Posted on 08/30/2010 2:29:29 PM PDT by a fool in paradise
Yard sale etiquette apparently went out the window Friday in Sonora after a 70-year-old man hit another man over the head with a cornbread pan while the two were trying to get access to the sale items.
Jon Joslin, 70, was arrested and charged with assault with a deadly weapon. The victim, Joseph Brown, 64, suffered a head laceration but refused medical treatment at the scene, according to Sgt. Jeff Wilson, spokesman for the Tuolumne County Sheriff’s Department.
...According to Wilson, Joslin arrived early at the yard sale on Via Este Road and was told he would not be allowed to buy anything until 8 a.m. because that was the advertised start time.
Brown arrived a little later, at 7:45 a.m., and apparently the two talked about how other yard sales operated differently, Wilson said.
At about 8 a.m., the two walked up a long driveway to the sale, with Brown walking ahead of Joslin.
Wilson said Joslin didn’t like this, and tried tripping Brown. Not knowing what was going on, Brown continued, and Joslin tried tripping Brown again, Wilson said.
...Brown pushed Joslin, and Joslin — who had the five-pound, cast-iron pan in his hand — hit Brown over the head with it, Wilson said...
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PING!
Ouch!!!!
The thrill of the hunt.
Bet they watch the History Channel’s *American Pickers*.
Same mentality at WalMarts - storming the barricades for sales items.
Barbarians for Bargains!!!!!
LOL, This doesn’t surprise me at all. Some of those professional garage salers are vicious! Don’t get between them and a used coffee maker marked at fifty cents.
“Jon Joslin, 70, was arrested and charged with assault with a deadly weapon.”
I was like - What the... Until I read this:
“...Brown pushed Joslin, and Joslin — who had the five-pound, cast-iron pan in his hand — hit Brown over the head with it, Wilson said...”
Those who hit estate sales with this kind of mentality are too dim to realize that the “A-list” buyers are allowed to look at the good days or even weeks in advance of the “open call” crowd.
To the town of Agua Fria rode a stranger one fine day
Hardly spoke to folks around him didn’t have too much to say
No one dared to ask his business no one dared to make a slip
for the stranger there among them had a big iron on his hip
Big iron on his hip
It was early in the morning when he rode into the town
He came riding from the south side slowly lookin’ all around
He’s an outlaw loose and running came the whisper from each lip And he’s here to do some business with the big iron on his hip big iron on his hip
Believe me, we garage sale-ors are very aggressive, and there is real competition and rivalries between us. Although it rarely if ever boils over into physical blows because there is just too many sales to go to where you can get the jump on them the next time.
It’s all in good fun...but keep away from that blender!!! MINE!!!
If some jerk was purposely tripping me, I might knock the hell of him too.
Ok this is is scary accurate! LOL!
I *knew* I’d seen aliens at a few of those things!
Oh Man...don’t do that to me! I got down the other night listening to Marty Robbins and there wasn’t enough beer in Humboldt Bay to drown my woes...
Was thinking a cornbread pan was not a deadly weapon, but cast iron changed the thought. LOL
Adds new meaning to that old saying... “Don’t bring a gun to a breadpan fight”..,.
I was always cautious in the kitchen, there are still three cast iron skillets on the stove. :)
Down in the mid Cali town of Sonora,
Joe fell in love with a cast iron pan.
Nighttime would find him in Sheriff Jim’s slammer,
Bubba would sing and become Joe’s best fan...
sob on, Tork... there’s always more beer in Humbolt.
Yikes, I have a “deadly weapon” in my kitchen and I didn’t even know it!
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