I almost got bitten by a junk yard dog yesterday.

[Nads]

Bear with me this is a funny story.
I had to go get some gutters for work and as I'm wont to do I keep my eyes peeled for junk all the time.
Darglinks will testify that Old Winter Garden Rd in Orlando still has a bunch of old cars lurking in various corners.
Anyway I spy the outline of an old Buick in one junk filled shop so I stop.
I ask the elderly black gentleman if it's for sale, he says, "Sho', everythin's fer sale fer the right price."
I ask him if it's OK for me to go look at it, he says "Go right ahead."
So I'm looking at this rusty heap of a '46 Buick sedan and thinking it would take a brave man to entertain thoughts of fixing it.
I started to leave and here comes the owner screaming, "Oh Lordy, Lordy, I done forgot to tell you about the dawg, get out of there fast."
Just as he said that, this huge dog on a chain comes running after me, bellowing and huffing. He was sleeping right behind the Buick and I never saw him.
Then the owner tells, "Shoot I shoulda told you about him, I'm sure glad you wuz' wearin' quiet shoes or else he'd a bit yer ankles clean off."

I had a good laugh about it with the ol' timer.

[Bruce Lancaster]

I once drove into a junkyard in Holland and found no one in sight. I was hoping to prove my belief that the smaller Europen countries still had lots of old American iron that they had carefully hidden from wehrmacht requisition.
I was greeted by an extremely large shepherd/werewolf mix doggy, and decided to exhibit the superiority of primate brain and technology by simply driving the car along his chain until he had about 6" of slack left. Upon opening my door, I discovered I had missed the chain's path by about .006", and that the dog fully apprehended the import of my actions and vehemently disapproved. Seconds after my world record leap/doorslam, I got to meet the only damn person in Holland who spoke no English at all. Not a good day's hunt...

[Antibilly]

Gee looks like your working hard again at not woring.....I wish that dogg had bit you in the burnt balls

[Nads]

Mike, I've been doing nuthin' but working all fraggin' week, I'm sick and tired of it.
So what I took 10 minutes to scope out the treasures on OWGR?
You ain't the boss of me, I'm the boss of me.
No wait, my dad's the boss of me.

[hankcash]

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[Antibilly]

HankCash..........hahahahaah the OG Junkyard Dogg.
Nads long lost Daddy!!!!!! http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/tongue.gif

[G V Gordon]

Nads, I love old junk yards and the old boys who run'em! Unfortunatley they are disappearing fast.I use to drive in Demo Derbies under the name Crash Gordon. I went to a local yard where I had picked up cars before. You could get one then for about $50, and asked what he had. I always liked 59 Fords but he didn't have one and said he could get a Caddy if I was willing to pay $75. I said OK and he sent his son to go fetch the Caddy. About ten minutes later he comes back with a big old burgandy Sedan de'Ville. As I'm loading it up he says, "Guess I'm gonna have to find my daughter something else to drive". He sold me his kids Caddy to demo! http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif

[Big A]

Years ago buddy of mine and I wandered into a junk yard looking for a starter. While my friend is talking with the 140-year-old owner I decided to have a bit of a poke around so I start wandering. I hear the old guy yell something along the lines of, "Hey asshole, you stupid or something?!!", so I turn and say "what?! you got a dog?", he say's "I don't need no fuckin' dawg. That's what the bear traps are for"... I looked down and almost filled my dumb-ass city boy pants.

[Samantha]

Bruce, "sheperd/werewolf mix doggy"...HAHAHA! That conjured up quite a visual! http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif

[Bruce Lancaster]

You shoulda seen the visual with his face squashed against the window glass two inches away...
If he'd taken a better running start he would have exited the OTHER window with my head in his mouth...

[Nads]

The worst junkyard encounter with a none human that I ever has was with a snake.
The damn thing slithered out of nowhere and I jumped into an Econoline van to get away from it. I sat in there for 20 minutes I was so scared.
I heard later on it was probably a harmless black snake.

[Elrod]

I have a set of those quiet shoes. They have saved me from many a junkyard dog, and they are very comfortable!!! http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif

http://www.wearsthebaby.com/images/100_style.jpg

[SamIyam]

We're gonna start calling you Marcus.

Reminds me of the story justinm told us a few years ago about buying parts in Oakland...
Sam.

[Farmer]

Nads....great story....
the shephard/werewolf mix......dude had me rolling...that's funny, I can see it now

[OGNC]

There used to be a bunch of auto recyclers out in Lakeside, California (about 25-miles east of San Diego). One time I was out there with my friend Mike and pulled a decklid of a VW open and there was the biggest friggin rattlesnake I had ever seen in my life! Rattlesnakes were a pretty common site, but this f-ing thing was huge! I simply and quietly lowered the decklid back down and proceeded to run my fat ass right the hell back to the truck. I think I might have peeled out in my boxers a little bit, too.

[Antibilly]

OGNC I used to hit some of those yards out there.....thats some desert shit mang!!

[Barn Yard Chevy]

I had a pretty good Junk Yard dog experience when I was growing up in Northern IL. I was getting an S-10 rearend from a bigger late model yard. Any way, the guy at the desk tells me all the S-10's are way in the back & he'll just give me a ride out there so we can look at 'em. So we jump in their '83 buick roadmaster junkyard cruiser & take off like a bat outta hell through the long rows of junk. We're doin’ about 35mph & I look out the window and there’s the yard dog shepherd lab mix mutt hanging right with us... I tell my chauffer that they got one fast dog. He replies, "Yea but he's stupid as hell...watch this..." So he slows down a little bit & the dog gets out in front of the car about 5 feet and just stops! My chauffer, with out even thinking about brakes runs the dog clean over & the roadmaster spits him out the back like some kind of dog killing machine... The dog jumps up after rolling & tumbling a few yards & is right next to the door doing 35mph again...Needless to say I about shit myself & the guy never even looked over at me or cracks a smile...I say, “so this happens a lot?” Chauffer replies, “Third time today.”

BYC

[OGNC]

No shit man! I came down the back way into Lakeside a couple months ago and all of those yards that were tright there off of Highway 67 are gone... At least the ones you used to be able to see from the road are gone http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/frown.gif

[Deyomatic]

BYC, I kept looking for a punchline, (something like "his nuts were caught in the door) or somethign, but I guess there isn't one. That is one fucked up dog.

[williebill]

Now that's funny as hell,I'm still laughing,I'm at work,and there's not a fucking thing here to laugh at,but that story cracks me up...thanks

[Barn Yard Chevy]

Deyo-
Nope, No punch line just a F'd up dog... And the rear end I got from em was just as bad as the dog....http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif

BYC

[Rocket88]

Great story Nads!
Here's my jyd story.
Years ago I drove garbage truck for this dude. He had a big ol guard dog that was chained up beside the trucks.
My partner and I had to feed the dog one day. I had the food and he had the shovel to watch my back. I feed the dog, he's barking, my partner is yelling and waving the shovel. As we are retreating I turned my back for a second (bad move) the dog got me by the ankle.
Good thing for high top runners. So know I'm laying on the ground yelling, the dog is growling and I'm trying to claw my way to the end of the dog's run. I could see the line in the dirt and was trying to shake him off and regain my freedom.
Just then the boss comes out to see what all the yelling is about. I yell at him to get the dog off me, he's laughing and says quit playing with the dog!
I finally got loose, with no help from him.
I just layed there in the dirt with my heart trying to jump out of my chest.

[Holidazed]

Barn Yard that was funny as hell, I just about spit my beer out! I think I got a dog with those kind of smarts sitting right next to me http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif.

[warpigg]

"chopper, sic balls!"

[Holidazed]

Grrrrr!!!!!

[choprods]

A few years ago -I stopped by this biker guy's house I know to see what new stuff he had in his collection...I ride up on my motorcycle,and stop.I casually get off and walk up to the back door.I am just about to reach out and knock when I heard a rattle of some chains.
I decided to bail and jumped backwards out towards my bike.
out of a shed comes this animal about the size of an angus steer at full speed towards me....I am shittin my pants now-and this sonofabitch hits the end of the log chain he's tied to and it flips him over backwards about three feet from ME,
I MEAN THIS DOG[i think dog] Was a mix of a Great Dane sized dog-black with short wiry hair and a BIG blocky squarish head.IT SCARED ME SO BAD -I just got back on my bike and left shakin all over!NEVER WENT BACK. http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/tongue.gif

[lulabelle]

I stopped at one of my local yards a few months ago.I ask the guy if I can look around.He says"sure,just don't get close to the black dog".So,I proceed to walk around looking out for the dog more than looking at cars.I then see a bad ass black dog way over at the other end of the yard.I feel safe now.I walk more,now looking at cars.As I round the end of one of the rows I'm greeted by yet another black dog.He was on a chain,so I just got the hell away!At this point,I wanna get the hell out of this place!How many black dogs do I have to watch out for?I'm now parinoid and looking at how far away from my truck was.As I get closer to my safe zone,I see a black mass come at me from between some cars.I'm now running!Jump in my truck,look back to see a small black goat looking at me. http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/blush.gif

[old beet]

I walked into the office of an old wreckin yard, when I was a kid. I looked down, and this German Shepard was lickin his balls. I looked at this old guy behind the the counter and said "I wish I could do that" And he said "ya might want to pet him first"...........OLDBEET

[wingnutz]

Not a Junkyard dog..., but he does quallify!

My friend and I rented an old farm house and our neighbors dog had some pups..., being the good neighbor we were we took one home as a pet and named him "Boomer".

This pup was a "Bull Mastiff"/"Black Lab" Mix..., needless to say he grew into his HUGE paws!!!! http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/tongue.gif 240 pounds of playful puppy!!! http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/crazy.gif

We couldn't keep him in the house because our furniture would dissappear while we were away...,(snack food for him) so we used a 30 foot logging chain bolted to a SBC out by the barn (that'll hold him!)!

It seemed to work for a while..., until one day I pulled into the drive and I saw Boomer dragging that small block across the yard literally "Furrowing" huge ruts and heading right towards the car at a pretty good clip!!

When he hit the down hill grade he picked up steam and now the SBC was bouncing right behind him..., He jumped up to the drivers window with a thud and the engine wacked the front bumper!!

Felt like the car was going to roll over!!!!

He wouldn't bite anyone but he'd crush you with LOVE...! http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif (Just as Dangerous!)!! http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/shocked.gif

[Missing Link]

Did that junkyard dog happen to be wearing white tights with the word "Thump" written across the back of them? And did said Dog attempt to head butt you? http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif

[34 GAZ]

Hey Bruce, was it one of these, Flanders Boevier. Very
common in our junkyards.In my work i come across all sorts of crazy dogs but one i remember was a Blond Boevier as
big as a bear. I could get him crazy anytime of the night
but a cheese sandwich would turn him to jelly.I got him
that far that he allways gave a paw.

[34 GAZ]

One more. http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/tongue.gif http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/tongue.gif

[34 GAZ]

Forgot to mention, THEY ARE WEREWOLF,S. http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif

[46mopar]

One yard I used to go to used to have cows in it. You would have to keep a eye out for the piles of crap. Ok I know it's not as scary as a black goat. http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif

[Mojo_AL]

I went looking for projects in an old junkyard around here. As I got back to the entrance, I noticed this small area with a dozen more cars. I got closer and saw a doghouse. Something started moving in there. I imagined a huge beast of a dog walking out and eating me alive.

A goat walked out and ate my sweater!

I had a good laugh that day.

Beware of the guard goat! http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif

[disastron13]

Years ago went out to French Lake in MN to dig for Stude ragtop parts. Had never noticed the hairy little ponies they used to keep the grass down.
Working away on a 51 ragtop when I heard a strage and menacing noise, turned to see two of the little stallion-ponies facing of for a fight.
I about one second one of the little 500 pound things had been kicked up aginst the car, shook it like a highway crash. Missed me by a couple feet. It screeched a bit and tore at the other one with its teeth.
I got real scared and jumped into a 59 Pontiac, slammed the door and hid.
The ponies kicked and bit each other for about fifteen minutes. Every time one landed a kick in the ribs of another, the breath would come out, "woosh".
The noises they made were scary, like cats fighting, screeches and yips.
Every time one hit the Pontiac, the whole 4000 pound sedan would lurch to the side.
I left the junk yard chastened and pale.
One of them ponies would take any dog to pieces in about ten seconds.
Beware.

[choprods]

ALSO HERE IN THE MIDWEST WE HAVE WILD TURKEYS-my sisterinlaw and her husband raised some one time by hatching the eggs in an incubator[life is slow in Mo].
Anyway- they ran loose in their yard- and it wasnt long before they ruled that place...the would flog those dogs and claw the living shit out of anything in sight!

[34 GAZ]

I know a guy here who has an oversexed small pony(no kiddin)
gaurding his old cars and that little hairy rat will mow
anyone down that comes inside the barnyard.

[30dodgeboy]

“Third time today.”

BYC

Laughing out loud so hard, I have tears... absolutely hilarious!

A friend & I were once in a yard with a big F'n steer as well as a cow... felt like a bullfighter trying to keep at least one car between me and him...

[Fat Hack]

Nads you were drunk again...I zoomed in by satelitte and got a picture of that killer beast...

:D

[bluebrian]

I once got attacked by a pack of wild yorkies. My ankles hurt for weeks.

[LUX BLUE]

About two years ago,I was trapsing through my favorite junkyard in the early spring. along with me was the yards owner,Henry,who had just filled me in on how many"damn big" rattlesnakes he had seen that year and how one almost got him the day before. No sweat. not only am I looking where I am stepping, I have a pretty cool head when it comes to snakes.(you can see where this is going,right)
about hip deep in weeds, I take a step,see quick movement, and something slaps the back of my knee.
I yell "OH SHIT,ONE GOT ME" like I just got shot by a Nazi, and jump onto the roof of the nearest avalible car.
Henry, smirking, says while bending down, "its a rare breed,the dreaded Gates Cobra"
and holds up a crusty ass peice of heater hose.
all I can say is it 6 months for that to be funny to me.
for Henry,however it was immediately funny enough to tell to all of my "tuff guy"buddies.

[39 Ford]

I went in a junkyard many years ago and a big ass junkyard dog bit me in the front of my left thigh, he startes backing up and I shuffle along with him doing this weird dance, until the owner comes out and yells at to stop playing with the dog, the dog then lets me go and walks away.

[Louver Dude]

Who Said white men can't jump? We just need to find the right motivation! I was in junk yard here in Wis opened up a trunk and found a very pissed off badger I think I jumped 6' up and over to the car roof next to me..... right motivation

[dragrcr50]

Several yrs ago a couple of local guys went up north to like montana or something to get this super primo 34 ford coupe in the winter, it is snowing and they get it located and winched up on the trailer and bring it back to oklahoma. the day after they get back they decide to get it off of the trailer and look it over back here where it is sunny and warm. well seems they overlooked the fact that a wolverine had taken up residence in the trunk of it and was plenty pissed off by the time they got around to opening the trunk, it killed three of the neighbors dogs before it was caught by the animal people and given to the okc zoo........... said they neve loaded another car anywhere without opening all doors and looking it over.......... :cool:

[Ramblur]

SE Ohio somewhere around Lisbon maybe, but WAY out in the sticks
about 30 yrs. ago I got a ride to this place called Lion Auto Wrecking.
This guy drives me up to an old building and sends me inside to look for
whoever,I came around the corner of the building and you guessed it
there lays a full grown lion. I'm sure the guy that took me there must
have always rounded up a FNG to ride along for the entertainment...
I don't recall seeing any goats around though.

[Gary 4T950 Chevy Guy]

There used to be a bunch of auto recyclers out in Lakeside, California (about 25-miles east of San Diego). One time I was out there with my friend Mike and pulled a decklid of a VW open and there was the biggest friggin rattlesnake I had ever seen in my life! Rattlesnakes were a pretty common site, but this f-ing thing was huge! I simply and quietly lowered the decklid back down and proceeded to run my fat ass right the hell back to the truck. I think I might have peeled out in my boxers a little bit, too.:D I'll drink to that! I hate those d--n rattlesnakes also! I have shot them and some I have chopped their heads off with a shovel Just depends, 1 foot and smaller get the shovel & 1 ft to 3 feet or more die of lead poisoning:eek: That is one drawback about the southwest. Gary 4T950 Chevy Guy

[Slate]

Choprods,
I bet that was an irish Wolfhound at the biker's place. My family used to raise them. Heck, as kids we could ride them (the rides were short :) ) until we were about 11.

[TRUCKRODDER]

I was on a service call out in the country , had gotten out of the truck loaded down with my A/C tools heading to the front door of the house. The house was on the side of a hill so the porch was about chest high , just about the time I get to the porch I heard something large galloping across the it , looked up too late as a very large rott leaps off the porch at me landing on my chest as I hit the ground , tools scattered, scared shitless , the dog starts licking me in the face as the owner says don't worry she won't bite she's just a pup. The main dogs I have been bit by is the little lap dogs, they have something to prove I guess, people get upset when you drop kick there dog across the den after he attacks your shins :D .

[Bigcheese327]

Hey Bruce, was it one of these, Flanders Boevier. Very
common in our junkyards.In my work i come across all sorts of crazy dogs but one i remember was a Blond Boevier as
big as a bear. I could get him crazy anytime of the night
but a cheese sandwich would turn him to jelly.I got him
that far that he allways gave a paw.

GAZ, I used to have two Bouviers des Flanders. Poppy, the female, lived to be 13 years old. She just died last month of cancer. She terrified everyone and would have made a fabulous junkyard dog. That second pic you posted looks just like her.

Our other Bouvie, Sunny, is still alive at 12 and I walk him every day. He's great, but he'd make a terrible JYD as he is only tough when he's on the other side of the fence.

[48fordnut]

These are good stories, and I won't try to top them. I was told this guy had some boss 302 parts, well he sent me to this shed,and I was looking around when this big white attack Turkey came at me. I'm talking about running. ,about that time the owner shows up and drop kicks the turkey,:eek: falls down and makes a end run around the owner. I left the other 3 rods, and paid for the 5 i had over the fence.

[brianangus]

Barnyard Chevy---What the fuck is all this "amp" stuff?????

[gasser]

In 98 a few of us flew over to Phily and drove down to Kentucky for the Nats, on the way we saw a place by the side of the road some where in Ohio, the place was jam packed with old cars. We made a mental note and figured we would stop on the way back to check them out.

On the way back we stopped by and the guy who lived there was happy for us to look around. We could see in the distance by the house a 33 willys panel gasser and a yellow Anglia race car.
Anyhow, we get up to the house and are looking around the cars when he opens the garage and there are two tiger cubs, caged. After a while he takes us around the back and shows us his lion and camel then we walk down to a barn to look at "some old chevy race cars".
He swings the doors open and while we make a straight line for the dust covered cars over the back, he goes left to a door in the wall.
He swings the door open and out comes a fully grown Lioness running straight towards us at full bore, you never saw 3 grown men shit themselves whilst standing so still!
It stopped about two foot from us, the full extent of it's chain and the guy started wrestling it.
Nutter.

[Zumo]

Ha ha ha ha! That pic broke me down. I click on the link and was strching as i was reading his post and I got a visual of some dood and his "quiet shoes" running from a dog. Ha ha.


I have a set of those quiet shoes. They have saved me from many a junkyard dog, and they are very comfortable!!! http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif

http://www.wearsthebaby.com/images/100_style.jpg

[brianangus]

I worked one year up in Northern Ontario. The local bar was a pretty old run-down dump, and everybody brought their dog in with them, and generally the dogs slept under there owners table. It was for some reason, a great tradition to drink somebody elses beer---in fact drain their glass, if they happened to look the other way for a second or more. A friend of mine, named "Budsy" had a gigantic Bouvier des Flanders named Shithead. He had trained Shithead to set in the chair next to him, and bite anyone who tried to drink his beer!!! I seen that damn dog nearly tear the nose off a couple of fools that didn't believe a dog could be trained to bite "beersuckers".

[Wild Turkey]

extremely large shepherd/werewolf mix doggy

That is a quote for all time.

I will be chuckling all day.

[squigy]

i was at a scrap yard in Bridgeport Ct.i ask the owner if could wander,of course he yes.so i am looking at all the kool 60-70 cars and there is a swing open fence so i open it there is the mother load of old junk so i am picking shit off.i get near the back and much to my amazement there is pit bull.looked friendly enough so i dimissed him as as an old junkyard dog.but little did i know around the bend was his newly born family!
i hear a growl so i calmly start my way back towards the way i came in,i hear the pitter patter of dog paws getting closer and closer and faster and faster so i high tail it out i am running and running towards that damn fence he is really close so i jump up to "try" to jump the fence,but to my surprise the "fence" was the very same "swing" fence.on on the fucking thing swinging back and forth.the owner comes over and yells some shit in another language and the pit stopped dead in his tracks.of course i got the "what the fuck were you thinking speech"

[GreenMtnBoy]

Ahhh...Old Winter Garden Rd...brings back memories. I'm sure you have been to THE JUNKYARD, let me know when THAT estate auction is! Cause thats the only time anything good will see the light of day.
Brett

[plymouth_man]

at my bro's junk yard,we didn't have a dog,But we had a Hog,and that thing was quiet and would charge you if it seen you walking through the yard.and all of the snakes,after you saw one you would be looking all the time,and get freaked out stepping on sticks,I hate snakes.

[plymouth_man]

A friend of mine and I,was looking at a car at the edge of the field,he opened up the hood and was looking,I went to the trunk and opened it up,and there was a porcupine just waking up laying on the spare tire,so I quick shut it. My buddy asked what was in there,I told him alot of neet shit,to take a look,He opened it and about had a heartattack,he tryed to run but fell down,his mind said run,but his leg didn't want to move,I laught my a** off,he said I'm going to knock the shit out of you. LOL

[flash]

"chopper, sic balls!"


That's too funny, my pup is named after that famous junkyard dog (from the movie "Stand By Me"). He's not much help around the shop though, except for supervising.

[Nads]

This post is almost two years old. Thwe junkyard's gone, the Buick's gone to GM heaven, the dog's probably dead.

This place is weird.

[McTullis]

I had a pretty good Junk Yard dog experience when I was growing up in Northern IL. I was getting an S-10 rearend from a bigger late model yard. Any way, the guy at the desk tells me all the S-10's are way in the back & he'll just give me a ride out there so we can look at 'em. So we jump in their '83 buick roadmaster junkyard cruiser & take off like a bat outta hell through the long rows of junk. We're doin’ about 35mph & I look out the window and there’s the yard dog shepherd lab mix mutt hanging right with us... I tell my chauffer that they got one fast dog. He replies, "Yea but he's stupid as hell...watch this..." So he slows down a little bit & the dog gets out in front of the car about 5 feet and just stops! My chauffer, with out even thinking about brakes runs the dog clean over & the roadmaster spits him out the back like some kind of dog killing machine... The dog jumps up after rolling & tumbling a few yards & is right next to the door doing 35mph again...Needless to say I about shit myself & the guy never even looked over at me or cracks a smile...I say, “so this happens a lot?” Chauffer replies, “Third time today.”

BYC

I haven't laughed this hard in a long time. Thanks dude.

[Barn Yard Chevy]

Barnyard Chevy---What the fuck is all this "amp" stuff?????

Jesus this thread is old, but it's still funny as hell....

The "amp" stuff is probably from the past two years of the HAMB changing and it has effected the "&" symbols some way...Don't worry there's no hidden meaning there

[brianangus]

Jesus this thread is old, but it's still funny as hell....

The "amp" stuff is probably from the past two years of the HAMB changing and it has effected the "&" symbols some way...Don't worry there's no hidden meaning there
Jeez---I was worried. Thought that the english language was evolving or something and nobody'd told me.

[Nads]

The English language IS evolving, mang.

[Spitfire1776]

The worst junkyard encounter with a none human that I ever has was with a snake.
The damn thing slithered out of nowhere and I jumped into an Econoline van to get away from it. I sat in there for 20 minutes I was so scared.
I heard later on it was probably a harmless black snake.

My grandma went in to a scrapyard with my dad once back in Pittsburgh, and got bit by a copperhead. I always make sure to make plenty of noise to make them slithery bitches scurry away.

Went into this junkyard with my dad. The dog let me pet him. My kind of JY dog.

Junkyard stories never get old.

[Bruce Lancaster]

Bring a double bacon cheeseburger in your yard toolbox--that will stop 99% of the dogs. The other 1% cannot be stopped. Always be aware of where there is a fairly intact car near where you are working, one that has all windows, and keep the close door on it open--that's your bomb shelter if you can stay ahead long enough...
Anyway, if you're not good friends with the dog, you are not spending enough time at the junkyard for a healthy lifestyle.

[flash]

Bring a double bacon cheeseburger in your yard toolbox--that will stop 99% of the dogs.


How do you stop a junkyard cow?

[flash]

GAZ, I used to have two Bouviers des Flanders. Poppy, the female, lived to be 13 years old. She just died last month of cancer. She terrified everyone and would have made a fabulous junkyard dog. That second pic you posted looks just like her.

Our other Bouvie, Sunny, is still alive at 12 and I walk him every day. He's great, but he'd make a terrible JYD as he is only tough when he's on the other side of the fence.


I had one of those before my current mutt...awesome breed!

[olddaddy]

Many years ago in California I was up in the hills looking for old truck parts. I'd heard about a Hippie commune that had piles of old stuff for cheap or free. I finally got to the place in the heat of the afternoon and the Head Hippie said, "sure man, look around all you want, but watch out for the goats." Well, the place was covered up with goats, and goat shit. And no sooner had he left us than this big ugly mean fucker GOAT turns up and proceeds to follow us around. Whenever your back was to him he'd sneak up and butt the shit out of you, like it was a joke or a contest or something. This was unnerving especially when your head was up under a hood or fender. After a couple of hours of this I waited on him and watched for the next round. Just when he got up behind me and ready to make his move I turned around fast and brained him with a steering arm I had found on the ground. He made this really wierd goat sound and ran off never to be seen again. I collected my parts and left quickly in case I'd maybe killed him or something, but I figured we were even at that point whatever happened.

[Bruce Lancaster]

"How do you stop a junkyard cow?"
No prob. Give her a salt lick. Your blood will do fine for that...
Most pestiferous animal I've encountered in a yard: "Billy the Kid", junkyard goat. He alternated between high velocity butting and just rubbing his head against any available person, hard enough to to keep your attention focused. You could only work one-handed, with the other hand firmly gripping the little bastard's horn.
French junkyard animals: I tried to check out a really big, well-organized French junkyard once--they were greatly puzzled by the idea of junkyard tourism, but let me walk around for a while. Every row or two there was a dog chained to a house, dogs presumably turned loose at closing time but entirely peaceful during the day--real professionals. The interesting thing was the nature of the dog houses themselves--every one was an early Renault hood, the bullnose kind for the cars with radiator behind engine! I wondered how long that yard had been in existence--some of those hoods were likely from the taxis that ferried soldiers to the Marne!
That junkyard also had a bare block from a super-rare, super-strange '35-36 Ford V8-60. I saw it and couldn't quite believe what I saw until years later I found some confirmation. These things were four-main, four exhaust port V8's, with almost every part differing from the common late 60.

[Brad54]

Anybody from Toledo, Ohio remembers The Pig Man's junk yard. '50s-'70s cars--all gone now. He'd let pigs roam the place. Some years he had more pigs than others. One time I got chased up onto the hood of a car by the suckers. Yeah, they're just pigs, but they were about 600 pounds of ham-on-the-hoof, and from everything I'd heard of hog hunting stories, their skulls were thicker than my 1/2-inch breaker bar would affect.

Was out west with a couple of Brits. To begin with, these two guys were a little un-nerved by the fact that every street sign they'd looked at for hundreds of miles had bullet holes in them. It was also Mule Deer season, so all everyone was riding around in trucks with rifles in gun racks and dead animals in the bed. "I say, bloody lot of guns you have here...nothing like this in the UK. Do the primary schoolers carry them too?!"
So we see this yard on the edge of town, and decide to have a look. Pull in, talk to the owner, and he says "Sure, go ahead." Then he starts making small talk about the cars, the town, the highway it's off of. We don't want to be rude, so we listen. Then he says "I'm going to put a fence up next year. All these strangers coming through town see the cars, then come back at night and steal parts off of them. Then I have to shoot them." And then he simply turned around and walked away.

The whole town was like that. Another guy called us a couple of Gawd-Damned Camera Pimps! when we took a shot of our Challenger in front of his service station. We should have expected it from the town that beat down Super Soul.

-Brad

[roadster1923]

Years ago a buddy of mine told me about this small junkyard 100 or so cars mostly old chevy's. I needed one sbc double hump head and some misc. stuff. We met the owner and his son at the yard., The owner looked to be 95 years old and we explained what we wanted. The old guy pointed us in direction of the the parts. We found what we wanted and we were removing the head, all of a sudden I feel something brush up against my ear. I turn real slow and I'm facing down a 12 Gauge barrel. Boy does a gun barrel look big at close range of 2 inches. The old man asks me what I'm doing and I tell him. The old guy then goes on to tell us we didn't have permission nor did we ask him for premission. Thank the owners son appears and defuses the whole thing. It seems the old guy was loosing his mind. The shotgun wasn't loaded but my pants were after the close encounter.

[ambman]

Close to 20 years ago we were in Arkansas and saw this old house covered with license plates and we see a bunch of cars out back so we pull up to the place and about 10 dogs come running up to our truck, I yell out the window to a guy out front "hey are those dogs going to bite us if we get out?" and he replies "they ain't hardly bit nobody", great answer? so we tempt fate and get out and ask about the cars and the guy says you'll have to ask the guy in there , so we walk in and ask and the guy says "sure look around", I ask about the dogs again and he tells me the same thing about the dogs, "they ain't hardly bit nobody" then they start laughing and they say "you ain't gotta worry about them dogs, look in that room, look in there boys" OK? so I look in this room and there's the biggest boa constrictor I've ever seen, seemed like it took up about half of this bedroom and they're laughing "how'd ya' like ta crawl through that window" After we left me and my friends were like WTF, after that I always wondered if they were feeding dogs to the snake, seemd like there were 50 dogs in the yard. Pretty funny.

[Thor1]

I walked into the office of an old wreckin yard, when I was a kid. I looked down, and this German Shepard was lickin his balls. I looked at this old guy behind the the counter and said "I wish I could do that" And he said "ya might want to pet him first"...........OLDBEET

Old beet,

I just about shit my pants I was laughing so hard!...that was funny! Your keen sense of comedic timing is absolutely superb.

Thor - god, my stomach hurts...

[4t64rd]

I walked into the office of an old wreckin yard, when I was a kid. I looked down, and this German Shepard was lickin his balls. I looked at this old guy behind the the counter and said "I wish I could do that" And he said "ya might want to pet him first"...........OLDBEET

No matter how many times I hear that joke, I always giggle a little when I hear it.:D

When my friends and I were broke ass 16 years olds, my buddy had a 6 cylinder 67 Mustang and somebody's mom gave him a '69 Fairlane 4dr with a decent V8, but no brakes, and he wanted to put the Fairlane engine in his Mustang. We went to the junkyard to see if he could afford an 8" that would bolt in. There were a few 67-68 V8 Mustangs in there (this was 1980), and one of them was sitting on top another car, with the rear end hanging under it, just unbolt the U-bolts and two shackles and we could carry it away. could be done in about 10 minutes with hand tools.

We also noticed a big hole in the back fence... big enough for two broke ass 16 year olds and a Ford 8" rear end... it had a lot of tree growth and palmettos on the other side, good cover... An idea was hatched.

We came back about 12 am and parked the my car about a half a block away, and made our way around the back of the yard. We found the hole and went in and heard a noise like a chain rattling... Oh shit.. a dog! We dove through hole as fast as we could and threw some branches in front of the hole so the dog couldn't get out.

Now what?

Lets do like they do in the cartoons, let's give him a steak and he'll be our friend... how much money do you have?

About 3 bucks

Lets go to the 24 hour Albertson's and get some meat... we did, but all we could afford was hamburger.

We went back, and made enough noise for the dog to be curious and threw in a wad of hamburger, he went for it. Just like they tell you in the cartoons!

The hamburger kept him busy for a while, and all he wanted when he came back was more hamburger.

We went back a few more times for little crap, but it just became a pain in the ass, so we went back to buying stuff a little while later.

Let this be a lesson to todays hoodlums... Hamburgers are always the answer.:D

[Bruce Lancaster]

"Let this be a lesson to todays hoodlums... Hamburgers are always the answer"...unless it's a smart enough dog that realizes:
A. You represent 180 pounds of hamburger offering him 1/2 pound of hamburger...and...

B. There's no need to choose--he might just as well eat both.

[mkabwe]

Dogs I anit afraid of no stinkin dogs I get bit by them everday while working.


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[LUX BLUE]

Dogs I anit afraid of no stinkin dogs I get bit by them everday while working.


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dude...you need a better job!

[Gary 4T950 Chevy Guy]

:D All of these stories have left me laughing pretty darn good! I hope more people relate some of their stories also!It's great!:D Gary 4T950 Chevy Guy

[Gary 4T950 Chevy Guy]

Barnyard Chevy---What the fuck is all this "amp" stuff?????:D It's a new secret code designed to confuse people who live in Canada!:D Gary 4T950 Chevy Guy

[repoguy]

Here's a good one. One day my mom calls me all freaked out. Apparently she was out on her bike and was chased by a pit bull. It was right on her, snapping and snarling, basically she was inches from being mauled. She's practically in tears telling me this. So of course being the protective son that I am I get all pissed and go pick her up and we drive over to the the house where the pit's owner was so I could have a nice (or not so nice) discussion with him about the responsibities involved with owning this type of dog (I have an American Bulldog).

So we pull up and I get out of the car and mom says "OH MY GOD!!! THERE IT IS!!! BE CAREFUL!!!"

I see the dog in question and get back in the car and say to my mom..... "uhhh, mom, that's a JACK RUSSELL."

[Louver Dude]

I have A Jack Russell THAT thinks It's a Pit bull !

[mkabwe]

Most Jack Russell's think they are Pit Bulls. And to
LUX BLUE who said "Dude you need a better job" This is my passion, along with hotrods and classic cars I love to train and evaluate protection dogs. Since I hit 40 I need to stop decoying, but I still need to get out there sometimes and show the young punks how its done.lol