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[Dave H2O]

... in response to heck...., posted by Jimbo on Jul 25, 2001

Jim,

I was thinking about scraping together a few bucks to buy Lori a new keyboard. At first I thought she was typing some new sort of cute text that women often seem to do, like XOXOXO. Then I thought maybe she was typing some sort of spy message to the Vietcong. )) Now I'm getting paranoid. It must have been the North Carolina Moonshine. Maybe I'm allergic to corn. ))

Dave H.

[Lori]

... in response to ROFLMAO!, posted by Dave H2O on Jul 25, 2001

ummm...I swear it's my keyboard and not treason.
mFunny thing is sometimes these u's come up and sometimes they don't.

Mo   It's really the Mo's I worry about :-o

[Ray]

... in response to Hold the Waffles..., posted by Dave H2O on Jul 25, 2001

Yep, ya did real good son. That must have been a sight to behold!

Good Night Dave and thanks for the story.

Ray

[Dave H2O]

... in response to No Waffling Here, posted by Ray on Jul 25, 2001

N/T

[Michael B]

... in response to Hold the Waffles..., posted by Dave H2O on Jul 25, 2001

Well, at least you were not smart enough not to mess up your truck.

Four or five months ago I was sitting in a resturant. There were maybe 10-15 people in the place, including a couple in their late 20's maybe early 30's, a white guy and a cute petettie latina. (he was a local, she turned out to be from Panama) Nothing much going on that looked unusual..they paid their check and left. About 5 minutes later we heard a car wreck but nobody got up to check, we all thought it was out on the major street that runs by the shopping center and that somebody with a cell phone was bound to have called it in if it was serious . About 5 minutes after that, I paid up and started to leave, the place was going to close in 10 minutes anyway. I went outside and pressed the remote and the lights on my car came on, then the guy (from the couple in the resturant) said "move, this guy wants to get his car out" and I looked and the latina was down on the ground behind my car. I though she was looking for an earring she dropped or something. I started the car. Before backing out, I looked to see if she was clear but I couldn't see her. I got out and walked behind the car and she was still down there, only this time she was crying and it was obvious there was something wrong. I asked "Is she sick?" and he said "The b**ch had it comming". One of the resturant workers and a couple more customers came out and saw us talking (with the girl still on the ground, now crying uncontrolibly) and he too asked if she was sick and the guy said "no, she ain't sick, she's mad about her car" and pointed to a brand new GMC SUV that was sideways up over the curb in the little grass island, with a street light pole burried about 2 feet deep in the passenger side door. I said "Da*n, how did she hit the pole at that angle?" and he said "Don't you see the truck on the other side of it?" The resturant worker and I and 5 or 6 other people walked around to the other side of the SUV and sure enough, there was a brand new Chevrolet pickup in the driver side door, the pickup was about 3 feet shorter than it should have been, and between the pickup and the pole, the SUV was now only about 2 feet wide. We said something like "man, what an accident" and he said "no, I hit her on purpose, like I SAID, the b**** had it comming" and he calmly walked over and started removing CD's and books and clothes and stuff from the SUV and throwing them on the ground, purposely breaking as much stuff as he could in the process. It was like something out of the Twilight-Zone. The guy just keeps breaking her stuff and calmy answers "yes"  when we ask him 4 or 5 times "you mean you ran into her on purpose?" and "was she in the SUV when you hit it?" Again he says "yes, she was trying to drive away, so I had to stop her" 4 or 5 times, in front of what is now at least a dozen witnesses.  Well of course by now, somebody has called the cops (the girl is still on the ground crying, a couple of the resturant ladies are trying to help her). Two cops show up and they want to know who owns the pickup and SUV and the guy says "I do"..cop says "which one do you own?" and the guy says "I own both of them, but I've been letting her use that one"   Cops have called for re-enforcements and are now talking to the girl over here (her English is not perfect, but even the cops can understand her), the guy over there and another cop is taking statements from us.  They talk and talk and ask us all the same things over and over, head cop wants to "just call it a lover spat and hey, it's not against the law to wreck you own trucks" and wants to let the guy go if he promisses to pay the shopping center to fix the lamp pole, and "thank you all for your statements, but there's really nothing more going on now." I guess I'm just an instigator, or maybe I just wanted to see the right thing done, I said "Hey, wait a minute officer, it might not be against the law to wreck your own truck, but she was IN the SUV when he hit it, he TOLD us that she was and that he hit her on purpose and we heard him tell YOU the same thing, so why aren't you arresting him for assult or something?" This gets me a very dirty "mind your own business" look from the  head cop, but a chorus of "yeah, what about it, cops? He tried to kill her and you ain't gonna do nothing about it?" from the other witnesses, so the head cop (although not very enthusisasticly) puts the cuffs on the guy and they put him in one of the cop cars and take him off, presumably to the jail, FINALLY, I mean the cops had been there over an hour, trying to find every excuse possible NOT to arrest the guy. A big tilt bed wrecker that the cops called arrived and hauled off both wrecked vehicles (and I mean they were both probably going to be totaled, the SUV for sure) and a couple of us offer to take the girl home but the last remaing cop (the only nice one of the bunch) says that he let her use his cell phone to call a friend and that he would stay with her until the friend arrived.

So, what had the "b***ch" done to "have it comming"? Well, right before they left the resturant, she had told him that she had decided she wasn't going to date him anymore. Her reason? Because he's too violent.......gee, you think?

One thing neither us witness nor the cops ever got quite clear, was she the MOB fiancee of the guy (which is what he claimed, AND said he would get INS to deport her, "they're gonna send you back, b***ch)") or was she up here from Panama on her own (which she claimed, maybe out of fear that he WOULD get her deported)

Just my opinon, but I don't care if she'd been playing him for a sugar daddy to the last year and a half, that's no excuse to run over her, and if there ever is a case for the MOB to claim abuse, this one is bona-fide.

[Dave H2O]

... in response to Re: Hold the Waffles...(long....but inte..., posted by Michael B on Jul 25, 2001

Michael,

That is incredible! What a total jerk and friggin idiot! I am sure he will blame her for everything and continue to hurt other women. Too bad the light pole didn't break off and go through his chest. He deserved to become a human shish kabob. I've seen that a few times in my rescue days. Kind of strange when they are still talking to you. It gives them a chance to reflect on their life.

Dave H.

[Lori]

... in response to Re: Hold the Waffles...(long....but inte..., posted by Michael B on Jul 25, 2001

I can't stand those wanna-be cowboys who walk on their toes!!!! They primp in the mirror more than women do. They try to walk around with that "don't mess with me" attitude and it comes out more like, "I just mess myself". They have hundreds of those men in Lawton Oklahoma. Real tall and skinny in those wrangler(no butt) jeans.  You just weant to walk up to them and tip them over.

[Jeff S]

... in response to oh maaann..., posted by Lori on Jul 25, 2001

I'm an old cowhand
From the Rio Grande
But my legs ain't bowed
And my cheeks ain't tanned

I'm a cowboy who never saw a cow
Never roped a steer cause I don't know how
And I sure ain't fixin to start in now
Yipie ay oh kay ay..

As George Carlin once said, What's this about wearing a cowboy costume? You don't see people dressing up like any other 19th century folk heros. How many times do you see guys dressing up like pirates, for instance?

-- Jeff S.

[jon]

... in response to As long as we're quoting song lyrics..., posted by Jeff S on Jul 25, 2001

Try out the world of reenacting which covers all time periods.

Jon

[Jeff S]

... in response to Uh..., posted by jon on Jul 25, 2001

Oh yeah - forgot about Rennissance fairs!

[jon]

... in response to Re: Uh..., posted by Jeff S on Jul 25, 2001

Not only that:

Medieval, Roman, Napoleonic, American Rev, Indian Wars (FL area, Dave), Civil War, WWI, WWII, Vietnam...

Jon

[Dave H2O]

... in response to Re: Re: Uh..., posted by jon on Jul 25, 2001

Hi Jon,

I haven't got involved in reenactment yet, but it looks like a lot of fun. Every year I go to the Medieval or Renaissance fair in my area and several Scottish festivals in the South-Eastern US. The last several years I have attended the Irish festival here. I have been to Indian Wars (Seminole) and Civil War reenactments. They are educational as well as lots of fun. Let's not forget the Alamo, Little Bighorn, and Wild West gun battle reenactments.

Dave H.

[Lori]

... in response to Good Fun!, posted by Dave H2O on Jul 25, 2001

I go to the local Fairs every year. Last time I promised my daughter we would go in costume. I got as far as actually buying the patterns to make them. If I had thought about it I would have taken the patterns to Vietnam and had them made there.
BTW--I just absolutly LOVE the Jousting Knights!!! I have always just wanted one of them to ride up to me on their horse, look deeply into my eyes, fall madly in love with me, and take me in the sunset on their horse....uhhh...uhhh...WAKE UP LORI*******SLAP******

[Jeff S]

... in response to Re: Re: Uh..., posted by jon on Jul 25, 2001

I always found those people who are into those sorts of things kind of odd. I do go to the big Indian pow-wow every August around here, but that's kind of a link to with the groups' heritage. When you find people dressing up in civil war uniforms, rennissance getups, star trek suits and other costumes, whether historical or fictional, I think they're just a bit "out there." )
-- Jeff

[jon]

... in response to Re: Re: Re: Uh..., posted by Jeff S on Jul 25, 2001

It is a hobby that can attract wackos.

Jon