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Yooper
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Posted: Tue Jun 30th, 2009 01:21 pm |
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Dang, I guess I've been wrong all this time..... Here's how I thought it went.
(Disclaimer: All in good fun....take with a grain (or 2) of salt!)
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hopnpop
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Posted: Tue Jun 30th, 2009 01:53 pm |
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Hey now, easy there - I'm in Paw Paw, SW Mich, and I think most of us would have a fit with being called anything related to Detroit! Detroit subdivision - no way! You forgot a divider running north/south thru Mt. Pleasant. I'm on the better (WEST) side of the state. Anthing east of that line is Detroit!! 
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autosurgeon
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Posted: Tue Jun 30th, 2009 05:06 pm |
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Hey Yooper isn't that up NORT???
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DrTodd
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Posted: Tue Jun 30th, 2009 05:29 pm |
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hopnpop wrote: Hey now, easy there - I'm in Paw Paw, SW Mich, and I think most of us would have a fit with being called anything related to Detroit! Detroit subdivision - no way! You forgot a divider running north/south thru Mt. Pleasant. I'm on the better (WEST) side of the state. Anthing east of that line is Detroit!!
I agree... I've only been through Detroit on my way to Canada a few times, never actually stopped. Been to Novi once and Farmington Hills one time too. One to two times in 40+ years hardly seems to be close enough to qualify. I think that west of 131 is West Michigan, everything east is "another world". 
West Michigan seems to be connected to Chicagoland, but really only as a vacation/retirement destination for those to escape from the repressive regime of Mayor Daley (and we do have a quite a few Cubs fans). People from Indiana too, they seem to like the fact that there are actually beaches here.
"Up north" to people from GR starts about Newaygo/Fremont (M46) but seems to be changing to an M20 boundary as more people are commuting from former "cottages" to jobs in GR.
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hopnpop
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Posted: Tue Jun 30th, 2009 10:37 pm |
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DrTodd wrote: hopnpop wrote: Hey now, easy there - I'm in Paw Paw, SW Mich, and I think most of us would have a fit with being called anything related to Detroit! Detroit subdivision - no way! You forgot a divider running north/south thru Mt. Pleasant. I'm on the better (WEST) side of the state. Anthing east of that line is Detroit!!
I agree... I've only been through Detroit on my way to Canada a few times, never actually stopped. Been to Novi once and Farmington Hills one time too. One to two times in 40+ years hardly seems to be close enough to qualify. I think that west of 131 is West Michigan, everything east is "another world".
West Michigan seems to be connected to Chicagoland, but really only as a vacation/retirement destination for those to escape from the repressive regime of Mayor Daley (and we do have a quite a few Cubs fans). People from Indiana too, they seem to like the fact that there are actually beaches here.
"Up north" to people from GR starts about Newaygo/Fremont (M46) but seems to be changing to an M20 boundary as more people are commuting from former "cottages" to jobs in GR.
Sounds bout right  I'd extend the 131 line to about M66 tho. Close enough!
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autosurgeon
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Posted: Thu Jul 2nd, 2009 04:45 am |
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I plan to OC at the Kalamazoo Tea Party on the 4th!
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Yooper
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Posted: Thu Jul 2nd, 2009 05:27 am |
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autosurgeon wrote: Hey Yooper isn't that up NORT???
You betcha!!!
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bigdaddyj
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Posted: Fri Jul 3rd, 2009 07:23 am |
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autosurgeon wrote: I plan to OC at the Kalamazoo Tea Party on the 4th!
Where is this taking place? I haven't been able to find anything on it.
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autosurgeon
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Posted: Fri Jul 3rd, 2009 07:43 am |
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http://kzooteaparty.ning.com/
Its from 6:00pm to 8:00 PM on the 4th in Bronson Park
Last edited on Fri Jul 3rd, 2009 07:44 am by autosurgeon
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gravedigger
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Posted: Fri Jul 3rd, 2009 09:19 am |
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Just remember to steer clear of school zones, so you aren't arrested for carrying in a school zone!
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T Vance
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Posted: Fri Jul 3rd, 2009 03:05 pm |
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Yooper wrote: Dang, I guess I've been wrong all this time..... Here's how I thought it went.
(Disclaimer: All in good fun....take with a grain (or 2) of salt!)
You're map is pretty accurate! I always laugh when someone that lives in Novi says they are from Detroit (because they consider Novi a "suburb of Detroit")  . I don't understand how when Novi is like 30 miles from the center of Detroit. Just say you live in Novi!
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autosurgeon
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Posted: Fri Jul 3rd, 2009 03:44 pm |
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gravedigger wrote: Just remember to steer clear of school zones, so you aren't arrested for carrying in a school zone!
In MI our pistol registration technically licenses us to walk by a school on the sidewalk OC. If you have a CPL they really can't touch you.
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hopnpop
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Posted: Sat Jul 4th, 2009 12:55 pm |
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autosurgeon wrote: gravedigger wrote: Just remember to steer clear of school zones, so you aren't arrested for carrying in a school zone!
In MI our pistol registration technically licenses us to walk by a school on the sidewalk OC. If you have a CPL they really can't touch you.
...Is that a choir of angels I hear?
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DanYolSon
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Posted: Sat Jul 4th, 2009 01:15 pm |
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autosurgeon wrote: http://kzooteaparty.ning.com/
Its from 6:00pm to 8:00 PM on the 4th in Bronson Park
Going to try and make it there myself and bring a friend. Hopefully all goes well
Great time for my friend to OC for his first time. It'll be good for me as well seeing how I've never really done it with a lot of people around. Just walked around the neighborhood (South side of Kalamazoo) and turned quite a few heads. No police contact yet so I'm guessing that the dispatchers are doing there job by asking the necessary questions when it comes to "man with a gun" calls.
Happy 4th Everyone!!
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autosurgeon
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Posted: Sat Jul 4th, 2009 01:33 pm |
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We will see you there! I will be the guy in blue jeans a black t-shirt with a US flag on it and a gun
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T Vance
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Posted: Sat Jul 4th, 2009 02:19 pm |
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DanYolSon wrote: No police contact yet so I'm guessing that the dispatchers are doing there job by asking the necessary questions when it comes to "man with a gun" calls.
Happy 4th Everyone!!
Police are less likely to do anything, such as harrass an OCer when there is a lot of witnesses.
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Smoothsounds21
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Posted: Sat Jul 4th, 2009 11:26 pm |
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I was there at Riverside with my dad, we were both OCing. Looked for you but didn't see you. Handed out lots of cards though.
Last edited on Sat Jul 4th, 2009 11:27 pm by Smoothsounds21
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autosurgeon
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Posted: Sun Jul 5th, 2009 03:00 am |
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OCed at the Kalamazoo TEA Party with my brother also OC. Handed out 8 flyers and had several other people give us the thumbs up. I won a flag in the raffle so I got walk up on the stage in front of everyone OC
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hopnpop
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Posted: Sun Jul 5th, 2009 02:29 pm |
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autosurgeon wrote: OCed at the Kalamazoo TEA Party with my brother also OC. Handed out 8 flyers and had several other people give us the thumbs up. I won a flag in the raffle so I got walk up on the stage in front of everyone OC
BEAUTIFUL!!! HA! Shoulda treated it like a catwalk.....and modeling this beautiful 1911 is.....
Sounds awesome - good promo!!!
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DrTodd
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Posted: Sun Jul 5th, 2009 11:26 pm |
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Smoothsounds21 wrote: I was there at Riverside with my dad, we were both OCing. Looked for you but didn't see you. Handed out lots of cards though.
I actually had to cut my Riverside time short; a friend was in the hospital and I went to see him so I was only there for a short time. I OC'd (w/ CPL) in the hospital, as cc is not allowed. No one said anything.
I was down near the GR Ford Museum after eating dinner at Friday's. Sat in front on the wall near Ford's grave. I must have seen 20-30 police officers and probably had a few thousand people see me the whole evening, nothing was said to me at all. My history of no police challenges remains unbroken. I did have a sheriff's deputy nod once while I was crossing the Pearl Street bridge.
I have a friend who works at the Amway Grand Hotel; we got to watch the fireworks from one of the rooms. We then walked around the hotel as there were a few wedding parties going on and then back down to Monroe Mall until about 1:00pm. I was OC 100% of the time/ no problems at all.
OC'd at Perkins Restaurant in Jenison for lunch today, no problems.
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