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I'd buy that for a $: Retro bargains
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Haha, Awesome!Hah, that's fantastic!
My most interesting one was meeting a guy from boards who wanted to set up an airsoft site back in 2006. Myself and a mate went to check the gear he'd imported.
Turns out he wasn't bringing us to a storage site, but a public field in Swords.
He brings us to a spot down the field with a couple of bags of guns, and sets up a hubcap as a target - then proceeds to pull out an AK47 and starts laying into the target.
After about 5 minutes of this I can see kids up on a hill pointing down at us in the distance - I start getting very sheepish and start trying to make excuses to leave.
Unfortunately I'm not very good at this kind of a thing and took a bit too long getting out of there as he kept twisting my arm to have a go and let him know what I think.
With that, a lone Garda came over the crest of the hill, with a 'What's going on here now, lads?' look on his face.
We explained the situation to him, how it's all a massive misunderstanding and think that's that - he then asks us to walk back over the crest of the hill with him.
As we get over the hill, we are greeted by the Armed Response Unit with guns drawn and about six squad cards with flashing lights and an army of Gardai.
Moral of the story - don't meet people you don't know off the internet, kids. And especially don't meet them to look at guns :eek:
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He reminds me of a guy(but isn't the guy) I bought a load of retro stuff off about 4-5 years ago. I went out to collect the bits in Ballyfermot and he brought me around 3 separate council houses that he was using to store all his gear in. Nobody living there, just loads of arcade and retro bits and other electrical things.
Anyway, went in and picked what I wanted and he nearly doubled the asking price(this after 2 of his mates arrived), said take it or leave it. I said, ok I'll leave it and then he accepted the original price!
Very strange chap indeed, no checkerboard floor though
If I was going to get stuff off this checkerboard dude, I wouldn't be going alone!
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Haha, Awesome!
To make it even funnier - I've a really good friend who's a Garda. We lost touch after secondary school and I hadn't seen him in years. Got in touch again randomly about 5 years ago and decided to meet up.
Upon our first meeting, one of the first things he said was;
'Now you have to tell me, why does it say on PULSE that you were found in a field in Swords with a trove of automatic weapons?'0 -
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Probably a better place for it, but on the topics of Dreamcast ...would anyone here happen to have a dead GD ROM drive? Looking to for a molex connector off one.
...or better yet, happen to know where you can buy the connectors?
Found then for sale on Digikey, but you have to buy 4,500 at €3+ a piece :pac:
Have you tried Mouser ? I find them better than digikey for a lot of parts, you need to spend more than €50 to get free shipping though (rarely a problem ) 0 -
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A warning for Steve x2 and other parcel wizards like myself.
Seems like it's the end of the road. Posting here as it gets discussed more in this thread
Yeah, it was always on the cards.
A real pity as I probably have DPD calling to my door 3-4 times a week with Parcel Wizard deliveries
An Post's AddressPal sent out an email the other day to say they will still operate the forwarding service, but you will be stung for customs. It's nowhere near as good or cheap as Parcel Wizard, but at least there's some options still left.
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