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I had never heard of this before this thread. I've been doing some reading about it. Quite the interesting story. Get the book. It is even better than online stuff. Which one is best?
The deer hunter does not notice the mountains
"I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve" - Isoroku Yamamoto
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Soooooo you're psychotic? lol Maybe you're an outsider most real folks hate
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These Missouri folks sound kinda like eastern Oklahoma people. Different breed of folks down there in them trees and hills
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Soooooo you're psychotic? lol Maybe you're an outsider most real folks hate Oh darn
The deer hunter does not notice the mountains
"I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve" - Isoroku Yamamoto
There sure are a lot of America haters that want to live here...
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I had never heard of this before this thread. I've been doing some reading about it. Quite the interesting story. Get the book. It is even better than online stuff. Which one is best? I remember when it happened and followed it closely on TV. When I was a kid I lived not far from there in an area on the Missouri River called appropriately, "Little Dixie". The only book I've read on the subject is In Broad Daylight. As I said in an earlier post, it is an excellent book. Winner of the Edgar Award, IIRC. I can't vouch for its veracity as I didn't live through the events as a participant, but I highly recommend the book. You won't be sorry you read it. I don't even know where my copy is as I may have loaned it out. The movie of the same name is decent, but again, I highly recommend the book.
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I had never heard of this before this thread. I've been doing some reading about it. Quite the interesting story. Get the book. It is even better than online stuff. Which one is best? In Broad Daylight
Hard times create strong men. Strong men create good times. Good times create weak men. And, weak men create hard times.
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The deer hunter does not notice the mountains
"I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve" - Isoroku Yamamoto
There sure are a lot of America haters that want to live here...
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We in MO have ways most dont understand Agreed and same here in s.e. Leflore county Oklahoma ld, have tried to briefly explain it a time or two only to have a couple lard assed, cheese eating saps from mennascrotum tell me I was just trying to talk tough, ya, okay.
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We in MO have ways most dont understand Agreed and same here in s.e. Leflore county Oklahoma ld, have tried to briefly explain it a time or two only to have a couple lard assed, cheese eating saps from mennascrotum tell me I was just trying to talk tough, ya, okay. Yeah sometimes people don't take nice hints. Even though some miles actually divide some people there still a whole lot of us and Rural America that are cut from the same cloth
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True story ...that was there story and they stuck to it... One more comment: I was living in Missouri at that time. After the shooting, there was a certain amount of virtue-signaling outrage expressed in the St Louis news and also a fair bit on the national news.... “How could this happen? Taking the Law into their own hands? A killing?” The FBI responded and I remember an FBI agent on television telling folks the fbi was going to camp in Skidmore and not leave until the apprehended the perpetrator. Said they would surely get to the bottom of it....Sure.....They lasted only 6 months and then left. I remember that... Yea they stayed just long enough to figure out the guy got just what he had coming...and no one was going to squeal ...and they probably in good conscious couldn't arrest anyone....if they did it would have been a wast of time...they melted down the guns ... And with out tha executioners weapons and local jury they would walk...I'm sure the fbi knows the prime suspects...
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I'd guess the FBI knows who did it but have little corroborating evidence. I know a local part of the constabulary who investigated it. I worked with him later on for about 20 years at a local corrections facility. A man of great integrity, he probably, wink wink, knows who did it but doesn't say. He's a stand up guy who has your back no matter what at the prison. No one has to say it out loud but SNITCHES GET STITCHES. Not in policy and procedure manuals. It is not on paper and it doesn't happen, right? Right! And yes, I DO live in northwest Misery. And Gunner500 everytime I read your thoughts on the 'fire I admire you more. Take care and Be Well. Rusty
Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy. Its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery. Winston Churchill.
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I was hot headed when I was younger. Now I’m zen like 🤷🏻♂️
Still if someone were ever to take a potshot at my grandad on his tractor or load up his livestock ?
Time to give Carlos Hathcock the sincerest form of flattery.
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Sometimes things happen that cause the people to have to take the law into their own hands, when the law has failed them.
Over 50 years ago, in a nearby county, a man molested 2 little sisters. He was caught, and being a member of an influential family, turned loose. He did it again, only this time the family of the girls did not call the law. Instead, the father and grandfather of the girls went to the man's house, and put him in their car. They took him out in the country, beat the chit out of him, and told him that if the sun rose on him the next morning in that county, they would kill him. The man left, and a few months later, he decided to come back at Christmas and visit his family. The father and grandfather of the girls found out he was back, and went looking for him. The child molester left wearing his pajamas, and had to stop in nearby Clarksville TN and call home for the rest of his clothes to be brought to him. He ended up in Florida, and died there.
It was probably vigilante justice to some degree, but it worked.
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Sometimes things happen that cause the people to have to take the law into their own hands, when the law has failed them.
Over 50 years ago, in a nearby county, a man molested 2 little sisters. He was caught, and being a member of an influential family, turned loose. He did it again, only this time the family of the girls did not call the law. Instead, the father and grandfather of the girls went to the man's house, and put him in their car. They took him out in the country, beat the chit out of him, and told him that if the sun rose on him the next morning in that county, they would kill him. The man left, and a few months later, he decided to come back at Christmas and visit his family. The father and grandfather of the girls found out he was back, and went looking for him. The child molester left wearing his pajamas, and had to stop in nearby Clarksville TN and call home for the rest of his clothes to be brought to him. He ended up in Florida, and died there.
It was probably vigilante justice to some degree, but it worked. Re: Vigilante justice..... I grew up in Arizona ......decades ago....before it got californicated. I was twenty years old before I figured out that most folks considered that vigilantes and vigilante justice was “wrong.” I just thought that that is what a community had to do when the law could not or would not provide justice and/or safety. Even the mines I worked at in Arizona had their own form of vigilante action. Same with the unions. Kept order.... not always right, but there was order and there was a form of accountability. Communities, be they unions, miners, farmers, small town folks etc....seem to “require justice and require order.” If the authorities cannot or will not provide, it seems the members of that community or tribe or social group will figure out how to get it. May still be that way in small towns, remote places and in “the hills.”
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I read the book about this back when I was a kid. I thought it was a good read.
A lot of city folks don't realize how far off the beaten path some places are and just how far away law enforcement can be.
Some of those places have people that would just as soon not have any law enforcement around.
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Similar situation back when I lived in Indiana. Pedophile in this instance wasn't quite as lucky. The picture in the local paper was of the emt's wheeling him out of his house. Caption said he had been emasculated.
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Similar situation back when I lived in Indiana. Pedophile in this instance wasn't quite as lucky. The picture in the local paper was of the emt's wheeling him out of his house. Caption said he had been emasculated. I hope they didn't wait 20 years to do it.
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Similar situation back when I lived in Indiana. Pedophile in this instance wasn't quite as lucky. The picture in the local paper was of the emt's wheeling him out of his house. Caption said he had been emasculated. We too had a pedophile in town once,, now we dont,, night marshal told some hill billies with bicycle chains an hickory clubs what went down an next thiing ya know the problem solved itself i guess,, or so we hear
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I’ve met some great folks from each, but Ohio and Missouri seem to be twin [bleep] of America.
Oh well, at least they are taking some pressure off Appalachia.
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