Posted on 09/20/2004 12:52:14 PM PDT by Rakkasan1
I've looked around for the story about the kid in New Haven,CT who had his friend shoot him so he could avoid the draft he was told is coming. Heard it on Paul Harvey and found News of the Weird references to it, but can't find the original story any where. I'd like to know more and who told him this BS. I know they don't learn much in school any more , but damn.
"Be all you can be"
Uh, what draft?
Back in my day, people would just get busted with a joint or matchbox to avoid service if they thought the weather in Canada was too cold.
I don't think I did - what was it? Where was it? Whaaaaa?
If I was that kids parents, assuming a liberal mind and body my next logical course would be to sue the democratic underground for spreading this rumour.
I know, I know. But the kid is smart enough to figure things out on his own, eventually. It's hard to tell teenagers anything, never mind those that have been convinced of one opinion or another, already. Besides, he's going to be an engineer. He'll turn conservative the minute he starts to pay taxes.
Well, that was really dumb. He should have had his friend amputate one of his limbs so he wouldn't even qualify for the draft.
Careful of ole Xena today, she's been stompin' on the vanity posters since the morning.
Natural Selection roooles, dood.
His low IQ alone would have permanently disqualified him (and his friend too, for that matter).
I hadn't heard about this, but there was a guy in my area who enlisted just before the first Gulf War broke out but hadn't been sent to boot camp yet, and decided he didn't want to go. So he had a friend shoot him in the leg and made it look like a drive-by shooting, only some bystanders wrote down his friend's plate number. So he went to jail instead of going to Kuwait.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1221221/posts
the "man in the blue turban" is the 3rd anti-christ according to Nostradamus. Why we learned about Nostradamus in US Government is beyond me.
If I knew his address, I would tell him that the world is about to end.
Might not be a bad thing, depending on which boots she's wearing. ;)
maybe the leftist got it confused with the war on poverty
and thought they would get drafted to fight that...
Kerry says this qualifies the young man for his first purple heart....
A spoken word record by Dead Kennedys lead singer Jello Biafra has a piece called "Die For Oil, Sucker" (came out after Gulf War I) that starts off with, "YOU! You look like you're just about the right age...to be DRAFTED! Does that even bother you?" Needless to say, Mr. Biafra (nee Eric Boucher) did not mention that there...is... no...draft.
"Just like Tom Cruise in a wheelchair! (Born on the 4th of July) No film royalties because nobody cares...about YOU when you DIE FOR OIL, sucker!"--Jello Biafra
Yikes!
Biafra came in fourth out of seven candidates in the SF 1979 mayoral race.
I"m pretty sure it's true, just don't want to pull a "CBS"...
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