Back in the mid 1960’s we had a sudden glut of Heroin addicts in our area. Now I was just a kid and my Mom was driving me to a School function on a Saturday afternoon. We get to one of the main intersections in town and here is the goof ball that I had seen around the town with his thumb out trying to bumb a ride. Now my Mom is 5 foot tall and drove a 1956 Plymouth Savoy at the time. If you saw her driving the Savoy, all you saw was her face barely peaking over the top of the steering wheel. Well.. this glassy eyed fool sees my Mom driving towards him a decides to grab the sign post next to him with his left hand and leans way out into her lane with his right arm sticking out and his thumb extended towards the sky. Suddenly I hear a bump on my side of the car and notice that our passanger side mirror is now hanging by one screw. I looked back to see the guy spin around in a circle while hanging onto the sign post. Then down on his ass he went. So I said "Hey Mom, you just hit that guy with your mirror". She then looked at me out of the corner of her eye and said "GOOD, I hope I broke that Jackasses arm. He shouldn't be hitchhiking on this road and he probably didn't feel much anyway". To this day I still kid her about it. Never piss off a 5 foot tall 100 pound woman from Canada.
If the guy is high like that and he climbed onto the truck and over the truck after you told him to leave, I think you were well within your rights to defend yourself. Chances are the cops probably know who he is, most addicts are well known by them, and you had no way of knowing if he had a gun, or was going to try to kick out the window or what.
that is crazy. I wonder sometimes what people are thinking. It's hard to say what I would really do in that situation. The obvious tough guy stuff comes to mind but I really dont like splattered stuff all over either. I think you did the best thing to protect yourself. sucks for him but he also shouldnt have hopped in your truck. Down here if you pull into K-Mart the "day workers" want to jump in the back of your truck. I have had to yell at a few to get out of my truck. I am Moving up to portland Next month. I hope this isnt a common thing. I will look you up when I get there. Eric
Druggies are getting to be a real problem everywhere you go. Keep an eye out for people scoping your truck. He might have friends.
same kinda thing happened to my great grandma in the 70s, she was at a intersection and like 3 black guys were walking across the street and starting talking shit and sitting on the hood of her 67 Camaro RS so she pinned and through those fuckers off of there.
Beautiful....after the week that I had that story made my day. You were probably singing a hymn..... Him Him F*** Him.
That was funny. you should see if there was a security camera in the area that caught it all!!! Anywho, glad you weren't hurt
I recently heard a story that made me laugh along these same lines. A friend of a friend was making a delivery somewhere in Texas. He was driving a 14 foot box truck based on a Ford F-350. So he makes the delivery, and takes the crate the delivery came in out with him. Swings into a gas station and fills up his truck for the drive back home. After he fills it, he parks it next to the building, and went inside for a sandwich and a couple cokes. Came back out, hopped in the truck, and drove off into the sunset. Never gve a second thought to anything except getting home. Some 300+ miles later, in western tennessee, a state trooper pulls him over. The second the truck stops, he sees someone jump out of the back of his truck. The trooper pulls his gun on him, and orders the stranger, along with the driver to lay on the ground. Turns out, he was being pulled over for the back door being open. Once the truck stoped, the stranger jumped out and ran to the trooper. The trooper, not knowing what in the hell was going on, ordered everyone down and called for backup. Once the dust had settled, the truth finally came out. The stranger had backed his P/U up to the back of the box truck in an attempted robbery. Opened it up, and climbed into it, and the driver fired it up and drove off... Right onto the expressway! The stranger was traped back there thru 3 states!!! The reason he was running to the officer was because he had left his 5 year old son in his truck back in texas!!! The 5 year old was rescued by strangers. The would be thief went to jail The driver came back to Kentucky with one hell of a good story!
Fuckin druggies what is the world coming too, there even sneaking in under the radar and joining the Army now. I have booted one to many Soldiers asses out of the Army because of Meth issues. What ever happened to smoking weed, watching TV and eating munchies all day jeeeeeeez
guy is lucky he wasn't in Texas that sob might have been shot on sight. Hey officer he climbed over my truck i thought he was trying to car jack me so i blew a hole in him.
In the 70s my father in law was working at a local paper mill. He had to cross through a bad section to get there. Something had happened to get the black neighborhood in an uproar. He had to cross some train tracks that were fairly elevated. When he got to the tracks, there were quite a number of black guys standing across the tracks trying to stop trafic. He being the only white guy in the area, figured they probably didn't want to just hang out, so he opened up the carb in the old 62 impala and headed right for them. He went airborne, they scttered, he kept going. He said that the guys in the 'hood would gie him space when they saw him coming after that.
This is a little off the thread, but your story reminded me….When I was a kid I used to visit all the local wrecking yards on Saturday buying parts for a car I wouldn’t have for another eight years! Anyway I think I was at Bent Fender Wrecking in east side Portland Oregon. You had to pass through this grungy dark building to get to the yard, but they’d let you walk all over the yard for as long as you wanted. Like usual there were three equally grungy adults camped out there, and they loved to give me a bad time, but I ignored ‘em and asked where I could find a 50 Olds. They laughed and pointed to the far end of the yard. Sure enough there was a 50 Olds with the parking lights I dreamed of. I got the lights unbolted and started back when I heard what sounded like a heavy chain on a tin roof. Kind of weird. I looked around and caught a glance of the forehead of a HUGE rotty just waking up on the inside of a gutted hardtop! I didn’t need any coaching to do a high jump over the rear end of that car and beat feet to the building as I heard the links accelerating behind me! I made it safely thru the door where the three were at the window bent over laughing their heads off.
i have definitely had bums reach in my window for change. leaving subway a few years ago i had a blazer and the window was broken. when the guy reached in i grabbed his arm with both hands my buddy grabbed the wheel and i floored it. funny thing is we did not say anything to each other and just did it like it was normal. now i carry an axe handle under the seat of my truck. its legal to carry and gets the job done.
I thought this thread got closed or deleted..Some one really dragged this one up out of the basement.
Still laughing over this one. When I was in my early 20's I had a red Ford Escort van, nothing special but never ever let me down. I also had a 9stone Rotty named Sepo that loved to travel everywhere with me. She was as docile as anything unless someone was in 'her space'... One dank dark English winter I was driving through Chelsea looking for an address to deliver something or rather, Sepo was asleep in the back of the van as usual. I had teh passenger window cranked down about half way to get some air through the car and also try and keep the dog smell to a minimum. Anyway, stopped at the side of the road to ask directions from a guy waiting at a bus stop. Nice fella, comes over and puts his head through the window to tell me which way I have to go to reach my destination. Now, remember what I said earlier about Sepo being docile unless someone was in her 'space'? Well the van was her 'space'.... What happened next was all sort of in slow mo.... There was a low, deep growl from the back of the van and then said 9 stone Rotty launched herself towards the head of the 'Intruder'. Guy sees her coming and pulls his head back as a natural reaction to the site of this now snarling monster in mid flight . Now, also remember the bit about having the window cranked down HALF way?? As the guy jerks his head back he hits his chin against the glass, then bangs his head, hard against the door frame in his panic to get away from the dog. I grab Sepo as she flys past me, but there is not a lot you can do when 9stone of muscle is in full flight, as the guy just get out of the window as the dog hits the door, now barking like a hound from hell! The fella is now sitting on the floor rubbing his chin and head in equal measure but I did have my directions so decided to leave 'the scene of the crime' as there was not a lot I could do really. Felt very guilty at the time but as he was a youngish guy didnt feel too bad..... Not funny at the time but in hindsight I would have loved to have it on film as the guys face was an absolute picture! P.
I was riding with my mother in memphis, we make a turn and on the right is one of those check cashing places. Alot of lowlifes hang out there and ask for change from people cashing their checks. Well as we are turning the corner one comes out and stands right in front of my mothers car, so I brace for her to hit the brakes, but she never does and "wack" he goes flying over the side of the car I'm sitting on. I look over at her and said "you just hit that guy" and she just says as she keeps on driving, "crazy bastards anyway"...
Drugs n booze do funny things. I was pamping gas one day and a drunk lady just walked up to the car and sat in the passenger seat. I had a bag of M&Ms on the seat and she helped herself. Her boyfriend or husband was in the station laughing as Im yelling at her to get the hell out. She got out and muttered something about me being racist? Shes black, im white blah blah blah......
Damn that is the funniest thing ive heard all morning ! I love hearing when that shit happens to those rude enough to try and a make play on someones good nature until they cross a line that there too wacked out to back up from ! right on !
hell yeh now thats a quick thinkin friend! i would of nailed it period. even if cars were coming! LOL
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