Pride goes before the fall.Man,a guy could sure raise havoc doing anything it takes to get ahead these days.I grew up with a guy that started a strip joint fronting for a whore house,bookie joint and kickback agency for looking the other way as to what patrons were selling in his joint. It was in a close knit town where him,me and everyone else either knew everyone or were related to most people.He hit his business venture at the perfect time because alot of single guy outsiders were working on big construction projects and they had plenty of $$$$$ in their pocket and hard ons.He bought the place for next to nothing and didn't put money into it.There were very few ordinances and laws at the time.In today's world,his venture would never have gotten off the ground.
Even the priests,reverends,retired cops and 65 year old businessmen neighbors were in fist fights with him when he was 23.He did crap like chainsawing all the cedar trees in retired cops yards when they raised a fuss with him.He was like the bar owner in the HBO series Deadwood.He would be in a foursome getting drunk on the golf course taking his good old time and if some 80 year old geezer complained they were slow,he would bitch him out and challenge him to a fight.
The guy supposedly got burnt in a huge middling squeeze.A week later he gassed himself in his Jim Rockford Trans Am in his ** Mansion.Rumors were floating around that he was a dismembered torso courtesy of higher powers on the gambling ladder. He left a couple mill early 80's money to his crazy old lady and crazy brother and they squandered everything. I can remember 5 names from a pro football team with horns on their helmets that bet through him on NFL games,maybe their own?????
Anyone else have any stories about someone like this that crossed paths in their life?Anyone here do crap like this at one time or another?When you see all the Wall Street bailouts and such,it almost makes a guy feel the screwed up world is one rigged board game where you should go for broke and do anything it takes to get ahead.There is no longer any incentive to play by the rules.Only suckers do!
Supposedly he turned this way because as a kid his brother fell out of the upstairs window on their house and his mom blamed it on him constantly when he had nothing to do with it.
Even the priests,reverends,retired cops and 65 year old businessmen neighbors were in fist fights with him when he was 23.He did crap like chainsawing all the cedar trees in retired cops yards when they raised a fuss with him.He was like the bar owner in the HBO series Deadwood.He would be in a foursome getting drunk on the golf course taking his good old time and if some 80 year old geezer complained they were slow,he would bitch him out and challenge him to a fight.
The guy supposedly got burnt in a huge middling squeeze.A week later he gassed himself in his Jim Rockford Trans Am in his ** Mansion.Rumors were floating around that he was a dismembered torso courtesy of higher powers on the gambling ladder. He left a couple mill early 80's money to his crazy old lady and crazy brother and they squandered everything. I can remember 5 names from a pro football team with horns on their helmets that bet through him on NFL games,maybe their own?????
Anyone else have any stories about someone like this that crossed paths in their life?Anyone here do crap like this at one time or another?When you see all the Wall Street bailouts and such,it almost makes a guy feel the screwed up world is one rigged board game where you should go for broke and do anything it takes to get ahead.There is no longer any incentive to play by the rules.Only suckers do!
Supposedly he turned this way because as a kid his brother fell out of the upstairs window on their house and his mom blamed it on him constantly when he had nothing to do with it.
