So here's a final story about our crime spree in small town America. Which by the way has slowed down from previous weeks. They caught the guy who tried to rob a bank and when unsuccessful headed to the next small town and succeeded. He was caught in a bigger city robbing a bank there.
The story I heard about tho was one while everyone was still on pins and needles. A new teller had just started the week before all the robberies and was coming off teller training in which they drill into you how to act and deal with bank robbers. Ha in reality they tell you stuff like, ' if he comes to your window cooperate, it's not your money! Granted good advice but not really training material. Anyway this new teller has been hearing all about the current spate of robberies and this customer comes to her window and hands her a NOTE. She looks at the folded piece of paper and makes a decision that if she doesn't look at the note it can't be happening. The other tellers are motioning her to pick up the note and she's shaking her head no. Finally one of the tellers leans over and says, " He can't speak, the note is telling you how he wants to do his banking ".
Needless to say everyone is breathing easier this week. Now we just gotta hope they catch the other guy as he was waving a gun around during his robberies.
Saturday, February 23, 2008
Monday, February 18, 2008
Cops and Robbers and People Oh My!
So here's some stuff from the last week or so. Sorry comic stories from my life next time.
First off we have the spate of robberies here in small town America. One guy has robbed a few coffee stands, a donut shop (imagine the police's chagrin over that one) and finally a motel. All in the space of about seven days. Busy guy. And dangerous as he displays a gun in each robbery.
Next up there was a bank robbery in another small town last week. This is unrelated to the previous guy, someone else trying his hand at cops and robbers. The cops were everywhere looking for this guy. The story then takes on a strange twist as the details come out. Turns out that was the second attempt by this guy. He had tried to rob another bank and when he handed the teller a note she said, and I quote, ' I don't have any money ' unqoute. The bad guy didn't believe her so she showed him no money in her drawer. He then told her to go to the vault and get some. While she was gone he took off. Probably figured she was calling the cops. At least that's what I'd do in the situation. So he tries somewhere else and scores. They're still looking for him I'm pretty sure.
Ok ready for more? Another unrelated robbery, this time involving a drug store. A guy goes to the pharmacy area and jumps over the counter and demands they give him all the oxycontin (sp). He has a knife and isn't afraid to use it. He freaks and runs before getting anything. Alright then we have the guy who goes the the local K-Mart and heads to the gun counter, didn't know they still had those in regular stores. He grabs a shotgun and some shells and proceeds to run thru the store and of course is met at the door by the police. He then sticks the shotgun under his chin and eventually the cops talk him down.
Ok enough crime, and keep in mind these all happened in the space of like seven to ten days. Here's some people stories.
I heard this one on the Fox (cdn radio station). A woman that had been convicted of manslaughter is going to raise her baby (yep she's pregnant) in jail. The way I heard it is that in Canada you can have a child up to four years of age with you in prison. My question is how many cigarettes is that kid going to be worth ( ok I confess the dj actually said that while talking about this ). They did comment on the fact that in the States you can't do that.
One more? This is a Penthouse letter almost. A co-worker was telling me about her just turned 18 yr old nephew who is living on his own after graduation. It seems he has a 35 yr old girl friend and she thought this a bit scandalous. I immediately thought lucky stiff (no pun intended even though...) and then she tells me about her son visiting the nephew when the girl friend shows up with another woman discribed as looking 50ish and awfully nervous or twitchy. My thought there was KID RUN as fast as you can, don't be a wing man for your cousin it ain't worth it.
Wasn't that fun? We live in a strange world surrounded by strange people. Of which some are my friends. ;-)
First off we have the spate of robberies here in small town America. One guy has robbed a few coffee stands, a donut shop (imagine the police's chagrin over that one) and finally a motel. All in the space of about seven days. Busy guy. And dangerous as he displays a gun in each robbery.
Next up there was a bank robbery in another small town last week. This is unrelated to the previous guy, someone else trying his hand at cops and robbers. The cops were everywhere looking for this guy. The story then takes on a strange twist as the details come out. Turns out that was the second attempt by this guy. He had tried to rob another bank and when he handed the teller a note she said, and I quote, ' I don't have any money ' unqoute. The bad guy didn't believe her so she showed him no money in her drawer. He then told her to go to the vault and get some. While she was gone he took off. Probably figured she was calling the cops. At least that's what I'd do in the situation. So he tries somewhere else and scores. They're still looking for him I'm pretty sure.
Ok ready for more? Another unrelated robbery, this time involving a drug store. A guy goes to the pharmacy area and jumps over the counter and demands they give him all the oxycontin (sp). He has a knife and isn't afraid to use it. He freaks and runs before getting anything. Alright then we have the guy who goes the the local K-Mart and heads to the gun counter, didn't know they still had those in regular stores. He grabs a shotgun and some shells and proceeds to run thru the store and of course is met at the door by the police. He then sticks the shotgun under his chin and eventually the cops talk him down.
Ok enough crime, and keep in mind these all happened in the space of like seven to ten days. Here's some people stories.
I heard this one on the Fox (cdn radio station). A woman that had been convicted of manslaughter is going to raise her baby (yep she's pregnant) in jail. The way I heard it is that in Canada you can have a child up to four years of age with you in prison. My question is how many cigarettes is that kid going to be worth ( ok I confess the dj actually said that while talking about this ). They did comment on the fact that in the States you can't do that.
One more? This is a Penthouse letter almost. A co-worker was telling me about her just turned 18 yr old nephew who is living on his own after graduation. It seems he has a 35 yr old girl friend and she thought this a bit scandalous. I immediately thought lucky stiff (no pun intended even though...) and then she tells me about her son visiting the nephew when the girl friend shows up with another woman discribed as looking 50ish and awfully nervous or twitchy. My thought there was KID RUN as fast as you can, don't be a wing man for your cousin it ain't worth it.
Wasn't that fun? We live in a strange world surrounded by strange people. Of which some are my friends. ;-)
Monday, February 11, 2008
Here's a Story
Ok after reading another blog from a comic guy I'm reminded of a couple of stories from my days in the industry. Ha! Nothing quite as exciting as actually working on a comic book but still interesting stuff.
The story I shall tell today happened when I worked for a local distributor in the Seattle area. He was from Portland, Ore. and was expanding into Washington as he had customers all over the Northwest. I was tapped to manage the warehouse in Seattle and so when he opened there was a big open house to get all the stores up to speed and show people that he was serious. We had freebies from Marvel and DC, this was in the days before Image and most of the other companies, so the big two were pretty much it.
The reps from the companies were also there to smooosh the store owners. We had food and posters, comics and give-aways galore. We also had Peter David before he was Peter David. By that I mean he was still in the Direct Sales Dept (that's what they called the comic book store accts) and had actually just sold his first story (at least teh first one that drew attention). At that time one of the things the big two had been experimenting with were cardboard stand-ups of certain characters. DC had provided a couple of Superman standees and of course Marvel not to be out done sent us some Wolverine ones. So here are teh Superman and Wolverine standees next to each other and if you know your comic heroes it was quite funny as Superman was the same height as Wolvie. Why is this funny you ask?
Well Wolverine was actual size and in the comics he's like 5' 2" tall and of course Supes should be around 6' 2". Peter David started laughing and then, by the way there of course was a DC rep there in attendance too, he grabbed the Superman and Wolverine standees and proceeded to dance them next to each other while chanting, ' Wimpy, wimpy, wimpy.' It was damn funny to see the look on the DC rep's face as everyone started laughing so hard tears started rolling down our faces. That was my introduction to Peter David. I wonder if he remembers that? Probably not but now it's immortalized on the internet.
Next time I'll talk about a woman who most insiders consider the heart of Marvel Comics in teh late 70's and 80's. You more than likely have never heard of her but when she passed away suddenly in the late 80's everyone felt Marvel changed for the worse. She also taught me how to pronounce one of the most difficult names in comics.
Next time.
The story I shall tell today happened when I worked for a local distributor in the Seattle area. He was from Portland, Ore. and was expanding into Washington as he had customers all over the Northwest. I was tapped to manage the warehouse in Seattle and so when he opened there was a big open house to get all the stores up to speed and show people that he was serious. We had freebies from Marvel and DC, this was in the days before Image and most of the other companies, so the big two were pretty much it.
The reps from the companies were also there to smooosh the store owners. We had food and posters, comics and give-aways galore. We also had Peter David before he was Peter David. By that I mean he was still in the Direct Sales Dept (that's what they called the comic book store accts) and had actually just sold his first story (at least teh first one that drew attention). At that time one of the things the big two had been experimenting with were cardboard stand-ups of certain characters. DC had provided a couple of Superman standees and of course Marvel not to be out done sent us some Wolverine ones. So here are teh Superman and Wolverine standees next to each other and if you know your comic heroes it was quite funny as Superman was the same height as Wolvie. Why is this funny you ask?
Well Wolverine was actual size and in the comics he's like 5' 2" tall and of course Supes should be around 6' 2". Peter David started laughing and then, by the way there of course was a DC rep there in attendance too, he grabbed the Superman and Wolverine standees and proceeded to dance them next to each other while chanting, ' Wimpy, wimpy, wimpy.' It was damn funny to see the look on the DC rep's face as everyone started laughing so hard tears started rolling down our faces. That was my introduction to Peter David. I wonder if he remembers that? Probably not but now it's immortalized on the internet.
Next time I'll talk about a woman who most insiders consider the heart of Marvel Comics in teh late 70's and 80's. You more than likely have never heard of her but when she passed away suddenly in the late 80's everyone felt Marvel changed for the worse. She also taught me how to pronounce one of the most difficult names in comics.
Next time.
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