Strategy, Tactics, and Color Codes at an ATM

[Trunk Monkey]

Anything in it.

I had to get finger prints to join the Army.
I had to get finger prints to get my security license
I had to get finger prints to get my CHP and each time I get a renewal.

There was no way I was touching that ATM

 

[joed]

Interesting experience. But I would think the color codes would have alerted you to what was happening.

 

[Kleanbore]

There is another chapter, to the story. After leaving any ATM, or any bank, be on the look-out for “juggers,” who follow folks who seem to have just withdrawn money. The actual robbery may occur anywhere along the way, or in the “safety” of one’s driveway or garage

Absolutely!

That high awareness should start before the walk to the car and be maintained until the person is indoors at home with the doors locked and has checked for strange vehicles in the neighborhood.

 

[Kleanbore]

But I would think the color codes would have alerted you to what was happening.

Color codes do not alert.

 

[whughett]

Rubbing alcohol isn't healthy to ingest. If you want to disinfect your food you should use Everclear. (190 proof grain alcohol.) You can stretch it by mixing 3 parts Everclear to 1 part 3% hydrogen peroxide (thanks @hso).

Joking on the donut part. But do mist the monies change, the wrappers, sacks and beverage tops.

 

[old lady new shooter]

Joking on the donut part. But do mist the monies change, the wrappers, sacks and beverage tops.

Being over 70 and diabetic, I'm getting everything delivered. I disinfect the bags/boxes outside before bringing them in, and disinfect the contents before putting away. Items like boxes I use Clorox wipes, but I use the Everclear solution to mist all my produce. (Seeing a woman in the grocery store sneeze into her bare hand and then continue selecting her produce the week before I started staying in was all the reason I needed.) Once removed from the store plastic bags and disinfected I put the items in my own plastic bags before putting in the refrigerator. (Walmart has clear 1-gallon ones that come with a set of twist-ties, without the ties they are just the right size and much more economical than ziplocks or sliders.) At the beginning of the pandemic I was using 2 tsp of food-grade chlorine bleach to a gallon of water and putting the produce in the solution for 30 seconds, but that's a lot more work and I wasn't enthusiastic about ingesting bleach.

 

[wiscoaster]

If you want to disinfect your food you should use Everclear. (190 proof grain alcohol.) You can stretch it by mixing 3 parts Everclear to 1 part 3% hydrogen peroxide (thanks @hso).

Ethanol is most effective killing virus at 65% - 75% concentration. Lower concentration and it's less effective; higher concentration and it's also less effective. 190 proof is 95%, no? Hydrogen peroxide shouldn't be ingested. If you want to eat fresh, wash in warm soapy water and rinse well.

 

[old lady new shooter]

Ethanol is most effective killing virus at 65% - 75% concentration. Lower concentration and it's less effective; higher concentration and it's also less effective. 190 proof is 95%, no? Hydrogen peroxide shouldn't be ingested. If you want to eat fresh, wash in warm soapy water and rinse well.

If @hso cares to drop in on this thread, you can fight it out with him about the peroxide, he's the one who advised me to use it and I figured as a health and safety officer he would know. <shrug>

 

[wiscoaster]

OK. It'll be interesting to discover if he meant it to be used on something that was to be eaten.

It does say on the back of my bottle: Warning: for external use only.

 

[Armored farmer]

I found an ATM in the dumpster outside my apartment one morning

Do you remember anything about how you stole it.?

 

[Old Dog]

I found an ATM in the dumpster outside my apartment one morning

That's gotta be a sign you need to move to a new neighborhood ...

As far as my use of ATMs goes, I only use the ones inside the branches of my credit union (when traveling I use only cash). Trying to get the wife onboard with this after more'n 30 years ... she's been known to try and drive her car with a totally flat tire she didn't notice, so her situational awareness training is taking some time.

 

[old lady new shooter]

Do you remember anything about how you stole it.?

 

[Trunk Monkey]

That's gotta be a sign you need to move to a new neighborhood ...

As far as my use of ATMs goes, I only use the ones inside the branches of my credit union (when traveling I use only cash). Trying to get the wife onboard with this after more'n 30 years ... she's been known to try and drive her car with a totally flat tire she didn't notice, so her situational awareness training is taking some time.

One of my coworkers found a body in a dumpster in one of the most high end neighborhoods in Colorado Springs

I found a safe outside the fence at work one morning. I'm not sure what you call them but it's the kind of floor safe they used at the Domino's Pizza I worked at as a kid. A cylinder about three feet deep that you set in the concrete.

 

[old lady new shooter]

OK. It'll be interesting to discover if he meant it to be used on something that was to be eaten.

It does say on the back of my bottle: Warning: for external use only.

So you piqued my curiosity. Below are photos of the front and back of my bottle, with the texts about oral use highlighted. My best conclusion is, yes, it says to rinse with it and then spit out, which means don't DRINK it... but spitting it out will still leave traces of it... which are probably more than the amount a person would ingest by eating produce sprayed with the solution I described.

 

[wiscoaster]

I think if you'll just briefly rinse the produce with water after disinfecting it, you'll have no worries.

 

[Rexster]

Hydrogen Peroxide breaks-down into harmless components. The reason for avoiding ingestion is because the bubbly reaction is NOT something that one wants to happen, internally.

 

[old lady new shooter]

I think if you'll just briefly rinse the produce with water after disinfecting it, you'll have no worries.

Anything with a skin gets washed with water and a vegetable brush before actually using. So I'm already doing that.