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- CAMPO approved the toll roads . . . who didn't see that coming?
UT's statue of Cesar Chavez was unveiled today.- GOP presidential hopeful Mike Huckabee was in town over the weekend.
- Austin resident Marion Jones has given back her 5 medals from the 2000 Olympics and may have to give up $100,000 of prize money after admitting to steroid use.
- The Supreme Court won't hear the appeal re: the 1999 Aggie bonfire deaths and whether school administrators can be blamed for them.
- Stay classy: During his trial today, Selwyn Davis not-so-subtly flips off the family of the woman he is accused of murdering.
- Someone is replacing iPods at Ft. Worth area Target stores with rocks, and one unfortunate woman bought two shrink-wrapped boxes of them.
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Ah. The old rocks in the box trick. I wonder how they got them into the store.
Uh, probably the same way all other products get into the store? Just a guess.
What I meant was that when you buy a box o' rocks, it's usually in the parking lot outside the store, not in the store. Plus, after she found the rocks in the first box, the woman went to a different store and got another iPod box full of rocks so it's not a problem contained to one store.
Maybe it's a miracle. Maybe the rocks in the iPod box was God's way of telling that woman that she shouldn't spend $350 on a single item for her child.
Homer: Why do you look like Cesar Romero?
Ghost: Cause you don't know what Cesar Chavez looks like.
So, is it possible to get to the airport without paying a toll? By their descriptions, it doesn't seem so, but there is no map outlining the exact parts of the roads that will be tolled.
You can still get to the airport after the toll roads go in, you just need to take 35 to 290 and head to Manor, once you're there you can take some highway south and then turn east on another highway, turn right at the next highway and then head back west and you'll be there.
#3 - just like most all other products, they go to some staging area prior to being deliverd to the store. Most likely the guys in one of the warehouses (usually not even owned by the store) is taking the ipods out, putting rocks in, repackaging and then putting them back on the crate for delivery.
Spending $910 million tax dollars to shift our freeways to tollways is offensive. NO CITY IN THE COUNTRY HAS SHIFTED IT'S PUBLIC HIGHWAYS TO TOLLWAYS. These are not convetional toll roads
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You can take the Airport flyer.