[TML] [Merchant Shipping] Some ideas I came up with to make merchant shipping more interesing

[Bruce Johnson]

On Apr 17, 2008, at 11:33 PM, Jerry W Barrington wrote:

> On 4/18/08 1:40 AM, "Tom B" <kaladorn at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> If you've played with the sorts of people I have, I'm not sure that
>> character != terrorist.... :0)
>
> Yeah, we had a Traveller group that bought a bunch of grav-cycles.   
> In some
> place like downtown Regina, we flew them up and landed on the  
> balcony of a
> hotel room to snatch a guy.  Well, 2 of us got the balcony.  One  
> didn't stop
> quick enough, ended up in the room.  XD  Of course, it was the guy  
> who had
> painted his black and stencil "Your worst nightmare" on the tail...



ROFL!

RealLife Story:

Many years ago, when I lived in the New York 'burbs, myself and  
several friends went down to NYC to celebrate the 4th of July. We  
scored a bunch of bottle rockets down in Chinatown, and some time  
later were sitting in a small concrete park/square firing them off.  
There was some metal flashing along the edge of the square that  
provided a convenient launch facility..it was bent out a bit and held  
them so they went off very nearly vertically.

The we got one with a warped stick...

Stuck it in the crack, properly aimed it, lit the fuse and watched in  
horror as the thing rotated around to point at about a 50 degree angle  
pointed at the building across the street, an apartment building with  
balconies.

I remember as if it were slow motion, the rocket firing, streaking  
across the street in a perfect trajectory to the balcony and then very  
obviously NOT bouncing off of the closed glass door and went cruising  
into the apartment at about head height...

We did NOT stick around to see what happened....

-- 
Bruce Johnson
University of Arizona
College of Pharmacy
Information Technology Group

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