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Steve in VA

Steve in VA

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Natural Bridge Virginia
So I'm moving things around today and rediscovered this newspaper clipping from a few years back:

"Gordonsville Town Police charged a man with public drunkenness Thursday evening after someone called to report an apparently drunken man riding a horse through the streets of town.

'One person I spoke to said he was going down the streets with the reins in one hand and a bottle of wine in the other' said Patrolman ****.

When **** spoke to the rider about 8 p.m. on Stonewall Avenue, the man told him he'd had five or six pints of wine, **** said.

After the Patrolman gave the man a breath test for alcohol, the rider was taken to Orange County jail, **** said.

The horse was released to the custody of the rider's brother, **** said."


There are eight million stories in the Naked City, this is one [for those that remember that].
 
I had to laugh a year or so ago in the police report in the local paper in my hometown. (Population 7,000).

One item stated, "An elderly female called and complained that someone had stolen all three of her cars. It was determined the caller does not own any cars".
 
Was in the local paper over a year ago where someone got a ticket because of to many on a bicycle. P.S. We have a packing plant in our little town.
 
Here's one from the early 40s before I was born


Adjacent to the residences that have no plumbing, and usually
located from ten to five hundred feet in the rear thereof, always is a
small building known by various and assorted time honored names
which are as euphonious as bath-room, lavatory or latrine.
Such a structure located on the premises occupied by Henry Wilcox
at Jonesville, the southern suburb of this village and near the Shell
gas station, became on fire Friday morning Sept 1, to which the Fire
Department made a rapid response as the first information was that
it was the gas station. Such it was, but not the "Shell"
As the damage was mostly confined to the roof, the usefulness
of the edifice was unimpaired, except during a rain storm. Had the blaze
continued til the heat reached the heart of the structure, the odor
might have very distantly approached that emanating from the
nearby Rendering Works.
The blaze may have had its origin in some of the recent visitors
smoking in self defense. All occupants escaped safely.

My father's, I think the editor had a sense of humor.
 
When Mom and Dad were newly married they were with some friends and in conversation Mom said she grew up on a farm was quite capable of shooting a deer come deer season. Dad laughed and said if you shoot a deer I will buy you a freezer to keep it in.(He was an accomplished hunter) Someone told someone and it was broadcast on the local radio station. And yes, Dad had to buy a freezer. This was about 1950 and the freezer still works.
 
The town that is closest to me has ~25 people. The post office is open less than two hours a day and it's the only business in town. There aren't enough people in it to ever make any news, although a couple of years ago I saw a naked man leaning on the clothes line pole as I drove through. Does that count?
 
In a truly small town, back in the day, the horse AND intoxicated rider would have been released to the custody of the brother, with instructions to get the guy home and get him to bed to sleep it off. And don't let him come back until he's sober.
 
The little town that I was from was so small it had slow down and resume speed on the same sign. I stole that joke from The Geason Slaw Bros. any one remember them ?
 
Shoot, back in my bachelor days Id hang clothes on the line out back, for days on end, and in the morning I'd wait for the traffic to go by on the road, and make a run for the clothes line to grab some jeans, and jump around trying to haul them on quick. Worked good until one morning a robin had built a nest in the left leg.... YOW!!!!
 
co worked showed me an article from early 1900s that his great grandpa has shot at a man that was harassing is teenage daughter. His defense at the trail was if he shot to kill the man would of been dead. Several people testified that he was a good shot and case was dropped.
 
I grew up in a small railroad town. There was a newspaper, the [i:2cfa4bd6b9]Sykesville Herald. [/i:2cfa4bd6b9] When I was in high school there was incident at a local bar. This was in the day when STREAKING was popular. One of the guys on the high school track team made a bet that he could run through the bar naked and out the back without getting caught. Soon after one Saturday night in the winter he made good on his promise. He flung open the front door buck naked wearing a mask about midnight, jumped up on top of the bar, ran down the length of it and out the back door. Nobody laid a hand on him but some how he was positively identified, got charged with indecent exposure and had to do public service. The news article that covered the story read something like [i:2cfa4bd6b9]Patrons Enjoy Special Midnight Performance at Cockey's Tavern[/i:2cfa4bd6b9]. LOL[/i]
 
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