🚀 go-pugleaf

So now this suggestion is going to cost the "hippie" neighbor some
money to do.  Then after a while,  it'll just need to happen again.
Wait till the old fuck drinks himself into a stupor and then take a
chain saw to the flagpole.  

On Wed, 12 Jul 2006 07:37:57 GMT, "Gary Walker" <twf@swbell.net>
wrote:

>
>Well, you could....
>
>Buy him a new flag, and ask your local cop to deliver it
>to his home. That might lend some importance, and you
>don't have to get personally involved. This would prob-
>ably apply to the local DFD also. In fact, that might even
>be better that the PD. The cops all think they're way too
>important to do something like that. The DFD, when not
>out fighting a fire somewhere, are sometimes out just
>driving around anyway. Offer to buy them some pizzas
>for lunch. They'd probably be on that deal like a hobo
>on a hotdog.  <g>
>
>You could also have the new flag delivered via carrier.
>
>You could also enlist a small group of bikers from your
>local VFW to make the delivery. However, as a biker,
>I kinda' caution this choice if the bikes are real loud
>Harleys.
>
>You could call you news station and try to convince them
>to make a human interest story out of the whole deal. It
>could be kinda' like a Publisher's Clearing House raid.
>Where all the people show up at the front door with a
>big cardboard check. Except the new flag would substi-
>tute for the check. He'll have cameras/microphones in
>his face immediately, and won't have a chance to take a
>swing at anybody.
>
>Need more ideas?
>
>
>Gary
>
>
>
>
>"Sanders Kaufman" <bucky@kaufman.net> wrote in message
>news:CN0tg.129773$dW3.52906@newssvr21.news.prodigy.com...
>> "Gary Walker" <twf@swbell.net> wrote in message
>> news:_r0tg.118904$H71.83739@newssvr13.news.prodigy.com...
>> >
>> > Lippitt over off of Easton?
>>
>> Same street - but further down, north of jupiter and garland.
>>
>>
>> > Have you just suggested to the neighbor to replace the
>> > flag due to its excessive wear?
>>
>> No - he's kind of a grumbly old fuck who drinks waaaaay too much.
>> He probably wouldn't want my hippie ass telling him how to fly his flag -
>> especially if he's too embarassed to admit he can't afford a new one.
>> Judging by the upkeep on the rest of the house - that's likely the case.
>>
>> I tried to talk to him once and there was this look in his eye... I've
>seen
>> it before...
>> I think he knows about what I write - because that side of my house seems
>to
>> get vandalized a lot.
>>
>> I suspect it has some semi-mental value - the kind only another nam vet or
>> somesuch could appreciate.
>> That's why I was hoping there was some vets group that would approach him.
>> I don't want to piss him off - or even have a conversation with him.
>> I'd just like to see a proud, crisp, snappy flag up there instead of the
>one
>> he's got.
>> Who knows - it may even give him a little desperately needed boost of
>> self-respect.
>>
>> Oh... and I also wanted to rag online about folks who fly ratty-assed
>flags.
>> It's a slow news day and to watch CATV news, you wouldn't even know there
>IS
>> a war.
>>
>>
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