Subj : File, file; who's got the
To   : Ross Cassell
From : Jack Yates
Date : Wed Aug 29 2001 02:18 pm

 TC>> If you believe I would do that than you do not know me at all..

 RC> What I believe is that you can be a hothead and speak first and think
 RC> later.

 RC> What you suggested is no different than a bunch of teenage juvenile
 RC> delinquents deciding to vandalize Mr So and So's property.

True story:

One evening, about 20 years ago, I was at a marina in FL where a friend had a
boat moored, a livaboard.  There were some oil drums that I had lent him
sevral months before behind the building, and I was tossing them in the
pickup when the owners of the marina (who did *not* like me at all) came
out and told me to put *their* oil drums back.  We discussed it, I unloaded the
truck, and muttered under my breath " I 'spose I'll have to shoot somebody
before this is over..."

We went to another boat, a cruiser that was drydocked for repairs and settled
back with a couple of cold ones; about 30 minutes later 4 sheriff's deputies
climbed up the ladder.

"Hi, guys, who's got the gun?"

Nobody had a gun, especially not me; names and addresses were taken and it was
suggested but not made mandatory that I leave.  It occurred to me on the way
home (some 250 miles north) that if anything untoward were to happen to either
of the brothers that owned that marina, *anything* at all, within a few months
of that night, I would sent for and invited to be a guest the Pinellas county
jail and would be given just about *that* -->|<-- long to explain my
whereabouts and actions at the time of the incident.

This lesson about "idle threats" was not lost on me.




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