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[Plecostomus]

One of my hobbies is snapping pictures for the local newspapers like the County Star and the Wayne County Mail. Once in awhile they buy a picture for a few bucks and I get a fleeting moment of fame. I do it just for fun, I have no desire to be a professional photographer.

Ok, so there was a minor incident down the road at one of the many little companies that dot this town. I have an emergency-band scanner so I heard the call-in to the fire-department.

Raced down there with my good old 2.5 megapixel Old Kodak Camera that is held together with tie-wraps and tape. Got down there to photograph and my arch rival Guy With Expensive New Camera is there. The inevitable penis-size I mean camera-feature comparison begins and quite clearly I am outclassed by his wireless bluetooth 1,024 yottapixel mobile image capture and processing center (that cost more than my car). Nasty bastard he is he announces "this is why the paper doesn't accept any of YOUR photos (if only he knew).

Then he promptly turns on his heel, slips on the ice and drops his camera which explodes into several expensive chunks.

...and I got a picture of it.

No I'm not going to be a bastard and post it.

So any other great HA HA/ironic moments out there? Share your story.

 

[Sledder]

Come on, we have to see a picture of that! Crop him out if you have to.

 

[Rÿcher]

 

[Plecostomus]

I agreed not to, and I never go back on my word. I have no reason to continue torquing the dude, the ego damage I already did him will last a LIFETIME.

 

[SPOCKED]

You made my day, Placostomus!!

 

[John Picard]

One of my hobbies is snapping pictures for the local newspapers like the County Star and the Wayne County Mail. Once in awhile they buy a picture for a few bucks and I get a fleeting moment of fame. I do it just for fun, I have no desire to be a professional photographer.

Ok, so there was a minor incident down the road at one of the many little companies that dot this town. I have an emergency-band scanner so I heard the call-in to the fire-department.

Raced down there with my good old 2.5 megapixel Old Kodak Camera that is held together with tie-wraps and tape. Got down there to photograph and my arch rival Guy With Expensive New Camera is there. The inevitable penis-size I mean camera-feature comparison begins and quite clearly I am outclassed by his wireless bluetooth 1,024 yottapixel mobile image capture and processing center (that cost more than my car). Nasty bastard he is he announces "this is why the paper doesn't accept any of YOUR photos (if only he knew).

Then he promptly turns on his heel, slips on the ice and drops his camera which explodes into several expensive chunks.

...and I got a picture of it.

No I'm not going to be a bastard and post it.

So any other great HA HA/ironic moments out there? Share your story.

Karma is a effing Be-YOTCH! Bully for you, my friend

 

[backstept]

haha that's great

my roomies are all musicians, so I frequently hear about people they know that just got the latest and greatest guitar/amp/effects pedal/drums etc . . . the sad truth is that you can't buy musical skill, it's humorous to see these guys get the cool toys but have limited skill

 

[SeerSGB]

Gotta love the ole' hand of fate. Hopefully he'll learn a lesson of lot of field pros learn the hard way: Leave the expensive gear in the car for staged or formal events, get a good serviceable (ie cheap) camera for field work.

There's no funnier sight than a staff photog for a big name paper bragging about his new 3K dollar camera to all us freelancer, only have it destroyed a few hours later when the idiot pissed off the local Fire Dept. and they hose his ass.

 

[Plecostomus]

haha that's great

my roomies are all musicians, so I frequently hear about people they know that just got the latest and greatest guitar/amp/effects pedal/drums etc . . . the sad truth is that you can't buy musical skill, it's humorous to see these guys get the cool toys but have limited skill

I'm a machinist by trade. I can look at a print, lay out the tool-paths, calculate bends, all the heavy-duty thinking and calculating that is done by computer now.

"Machinists" coming out of the trade-schools now are all programmers. They draw something on the screen, dump it to a post-process to get the machine program and then they load the recommended tools and press start.

Big whup. Anyone can do that. That's not machining, that's playing a god-damned video-game that makes parts. Knowing how the machine comes to those conclusions and how to optimize the process and select proper tools is a dying art. Seriously.

*grumble*

 

[Mr Awe]

I agreed not to, and I never go back on my word. I have no reason to continue torquing the dude, the ego damage I already did him will last a LIFETIME.

Funny incident but you really shouldn't have agreed not too. That was silly to do that.

Mr Awe

 

[ShamelessMcBundy]

Karma. It's a wonderful thing.

 

[beneldon]

One of my favorite moments was when I was in High School and was being made fun of because I was involved in theatre. Some of the more Jocky types were questioning my manliness and lambasting my attempts to convince them that theatre was a great way to meet the ladies when one of the cast members who happened to be drop dead gorgeous and amply endowed came up and hugged me exclaiming how cool it was at practice the night before and wanted to know if I was going to come over to her house tonight (Friday) like I promised. I assured her I was and she scampered off leaving me grateful she hadn’t bothered to explain that there was going to be a party that night and most of the cast would be there as well. My antagonists, too stupid to be dumbfounded, stopped talking to me.

 

[JAG]

Great story!

 

[Mallory]

"Machinists" coming out of the trade-schools now are all programmers. They draw something on the screen, dump it to a post-process to get the machine program and then they load the recommended tools and press start.

I resembled that remark in the 1980's. Except I was a programmer and not a machinist. And we didn't have CAD/CAM programs and we had to write our own NC instructions (no post process). I'm actually kind of glad things have progressed a little since then.

 

[Plecostomus]

I have no problem with experienced machine programmers, it's the mass-produced 18-month Manufacturing Technology degree 'experts' that get churned out by the local community college that I have a problem with. 9/10 of them think you can dump a drawing through a post-process, set the tools and hit go. The tenth guy sits back and watches the other nine get fired and learns from the mistakes.

 

[Plecostomus]

One of my favorite moments was when I was in High School and was being made fun of because I was involved in theater. Some of the more Jocky types were questioning my manliness and lambasting my attempts to convince them that theater was a great way to meet the ladies when one of the cast members who happened to be drop dead gorgeous and amply endowed came up and hugged me exclaiming how cool it was at practice the night before and wanted to know if I was going to come over to her house tonight (Friday) like I promised. I assured her I was and she scampered off leaving me grateful she hadn’t bothered to explain that there was going to be a party that night and most of the cast would be there as well. My antagonists, too stupid to be dumbfounded, stopped talking to me.

Awesome.

 

[Zulu Romeo]

One of my hobbies is snapping pictures for the local newspapers like the County Star and the Wayne County Mail. Once in awhile they buy a picture for a few bucks and I get a fleeting moment of fame. I do it just for fun, I have no desire to be a professional photographer.

Ok, so there was a minor incident down the road at one of the many little companies that dot this town. I have an emergency-band scanner so I heard the call-in to the fire-department.

Raced down there with my good old 2.5 megapixel Old Kodak Camera that is held together with tie-wraps and tape. Got down there to photograph and my arch rival Guy With Expensive New Camera is there. The inevitable penis-size I mean camera-feature comparison begins and quite clearly I am outclassed by his wireless bluetooth 1,024 yottapixel mobile image capture and processing center (that cost more than my car). Nasty bastard he is he announces "this is why the paper doesn't accept any of YOUR photos (if only he knew).

Then he promptly turns on his heel, slips on the ice and drops his camera which explodes into several expensive chunks.

...and I got a picture of it.

You have truly learned the value of patience and comic timing, my friend. Have another on me.

Me, schadenfreude isn't really my thing, so I can't really share many such tales from my domain, I'm afraid.

 

[Plecostomus]

I am a vindictive person, I love seeing people get what's coming to them in. I cannot stand genuinely arrogant bastards spreading their greatness all across the land without check. In this case the guy was cock-sure that I've never sold a photo because I have lesser equipment than him. What an ass.

I guess my vindictive streak has alot to do with the industry I work in, we get alot of those sorts in factories and manufacturing shops. Tends to stifle innovation and improvement.

 

[tharpdevenport]

I can see the head line: "Douche bag falls flat on nasty face"

This is the kind of delicious irony that happens all too infrequently.

 

[Plecostomus]

I can see the head line: "Douche bag falls flat on nasty face"

This is the kind of delicious irony that happens all too infrequently.

I'll get mine eventually. I am fully aware of it, and I am hoping someone gets as much delight out of my swatting as I get out of other people's misfortune. 'tis only fair after all.