"Him look like a MAN!"
Posted on 11/06/2017 8:44:48 AM PST by rightwingintelligentsia
The perps all had eyes, 2 arms and legs, and heads and noses. Repeat all the alleged perps had heads and noses.
I would love to see an army of Bernard Goetz’s take to the streets of these very large, metro areas and empty the trash.
Back in the ‘60s, I had an uncle who was an enormous typically gregarious Irishman and WWII Navy veteran who drove a circuit as a traveling salesman from OK City to Brownsville, to NOLA. I spent two weeks with him one summer. He used to pick up bums and hitchhikers, and especially servicemen and have long conversations with them. For my benefit, he would always get them to tell their life’s story, until I began to see an obvious pattern. Sometimes, he would switch places with them and let them drive while he took a nap. When he dropped them off he would often pass them a ten spot. I’ll never forget those long drives on the flat Texas highways. Some of those he picked up could have been in Avedon’s drifter series. It’s a different world now, with no place for people like my uncle or those types of drifters.
"Him look like a MAN!"
We usually have a couple whopper snow storms each year where I live. I'll stop if I see people stranded at their cars, trudging along a blocked road, or something similar. You can help a crisis, but you can't help bad habits.
My Dad was a salesman. Told me a story of a hitchhiker he picked up years ago in southwest Virginia. Out of prison, etc. Dad had empathy.
I suspect it was from his childhood during the Great Depression. He related a story of walking along a road back to town, circa mid-1930’s. A guy passed them and stopped a fair piece up the road. They hustled up to that car. The guy asked the kids if they were tired of walking.
“Sure are, mister.” He replied “Try running for awhile ...” and he sped off in the car.
A-holes have always been closer than they appear.
Hitchhikers are almost never a problem. The people that pick them up can be. A friend in HS hitchhiked from NC to Texas. A couple of drivers(male) wanted to get “friendly” with him.
Hint: If you are hitchhiking, get the driver to drop you off near a broken-down car for your next ride.
I regularly just throw homemade “M-80’s” at ‘em. “Teens” sho can jump n run !
Snoot ;o)
The word school is completely out of place in this story. Reform school maybe.
Awesome.
You should come to L A and do that.
I could point you to some prime spots.
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