Actually, I'm just half drunk and can't put a sentence together to describe what I'm thinking about.

Do you know any criminals? Like, someone you went to high school with who is now in jail for something? Or someone who got off the hook for a crime and you might see now from time to time?

What brought this up was the crashed minivan thread. I started thinking of my dad's ridiculous van which then brought me to thoughts of the creepy father of a guy I went to high school with. He molested a kid under the age of 13, did some time for it and that's that. I ran into him at a wake last year and couldn't even look him in the eye. What was I supposed to do? Dude's a molo.

So, I don't know. I was just thinking about fucked up people that I've come across in my life. Tell me about yours.

Half drunk, eh...?

Some kid a few years behind me in HS was an award-winning New York Times journalist who got busted for fabricating information.

yeah. i feel okay. ate lunch and all that, but i'm still stumbling over words and am kind of woozy. i'm sure that the hangover will hit me tomorrow.

tell me about some weirdos. i'm sure radcliffe has plenty of stories from when he was in prison.

Shattered Glass? That dude?

???

It would explain a lot.

2 guys from my high school ended up being major drug dealers.

One, now doing prison time, was the kingpin of Crystal Meth in North Georgia for a while I think. I hadn't seen him since high school but I was told that he was so fucked up there at the end that he would spend hours at a time in his shed behind his house (where he apparently kept his stash) due to paranoia. He thought people were after him.


The other was a brilliant guy who went to Georgia Tech and figured out how to make Ecstacy at home. When he was busted a couple years ago in Atlanta I heard they found several hundred thousand dollars in his house. He actaully turned rat and gave up a bunch of people for a light sentence. Very smart guy who apparently fell victim to the allure of easy money. Pretty sure he wasn't even a "drug guy". Sad.


Don't know any murderers or molos but I'm sure my hometown produced some.

The big brother of one of my good high school pals is doing time for holding up a couple of banks (everyone in there is a federal count of kidnapping if the doors close behind you and you say 'get down', just so you know).

One of my HS smoking buddies got manslaughter for accidently scalding a dude in an old folks home.

And I know plenty of folks with minor time for DUI/weed sorta stuff.

Just looked it up.
Yeah.
He graduated with my sister.

Guy i work with is going to see Steven Seagal's band called Thunderbox (something like that) on valentines day with his mum. He needs locking up. Unstable.

I know a few criminals for sure.

I don't have the time or space for that here.

If dealing drugs counts, the list is really, really long. Mostly, just petty crimes, assult, armed robbery, b&e, nothing really career sustaining. Buddy from HS did time for rape but it was bullshit. Lost a few to drugs. For a while, in my crowd at the time, I was actually a little embarassed to admit that I hadn't done any time.

I've cleaned up my act from those days pretty substantially. But, I will occasionally run into someone from the old days and it's pretty uncomfortable. It's usually in some shit hole bar and they want me to buy 'em drinks since I actually have a job. Or they wanna ramble unintelligably about the "good old days," which were actually pretty shitty but seem good to them because their lives have become such complete shit.

But, still have friends who screwed up, did their time, and are doing just fine and all that now. So, sometimes the story has a happy ending.

HAHA!! Nice.

I have a guy who has tried to convince me not once, not twice, but THREE time to go see Derek St. Holmes with him at some dumpy club that holds 60 people and specializes in the $9.99 steak dinner.


Who is he you ask? I didn't know either. He's the guy who played with Ted Nugent and sang of couple of his hits back in the 70's.


Seriously. It's all I can do to keep a straight face when he asks me.

um... stephen glass never wrote for the new york times. he wrote for the new republic.

Isn't it, like 2:00 where you are? And isn't it, like, Wednesday?

Anywho...I know a guy who has to go to jail for a month. He was riding his moped from DC to Richmond, and was pulled over. He was riding on a suspended license while on unsupervised probation due to a DUI he received earlier.

Of course, it didn't help when the cop said "You're riding your moped to Richmond? That's the stupidest thing I've ever heard of," and he replied, "YOU'RE the stupidest thing I'VE ever heard of."

Yeah. I saw that when I looked it up, too.
You know more than I do.

I know several people from my class that got busted with large amounts of weed or producing meth.
A kid I went all the way through school with got busted for some drug related offense and gave himself a hot dose so he didn't have to go to Jail.
Two guys from my glass robbed and murdered a convenience store clerk just before Christmas during my Senior Year. One of them was shot and partially paralyzed trying to escape from the State Pen here in Lincoln during my first year of grad school.

a few years ago when i was at my parents' home, there was a story on the news about someone suspected of child molestation and making pornography. his landlady had apparently found pornographic videos in his home of a very young child who she suspected was his child. (they didn't say if it was a son or daughter.) anyway, they said his name and put up an old mug shot of the suspect. it was a guy who i was friends with until about tenth grade.

We should go.

I played football every weekend with a guy that later went on to traffic drugs from Pakistan into Canada, then ended up killing a guy from a rival gang. He's serving about 15 years in prison right now.

Please. That is a molo sting operation if I ever saw one.

I went to high school with Color Me Badd

Yeah, we would have to grow mustaches (or in my case, buy a fake one) just to get in the door I bet.

Also, friend arrested naked (but no time), and I used to work in a bar where all the regulars were prison guards, most of whom seemed to commit crime somewhat regularly. And I once had a gig in a NJ bakery that, in retrospect, was clearly a front.

But a similar thing happened with NYT journalist Jayson Blair.