43, pmische wrote:
> 
>> Okay, this should generate some buzz. Time to buy new shoes - opinions?
> 
>> PJM>>>
> 
> 
> 
> D'oh Ian - WTF?
> 
> Phil- too open a Q:  what'r your parameters (price / priorities / usage)?
> 
> I just got these SumiHIII's a coupla k ago - lovelove the grip, turn in,
stiffness, relative quietness, and PRICE.  Wear?  Yet to be determined.  Has
a huge wear rating IIRC tho, tho the apparently infinite grip of my 265s
will have thru them most expeditiously and expediently, rather quite
assuredly.
> 
> Price notwithstanding?  Taka's 2 suggestions are gems, and PS2s are
otherworldly (aka notmyworldly d'oh)...
> 
> YMC/WV butofcourse and hope yer swell
> 
> -Paul
> 
> 
> 
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