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> Eagle Eye Wrote:
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>
> > Wow! You're just a douchebag in general,
> aren't
> > you?
>
> No, that'd be you and more than a few of your
> multiple personalities.
>
> > I live in Fairfax and work in Ballston.
>
> You should take 50. Fewer traffic lights and a
> higher speed limit. Not really surprising you
> take the long way home.
>
> > I drive through Falls Church a lot. The roads
> and
> > traffic are bad enough in that stretch that
> those
> > are what my perfectly good eyes need to focus
> on
> > most.
>
> Through Falls Church, the speed limit is 30. A
> geriatric can navigate it fairly well and still
> notice the businesses that are visible from the
> street.
>
> > But drive past anywhere often enough, and
> > you'll come to have some familiarity with it.
>
> It appears you haven't become all that familiar
> with it though as your claim that the Budget Inn
> is not visible from the street, which it clearly
> is.
>
> > I saw your comments about 75 feet. They made
> no
> > sense to me.
>
> Because you just aren't too bright.
>
> > I looked it up on an ADC map, and
> > then other maps were posted here from the
> > internet. They ALL suggested that your claims
> > were the nonsense I originally suspected.
>
> Not if you know how to use a map. Do you know
> what a map scale is? Do you know how to use it?
>
>
http://goo.gl/maps/PZvby
>
> > But on the theory of best evidence, I stopped
> and
> > personally inspected the area Friday evening.
>
> Likely a lie, but let's play along just to prove
> you wrong (again).
>
> > That survey quickly confirmed that you are not
> > just wrong, but lying. Whether deliberately or
> > through simple ignorance I could not say, but
> your
> > claims are most definitely bullshit.
>
> They are 100% true as supported by photographic
> and cartographic evidence linked to in these
> posts. You have no such evidence put forward on
> your behalf. Nada, zip, zilch, zero.
>
> > You will not see the Budget Inn from most parts
> of
> > Route-29. It is visible as such only from
> > particular vantage points.
>
>
http://goo.gl/maps/4QAOS
>
> Is it visible from this shot? Yes or no.
>
>
http://goo.gl/maps/pFwxH
>
> Is it visible from this shot? Yes or no.
>
>
http://goo.gl/maps/OZV4D
>
> Is it visible from this shot? Yes or no.
>
> You NEVER qualified your statement that it is only
> visible from "particular vantage points." You
> certainly can't see it from the road when you are
> in Merrifield, but it is plainly visible when you
> are in front of it. You claimed it wasn't. It
> is.
>
> > Buildings that
> > actually do front on Route-29, trees, and the
> edge
> > of the cliff that the Budget Inn sits well back
> > from obscure most of the view from that far
> away.
>
> It is exactly ONE Building.
>
> See here:
http://goo.gl/maps/qRJ2n
>
>
http://goo.gl/maps/rFzoy
>
> Do you know how to count? How many buildings are
> in the Budget Inn parking lot that borders the
> Quarry Inn? What's that? How many? Name them.
> There might be 2 doors, but it is still one
> building. There are 5 doors to my home, but it is
> still one building.
>
> > Fine. What then is the name of the Tripps Run
> > tributary that runs along the base of the cliff
> > that one would plunge over when attempting to
> > drive from the Budget Inn to the Quarry Inn
> > without first going back out onto Route-29?
>
> There is no such tributary and there is no such
> cliff.
>
>
http://goo.gl/maps/cUk2r
>
> In order for your assertion to be true, the three
> buildings on the Sisler's property (seen to the
> right in the above picture) would have to be build
> on the side of a cliff and they aren't.
>
>
> > Dude, I stood on top of it. It is quite a
> > significant drop. It is not a slope. It is a
> > cliff, plain and simple. Your claim is pure
> > douchebag bullshit.
>
> Nope. Here is a bird's eye link to what you claim
> is a cliff. No such cliff.
>
>
http://binged.it/1zJdSmI
>
> (You can actually see the old pool in the
> picture).
>
> > A block in New York City is 264 feet. In the
> > Midwest, a standard of 330 feet is common. By
> > either measure, the Budget Inn is a block or
> more
> > away from the road, and the as-the-crow-flies
> > distance between the entrances to the two
> motels
> > would be approaching two blocks.
>
> You have offered no proof. In fact, what you have
> offered has been refuted to the point that you
> should be embarrassed.
>
> > Even though such
> > rough estimates are more than enough to make a
> > fool of you, perhaps I'll stop off again on
> Friday
> > to obtain more precise data.
>
> Why Friday? Isn't it part of your daily commute?
>
> > Might be a good
> > chance to snap some sunset pix of the scenic
> cliff
> > as well. You might want to have some prefab
> lies
> > ready, just in case.
>
> No need for lies when every map and photograph I
> have produced more than proves that a mere 75 feet
> separate the two buildings.
>
> > > That's not an access road, it is called a
> > parking lot.
> > > Ever hear of one of those. They are usually
> > pretty easy
> > > to spot as they have white lines indicating
> the
> > parking
> > > spaces. You can clearly see the lines in the
> > street
> > > view and the satellite photos.
> >
> > It is an access road.
>
> Wrong. You clearly don't know what an access road
> is. An access road is also known as a frontage
> road. In order for it to qualify as one, it would
> have to run parallel to Rte. 29.
>
> > It exists only to provide
> > automobile access from Route-29. It allows
> cars
> > to drive past the buildings that have actual
> > frontage on Route-29,
>
> There is only one building. The photos prove
> that. If you have other photographic evidence to
> the contrary, please provide it here. If not,
> stop lying about it.
>
> > then make the multi-story
> > ascent up to the top of the cliff,
>
> A topographic map does not indicate the presence
> of this alleged cliff.
>
>
https://maps.google.com/gallery/details?id=z4f-ZuC
> LmiKg.kUOos96GzVzs&hl=en
>
> > Interesting. That would explain why the Budget
> > Inn is set so far back from the edge of the
> cliff,
> > which along with assorted trees and buildings,
> > makes the place all but invisible to passing
> > motorists on Route-29.
>
> One building and a few trees. Please name the
> buildings if you contend there are more than one.
>
> > You may be referring to the now long-defunct
> > Karaoke Idol Restaurant, the remains of which
> > still stand next door to those of an equally
> > defunct one-time sub and pizza shop. When was
> the
> > last time YOU took a "road trip" over there,
> > anyway?
>
> It appears more recent than you despite your
> obvious lie that you went there last Friday.
>
> > No, you couldn't. You would be too seriously
> > injured in the fall. Emergency personnel would
> be
> > called. You would be packed up and driven off
> to
> > a trauma room, just like on TV.
>
> I would be on flat land at the bottom of the two
> lots. Besides, the slight hill is not the cliff
> you make it out to be. Maps have been provided to
> refute your lies.
>
> > Once again, I have been there.
>
> If true, it indicates you are an even bigger idiot
> than you seem to be.
Winner by knockout.