{"id":577,"date":"2015-02-10T02:34:07","date_gmt":"2015-02-10T10:34:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/nook\/?p=577"},"modified":"2015-02-10T02:34:07","modified_gmt":"2015-02-10T10:34:07","slug":"dream-involving-personal-lift-device-beaches-russian-gangs-thrill-tresspassing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/2015\/02\/10\/dream-involving-personal-lift-device-beaches-russian-gangs-thrill-tresspassing\/","title":{"rendered":"Dream Involving Personal Lift Device, Beaches, Russian Gangs, Thrill Trespassing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: Comic Sans MS,sans-serif;\">Initially I was on a <strong><span style=\"color: #993300;\">sandy beach<\/span><\/strong> with a geography similar to <strong><span style=\"color: #ffcc00;\">Golden<\/span> <span style=\"color: #339966;\">Gardens<\/span><\/strong> only much more expansive and sandy with sand going partially up the hill to the <strong>West<\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Comic Sans MS,sans-serif;\">Then up on the hill to the <strong>West<\/strong> as the sand faded into normal soil there was a big <strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Chinese<\/span><\/strong> housing development that wasn&#8217;t finished on the <span style=\"color: #000000;\">Northern<\/span> portion.\u00a0 Oddly, this development included some liquid fuel piping infrastructure such that something like gasoline could be distributed to each unit&#8217;s parking space.\u00a0 The <strong>Northern<\/strong> portion had this piping already in place but did not have the housing units completed.\u00a0 This made it an ideal place from which to steal fuel, something not lost on the <strong><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Russian Gangs<\/span><\/strong>.\u00a0 These guys were into stealing it in massive quantities to sell and make money.\u00a0 They were also into preserving their enterprise by eliminating anyone who might happen to find out what they were up to, which I did.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Comic Sans MS,sans-serif;\">I had some kind of <strong>personal helicopter device<\/strong>, it was a device you strap on and it had enough fan power to lift an individual very high, way above the clouds. It had enough thrust that <strong>it could lift three people<\/strong>, (me and two hanging on) several hundred feet.\u00a0 It was a <strong><span style=\"color: #339966;\">green hybrid helicopter device<\/span><\/strong>, it ran off of gasoline but it had a battery pack that would keep it going for several minutes after the small plastic gasoline tank that held maybe a quarter, ran out, so that you could come down gently instead of suddenly plummeting to the ground.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Comic Sans MS,sans-serif;\">To the South of the <strong><span style=\"color: #993300;\">beach<\/span><\/strong> and <strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Chinese<\/span><\/strong> housing development was an urban area of mixed hi-rise housing and commercial buildings in a state of semi-decay.\u00a0 Some buildings were occupied, some were not.\u00a0 Some buildings and lots were under construction.\u00a0 Other lots and buildings were in a state of decay, unoccupied, windows and sometimes parts of walls broken out.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Comic Sans MS,sans-serif;\">I was in the <strong>North-Westerly<\/strong> most portion of the <strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Chinese<\/span><\/strong> housing development when I came across a young woman, maybe in her early 20&#8217;s, thin, long dark hair, perhaps of <strong>Italian<\/strong> descent, who was obviously distressed in an otherwise mostly unoccupied portion of the complex.\u00a0 Seems that we shared a common problem, both of us had observed the <span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>Russian Gang<\/strong><\/span> stealing fuel, and they had observed us observing them and had a desire to put us out of our misery.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Comic Sans MS,sans-serif;\">I used my <strong>personal helicopter device<\/strong> to lift us both out of there and set us down in the urban area to the <strong>North<\/strong>.\u00a0 It was there I met her male partner, a young man, also thin and dark but with short hair, wearing a black long trench coat.\u00a0 We collectively decided to go on a escapade of thrill trespassing using my <strong>personal helicopter device<\/strong>.\u00a0 The initial plan was to set down on the rooftops of some of these semi-occupied buildings however we didn&#8217;t have enough lift to haul three people to the top, instead settled for landing on a balcony about 27 stories up.\u00a0 We weren&#8217;t sure if that floor was occupied or not.\u00a0 We came to kind of a dead end with no external view.\u00a0 Fortunately, my <strong>personal helicopter device<\/strong> came equipped with a drilling device that would drill about a six inch hole through just about anything.\u00a0 We drilled through walls and found one that was external.\u00a0 Then we drilled a bunch of holes and kicked out the remaining wall and used it to launch from and go back to a place on the ground.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Comic Sans MS,sans-serif;\">Once on the ground, I found a place that sold batteries for my <strong>personal helicopter device<\/strong> that would extend the electric only operation to about fifteen minutes.\u00a0 This was great as it would just about double my total flight time.\u00a0 I woke up out of the dream at this point.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Initially I was on a sandy beach with a geography similar to Golden Gardens only much more expansive and sandy with sand going partially up the hill to the West. 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