Harlan County USA

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I searched to see if it was a real person and this image was the 1st hit on Google. LOL.

I ordered a jet sled online from Eagle Claw to make dragging deer out of the woods easier. In Alabama you can't use ATVs on WMAs. Days passed and I never got notified that it had shipped then all of a sudden it was delivered.

A few days after that I get an email saying my sled is on its way. Next thing I know a 2nd sled is delivered. I only paid for one. I compared the packing slips and the info was identical, same order number and everything. Lucky me.

That's Lori Harvey. Steve Harvey's daughter. Yeah she's hot.

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Yep. 2017 F150 FX4 5.0 owner, bought new. The truck now has 148K miles. I've had a time with it. When the truck was 2 - 3 yr old with 75K miles it started stalling at stops coming off long drives. It would start right back up and was intermittent. Very odd. Over time it got worse and more consistent. I started researching the problem. The F150 message boards are full of guys with this problem. Everybody was trying to figure out the issue. Bad gas, dirty oil, EGR, PCV, spark plugs, etc. Some went and forked out 3-4K at the dealer and as soon as they drove off the lot it would stall. Some had Ford buy back the truck. Some got theirs lemon lawed. Some traded theirs back in. This was on F150s from 2014 all the way up to the 20s. Not sure if the problem has been resolved in the new model. A dealer wanted 4K to repair mine. New cam phasers, timing chain, VVT solenoids. I ended up replacing the solenoids myself last month. So far so good.

By Joe Ashley
Published: Feb. 2, 2025 at 8:11 PM CST|Updated: 20 hours ago
WACO, Texas (KWTX) - The Texas Game Wardens in Bosque and Hamilton counties found a group of hunters from Louisiana in possession of three times the legal daily limit of ducks.

On Jan. 25, the Texas Game Wardens said they heard gunfire as they were patrolling the Brazos River in Bosque County.

While patrolling, authorities say they checked multiple boats and one duck hunter but found no violations.

Later that morning, authorities say they heard gunfire coming from the same area as before and used a satellite mapping program to help pinpoint several private lakes in the area where the gunfire may have come from.

Near the entrance of one of the locations, authorities say they found a man in camouflage leaving an equipment shed.

The man, according to authorities, seemed evasive and was urgently texting someone.

After speaking with the man, he took authorities to a nearby duck blind where three hunters were packing up their gear, according to authorities.

The hunters, according to authorities, gave conflicting stories about their group size.


As one of the wardens interviewed the hunters, a separate warden inspected a pile of ducks on the other side of the riverbank.

While checking the ducks, authorities say the warden found a fourth person dressed in camouflage behind a dam with a stringer of ducks he was trying to hide.

The fourth hunter did not have a valid hunting license and went over two fences to hide 16 ducks, according to authorities.

A further investigation found multiple violations from the group.

Wardens, according to authorities, found additional ducks, about 250 shotgun shells and hulls with prohibited lead shot.

The hunters admitted to using leftover shot from dove season knowing it was illegal for waterfowl hunting, authorities say.

Authorities say they determined four people were hunting with only three having valid hunting licenses, four shotguns were used with some loaded with lead shot and 54 ducks were illegally harvested.

The 54 ducks are three times the daily legal limit of six per licensed hunter.


Three of the hunters, residents of Louisiana, admitted they were aware they had exceeded their daily limit but didn’t want to stop because they claimed it was more ducks than they had seen all season in Texas or Louisiana, according to authorities.

Wardens issued citations for exceeding bag limit, hunting without a valid license and using lead shot for waterfowl, authorities say.

The group was also charged civil restitution for the illegally taken ducks with fines and restitution for the group totaling over $7,000.

Dumbasses.

Fess up. Which of y'all was it?

Duck hunters BUSTED

Sorry, I was in Nashville when I made the first post and just got back to Bham.

This is going to be long so take your time reading.

This was in KY a couple of years ago. Some background - Mom had a stroke that 100% disabled her. She was single, divorced decades prior and never remarried. I am her only child. She had me on her bank accounts since the 80s in case anything ever happened to her. She did not have a will. I was listed as beneficiary on everything. She owned 1 car and and was still making payments on her home. My mom raised me pretty much by herself after my folks divorced and my dad at that time was a POS. I seen her do without to provide for me what little we had. She did the best she could but it was a struggle. So anyone that wants to say anything about me wanting to protect her assets instead of letting government have it can go frick themselves with a cactus. I mean that with the utmost sincerity.

Prior to ever hiring an elder care attorney, I did some things on my own. It helps being from a small town and knowing ppl. I setup a funeral trust for her using her money which remember, I had access to cause I was on her accounts. That's important because if they go into a nursing home without a funeral trust and their savings gets wiped out, you'll end up paying for their funeral out of your pocket. The nursing home may or may not tell you that when they go in. I wasn't' taking any chances. Mom didn't want to be cremated and I wasn't robbing her of her wishes to be buried. You don't need a lawyer to setup the funeral trust. Contact your funeral home director. Talk to them about the cost of a funeral, headstone, flowers, plot, all that. Hers was around 12K. I put 17K into the funeral trust. The difference came back to me after everything was done some time later.

I got temporary guardianship of her 1 week following her stroke in my hometown. She still had bills to pay and I needed to be her legal representative for other things that came later. Permanent guardianship came months later with another trip to court. I did this by myself, no lawyer needed. Talk to your County Court Clerk and also your County Attorney Office about the forms you'll need to fill out.

With guardianship, the courthouse let me put my name on her cars title. We were listed as joint owners. That was important later, after she passed, when I needed to tag and title the car in Alabama where I live.

When it came to her home, Guardianship and KY law allowed me to put my name on 1 percent ownership on the deed. The reason that was important was because if mom went on Medicaid and they tried to force me to sell the house, I could say no. It never came to that though.

Mom ended up staying at UK hospital for over a month after her stroke and I got the above done during that time. If I had to do over again, I would've left her at UK longer. UK did not push us to get out. The social worker there told me they had ppl in the hospital over a year that had not gotten accepted into a nursing home.

Getting into a nursing home is hard when you are 100% disabled and you don't have a payment source outside of Medicaid. Mom had Social Security and KY Retirement from her job but no long term care insurance. The cost can be 7K - 12K per month depending on location. The Social Worker at UK reached out to nursing homes from KY to AL and I only got 2 calls from interested nursing homes. I ended up putting her into one of the nursing homes in my hometown.

It's at that point I hired an elder care attorney to walk me through how to navigate Medicaid. We setup a "promissory note loan" where I borrowed money from her, all of it, (to reduce her assets) and I made a payment back to her each month. That payment would then be added to her SS and KY retirement check as her patient liability payment to the nursing home. We setup two trusts to accomplish this, an Irrevocable Trust and a QIT Trust (Qualified Income Trust) and also created a "shuffle account". The loaned money would be paid from the IT to the Shuffle Account to her personal checking account to the QIT to the nursing home. What this does is trickles the money to the nursing home in lieu of paying 8K per month and wiping it out in no time. You're still paying but at a much reduced rate each month. Those nursing home specialists will act like they're helping you by asking about your parents assets and finances. They're not helping no one but themselves.

I found out that this Medicaid "sell the home clause" kicks in after a 6 month stay on Medicaid's dime in KY. Her first month was paid by Medicare. So that would've meant she would have needed to be in the nursing home 7 months for them to start trying to force me to sell her home. We never got that far as she passed away beforehand.

Nursing home patients are permitted to have one car without them coming after it.

Just remember, this was in KY, I don't know if any of this would help you where you live. I know some states do not make you sell the home.

That's what I can think of at the moment. If you have questions I'll try to answer.

To add: the best thing to do to get out ahead of Medicaid is to get everything out of your parents name. Medicaid does have "look back periods" to see if you're trying to cheat them LOL. KY was 5 years, but we didn't lose anything other than making a payment each month for those few months she was there.

Setting up trusts is huge in avoiding Medicare making you sell land or homes or spending all their assets.

Went back into the woods today to find a knife I lost this past weekend that my now deceased mom gave me years ago and stumbled onto this shed. Found the knife and shed. This thing is thick. How long do these last in the woods?

Nice. Out west I assume? I wouldn't know where to start to hunt out west. Have always hunted where I live.

I got 3 bucks this season for the first time. Two 8's and a 9 pernt. Took all on WMAs.

Here's my 9. That little kicker on his right side is just a nub or he'd have been a 10. He weighed 112 field dressed. What's crazy is I went into a new spot I'd never hunted before. After getting up in the tree with my climber I saw another climber at the base of a tree about 50 yards away. Sorry I kilt yer deer guy!

One of my papaws died of a heart attack while shoveling snow in April in KY back in the 80s.

Use salt to keep your steps from freezing or let it melt.