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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: Jackal1 on April 17, 2005, 12:47:51 AM
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Had a pretty unique experience today that rekindled some old memories and things forgotten as time passed. Sort of reminded me that my life has always been fired by things sort of on the edge and how much I actualy enjoyed the juice.
A friend of mine owns an RV park and moblile home park on the lake.
On the weekends the RV park is hopping with the people that come from the city that has weekend RVs there, to blow off some pressure and steam.
My friend had a lift pump go down on the RV park in the early afternoon and needed some help and called on me.
As if he didn`t have enough problems going for him, while I was on the way he had a problem arise with one of the folks in the mobile home park. When I got there I grabbed one of his trucks and headed out while he was leading in his golf cart he uses to get around on. We got to the guys place, a double-wide on the water with a four car garage and a giant lot. Beuatifull place I might add.
First thing I noticed when I pulled up was a `65 Stang under a fabric cover. The guy walked out while I was getting out of the truck and I thought....geeez that guy looks familiar, then got busy gettin stuff out of the truck. I was still thinking in the back of mind..where have I seen this guy before? Grayish hair sticking out from under a Harley cap, tattoo on one arm, gold earring, a goatee, etc, etc. I turned around and my friend called him by his first name and it hit me...BOOOM. I pulled my gloves out of my back pocket and started toward him. As I was walking towards him , he said ...man you sure look familiar. I gave him a pretty good swat with my gloves and asked him "What the f**k you doing hiding down ehre MFer?
He grinned and said " Well I `ll be damned".
My friend asked him "You mean you know this outlaw"? The guy said "Well, if I didn`t we wouldn`t be standing here talking because he saved my life one night".
Probably about 20 to 25 years ago in a small town he was Chief Of Police . He pulled up into a bad situation, with no back-up within 30 to 45 minutes away. There was a guy there who was waaaayyy out there who had beat the living hell out of one guy . I had gotten the guy back to somewhere close to mother earth when the squad car pulled up and he went ballistic again and went after the guy with the visible badge. He prety well had him beat down and on the ground. I was trying to stay out of it as long as possible . I saw him get in pretty rough shape on the ground with this zoomer on top and saw him reach down and undo the safety strap on the officers revolver. At this time the cop hollered that he needed my help. When I bailed in the revolver was half out the holster and was no doubt about what was about to happen. I bailed in and got a head lock on the guy and held on . One local arrived and was no help. He didn`t even have his friggen cuffs with him. Finaly 3 county cars showed up with a double team to a car. I ended up on the bottom of a pile, on a white rock side street still going after it with the zoomer. My back looked like I had been ran through a cheese grater. :)
The cat got cuffed and stuffed, then the congatulations pow wow started in a huddle. I had to interupt all the celebrating to inform them that someone had left the other back door open on the squad car. The cat was long gone , with his hands in cuffs behind him. :0
County, local DPS, a DPS chopper and a few hours later and the hunt was over.
Heehee. We had along talk and got caught up on old times past. You got to take into consideration back then I was not exactly viewed as the model citizen. I had forgotten all about this and MAN ..did it bring back some memories.
The guy lives less than a quarter a mile away from me and has for a couple of years, but we had never even bumped into each other.
He told me he was on his wife # 3 since I had seen him and that he had been working UC drugs for nearly 20 years.
He went in and got the current wife, brought her out and introduced me as the guy who saved his life. I was sort of torn between Spider Man and total embarrassment.
Felt sort of good though to know that something I had taken part in and forgotten was remembered by someone even though I was not your most law abiding guy back then.
We shot the bull and talked about getting together and going for a putt on the scooters and fishing in the future.
Really sort of made me chuckle to myself as me and my wife were talking about it this evening. We were getting a kick out of this and lauging over the recent e-mails I had been getting from one of our illustrious players in the game to the tune of "I hope your health insurance is paid up" .."You will be seeing me soon" ..... "I coming for you" and blah blah blah on and on.
Sort of reminded me that there is young ankle humpers out there that don`t have a clue and have more than a lot to learn about reality.
Boredom over and DejaVu to off position. :D
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Jeebus - of being of unsound mind and poor memory I thought this was someone bollocking me for something I hadn't done :eek:
Phew .........
Nice story though. It's quite a kick to see faces from a long time ago. It's a very samll world.
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Cool story.:aok
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If there were 6 of you and one of him and 5 of you had guns its not really much of a story.
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good story man.
:)
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Originally posted by Pongo
If there were 6 of you and one of him and 5 of you had guns its not really much of a story.
>:0
You're about as stupid as you look, eh? :)
culero ~sheesh~
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Originally posted by Jackal1
We were getting a kick out of this and lauging over the recent e-mails I had been getting from one of our illustrious players in the game to the tune of "I hope your health insurance is paid up" .."You will be seeing me soon" ..... "I coming for you" and blah blah blah on and on.
:D
sorry hasn't been on this BBS for a while...
WTF is going on?
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Originally posted by culero
>:0
You're about as stupid as you look, eh? :)
culero ~sheesh~
Ya stupid to read such a long story about how tough some internet guy is.
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Yeah you are.
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He probably is the tuff guy he says he is but who knows for sure as you say this is the internet!
Personaly I don't see why this Badass dude wastes so much time getting riled up about me on this BBS, kind of strange.
We used to have a saying "all mouth and trousers" means he talks a good talk but doesn't realy walk the walk, maybe thats our Jackal maybe not.
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Originally posted by Skydancer
Personaly I don't see why this Badass dude wastes so much time getting riled up about me on this BBS, kind of strange.
I don`t beleive "riled up" would be quite accurate there my litle multi-IDed chew toy.
You just provide amusement while you bash yourself.
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I'm still waiting for the day you put your money where your mouth is and let one of these posts go unanswered. Considering you keep bleating on about how worthless what I say is, you sure seem to be avidly waiting for one to appear so that you can reply in the usual derrogatory tone!
Oh well I guess its a game you like to play Mr Badass dude. As long as it keeps you happy.
:rofl :rofl
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Originally posted by Skydancer
I'm still waiting for the day you put your money where your mouth is and let one of these posts go unanswered.
Your in for a long wait. I have no "money" on the line and seeing how I am the one that started this thread, I beleive it would be you that was stting on the edge of your seat waiting for one more chance to make a fool of yourself.
If you will look real close, not one mention was made that it was mandatory for Zulu/con/prancer to place the hook in his on ***. :D
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Originally posted by Pongo
If there were 6 of you and one of him and 5 of you had guns its not really much of a story.
Ya stupid to read such a long story about how tough some internet guy is.
Actualy I believe you not only misread the story , you totaly misunderstood the intention.
The back up showed up after the fact.
"Tough guy" had nothing to do with it.
What I found interesting and sort of surprising about the accidental meeting after so long was that this seemed to be remembered by him for so long and seemed to be very important to him and the fact that I had forgotten all about it. That was the point along with how it reminded me of how "on the edge" I used to really thrive on.
Tough guy?
At 53 I have learned a few things down through life by being one of the lucky ones to have survived.
The way things were back then and how they are now are totaly, totaly different.
Used to be there were a group of us that would fight just for enjoyment. We went out of our way to make sure things came about to guarantee this. Don`t work like that now.
Used to be you could get into a scrap and when it was finished both of you could sit down and have a cold one together and laugh about it. Don`t work like that now. Today you have no idea whether someone is going to cap your *** just because they don`t like your looks, etc. Things just don`t work the same.
Back then I would fight over stupid, frivilous, meaningless things. Don`t work like that now.
In a case such as the one described today I would be in and probably a lot quicker to avoid it getting to the deadly stage.
Now I sort of weigh things a little more sensibly than I did then. If it is meaningless, stupid or frivilous you can pretty well count me out.
After getting a little longer in the tooth I`ll still stand my ground on something that is important to me and to help someone out if I feel it is the right thing to do.
The difference now is you better make sure how really important it is to you before you push me that far. Being a little older, slower, etc does not mean I will accept losing. I will use whatever means neccessary, if it comes to that, to make sure I don`t lose.
I also don`t put myself in places and situations that nearly guarantees trouble such as I did back then.
Life has changed, people has changed, the entire situation has changed.
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It's a good story Jackal...don't let Pongo get to you. He's fun to argue with sometimes though. ;)
Sparks...I missed your reply mate...how are you?
lol....I pictured you as the old man picking up cow-pies in the Holy Grail..."I'm 37....I'm not old". :)
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I read your story fine and I enjoyed it, but I probably did missunderstand and over react to the ending.
I read it as
"young ankle humpers have no idea who they are dealing with"
when what it says is
"there is young ankle humpers out there that don`t have a clue and have more than a lot to learn about reality"
accepting that I read to much into it I appologize for my remarks. Its cool that you saved a cops life and that he remembered and thanked you for it.
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Hehe. No prob.
I could have also said there were some old ankle humpers out there also. lol