you know, it's funny you mentioned paranoid Phil.
We have a local ham who is a decent enough fellow.  But he's actually 
certifiably paranoid.  He seems totally normal, but he's got a shorted trace 
in there somewhere cuz he's right round the bend with paranoia.
He actually destroyed, crushed to tiny pieces, a perfectly good dual band 
baofeng radio, because he thought that he was being tracked with it.  He 
thought that those black vans that were always following him were using the 
little chinese radio to track his movements and find him.  So he took it to 
the shop at work, and crushed it in a vice and then used a sledge hammer on 
it...
He also thought that the skwoks he heard on his handheld while driving 
around town without his tone squelch on were very suspicious and were those 
black van people pinging his location.
Like I said, totally normal everyday good guy, but something just ain't 
right around that barn yard hahaha.

73
Colin V A6BKX
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Howard Kaufman" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Thursday, May 02, 2013 4:12 AM
Subject: Re: row


> You are right, and I struggle with the issue.
> I guess I am guilty, but boy its hard!!!  I don't need them to agree with
> me, just to have the social skills and deasency to respect that their 
> belief
> is right for themselves only.
> Its like my reaction when some sighted or blind person insists on knowing
> what all blind people can or can't do.
> Yesterday I took the bus from my house to Miller park, used the GPS to 
> find
> the main gate where I met friends.
> Then during the game I used my cane to navigate from my seat to the
> consession stand and came back with food and beer, a couple of times. 
> Then
> I didrected my friends from the park to my house, and left them with
> directions back to the part of town that they new.  Now I don't expect 
> that
> every blind person could have pulled this off, and I am not a better 
> person
> because I could do it.  I have to say, that one of the reasons I can do it
> is ham radio.  I learned the city from the guys on 2 meters in the 70's.
> Just listening to the mobiles and where they were, allowed me to build a 
> map
> that is still in my head.
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Phil Scovell" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Wednesday, May 01, 2013 10:14 PM
> Subject: Re: row
>
>
>> Howard,
>>
>> That's similar to the guy who says, I'm not paranoid, but someone really
>> is
>> following me around.
>>
>> Phil.
>> K0NX
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: "Howard Kaufman" <[log in to unmask]>
>> To: <[log in to unmask]>
>> Sent: Wednesday, May 01, 2013 8:56 PM
>> Subject: row
>>
>>
>>>I hate intolerant and rigid dictatorial thinking people!!!!
>>>
>>> So am I as bad as them?
>>>
>>> I can't figure that one out.
>>>
>>>
>>> H T Kaufman MSW LCSW
>>> Adaptive Technology Instructor
>>>
>