Re: Toughest guy I have met
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Maybe that’s Bocco under the pile . Just kidding Bocco
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Re: Toughest guy I have met
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The drug issue raises a question for me. Where do these guys get the money to support their drug habit? And they still gotta eat.......or they starve to death. Where does the money come from? How can guys survive on the street for weeks, months and sometimes years on end? Don't want to start a fight, but why are you so certain he's got a drug problem? I posted about him on a farm website & a farmer from Michigan responded with a story about a young black man in an abandoned crib down the road from him. He said one of his kids saw the guy standing in the road just before dark in the winter. He went out to see him, as they were just about to eat supper. Said the kid was standing in the road eating an ear of corn from the field, that the combine missed. He invited him in for supper. He told about the kid starting to shake uncontrollably when he started to warm up and eat hot food. He thought his feet were frostbitten. He said this black kid told them that he wanted to be a Michigan farmer, never did mention any parents or kinfolk. But he was extremely proud of himself as just being released from the Marine Corp Before he left they found him some warm clothes they had, and fixed him a little care package of a pan and a little food to tie him over. Always wondered how the kid ended up. I thought it was neat that this happened about 1983 & the farmer remembered it like it was last night.
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Re: Toughest guy I have met
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He's more free than we are. Not as free as BOCO, though !!! He is much FREER than anybody in North America !!!! w And now he's free of Tman too it seems.
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Re: Toughest guy I have met
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Have to wonder if he's read too many Jack Reacher novels. I love Jack Reacher novels! Just finished "The Enemy", the 8th in the series. I'm reading them in order of publication.
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Re: Toughest guy I have met
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The guy who writes the Reacher novels is a bunny hugger, and flaming liberal, just sayin.
Right now I’m having amnesia and déjà vu at the same time. I think I’ve forgotten this before.
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Re: Toughest guy I have met
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I don't care, I'll read them anyhow.
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Re: Toughest guy I have met
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how can you know if they are wrong if you don't hear what they have to say.i gave up on "because so and so said so"a long time ago.
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Re: Toughest guy I have met
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Geesh you guys are pretty judgmental. You guys have pretty much 0 information about the guy and are assuming he is a worthless drug addicted beggar.
I don't blame a guy wanting to escape the rat race that modern life has turned into. With a modest savings I'm sure a guy could live a long time like that just buying/scavenging the bare necessities.
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Re: Toughest guy I have met
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My grandparents were tough. Grampa was a welder, gave gramma 6 boys and a girl...lost the girl but kept going. Raised hogs and grew apples, alfalfa and anything else they could to keep food on the table and in the market. Ima have to agree with jurassic on this. You know who else is tough? My dad. He’s worked his hands to the bone over the years and still drives that truck. Paid my mom 1600 a month in support and still insisted on buying me new boots when he could. He can fix darn near anything but his marriage to my mom. More folks close to me did time in nam, Iraq and Afghanistan. Don’t need to say more about that. Now that is Grit. MMERRIICCAA! What everyone in this country needs to learn and stop being freeloaders
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Re: Toughest guy I have met
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Concept is not new. They used to be called hobos.....or just Bo for short. My grandparents had a farm on US Hwy 24. Barn was just off the road. Finding "Bo" sleeping in the hay loft was not uncommon. It was also not uncommon to have them show up at the back door asking for something to eat. Better that than have a chicken turn up missing.
With some.....it starts out due to misfortune. With others, it becomes a lifestyle. A hermit on the move. When I was young,us farm boys made a little camp in the woods not far from the railroad tracks.a little spot for us to camp out now and then.The hobos must have thought we chose a good spot,,cause we could tell that they used it every now and then.Never did come across them in person though.
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Re: Toughest guy I have met
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It's not easy being a hobo, there's a lot to learn. my high school friend related, how he was going to jump a freight train & see the USA. He jumped the train and being stressed from his decision to run away from home and mentally exhausted he fell asleep. Said he woke up just before dark and looked around to get his bearings. Dang it Anyway! he was back in the sand plant in our own town. He had jumped an empty car while they were switching !
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Re: Toughest guy I have met
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There's some highly intelligent homeless people out there I met a few in my day. I'll never forget one fella, he made about $200 one day walking the blow line as he called it. He goes to big malls and strip malls and stores and whichever way the wind blows from the parking lot he checks the line of debris downwind and finds a ton of money I do that myself. learned it working in Glacier Park People wanting to trail ride carried cash and no wallet Find $100 bills in the bush on the east side
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Re: Toughest guy I have met
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Have to wonder if he's read too many Jack Reacher novels. I love Jack Reacher novels! I do too! Pretty sure I've read all of them.
We are told not to judge all Muslims by the actions of a few lunatics, but are told to judge all gunowners by the actions of a few.
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Re: Toughest guy I have met
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It's not easy being a hobo, there's a lot to learn. my high school friend related, how he was going to jump a freight train & see the USA. He jumped the train and being stressed from his decision to run away from home and mentally exhausted he fell asleep. Said he woke up just before dark and looked around to get his bearings. Dang it Anyway! he was back in the sand plant in our own town. He had jumped an empty car while they were switching ! Your story kind of reminds me of the movie, Emperor of the North, starring Lee Marvin. He was a fictional con man. Not saying all hobos are like the character he portrayed, but the movie did give an idea of how some hobos ride the rails. Great movie if you haven't seen it.
We are told not to judge all Muslims by the actions of a few lunatics, but are told to judge all gunowners by the actions of a few.
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