I (deeply appreciate) all you freaks

Better than a sharp stick in the eye,,,,,, sometimes.

likewise!  

freaks make the world go round

Freak on

creaking or not

Normal is a town on the north side of Bloomington, IL........and that's it.

St. George

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i8pwV056d0Y

i do not unappreciate so many of you

Love you too, but (what's up) with the parentheses?

We are normal...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gn3hlyCv_f8

I think I've got a thing for you folks, too. 

Fuckin' Freaks........

Get off that lawn you Freaks!  Yes, I know that it's your own front lawn, but go away anyway

Fuck, I got home tonight and there were 6 cops on my lawn, busy arresting my next door neighbor. (We share the lawn).

They were tossing his apartment as you'd see them do in a prison cell, looking for "contraband".

He was in handcuffs, sitting in a chair outside, with one of the cops standing over him.

As I was walking to my door I said "Gentleman, good evening." My neighbor mumbled, "not such a good evening."

I said "Chris, take it easy," trying to say "don't make it worse for yourself."

He said, motioning to the cuffs, "do I have a choice?"

I nodded "yes", and went into my place and closed the door.

All I could think was, "nice that they didn't shoot him or his Rottweiler."

Weird day.

hey hey strangers!!!! been thinkin of the old zone dayz.. wanted to pop in and say hello!!

hope everyone is doing amazing! appreciate all of you freaks <3

Afternoon Scarlet,  hope all is Well.

CountyLine,  what happened that neighbor got arrested ?

Traffic tickets gone Wild ?

Stu, apparently he thought his girlfriend was having an affair, so after a nice day of drinking, started chopping on

this new car with an axe.

   Apparently did about $5 thousand in damage, so he was arrested for Felony Vandalism.

Problem was, she wasn't having an affair, it was her cousin's car...

Whoops.

OK that's sort of like that Film about Bowling by the Coen Brothers,  "The Big Lebowski".

There's a scene similar where a Corvette gets vandalized,  but wrong car.

What a shame about the Axe.  I try and keep all mine nicely sharpened,  and even restore old ones. It's a lot of maintenance even without hitting metal.

Hi Scarlet!

Yes Stu, that was what I thought of also. I don't find that film as great as others seem to, but that was an interesting scene.

I'm just glad I wasn't home because I wouldn't have wanted to deal with Paul Bunyan going off on a new car with an axe.

He's going to be evicted, It's a bummer, I'm gonna miss that Rottweiler; He's a great watchdog. Anyone who drove up who didn't 

belong there, he barked like hell and looked mean and scared them off. He was a gentle dog to everyone else.

Bad situation.

I know a guy who used to own a tow truck and did repo work sometimes. It wasn't the part of the job that he liked best, but it payed.  Anyway, he shows up to repo a car and the guy who "owns" the car gets all pissed off about the car getting towed off.   Now here's the thing, tow truck hasn't actually touched the car yet.  So the guy says something like "well if they're talking back the car fuck them" and proceeds to smash up the car with a hammer of sorts.  Then the tow truck driver realizes that he has the wrong vehicle/address and drives off!  Whoops, sorry dude, gotta go  

Well CountyLine,

Perhaps you might have reasoned with the crazy neighbor if you showed up before his Axe - Car episode. Maybe not.

I would have said "Say, neighbor, that Axe could use a bit of sharpening, and a coat of Polyurethane on the handle."
In that time -- 20 minutes or so,  I would speak with drunk insane neighbor and discourage him or her from attacking the Car.

Also,  by then I have that Axe on the workbench,  and no one is grabbing it from me.  Possibly we could puff thin Havana,  and discuss the Car attack plan,  figure out alternative scenarios;  quaff a Beer.

I have a couple different dual-wheel grinders and a belt / disc sander which I use to sharpen stuff.  They come out Pretty Sharp. Axes, machetes,  all that stuff. By the time I explain all the different grits and such,  axe-car-killer is bored to tears and no longer on the rampage.

But it's very sad your neighbor went crazy. Hope you wind up with Better neighbors.

Scarlet calling for strangers? Well, here I am. Hey Scarlet. And all. 

Great story, Trailhead. Missing Targhee again this year. NEXT year. 

Stu, it is sad that he went sideways, but not surprising for us. Had I been there, I would have probably only realized it after the situation had started, so it

would have been too late for sound reasoning at that point.

A crazy bastard who gets insane after too much grog.

Not much you can do about that, but we've tried.

I like this guy and he's not a piece of shit, but he clearly has an alcohol issue.

Yes, luckily I can talk to the owners about who the next neighbor will be.

Time will tell.

Life is full of interesting people.

Yup, right about that Judit.

I saw Weir a couple of days ago; he, of course is as sick of this shit as we all are....

but always good to talk to one of "us".

so lucky he was white. 

us is quite a thing

Do we know that Axe-Car guy was a white Honky ?  Because Asians and Iranians never wield an Axe in a car-battle ?  OK,  they use Scimitars or Samurai Swords.

Anyway,  I knew a neighbor who liked to drink a bunch and engage in destructive behaviors.  Actually,  he used alcohol as an excuse for his native violence.  Too bad, he had many good qualities also.

I was over his place one early afternoon when the SWAT team showed up to take him away.  He had called his wife's workplace (a looney bin) and threatened her boss over the telephone.  Maybe it was good that I was present;  perhaps they might have shot him if there were no witnesses.

In actuality they were pretty slick.  They phoned him and lured him out of the house,  threw him in a cop car,  then raided the place.  I was sitting there watching the NASA channel and sipping a Beer.  I didn't get arrested.

Jlp, that's a bunch of assumption there.

Yes, the guy is white, but I believe even if he was black or Latino, the outcome would have been the same.

He didn't threaten the cops with the axe when they showed up. 
 

The reality is, I can count on less than one hand the number of black people that live in my town, which is sad, but

there isn't anything I can do to change that.

And the Weir and "us" comment, well, I think it's clear I meant one of US fellow freaks, which he is, money and "white privilege" or not.

I was sitting on the couch in DC after a show drinking a cold beverage, smoking a bowl and telling a story.

The chick next to me got up and said "your a freak"

I smiled

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Hah! Thanks, mike e for the inspiration.

Me too.