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[noahgibbs]

I buy shoes at a web site and they immediately sell my e-mail address to a Nigerian-scam spammer. Where's the love?

A guy who beat me up a couple of times in Junior High is now on trial for attempted murder. That fact got my mom out of jury duty for the case. My housemate isn't from a small, violent town like I am, so he was very surprised by this :-)

And in case I forgot to mention... I now know a class of people who've all heard of Huntsville, Texas -- blues singers. They tend to know songs about being in the state penitentiary there.

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[kerinda.livejournal.com]

You're from Hunstville, then? And you escaped without a pickup truck with a gun rack and a job at the Walls Unit?

[angelbob.livejournal.com]

I have a pickup, but it's a relatively recent acquisition. No gun rack in any case.

Yeah, I got away without working at the prison. I dropped out. Our valedictorian wasn't so lucky.

How do you know Huntsville?

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[kerinda.livejournal.com]

Whew on the gun rack. ;)I know how to use them better than most anyone, but I hate them. Hate hate hate them.

As for how I know Huntsville, I could tell you the surface reason or the very personal one. Or both, perhaps, but not publicly.

I used to be very active in death penalty abolition. Very Very active. And stood vigil outside the Walls unit on several occasions, including the execution of Karla Faye Tucker.

After meeting the man who was released from Death Row after spending 22 years there and almost being executed, it kind of became a serious issue for me.

But that's not the personal reason. If you're interested in that, and not turned off by the whole abolition thing (most Texans are, but you hardly seem like most Texans), then email me and I will tell you about it.

Huntsville

[jd5p.livejournal.com]

Hey, I've heard of it . . . used to live near it. And your housemate is from a LARGE violent town, at least parts of it have to be.

Re: Huntsville

[angelbob.livejournal.com]

Yeah. I don't think he was shocked that I knew somebody on trial for attempted murder, just the coincidence of my mom getting picked for the jury.

And that's more the fact that it's not that big a town, especially if you exclude college students and inmates (as the jury system tends to).

[bn29.livejournal.com]

Hmm. I'd think your mom would want to be on that jury.

She'd get to help put him away if he's guilty.

>shrug<

[capnkjb.livejournal.com]

The only problem is, if it ever came out, she could get kicked off the jury for lying to the question of, say, have you ever met the accused.

And then the scumsucker might get off. This is bad, or so I am led to believe by Law&Order.

MMmmm, Sam Waterston.

[angelbob.livejournal.com]

Heh :-)

Nah, my mom would put a much higher priority on not bothering to serve on a jury than on getting somebody I once hated put in prison.

Fair enough. I can't say I'd thought about him in years. He was a nasty enough fellow back then and I'm not shocked to hear he's facing trial. But at this point I wouldn't go to the bother of putting in a couple of days work to get him imprisoned. I can't very well ask her to.

[griffjon.livejournal.com]

jeeze, share the gossip? Who offed whomin our sleepy quiet college/prison town?

"We put the 'huh?' in Huntsville"
"It's not the heat, it's the stupidity"

Ah, I almsot (almost) miss it's comic opportunities. Remember the Rubber Ducky?

[angelbob.livejournal.com]

I'm blanking on the Rubber Ducky.

I don't know who he's accused of attacking, but do you remember Sterling Crawford?

And hey, did you know Minab Selassie or Chris Hart? They're the other casualties from my year of HHS that I know of. Minab was shot, if memory serves, and Chris died of a football injury.

[misternihil.livejournal.com]

Rubber Ducky was (is?) an adult novelties store in Huntsville, near to HBC comics/behind the Cult of Mazzios. It was allowed to move in, but caused the passage of laws within the city that require such stores (adult novelty or other adult material oriented)to be located not less than 1000 feet from any school, church, child care facility or residential area. They can't use city waste disposal or streets (they have to have a driveway and parking lot). The laws were passed after the Rubber Ducky moved in behind a church, and were meant to close it down, but it was grandfathered in (as one must legally do).
According to a study sponsored by the city council, there are several such sites located within the city of Huntsville. None could be developed (no existing building qualifies. This was certainly intentional)for less than $100,000, which is an assload of money, pardon my French, in Huntsville, pardon my Hick (You could buy two large houses for about the same money, but then you'd be within 1000 feet of a residential district).
Small Town Politics in Action! I love the attitude that "round here, we don't approve of people enjoying sex."