Visit to the local dive store - A new mail order customer is born

In article <128tg6uk46au155@news.supernews.com>, Popeye
<Popeye@Finalprotectivefire.com> wrote:

€ "Alan Street" <agstreet@nonono_san.rr.com> wrote in message
€ news:130620060636502278%agstreet@nonono_san.rr.com ...
€ > In article <128sfbt358r3tdf@news.supernews.com>, Popeye
€ > <Popeye@Finalprotectivefire.com> wrote:
€ >
€ > ? "Clifford Beshers" <whistler@san.rr.com> wrote in message
€ > ? news:Sgqjg.11957$Z67.9969@tornado.socal.rr.com...
€ > ? > Popeye wrote:
€ > ? >> "ajtessier" <ajtessier@worldnet.att.net> wrote in message
€ > ? >> news:Cxnjg.175559$Fs1.51287@bgtnsc05-news.ops.worldnet.att.net...
€ > ? >>> How does the vending machine check a tank for hydo and visual?
€ > ? >>>
€ > ? >>> Al
€ > ? >>> Bottoms Up Divers
€ > ? >>
€ > ? >> Why would it need to?
€ > ? >
€ > ? > Might damage the compressor. Wouldn't want that.
€ > ?
€ > ?
€ > ? Statistically speaking, it's a non-event.
€ > ?
€ > ? Any Outback restaurants near you?
€ >
€ > You ate there once.
€
€ Me and Erinn?
€
€ That was an Outback?
€
€

Yep.

Some Random Dude wrote:
> On Mon, 12 Jun 2006 19:46:53 -0700, Ray <ray@rayzplace.com> wrote:
>
>
>>ajtessier wrote:
> given your ligitious culture it would be more likely to cause lawsuits
> by the family of a darwin award winner against the vendor providor AND
> the tank manufactorer and cause a senator who doesn't dive introduce a
> bill to make tank filling an exchange basis where you take your tank
> into a govt depot, pay $$$ and pick up another filled tank. every tank
> being tested hydroed, fiddled with and filled by work relief crims on
> rehab progams who need to read the manual every time they hook up a
> new tank.
>
> :P

I must say, it does sound like filling seems to be a lot stricter in the
US - I've had my tanks visualed but they have no stickers and I've never
been asked by shops about it. In fact, I don't think I've ever even been
asked for a c-card, even when getting nitrox fills.