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Posted: 4/29/2024 4:48:07 PM EDT
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Played in a few punk bands in Denver mid 80's. And in one of the first goth/death rock bands. Mentioned in a book about punk bands of the 80's in Denver.
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Posted: 4/29/2024 4:51:59 PM EDT
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I was published in Woodworking Network magazine several times. Huge cringe factor seeing your face in a magazine.
 My articles are often downloaded by business owners and managers to have employees read to prepare them for my visit. Helps spur questions and conversation with the people I'm working with. |
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Posted: 4/29/2024 5:04:32 PM EDT
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I was filmed by a news crew and was on the 6 o'clock news.. I was moving around the GPS marker while plotting an accident scene where a couple ultralights were blown into the side of an aircraft awning at a remote dirt runway. I was identified as the FAA investigator.
 FAA doesn't give two fucks about any ultralight crash. 
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Posted: 4/29/2024 5:16:22 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: I'm in the movie Hangover 3 if that counts. Ladyboy?
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Posted: 4/29/2024 5:17:00 PM EDT
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Myself and another agent uncovered and thwarted a plot to assassinate the Attorney General of Mexico and a week later, the Mexican Attorney General met with US AG John Ashcroft and thanked him for saving his life. Ashcroft, not having any idea what the Mexican AG was talking about, had his aides track me down and had me fax the reports and then brief him on it during a break in their meeting.
I didn't even get a performance award out of it. Also, one other really good one, that unfortunately is covered by an NDA. And, I was one of Max Mermelstein's bodyguards during the Fabio Ochoa trial. (Lived with him in a safe house). Helped work the crime scene of the Atlanta Olympic bombing (in a very minor way) in 1996. |
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Posted: 4/29/2024 5:23:46 PM EDT
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A band I was in during the 80's opened up for Willie Nelson at an outdoor concert in Texas. Ended up getting rained out about halfway through his set, and our guys ended up pulling his tour bus out of the mud.
A few weeks later we were headlining our own thing and drew about twice the crowd.  (not because of us... weather) |
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Posted: 4/29/2024 5:49:37 PM EDT
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Been in the news a few times over the years. Most recently they interviewed me about dumb yokels not fleeing hurricane florence (we ended up evacuating anyways). Couple hours later people started texting me about it. Good times. Was livestreamed during 2002 super bowl, they had cameras set up in kandahar to show the folks back home
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Posted: 4/29/2024 7:39:02 PM EDT
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Nothing big or famous. A few years ago we had a murder in our small town and I was there as a lookyloo and was interviewed that ended up on the Sacramento news.
Same town a policeman got killed. In Vegas partying up with 2 porn actresses and making all the men wanting to kill me. Was driving by a live broadcast of one of the green river murderer bodies that was found and all my friends saw me drive by on the news. Another one was a live broadcast of a restaurant fire and I was underneath my car swearing up a storm during their live shooting trying to fix my car. Another live during Independence Day fireworks works show in Seattle I let out an incredible scream of freedom and it made them comment about my enthusiasm of celebration on the live broadcast. A funny as a kid, I had the record for pull-ups and shuttle run for the Presidential fitness thing and came in third place for the punt, pass and kick contest for western Washington. Best ones and the most heartbreaking is I was friends with a lot of the Seattle grundge scene and metal scene. Andrew Wood, Chris Cornell, Warrel Dane, David Wayne and more. Got backstage at quite a bit of concerts, even got to scream with Rob Halford to Victim of Changes. |
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Posted: 4/29/2024 7:49:58 PM EDT
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The best has yet to come!
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Posted: 4/29/2024 8:10:37 PM EDT
[#10]
Haven't really had my 15-minutes and probably won't.
I was on the local news when I was in kindergarten. I've been in a few bands that have opened for some of the bigger names in '80s hardcore and punk, ~20-years after their popularity peaked. The largest crowd I've played in front of was a couple hundred people (at a show we headlined), though. |
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Posted: 4/29/2024 8:32:14 PM EDT
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I was interviewed by the local news 4 times in 5 years for being in line at the local Irish pub at 4:30am on St. Patrick's day. Then one year the hot reporter came in at 6:30am for an update and spotted me, so came over an did a live follow up. That was the year I had to work so showed up late to the shop at 830. As I'm pouring a coffee the shop foreman comes up and says "no forklift or machine equipment operation today". I asked why very confused and he said "I saw you on the news at 6:30am with a beer in your hand, just dont get hurt and go ahead and slide out at lunch to go back. Have fun". I'll always remember that conversation.
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Posted: 4/30/2024 6:11:03 AM EDT
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I was interviewed by the local news station just after getting laid off.
It lasted about a minute. She was pretty good. Had all her questions ready, and they were good questions, too. She then said she was sorry for what happened to me, and that being in the news industry, she was also familiar with lay-offs. She's still around on WBAL-TV 11, Jayne Miller. |
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Posted: 4/30/2024 6:56:34 AM EDT
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Posted: 4/30/2024 7:16:32 AM EDT
[#14]
Haven't had one. Don't want one.
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Posted: 4/30/2024 7:48:32 AM EDT
[#15]
Even if you're a rightwing, Commie hating, conservative at the age of 18 when the President extends his hand you still shake it.
Afterward things didn't go so well, but I got my jab in.  |
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Posted: 4/30/2024 8:56:16 AM EDT
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Since I'm good friends with Fiddlin' Carson Peters and his parents of Bluegrass music. I drove down to Nashville several years ago to attend his playing the Grand Ole Opry. He and his parents stopped at my hotel and hung out awhile before going on to their Hotel. Told him I had a ticket 4 rows from the stage dead center. So when he and his band came out on the stage to do their stint, he introduced a group of women from his church way up in the balcony and then introduced me so the cameras were turned on me standing up waving to the audience as my image was showing on the Big Screens on the back of the stage.
Another time I was on duty when a local TV station came to the Prison I worked at and they wanted some footage of a CO making rounds down the Gallery of cells and then closing the gate on a cell at the end. My partner told me to go ahead and do it so that night on the 6 o'clock news my sister saw me on the news patroling my beat looking mean and nasty  and from what I've heard that station used that footage anytime a story about that prison made the news.
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Posted: 4/30/2024 6:44:03 PM EDT
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Your story is the best I’ve heard. Well done.
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Posted: 4/30/2024 6:58:17 PM EDT
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Late one night found a car stopped with a dude passed out after a Civil air patrol meeting.
Car was running and windows were up and doors locked. Managed to pry the window down enough to unlock the door. Dude was unresponsive and the other cadets called 911. Older guy that had diabetes which cause him to pass out. Luckily he had a pulse and was breathing. Ambulance showed up and two hours later the gentleman was released to his family. Gentleman worked at the airport and was on his way home when he stopped at the stop sign and blacked out. Luckily his foot was on the break and I was able to turn the engine off and put the car in park. I am the guy holding the door, this pic is from the local newspaper. Just did what I would want someone to do for myself or my family. Town made a big deal about a simple thing. Even got a letter from our congressman. Ambulance guys did the work all I did was get the door open and checked his pulse and breathing. Right place right time sorta thing.  |
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Posted: 4/30/2024 7:04:59 PM EDT
[#19]
Son is the Cadet Leadership poster boy for the local Civil Air Squadron.
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Posted: 4/30/2024 7:11:50 PM EDT
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I like these threads.
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Posted: 4/30/2024 7:23:11 PM EDT
[#21]
She never gave me a full 15 minutes, but a sweet, local beach girl and I were friends.
Went to the same SoCal beach nearly every day. Mr. Big from L.A. swept her up to Laurel Canyon. Next thing we knew she was Miss July 1975, then Glenn Frey's gf    Good news is she survived. |
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Posted: 4/30/2024 7:24:56 PM EDT
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I used to make a small rural newspaper all the time for the deer I killed until I finally got my grandmother that lived in the same county to stop submitting it. Too much attention as a landowner.
Made a larger newspaper a number of times through the years until I started avoiding things they were at reporting on. |
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Posted: 4/30/2024 7:25:13 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Late one night found a car stopped with a dude passed out after a Civil air patrol meeting. Car was running and windows were up and doors locked. Managed to pry the window down enough to unlock the door. Dude was unresponsive and the other cadets called 911. Older guy that had diabetes which cause him to pass out. Luckily he had a pulse and was breathing. Ambulance showed up and two hours later the gentleman was released to his family. Gentleman worked at the airport and was on his way home when he stopped at the stop sign and blacked out. Luckily his foot was on the break and I was able to turn the engine off and put the car in park. I am the guy holding the door, this pic is from the local newspaper. Just did what I would want someone to do for myself or my family. Town made a big deal about a simple thing. Even got a letter from our congressman. Ambulance guys did the work all I did was get the door open and checked his pulse and breathing. Right place right time sorta thing. https://iredell.cap.gov/media/news/CAPAssist_1_4F1B9579448CB.jpg I didn't realize you lived in Iredell county. |
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Posted: 4/30/2024 7:42:07 PM EDT
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My cat was in the series pilot of a terrible show called "Trenchcoat In Paradise" starring Dirk Benedict of "A Team" and "Battlestar Galactica" fame. I was the animal wrangler and was on set for the first two days of filming to get my cat to do what he was supposed to. Since he was a very experienced purebred show cat he did a great job and Dirk mentioned that he was the only cast member not to mess up during the 5 or 6 takes to film the scene and even gave him head scritchins.
The cat even got a director's chair with his name on it - "Montana Joe". |
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Posted: 4/30/2024 7:46:19 PM EDT
[#25]
My 15 minutes came in 1956, I was a guest on Art Linkletter's show, twice. I discussed dinosaurs.
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Posted: 4/30/2024 7:54:42 PM EDT
[#26]
Quote HistoryQuoted: My 15 minutes came in 1956, I was a guest on Art Linkletter's show, twice. I discussed dinosaurs. Did you say the damndest things? |
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Posted: 4/30/2024 9:52:43 PM EDT
[#27]
Just realized I've appeared in local Hawaii news in print over a dozen times regarding issues with unexploded ordnance (UXO) in various locations,
Also in a Greenpeace article where I was involved in a beach cleanup. |
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Posted: 4/30/2024 11:07:35 PM EDT
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I didn’t think I had anything, then read thru this thread and realized I do.
In the early 90’s, I Supervised an after hours visit for an America’s most wanted” prisoner who had just been arrested. FBI had been looking for him for decades. He had murdered his entire family and skipped town. His current spouse came in for a visit with him, and I was sitting 8-10 feet behind him. I was bored and doodling in my notepad. She started to cry and he spontaneously confessed everything to her snd told her all about his life. All the stuff he had always hid from her including details even the feds knew nothing about. And I just wrote it all down in my notepad as fast as I could. Filed it all in a report. Got interviewed by our local DA and investigators from that locality. Never got called to court. And mostly forgot about it. Left LE a few years later… About 3-4 years ago I came home from work and my wife had been contacted by a reporter trying to reach me about the 50/30 year anniversary of the murders and arrest. I had never told my wife about that story. She asked if I was gonna call the reporter. No. Hell no |
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Posted: 4/30/2024 11:13:39 PM EDT
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Posted: 4/30/2024 11:18:54 PM EDT
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Made the front page of the sports section in the local newspaper for a sport I was heavily involved in about 50 years ago. They had a pic of me and short interview. Was kind of neat to be recognized.
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Posted: 4/30/2024 11:19:42 PM EDT
[#31]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Tanya Roberts was my cousin. Yes the one in Beast Master. https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/124978/Tanya_Roberts_jpg-3202505.JPG Sheena! |
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Posted: 4/30/2024 11:21:30 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Sheena! I only ever saw her in person once. I wish I had a cool story but I don't. |
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Posted: 4/30/2024 11:40:45 PM EDT
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Though I did not invent thermochromatic printing inks I invented the application of using them in beverage packaging while I was employed with the worlds largest colors group that I retired from back in '08. Every time I go by a beer cooler and see the blue mountains on the Coors's beer I remember the response from tech when I approached them with my concept. Not bad for a hick with only a HS education.
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Posted: 5/1/2024 12:14:20 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: What species?!? Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Not like some of you all but I made the Boone and Crockett all time book in 1992. Personal best in our hunting groups. What species?!?  Attached File |
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Posted: 5/1/2024 12:24:31 AM EDT
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The 'Event'
After over five years, the mental wounds have mostly healed. Sucks that the woman killed herself and left her daughter motherless.. but at least she got to make the choice for herself, while her knucklehead caught the early express train to hell himself. |
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Posted: 5/1/2024 12:37:27 AM EDT
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I helped write a Quality Engineering book for Boeing back in the mid-80's. The three of us ended having our pic above the fold in one of the Boeing News magazines.
Got interviewed by one of the local TV news stations during the original build of the Madison AL Kid's Kingdom community playground build. They were there at 6 AM and I was the only worker there at the time, so she decided to ask me a few questions. Never knew if it got shown on TV or not. |
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Posted: 5/1/2024 12:44:11 AM EDT
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My first time was when I was about 5 or 6.
In 1966 I was on Corky The Clown Channel 5 KTVI in St.Louis Mo. Corky asked me if I have a pet monkey named Sam. I said yes the little bastard bit me this morning. Sam was a squirrel monkey that my Dad won in a poker game at Wally's Tavern next to Jefferson Barracks. Back then Corky's Colorama was live TV Sunday mornings I think. |
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Posted: 5/1/2024 7:47:42 AM EDT
[#38]
Quote HistoryQuoted: I was in the paper once https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/64854/Screenshot_20240430_055548_Gallery_jpg-3201847.JPG You wuz a regionite? |
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Posted: 5/1/2024 9:59:25 AM EDT
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My picture was on the front page of the Dallas Morning News twice a few years apart.
In college I was in a commercial for a local business that was shown at the local theater before movies. |
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Posted: 5/1/2024 10:24:34 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: I like these threads. Do things seem... familiar? |
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