He shouted: "This is what crack/cocaine does to you!"
Don't do Crack(s).
Posted on 05/01/2007 9:32:36 AM PDT by BenLurkin
SEATTLE - Eddie Mitchell can see it -- the looks people give him. They stare.
He knows they're looking at one thing: the patch on his right eye.
"Kids look at it too," Eddie says. "'You look like a pirate,' " they say. They laugh, like Eddie and I did after he told that story.
But when you hear the story of Eddie's right eye, there's nothing funny about it.
Someone poked it out with a stick years ago, in a fight over drugs. But that's not why Eddie's wearing the patch. He's wearing it because of something that happened a month and a half ago.
"There's the thoughts of how could this happen," says Nate Mullin, Eddie's Pastor and Chaplain at Seattle's Union Gospel Mission. "How could this kind of mistake take place?"
You see, Eddie Mitchell had a glass eye. Past tense.
The 43-year-old former addict took it out one day, and put it on a table to make a dramatic point.
He shouted: "This is what crack/cocaine does to you!"
Now for the twist.
Someone picked up Eddie's prosthetic eye and, "Flushed it down the toilet," says Nate Mullin. The toilet! "Which is like 'wow, how do you do that?'"
And so, that's why Eddie's wearing the patch. The person who flushed it thought it was a rock of crack-cocaine. "When I told him it was my eye, he was really shocked," says Eddie.
That glass eye cost Eddie $3,500. It's money he doesn't have. And so that's the rest of the story, except for one thing: The ending. You can help write the end by helping Eddie get a new glass eye.
Bet he didn't see that one coming...
Unless I read this in known news sources, with names and places and dates, I am assuming this is just another one of those.
“Would I? Would I?”
“Hare lip! Hare lip!”
[Admit it - you were thinking it.]
Don't do Crack(s).
My dear ol’ granddad told me that one years and years ago.
He removed his glass eyeball, put it on a table, somebody picked it up and ran off to the bathroom with it? He wasn't yelling, "Hey, stop, gimme my eye back!"? "You've got my eye on you!"
He should get the ball out of a pinball machine and REALLY freak people out!
How about CBS?
Video at the link. Currently at page two entitled “Glass Eye Mistaken for Crack, Flushed Down Toilet”
I think I heard it grade school. The classics never get old.
He shouted: "This is what crack/cocaine does to you!"
Makes you take your eye out and leave it rolling around on a table?
Story Published: Apr 30, 2007 at 3:57 PM PDT Story Updated: Apr 30, 2007 at 5:32 PM PDT
It was you, wasn’t it?
I’ve seen eyeballs for 25 cents in the bubble gum machine.
I have an idea.
Get a job, earn money, buy yourself a new eye and stop blaming everyone else but yourself for your troubles and stop begging for people to help you.
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