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More Funny Things - John Dunn, Consultant, Ambertec, P.E., P.C.

The Darth Vader street light. I guess the Fords are with us.

 

Are these things really sentient beings?? I drank this one.

 

Has "The A-Team" been put on the menu?

 

Is having this root beer an emotional experience?

 

As a last thought: If a gangster goes to the shopping mall with his girlfriend, is she his shopping moll?

Wall Danger - John Dunn, Consultant, Ambertec, P.E., P.C.

I haven't been able to find any reference to the event, but some years ago, I recall that a roadside wall collapsed  in The Borough of The Bronx in New York City along that borough's Grand Concourse Parkway. As I also remember, people were killed. I have been noticing another wall, this one located in Westchester County along the east side of the Sprain Brook Parkway, which I think is in the same jeopardy.

This photograph was recently taken by my wife in our moving car as we passed by that wall's location near the 8.3 mile roadside marker.

Still Another Broken Utility Pole - John Dunn, Consultant, Ambertec, P.E., P.C.

It took seven months to get officialdom to remove a broken utility pole that was located near a neighborhood elementary school and I felt good that somehow, I had helped bring that about.

No sooner do I turn around however, I find another broken utility pole that the local power company had come to repair at the behest of a nearby homeowner.

Please see:  http://merrick.patch.com/groups/opinion/p/broken-utility-pole-on-helene-avenue

An Ethics Dilemma - John Dunn, Consultant, Ambertec, P.E., P.C.

In eighth grade, my English teacher, Mr. Zappala, discovered my then budding interest in electronics and asked me if I could please build a one-transistor radio as a present he could give to his son. He would pay me for the project, so I undertook the task.

Using my then highly refined skills which I had developed a'la Transistor Topics by Lou Garner in Popular Electronics, I put a receiver together and it worked fine. Its one transistor was a Raytheon CK722.

In that time, the CK722 was sold as a really nice looking blue-colored device with block lettering that proclaimed the type number. I happened to have two of them and thus I ran into my first business ethics issue.

The Cleaners - John Dunn, Consultant, Ambertec, P.E., P.C.

There was this dry cleaning store that I would pass on my way while driving home from work. It was on the right hand side of the road which was convenient and it had a large parking lot, also very nice. One day, I decided to start making use of their services and so I brought in some clothing to be cleaned.

As I walked up to the store entrance, I noticed that there was a sign in the store's window that said after ten purchases, the eleventh one would be free.

The Sink - John Dunn, Consultant, Ambertec, P.E., P.C.

This sink is in the emergency room of a local hospital. You're supposed to be able to wash your hands at this sink, but there's a small problem!

It's another case of someone having acted while being "unencumbered by the thought process".

Borers - John Dunn, Consultant, Ambertec, P.E., P.C.

I came across this tree one day while taking a little walk in the neighborhood. This tree is in trouble!!

The New Hole - John Dunn, Consultant, Ambertec, P.E., P.C.

At this one company, there was this drawing of a sheet metal part. It was part of the chassis metal of an item of military electronics equipment. Its drawing was needed by various departments and persons, so copies of that drawing were run-off on a copier.

However!!

As the drawing of the sheet metal part went through the copier, instead of the copier making clean drawing reproductions, the copier put a small circle right in the middle of the print and at first, nobody noticed.

Copyright Capp Enterprises, Inc.   Used with permission.

Broken Utility Pole, Six Months Later - John Dunn, Consultant, Ambertec, P.E., P.C.

The broken utility pole which I discovered in this neighborhood  last June is still broken in spite of my having repeatedly been in touch with the utilities and with government officials. Please see:

http://licn.typepad.com/my_weblog/2012/11/municipal-malfeasance-again-john-dunn-consultant-ambertec-pe-pc/comments/page/2/#comments

In addition to the problem of municipal and utility company malfeasance about this, public attitude also seems to be part of the problem:  "..... and all you're concerned about is a stupid pole? It wont fall, its not dangerous.... Get a life".  Please see: 

http://merrick.patch.com/groups/opinion/p/dangerous-broken-pole-continued 

 Astounding.

Legal Tender - John Dunn, Consultant, Ambertec, P.E., P.C.

Please note this sign posted at the cash register of a local pharmacy:

No further comment is necessary.