Have to say this, I did spend alittle time in a day gone bye. I lived 20 years behind living in a small town in Arkansas. Population 187 people. Hunt in the bac yard for deer or small game. I didn't leave my house without a shotgun and a pistol. I had a holster sewed to my seat in my truck for a piece. Had gun rack in the back window. And no one stold them. Imagine that. I didn't take the keys out of my truck ever, till I moved to Cali and here in Oregon. Never locked my door. I mean you'd get kids do something stupid every now and then, me included.
I once stayed at a place called Fish Lake in Ind. Summertime, pop was 8,000 to 10,000 people. Dead of winter, and was a REAL winter, Pop was 200 locals, including 25 bored teenagers. I was a 17-year-old kid. Broke into afew of these summer cottages. Just to drink the booze, eat the steaks, and hopefully get laid... Did a stupid thing and took afew guns. Almost got me for that, but I 'MIGHT' have gon into 3-4 places. I got caught, and they pinned 24 break-ins on me. Every problem got pinned on me.. Anyone remember that song,, Ind' wants me. Lord I can't go back there,,
I did run,, and fast. I'm babbling. But one day I will show everyone,,, how stupid a fool kid could get. I took a Ford Marvick into a cornfield, on purpose, it was fun to do burnies and supercrop; the corn crop. Knocking down 8' stalks of corn. Drunk???? Ya think. Corn ended REAL FAST. And the River started QUICK. Well, Mavericks can NOT swim. And they sink kind of fast too. A Drunk kid climbs out and walks across a couple corn fields. Finds a house. Knocks. I know all this from the reports. The man answers, kid tells them he needs a ride, his car sunk in the Kankakee River. He says let me throw some britches on and get dressed. Kid pets his dog for abit and processed jumping in his brand new 3/4 ton GMC truck with all I-beam bumpers. Farm truck. Keys was in it. Well, he too off. Drunk as a hoot owl. Ended up knocking, well ramming one, and side swiping the second police car off the river bank into a deep ditch when they tried the three point stop. . Went thru 3 counties with every cop in the state behind him. High speed. Well, that hapless idiot came upon a roadblock 3 miles this side of Michigan City.
Till this, he was blacked out drunk.!!!!!!!!!!! Waking outta a haze,,,He seen all the lights flashing a 1/2 a mile away. Blocking both of the double lanes with cop cars. And in the rear veiw a line of lights behind him that might have been 5 miles long. Sobering pretty fast. Wow.. Bullet holes in the back window, and here he is,, a brand new truck, he has no fucking idea where it all came from... But the holes thru the truck said you did something wrong. And a million cops around, lighting everything with the lights. He's in trouble. No idea what he did??? But he's got bullet holes in the windows. Did something bad??? 12 policemen, stationed in front of their cars that made the block.
Poor kid got scared. Grabed the steering wheel ducked, and floored the damn big V-8. All the cops shot at the truck, till they had to dive outta the way as that I-Beam hit them at 40-50 MPH. Sent 2 cars spinning like a top into ditches on the road side. Made a GREAT PICTURE. I have acouple copies of the Chicago Tribune front page.. As he hit the roadblock, a 38 caliber came thru the door, hit the left elbow, traveling half way up his arm, and he lost control of the truck as watched the two police cars that he hit in the middle and sent them both spinning like bowling pins. Well, he ended up in a ditch himself. As he said to himself,,, whatever you did your caught. He heard someone yell is he dead yet? He yelled FU I ain't dead yet.About then a shotgun went off and shot him in the head with 6- OO buckshot pellets, Still didn't put him down. Joy riding. Was what the change was. Till the chase got violent. He ended up with 12 attempted murder charges. 12 cops at the front of the roadblock. He filed a lawsuit against the state for attempted murder for joyriding for 3 million. They let him go. Dropped the lawsuit. Man if I'd have been 30 years old. I'd have gone to prison for 3 million. But a 17 year old don't need to go to the state in Gary Ind. Least not this peckerwood. 30 to 1 ratio.... I've done some stupid shit... Regradless,, he got the next flight he could to Cali... Life. Like said,,, I done some stupid shit.. Babbling sorry..
Keepem Green
Peace
