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Halloween And A Headless Mosby

By Jay Markanich

Home Inspector with Jay Markanich Real Estate Inspections, LLC 3380-000723

November 01, 2010 12:43 PM

I know all of you go Trick or Treating with your thermal infrared cameras, don't you? For sure, I know I do! Every year. Nothing sets off the special event like a bunch of thermal images...

Well, this year I got a surprise!

Mosby showed up outside a house all the kids were at! He was mingling with the crowd!

I looked to my left and there he was, reflected in the window, tool belt and all. He was right behind me in the yard and I didn't know it!

This Halloween he had an interesting costume on! This year he went HEADLESS!

Very impressed with the costume, I turned around to congratulate him on the idea and, boom, he was NOT THERE! As always, he is quite the guerrilla fighter, and good at it!

Now I can definitely imagine him riding through the neighborhood on a horse, headless, with a pumpkin held in his cold hand. Can't you?

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Bob "RealMan" Timm

Ward County Notary Services - Minot, ND

Owner of Ward Co Notary Services retired RE Broker

Jay,

Cool camera. I think if I had one I'd be doing all kinds of fun stuff to.

Bob

Nov 01, 2010 12:52 PM

Jay Markanich

Jay Markanich Real Estate Inspections, LLC - Bristow, VA

Home Inspector - servicing all Northern Virginia

Fun stuff? This is serious stuff Bob! Any time you can be a ghost whisperer, and in my case a Mosby Whisperer, it is serious business! ;)

Nov 01, 2010 12:53 PM

James Quarello

JRV Home Inspection Services, LLC - Wallingford, CT

Connecticut Home Inspector

Sometimes it's surprising what I find when looking over thermal images. ghostly inspector This spectre appeared to my surprise in this image I took a few months back. He looks like he's inspecting a chimney!

Nov 01, 2010 01:13 PM

Or maybe trying to figure out how to get inside VIA that chimney! Oooooooaoooooohhhhh!

Yeah, that's it. Great find Jim!

Nov 01, 2010 01:32 PM

Damon Gettier

Damon Gettier & Associates, REALTORS- Roanoke Va Short Sale Expert - Roanoke, VA

Broker/Owner ABRM, GRI, CDPE

Jay, my brother is a home inspector in SW VA (not a competitor for you) and was wondering what model of infrared camera you used and how you liked yours.

Thanks!

Nov 01, 2010 01:58 PM

Tish Lloyd

BlueCoast Realty Corporation - Wilmington, NC

Broker - Wilmington NC and Surrounding Beaches

You have to admit, he really gets around!

Nov 01, 2010 02:59 PM

John Mulkey

TheHousingGuru.com - Waleska, GA

Housing Guru

Jay - Looks as if Mosby was really into the "Spirit" of Halloween

Nov 01, 2010 03:27 PM

Damon - I use the RAZ-IR and have had it for 7 years. There is info about it on my website.

Tish - he is everywhere, but that's the way he was during the Civil War too! Hence his name, the "Gray Ghost."

John - Mosby seems to like a party. He threw a few himself in his day!

Nov 01, 2010 10:34 PM

Kathryn Maguire

GreatNorfolkHomes.com (757) 560-0881 - Chesapeake, VA

Serving Chesapeake, Norfolk, VA Beach

Mosby certainly does get around. I wonder which type of candy he was trying to score?

Nov 02, 2010 02:26 AM

Something with a ghostly shape Kathryn.

Nov 02, 2010 02:29 AM

Jeremy Wrenn

Winslow Homes - Youngsville, NC

VP of Finance, Winslow Homes

Lovely, Mosby is very tactical!

Sep 05, 2011 07:15 AM

He gets around anywhere there are people Jeremy.

Sep 05, 2011 09:16 AM

Indeed he does!

Sep 05, 2011 09:21 AM

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