Sure, Need Bullets Too?
Durango, CO
10:16 p.m. A man said someone came to his door and asked him for a gun in the 34200 block of U.S. Highway 550, north of Hermosa.
Found in the Durango Herald
Small Town Misfit
A selection of police blots from small-town papers
March 29th, 2006 at 5:30 am
i bet he was on his way to wal-mart…..
March 29th, 2006 at 10:04 am
Nah. Historically, in Durango, one would ask for a gun to put a horse down that had a broken leg. In this case, I’m sure that this cat’s 1986 Caravan with the smoky exhaust, a broken spring and bald tires went down and he wanted to show it who’s boss!
March 29th, 2006 at 11:02 am
That’s how the boys put cars down around here, too — a bullet right between the headlights… and another one up the exhaust pipe, for good measure. Then they remove whatever vital organs are fit for transplanting. It’s amazing what mechanical science has accomplished — deaf-and-dumb Jimmy’s cousin has an original 1932 Buick put together entirely from transplanted parts. Actually, Steven King got wind of it and there’s talk of a movie deal.
March 29th, 2006 at 5:16 pm
what no pit stops available? Seriously, all kidding aside I once knew a guy who beat his car with a baseball bat , the thing looked totaled..found out years later he is some kind of halfway house. I guess all nuts think alike..
March 29th, 2006 at 7:05 pm
Leah, that reminds me of the Johnny Cash song “One Piece at a Time”, about the guys working for an auto assembly plant who took one piece at atime out in their lunch boxes..took a few years, but finally got it all put together. Of course, when they went to register it they gave the year as “,57,58, 59,60..”
March 30th, 2006 at 12:03 am
durango co again… geez i missed out on SOOOOO MUCH moving away after graduating from fort lewis “Ski fort lewis, and pick up a degree in your spare time…”
March 30th, 2006 at 2:11 am
lol Yeah, Ber, I guess it’s like they say: “There’s nothing new under the sun”. Back then, we only had one policeman, and his attitude was: “You don’t have to register it, long’s you just drive it around right here on the island.”
March 30th, 2006 at 8:42 am
I liked the Library at Fort Lewis and the views from the top of the mesa. Miss that part of the world…even the hillbillies.