Arkansas Blog

"Hoboes," Max? That doesn't sound very PC. Good riddance, though.

What the hell were you doing w/discuses and shots in your old nuisance vehicle?

ARK. BLOG: A sometimes hobby carried over from my youth. When my computer mouse elbow doesn't get in the way, I sometimes compete in old fogey track and field meets. Well, just the field part.

I'll certainly keep an eye out...but I agree...what in the world are you doing with discuses and shot puts?!

"I'll certainly keep an eye
out...but I agree...what in the
world are you doing with
discuses and shot puts?!
Posted by: rosso"

No surprise to me. Max looks like a typical shot/discus man.

Just like when people see me, they instinctively know I am a computer nerd.

You'll have to go undercover to infiltrate the next Homeless Olympic Games, probably taking place under the Broadway Bridge.

But avoid the 10-liter wine drinking and foot-shuffle relay events.

Hope you find your wino.

Given the weight, I seriously doubt they got very far. I bet they're within two blocks of your house.

You should take up golf. It is a more seemly activity for a gentleman of your age and station and it's harder to make off w/a bag of clubs.

Anyway, I just hope you are not juicing like all of the other field event guys and distance runners.

"Given the weight, I seriously
doubt they got very far. I bet
they're within two blocks of
your house.
Posted by: RockCentral"

Excellent point. Who's going to carry those things far if they're not getting paid. I'll bet they were pitched into some nearby presidents...er...I mean nearby bushes.

That's one of the most bizarre lists of things I've ever heard of being stolen from a car, and I've been an insurance adjuster for 24 years.

Now, if you'll excuse me, I need to go make sure my goat milking machine didn't freeze up out there in my trunk.

Max,
Why don't you help build a shelter for these "hoboes"? It is surely Republicans holding them back from reaping all of societies benefits. Hell, I bet if you invite them into your house and feed them a warm meal they would no longer steal from you.

Honest to Allah, a couple of years ago in the Southwest Times Record, in the police reports it least a similar car break-in.

The list was:
2 VHS tapes
1 dildo
2 D size batteries.

I was so sorry they didn't list the full address of the robbery. I would have loved to gawk at the poor victim of such a heinous crime.

Lesson learned: Never keep your sex stuff in your car. Max....are you paying attention here?

I sure as hell hope Max never uses a discus or a shot put as a sex-related toy/object/weapon...

"Given the weight, I seriously
doubt they got very far. I bet
they're within two blocks of
your house."

Discuses (disci?) aren't very heavy. That said, in about 1978 I felt the breeze of one that whizzed about two inches from my ear as I did laps around Quigley. It was hurled by either Teddy Morris or Richard Richardson.

"Heads up!", he yelled, after it bounced off the track.

Somebody slipped a disc? ouch!

Does radio shack sell little tracking devices yet? Perhaps a cheap surveillance cam.

This story has legs.

Sorry for your loss. Sounds like kids to me.

Kids! Sounds more like that dadgum James Boulder or Don Keyotah to me!

Hugh Mann's story reminded me of just how dangerous kids fooling around w/field events can be. While I never had a discus hurled at me, that I can recall, I did attempt to pole vault one time. Once I got myself up I realized that I was pretty much upside down some 12 feet in the air. I grabbed the pole with my arms and legs and somehow guided myself into the pit. Ronnie Roach and the other witnesses to this feat were pretty much ROFL once they realized I hadn't killed myself.

I stuck to the 440 and the 880 after that.

bopbamboom:

I tried pole vaulting exactly once, too. I was built a lot like the pole -- ZERO upper body strength. What a sight. The pole didn't even bend and I got maybe three feet off the ground.

If we had had the javelin at Central I should have gone out for that. (Not to throw it, but to BE it.)

Max, I gotta pick a nit here. No self respecting hobo would EVER screw around with your stuff, disci or not. Now if you'd left an apple pie out to cool on the back porch, maybe. . .