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Subject: [OM] Re: How my E-1 got wet
From: ScottGee1 <scottgee1@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 8 Aug 2005 16:12:43 -0400
Damn, Walt!  You know how to have fun!!

FWIW, I don't know that the police can do anything until the junkies
actually remove the stuff from the property.

BTW, how do you like the Mitsubishi?  I just had my >18 y.o. tube set
repaired for the first time -- vertical hold.

ScottGee1


On 8/8/05, Walt Wayman <hiwayman@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> My nextdoor neighbor, the occasionally naked sunbathing one, is, and has been 
> for some months now, living in another city due to unhappy family business 
> and related responsibilities.  She visits periodically to check on things and 
> calls occasionally to ask me to go do a walk-through of her house to see if 
> all is in order.
> 
> She has a worthless, criminal, scumbag 22-year-old nephew who comes and 
> crashes at her house occasionally, since it is now unoccupied, and, he being 
> kin, she hesitates to have him put behind bars, which is right where he 
> belongs.  Because he sneaks in and out, it is never apparent when he is there 
> with some of his crack-smoking friends, so whenever I go over to check out 
> the house, I always go with Glock in hand, just as I did today.  He and I are 
> not on especially friendly terms.
> 
> Two weeks ago, we bought a 52-inch Mitsubishi DLP TV.  It came with a 
> no-questions-asked 30-day return option, so we were told to keep the 5x3x4 
> ft. box it came in for 30 days, just in case.  I dragged it nextdoor and 
> stored it in her basement, since there was way more room over there than over 
> here.
> 
> Much to my surprise and astonishment, when I opened the front door to her 
> house today, there was our Mitsubishi TV box just inside the front door, and 
> it was being filled with her stuff by her scumbag nephew and two of his 
> friends.  They, of course, fled from me and Mr. Glock down the back stairs 
> and out into the woods.
> 
> It then began to rain.  That's how my E-1 got wet.  While waiting on the cops 
> to come, I came back home, fetched the camera and took pictures of the crime 
> scene: our box full of her stuff.
> 
> http://home.att.net/~hiwayman/wsb/html/view.cgi-photo.html--SiteID-796868.html
> 
> They're still on the lam, and I'm sitting here with Mr. Glock in a holster on 
> my belt.  I doubt they'll be back anytime soon.  He knows I'm just looking 
> for an excuse to rid the neighborhood of him and his "associates," one way or 
> the other.
> 
> Walt, the Alpha Male of the neighborhood watch program
> 
> --
> "Anything more than 500 yards from
> the car just isn't photogenic." --
> Edward Weston
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