TRACTOR PARTS Allis Chalmers Case & David Brown Farmall & International Ferguson Ford & New Holland John Deere Massey Ferguson Massey Harris Minneapolis Moline Oliver & Cockshutt Kubota / Yanmar

TRACTOR MANUALS

Allis Chalmers	Case	Farmall IH	Ford 8N,9N,2N	Ford
Ferguson	John Deere	Massey Ferguson	Minn. Moline	Oliver

Tractor Talk Discussion Forum

OT wondering where I'm living anymore

Welcome Guest, Log in or Register

Author

rrlund

10-19-2007 07:21:02

Report to Moderator

It's getting so I hate to turn on the news. We always used to hear about bodys found,shootings etc in south east Grand Rapids. Any more it's Montcalm County. There's been a 20 year old local guy missing since August 3rd. Cops found his body in the attic of a house last night,one block from where he was last seen. The people he associated with there moved out shortly after he came up missing. Nobody knows where they went. The place is 2 houses from the Post Office in Greenville. With the search going on,nobody bothered to report the smell. Earlier in the week,a guy out west of Stanton didn't appear in court. Sheriffs deputies went looking for him. He'd committed suicide and took his wife and nine year old son with him. Last seen alive about two and a half days earlier. Last week two hunters found the remains of a guy who'd been missing since March. Found him a quarter mile from his home. There are still a couple of people missing around here. Let's hope they went elsewhere to find work. My God,I feel like I'm living in an episode of the Sopranos. I'm trying to figure out what it all says about us. The rats and cocroaches are always the last to leave? Don't die around here unless you call somebody first and tell them where you're body will be? There aren't enough people left around here to form a search party? I'm thinking I need to buy a new lock for the door.

[Log in to Reply] [No Email]

IA Roy

10-19-2007 20:53:37

Report to Moderator

Re: OT wondering where I'm living anymore in reply to rrlund, 10-19-2007 07:21:02

I got a job in Iowa in 1980 and moved before I got my house sold in Albert Lea. I rented it to a couple with 3 young kids. Thanksgiving weekend I got a call that he had killed his wife. "The devil made him do it". We had just bought a house and the wife was pregnant with our second one. Makes it difficult to sell a house with a recent murder history. Spent the last of our savings, just before we got it sold, losing on it, but able to get out from under the second house payment. Somebody killed the guy in prison several years later. Don"t have to think about meeting him in the future.

My BIL drowned his pregnant wife and toddler up in West Central Minnesota. They found him guilty of second degree murder. He had way too much life insurance on a young mother on the WIC program which got food for her and the boy. The jury decided that he had made plans to kill her before, but not that day, so it was second degree instead of first. He got out of prison in June this year and hopefully we will never see him again.
He got out in 22 1/2 years for good behavior.

[Log in to Reply] [No Email]

RayP(MI)

10-19-2007 18:53:08

Report to Moderator

Re: OT wondering where I'm living anymore in reply to rrlund, 10-19-2007 07:21:02

rr - Yeah, I"ve been watching the same news. The guy in the marsh was only 1/4 mile from home. Told my son, if"n I don"t show up he knows which swampland to search every square foot of! Wonder how much searching was done for this guy. I don"t recall hearing when he went missing. (He was in my daughter"s class in school.) (And only about 2 miles from here!)

And that guy in Greenville, think someone dropped the ball on that one too. The family was looking in woods clear down by Ionia... Didn"t anyone have a clue where he frequented?

And the guy near Stanton, state dropped the ball on getting the kid out of that home. Why would the wife and kid take all that Tylenol PM, and not object? Apparently knocked them out with that and the gassed them with carbon monoxide. Somehow he either had a lot of power over them or something. And disciplining the older boys with a cattle prod? Neighbors say that there were things that indicated that there was a tragedy coming,and they hadn"t added up the clues - like selling off his cows, and snowmobiles. Quite a writeup in the GR Press.

It just gets worse "n worse. Watch the news for a couple more that went down over the last day or two. It"s scary around here.

[Log in to Reply] [No Email]

rrlund

10-20-2007 07:43:15

Report to Moderator

Re: OT wondering where I'm living anymore in reply to RayP(MI), 10-19-2007 18:53:08

I thought that one must have been pretty close to you. I'd heard he hadn't been seen since March and it was May before anybody thought twice about it.

[Log in to Reply] [No Email]

T_Bone

10-19-2007 14:20:25

Report to Moderator

Re: OT wondering where I'm living anymore in reply to rrlund, 10-19-2007 07:21:02

I just last week-end finished taking a CCW class so I once again could start carrying a weapon when I felt like I needed too. I guess getting older makes me think about being able to defend ourselfs against the bad people.

I'm probably more concerned today about self defense with being crippled up than I was in my younger years. I think that's because of the shear number of people that seam to have no sence of logic on whats right or wrong and your chances of coming in contact with one of those people have greatly increased in todays world.

T_Bone

[Log in to Reply] [No Email]

Lanse

10-19-2007 13:20:45

Report to Moderator

Re: OT wondering where I'm living anymore in reply to rrlund, 10-19-2007 07:21:02

Buy a new rifle and tell your wife and kids to be home by dark. Theres crime all over here too. Neighbors (racist) are always blaming it on-ahha, whats new :-( thats how its supposidly been for years.

[Log in to Reply] [No Email]

johndeereman

10-19-2007 12:15:39

Report to Moderator

Re: OT wondering where I'm living anymore in reply to rrlund, 10-19-2007 07:21:02

we just went up and visited the old cemetary last weekend the boy (he just turned 11 last month) was reading all the stones made the comment that he is older than most of these people where i said see what you take for granted this is a cemetary from an old coal mining town in the late 1800s they were plagued with small pox and diptheria in 1880 wiped out most of the town shoot im 25 and i could only find 2 people that were older than me people just dont understand it can always be worse.

[Log in to Reply] [No Email]

Mathias NY

10-19-2007 10:01:39

Report to Moderator

Re: OT wondering where I'm living anymore in reply to rrlund, 10-19-2007 07:21:02

My $0.02 is that most people don't have enough real stress their lives. They have never had to worry about basic things like putting food on the table or keeping a roof over their head. When combined with an inactive and over-stimualated lifestyle, you get a very odd person with a strange set of values. When they realize that they are unhappy they lash out at others, and themselves, because they can't cope with reality. But as I said, that is just my 2 pennies.

[Log in to Reply] [No Email]

Walt Davies

10-19-2007 09:54:41

Report to Moderator

Re: OT wondering where I'm living anymore in reply to rrlund, 10-19-2007 07:21:02

I grew up way out in the country had to pipe in the sun light.
We had a big yellow house near us that no one would live in because one of the sons came home one day an killed the whole family an tossed them all down the well. when you think things are getting worse just take a good look back at what has happened in the past.
Like the guy who hung himself in the attic of his 3 story mansion on the way into town. It was years before anyone would live there, and all this in a town of 350 people.
Walt

[Log in to Reply] [No Email]

RobMD

10-19-2007 08:06:58

Report to Moderator

Re: OT wondering where I'm living anymore in reply to rrlund, 10-19-2007 07:21:02

Total lack of Godliness in people, even amongst those who believe.

[Log in to Reply] [No Email]

Dan-IA

10-19-2007 08:05:10

Report to Moderator

Re: OT wondering where I'm living anymore in reply to rrlund, 10-19-2007 07:21:02

Yeah.

And my girlfriend called last night to say that one of her students was riding her bike home from school and was hit by a truck. Killed her. 13 years old. She'll never have her first kiss, never see the world, never graduate, never get married...

Tragic when anybody dies in an accident. Even worse when it's a child..

[Log in to Reply] [No Email]

Dave from MN

10-19-2007 08:02:01

Report to Moderator

Re: OT wondering where I'm living anymore in reply to rrlund, 10-19-2007 07:21:02

Just think of how many are taken that no one knows about. Homeless people, people that are run aways. You see movies like "the hills have eyes" and "saw" and such. Makes you wonder, does it give sicko's ideas, or do the movies not even scratch the surface of what has, is , or will happen to some human. Disturbing.

[Log in to Reply] [No Email]

midwest redneck

10-19-2007 09:24:19

Report to Moderator

Re: OT wondering where I'm living anymore in reply to Dave from MN, 10-19-2007 08:02:01

I here ya there. The movies are just horrible as far as the killing and mutilating. Just disgusting. and to think that sane people come up with that kind of garbage. When I was a kid it was movies like Phantasm that was real gory, now tons of movies are made like this.

[Log in to Reply] [No Email]

fixerupper

10-19-2007 10:28:00

Report to Moderator

Re: OT wondering where I'm living anymore in reply to midwest redneck, 10-19-2007 09:24:19

Last year during a rainy day on the harvest a bunch of the young guys on the crew were in the camper I stayed in, watching a gory, violent movie with plenty of foul language. I made a comment about it and the answer was "get used to it"! Jim

[Log in to Reply] [No Email]

Midwest redneck

10-19-2007 13:49:19

Report to Moderator

Re: OT wondering where I'm living anymore in reply to fixerupper, 10-19-2007 10:28:00

Well, it shows the dark side of some guys when they watch killing and rape all the time. And we Americans wonder how and why the country has sunk to the moral low that we now have.

[Log in to Reply] [No Email]

Dave from MN

10-19-2007 14:01:17

Report to Moderator

Re: OT wondering where I'm living anymore in reply to Midwest redneck, 10-19-2007 13:49:19

hollywood, hollywood. They are America's royalty, can do and will do about anything. What was not allowed 30 years ago, is now G rated. When I saw Porky's I thought that was pretty dirty stuff, I was about 15 or 16. Today stuff is worse than that on public TV during after school hours. Prime time show are even worse.

[Log in to Reply] [No Email]

rrlund

10-19-2007 15:37:53

Report to Moderator

Re: OT wondering where I'm living anymore in reply to Dave from MN, 10-19-2007 14:01:17

Even the local news! There is a trial going on for the turture,rape and murder of a young woman going on right now. The graphic details being brought out in testimony and broadcast on the local stations just turns the stomach. They should at least give a parental warning before they report it,but no,they just bring it in to our livingrooms like it was nothing. Leaves you feeling like you were kicked in the stomach.

[Log in to Reply] [No Email]

RayP(MI)

10-19-2007 19:08:28

Report to Moderator

Re: OT wondering where I'm living anymore in reply to rrlund, 10-19-2007 15:37:53

Yeah, rr, that case is awful old, what was it? 25 years ago? More? That was a brutal murder.

Then there's the murder in Muskegon who's about to be set free, for good behavior. He brutally murdered a woman with a pop bottle, and later escaped from jail. Yet, he's getting a pass.

How about the woman that went missing three years ago? Cops pulled har and her car out of the lake this week... Found it while looking for different drowning victim's car.

It's nothing but scarey around here.

[Log in to Reply] [No Email]

rrlund

10-20-2007 07:47:50

Report to Moderator

Re: OT wondering where I'm living anymore in reply to RayP(MI), 10-19-2007 19:08:28

Yea,two bodys and two cars out of the same lake in one week. That Chandler case though,the testimony that they've been broadcasting from the courtroom on the news....that just doesn't need to be broadcast. That could traumatize somebody for life just hearing that stuff. Something only the jury needs to be hearing.

[Log in to Reply] [No Email]

Spook

10-19-2007 20:44:00

Report to Moderator

Re: OT wondering where I'm living anymore in reply to RayP(MI), 10-19-2007 19:08:28

We have had a couple of tragedies her. One a young women was very drunk, walked out of a party store and fell into a swamp and drowned. The second was a 14 year old kid, he was in his own house, his 14 year old buddy picked up a pistol, not knowing it was loaded, and shot the kid in the head. It was the dead kid's dad's pistol. I don't understand why he would leave a loaded pistol around ( .45 ), a 14 year old.

[Log in to Reply] [No Email]

[Options] [Printer Friendly] [Posting Help] [Return to Forum] [Log in to Reply]

TRACTOR PARTS	TRACTOR MANUALS

We sell tractor parts! We have the parts you need to repair your tractor - the right parts. Our low prices and years of research make us your best choice when you need parts. Shop Online Today. [ About Us ]

Home | Forums

Copyright © 1997-2023 Yesterday's Tractor Co.
All Rights Reserved. Reproduction of any part of this website, including design and content, without written permission is strictly prohibited. Trade Marks and Trade Names contained and used in this Website are those of others, and are used in this Website in a descriptive sense to refer to the products of others. Use of this Web site constitutes acceptance of our User Agreement and Privacy Policy

TRADEMARK DISCLAIMER: Tradenames and Trademarks referred to within Yesterday's Tractor Co. products and within the Yesterday's Tractor Co. websites are the property of their respective trademark holders. None of these trademark holders are affiliated with Yesterday's Tractor Co., our products, or our website nor are we sponsored by them. John Deere and its logos are the registered trademarks of the John Deere Corporation. Agco, Agco Allis, White, Massey Ferguson and their logos are the registered trademarks of AGCO Corporation. Case, Case-IH, Farmall, International Harvester, New Holland and their logos are registered trademarks of CNH Global N.V.

Yesterday's Tractors - Antique Tractor Headquarters

Website Accessibility Policy