psykiv

If you can rob a grandma with a butter knife, you can do it without a butter knife

Every surveillance video I have ever seen in my life has been recorded with a potato.

Unless he's the only black or white person in town the surveillance video won't do anything other than prove someone walked in and walked out.

Not OP but a small story.

Growing up I was convinced back pain was normal. I think it was because I was the overweight smart kid (meaning my backpack weighed like 80 pounds because the school didn't believe in lockers because they found a knife once or something). In retrospect, no wonder I was always hunched over and missed the doctor's height expectations by a few inches. Yes, standing up straight was ridiculously painful, and I wasn't even in my 20's.

Anyways, I had lower back pain 24/7. In college it got even worse and became more like entire back pain 24/7. I was taking upwards of 3,000mg of ibuprofen every day. I seriously could not function because of the pain on my back without a steady diet of advil. Again, I was convinced this was normal and something that everyone dealt with. All those pain medication commercials did nothing but convince me as well.

I had gotten random massages before, but they were more relaxation massages from girls I've dated (who obviously just gave up after 2 minutes and said lets do something else instead) and did nothing at all for my pain.

One day I went on a trip to thailand. I've heard so much about Thai massages and decided why not get one. The little 90 pound thai woman had the strength of ten men in her hands. It was so painful, but also felt so good. When the massage was over an hour later, my back pain was gone. Like completely gone. I had never felt so good in my entire life. Ever since then, about 4 years ago, I have made it a point to go get a real massage every month, even if it meant cutting my budget and skip a few meals or missing an event or appointment because of time constraints.

I honestly don't remember what back pain feels like anymore. My posture has improved significantly (I've even gained two inches of height, something unheard of for someone in their 20's).

tl;dr: massage got rid of my lifelong backpain. made me taller, and no more costco sized bottles of advil every month to kill my liver (that's alcohol's job now)!

I can confirm this. A good friend of mine is very into the local ham radio club and the dude seriously gets hardons doing precisely that. He's already gotten a few people in trouble with the FCC.

I get the feeling that using sick days is so discouraged, people would only use them if they were comatose.