http://www.mylot.com/w/keywords/golf+cart.aspx MyLot Discussions About golf cart en-gb http://www.mylot.com/w/discussions/1842487.aspx This is the first anniversary of my having to put Hannibal to sleep. I can't say it was something as gentle as putting him to sleep, in my heart it was murder. Let me explain:My daughter, son in law, his uncle and my grand daughters moved in with me a year ago Memorial day. It was a big surprise that they were going to live with me, as my daughter asked if they could come for a few days to visit. Then I was informed that they would be with me until they got their bills caught up, which would be never. I choked, but decided that the grand daughters shouldn't be on the street, homeless; and since I own my home (such as it is) I would let them stay. There was one big rule and that was "You can't play with the dogs without asking first". Simple rule, right? I found out that it was wrong. December 21st my oldest grand daughter came in crying that Hannibal bit her. She had brought him in without asking permission and had been playing with him and he bit her out of the blue. My daughter went ballistic! She demanded that I put him down immediately. No trial, no quarantine no nothing. I tired to get her to let me keep him through the holidays, but there was no way...if I had I might have been able to find out the truth. Hannibal was a sweet tempered dog and had never offered to bite anyone. He loved kids and other animals and wouldn't harm them. He would get upset if you teased him but he NEVER in the seven years I owned him offered to bite anyone. He had been an Easter gift to my Mom. She was sooo thrilled when I put him on her bed. He bounded up to her and snuggled up to her neck and kissed the daylights out of her. For the first time in months she laughed!! It was the best gift she could have given me. A month later she was air lifted to the hospital, and that July she died in my arms. Before she died I promised to take care of her dogs (at that time there was also two other Rottweilers, Rocky and Kitty. They both subsequently joined my Mom) until it was the end of their natural lives. I ended up giving in to the demands of my daughter. I got to take Hannibal into Animal Control alone, I got to hand him over to have him murdered-ALONE. I had no options, either destroy the dogs or my daughter would haul the family out on the street. I couldn't bear to think of the two little girls out on the street! We did a lot of brain storming about Hannibal. None of the neighbors, friends or animal specialists believe that it was an unprovoked bite. My oldest grand daughter did something to provoke the dog and he bit her in the hand-once!!! The grand daughter will never tell the truth about what happened. It wasn't realized that she disobeyed the rules, it was just total hysterics and demands on my spoiled daughter's part, demanding and ordering that the dog be murdered without a trial. The kicker to the story is that her mother in law has one of those little dogs, I think it's a Maltese...anyhow it has bitten everyone, including me. It has bitten the grand daughters, neighbors, my daughter, son in law, even it's owner!! Yet my daughter doesn't have the balls to order her mother in law to destroy the dog. That dog is a true menace! Any way, here is to you Hannibal. You didn't deserve what happened!!! It wasn't your fault and I carry that guilt with me now and forever!!! I miss your muddy face, your runs beside the golf cart, your bark (you never did learn how to howl!) and everything else. You won't be forgotten. I also apologize for what happened. Sun, 21 Dec 2008 13:59:48 GMT Loverbear http://www.mylot.com/w/discussions/1430972.aspx At Massachusetts, USA, scientist have designed a fold able car. They say the cars can be folded up to half its original size. The car hasn’t been built yet. But the researchers have already created a mock-up version, and there are plans to build a full-scale model this year. The dozen or so engineers and architects on Mitchell’s team are confident their computer-generated work is on target. They feel their golf cart-sized vehicle could provide a novel solution to the chronic traffic congestion afflicting cities around the world – not to mention pollution and energy use, since it would run on a rechargeable battery. On the drawing board, their two-seater is roughly half the size of a typical compact car. “It’s a virtual computer on wheels,” said Franco Vairani, designer of the vehicle’s foldable frame, which he predicts will shrink the car to as little as an eighth the space needed to park the average car. While parked, it would hook up to an electricity grid for recharging, he added. Hundreds could be stacked around a city and “you would just go and swipe your (credit) card and take the first one available and drive away,” Vairani said. “People wouldn’t have to worry about where to park their cars in town and automobiles would take up less urban space.” Peter Schmitt, a team engineer, says the car would have independently powered robotic wheels and be controlled using a computerised drive-by-wire system with a button or joystick. Mitchell said he would like to bring the car to the manufacturing stage within the next three to four years. But a key consultant for the project, Christopher Borroni-Bird, director of the Advanced Technology Vehicle Concepts at US automaker General Motors Corp, said he doesn’t think City Car is quite ready yet for the road. “It is certainly a very promising idea,” Borroni-Bird said. “But I don’t want to say it is ready for production... there’s still a lot of work yet to take it from concept to production.” mumbai news Mon, 10 Mar 2008 07:37:11 GMT vishnu_badlapur http://www.mylot.com/w/discussions/1754823.aspx A Utah sheriff's office has found that it shouldn't underestimate the golf cart as a getaway car. A suspect in a souped-up cart managed to elude officers who pursued him last month through an alfalfa field _ but only for a while. He was arrested the next day at his grandmother's house. Officers started pursuing the driver after he was spotted spinning out in a city park in Morgan. He took off into an alfalfa field and jumped irrigation ditches that the sheriff's cruisers couldn't cross. Morgan County Sheriff's Sgt. Scott Peay suspects the cart was fitted with a car engine instead of the original electric motor. ___ Information from: Standard-Examiner, http://www.standard.net Sun, 19 Oct 2008 20:23:36 GMT laglen http://www.mylot.com/w/discussions/1755721.aspx Well, Utah's in the news again - this time, it's a souped up golf cart caught doing donuts in a city park. The cops chased it, but couldn't keep up with it. [em]shocked[/em] Here's the story: http://www.nbc10.com/automotive/17760786/detail.html?rss=phi&psp=weird-news Now I knew a local kid who went everywhere on a riding mower, but the golf cart is new to me. Do you know of anyone who has used a unique mode of transportation to get around or have fun with? Have they gotten in trouble with it ever? Mon, 20 Oct 2008 10:53:35 GMT jerzgirl http://www.mylot.com/w/discussions/1676180.aspx *no one was killed or harmed (that much) in the following story* Last Saturday night, me and my friend were out on yet another drunken golf cart ride through the orange groves. Our neighborhood only contains four houses and a lot of empty streets and bare lots so we were riding everywhere, well a police man was patrolling the neighborhood, doing his 1am rounds and turned his lights on for us to stop. He got out of his car and asked us what in Gods name we were doing driving a golf cart on the street at 1am when it wasn't street legal (we have no plates on it) We said that we thought it was ok as long as we were not on the main road with traffic. He proceeded to lecture us and my eyes were wondering about and gained focus on his gun in his side holster and I blurted out "Have you ever killed a man"? I cought him by surprise because his eyes buldged out and he looked at me for a second and then started laughing hysterically. He let us go without fining us that night.....lol Fri, 29 Aug 2008 11:42:32 GMT heatherfeather80 http://www.mylot.com/w/discussions/1669840.aspx I have thrown a cell phone out of anger (couldn't get signal inside my house, was very pregnant and very hormonal) It shattered on the tile floor. I dropped one off of the side of the boat. I slammed one in the hatch of my SUV. I lost one somewhere in the sand at Clearwater beach, and I just lost one last month on a drunken golf cart ride through the orange groves. So my total is 5 (so far...lol) How many have you lost or broken, by accident or not? Mon, 25 Aug 2008 15:00:58 GMT heatherfeather80 http://www.mylot.com/w/discussions/1606649.aspx Hello guys It is now the worst month of the year for lightning strikes in Florida, so I thought I would offer some safety from national weather service: 1) Lightning can strike up to 10 miles away, according to the NAtional Weather Service. 2) If you hear thunder, you need to get inside right away. 3) The old method we all used to count how far the lightning was by counting "one-one thousand, two-onw thousand, etc". and calculating mile per second waiting for the thunder is actually incorrect. based on speed of sound being around 1160 feet per second and certain atmospheric conditions it must travel through, if you see lightning every 5 seconds befor you hear thunder is only about 1 mile. 4) You need to get into a house, a metal vehicle or a substantial building, where the metal , plumbing and wiring will diffuse a possible strike. a small shelter, shed or golf cart offers no protection from lighting. 5)if you are in water, including ocean, get out. water is conductor of electricity. 6) when inside , stay away from windows, concrete walls, or anything plugged into an outlet. you are safer on a codless phone or a cellphone, rather than one connected to the wall. 7) you should avoid showering and doing the laundry. 8) get away from trees. do not stand middle of the feild or become the tallest object in flat terrain. 9) you should wait for 30 minutes after the storm is over before going outside. 10) If a person is struck by lighting, call 911, and help them, since the National Weather Service says the charge will not affect them (unlike an electracution in progress) >> In 2007 , 45 people died after being struck by lightning. >> In the week of July 4th (July 3rd to 7th) this year , five people died of lightning strikes. >> Of the 16 lightning related deaths this year six occurred under or near the tree, five were near or in water and the rest were outside in an open area . Hope this Information help you out to get safe from lightning Have nice Day. Wed, 16 Jul 2008 09:33:04 GMT onthetop http://www.mylot.com/w/discussions/1585505.aspx I took my 12 year old grand-daughter and 9 year old grandson to town today and of course they both got to buy something. My grandson got an airplane that you pump up with an air pump. Well, we get home and he gets it all pumped up and it is so neat! I told him to pump it up again and open the sliding glass door and let it loose outside. Well, of course, he listened to me. He let it go and oops! up on the roof it went! He went outside and came back in and said, "Oh NO, MeeMee! It went on the top of the house." I said oh it couldn't have I saw it go to the left. Well, it did go to the left but took a turn and landed on top of the house. I went out side with him and we surveyed the situation and I stand there and think. I finally said well, let's hope for a hard wind. Well, that really didn't satisfy him at all. I thought some more and decided to back our UTV Ranger up to the house where it was. My grandson drove the golf cart way out so he could see where it was and guide me to where I needed to back the Ranger's dumpbed so it would be even with the airplane. Then..........I get out fo the Ranger and now I cannot figure out how this 54 year old woman can get into the dump bed. LOL Finally I get a good stand on the trailer hitch and boost myself up in the bed on all fours and stand up, praying all the time I don't lose my balance and "kerplunk" out of that thing. I then saw a water hose that we had cut off to use to siphon our fish aquarium and had my grandson to give that to me. Well, between praying that I don't send the metal end of the water hose through my kitchen window on one side and my siding glass door on the other side, I give it a big cowboy lasso swing and up on the roof it goes but I missed the airplane. My grandson was coaching me from the golf cart in the yard. So, I pull the hose down and give it another try, then another, then another, and my grandson yell, "MeeMee! You were so close!" So I ask him which way to go and give it another try. WooHoo I get it on top of it and he tells me to pull the hose straight down. So I follow his directions and down comes the pump part but no wings! They were still up on the roof. So I have to give another cowboy lasso swing and yell out "Yee Haw!! It lands on the wings and my grandson yells be careful MeeMee and pull it straight down! So I try and no success so one more try and Praise the Lord! Down comes the wings! The here is this old woman that has to get out of the dumpbed so I decide rather than trying to climb over the tailgate I'll go through the wire posts behind the seat of the Ranger. I had to get on my knees and start through with my head and arms and then push on through with my hands and elbows on the front seat and my bottom sticking up through the hold. Meanwhile, my grandson is laughing at me but I am determined I can do it. I continue to squiggle on through the hole and get one leg through and then the other. Then I am out! I pull the Ranger back up where it belongs and project completed! It had to look so funny but we "gotter done". Just wanted to share a funny in my day. God bless you! Tue, 01 Jul 2008 15:58:39 GMT mamacathie http://www.mylot.com/w/discussions/1584162.aspx Okay, I was really surprised last Friday when my family (sister, mom and cousin) got a round of golf going. I hadn’t been out for awhile so my spirits were high. Little did I know that a simple 9 holes would be so fatal! It rained sheets! And the course was wet, we waited it out and after it cleared we thought we were up to the challenge. After several times of bouncing off the green (loosing my footing), wet socks (because I have a hole in my shoe) and somewhere in a fencing match between a cousin (I was hit in the head with a club), we finally made it to the last hole. My nephew joined us, so I turned to my sister and said I was going to run and jump into his cart. Oh ouchie! I lost my footing again, one foot slid under the golf cart that hurtled me into the steering wheel. Today I had to be at our main office because one of my sales people is on vacation, it’s been a long weekend and the whole hair thing isn’t happening. I pulled my hair back and little did I know that my left side of my cheek and eyebrow were bruises. So, have you ever done anything that left you burses and sore and really couldn’t (well, at least didn’t want to) explain it to anyone else? I still have one more day over there, but at least all the other employees got their laugh out of it today. Well, just have to see what happens tomorrow. Mon, 30 Jun 2008 19:44:16 GMT ljegbers http://www.mylot.com/w/discussions/1528481.aspx I was sitting here trying to think of a discussion topic and this thought just came through my mind. What have i done for someone else today. Have I even done something good for someone or has this day been only for ME? Well, yes I did do something good for two someones. My son called and he had left his Bible up here at our house and he was going to walk up here and get it and I drove it down to him in the golf cart. Then I got a phone call from a guy needing a vin number off his tracker. I went down to find it for him because he would have had to drive 1-1/2 hours to get here. I was glad to do it. Have you done something for someone else today? We need to try to do at least one thing every day for someone else besides ourselves. I'm anxiously awaiting to hear from you. Fri, 23 May 2008 15:42:07 GMT mamacathie