I knew a guy when I was in high school that was 8 years older than me. He started a strip joint at the exact perfect time in the mid 70's when a construction boom was going on where alot of single guys came from a distance away to work.Then there were no nudity ordinances and the gals could almost do anything they wanted to.The guy was into selling blow,was a bigtime bookie.etc.If the elderly business owners close to his bar raised a ruckas that a bad element from his bar was hurting their business he would just curse them out and challenge them to a fight.The guy was a stud athlete.One of the old fart cops in town who used to be a whore transporter himself when he was young was on this guys case all the time.So the strip joint owner waited till he was away from home and cut all his trees down in his yard.The guy would go out and golf with his buddies and fill the cart with booze and they would slow play where everyone on the course was bitching about it.The guy would just challenge anyone to a fight and used to get in fights on the greens with 70 year old guys.The guy was utterly ruthless.He gassed himself ''or so they said on the coroners report''in his ** Mansion's garage in his Jim Rockford Trans am.Someone claimed that he booked a Vikes game where he got middled bigtime in one of the most drastic point spread swings in modern history.He was always hedging and trading action with other books. He supposedly had a list of old Vikings he took bets from including B.B and P.K. This guy would have given the real Nicky Santoro a run for his money in the ruthless department.I left out almost getting in fist fights with priests too.He was Catholic and when he did himself in he wasn't supposed to get a Catholic funeral but they gave him one in spite of the rules.Not sure what gesture that was?The root of all this guys problems as to why he turned out ruthless like that was when he was about 7, he was alone with his 2 younger brothers in an upstairs room and one fell out the window getting killed.His mom always blamed him for it and laid a guilt trip on him.
