Yo, gang, whassup? Last week was a just a little busy, time once again for the Yuma County Fair. I worked a couple of days (Sunday, Monday and Tuesday to be exact) but the rest of the time was spent mostly with the kids (including mine) of many different FFA and 4H groups. Working with the kids, helping them with their animals, getting everybody prepped, pre-tested and "tuned up" for judging in front of the "professional" livestock judges. Assisting with the kids' Livestock Auction, brokering deals on some of those animals (Red Ribbon and below) that weren't eligible for auction; working "The Window" at the 4H food booth Friday night and the FFA food booth Sunday night while other people handled loading the critters (the animals, not the children) on the trucks to the packing houses. Oh yeah, I also took a couple shifts working at my employer's sales booth in the Commercial Display building. While I'm at it, I managed to get myself shanghai'd onto the "Night Security Team"; keeping the idiots and gang-bangers separated from the livestock, until the crowds died down and the Sheriff's deputies could return from the fights on the midway. That reminds me of my personal highpoint of the week - watching one of the gang-bangers "meeting" an 1100 lb Brangus-cross steer ("neutered bull" for you city-folk). Short version of a long story : About midnight Tuesday night, a bunch of the local 'bangers were going at it (in back of/under the "Hard Rock" ride) with knives, sticks etc when the cops descended upon them. About 6 broke out and snuck into the Junior Livestock area "from the back way" and decided to hide amongst the kids' Market Beef Animals. My partner and I were ending a two-round "Stupid City Kid - vs- mad 270 lb Duroc hog" scuffle; when I noticed the cattle seemed to be waking up and dancing around a lot back there. Upon investigation, I pulled three kids out from between cattle in the south end of the pole barn. Was walking one out (northward) while he was trash-talking about being "tougher than a bunch of stupid cows"; and we watched one of his buddies fly backwards out from between two steers. The flying kid came up coughing and clutching his chest - including the GREEN hoof print over his third rib on the right side (seems the steer stepped in something nasty he'd left on the ground before kicking the kid). Sarcastically told the other kid he could prove how tough he was if he wanted to, I wouldn't even try to stop him; but he just gathered up his wounded home-boy and split with his buddies for the north exit gate, only to meet the backup cops. The kid that was taught to fly by 5/8 ton of pi$$ed-off hamburger was taken to the hospital, treated for bruised ribs; and he and three of his buddies were taken into custody at the ER. Maybe we don't have bling-bling rims, neon and fart-cans on our trucks, but sometimes the rednecks still win Anywhat, it was all a lot of fun; nice to watch kids put their efforts into something productive and actually learn something in the process. Howevewr, I'm kinda tired! Averaged about 4 hours of sleep per night since Tuesday, and that includes 10 hours last night. So I'm just gonna sit here and try to catch up on Stangnet 'til I fall asleep. If I decide to reply and fall asleep with my nose pressing the jjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjj jjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjj key, I hope you guys can understand Later!
And you insinuate that I'm doing drugs.... Flying lessons from a steer! Bling-bling rims.......$1000. Neon lights..............$500. Fart-can exhaust......$250. Being the redneck who witnessed the kid being taught to fly by 5/8 ton of pi$$ed-off hamburger..............PRICELESS
Dang Bro,, where do you live??? I would think that when rural kids ( the bulls and other livestock notations lead me to the conclusion its rural) start wearing bling bling and playing gangbanger, they are usually just wanna-bes influenced by MTV and video games. Nonetheless,,sounds like fun !!
Yuma, Arizona. Deep in the heart of the Sonora Desert Nope, Yuma is a community of 228K, right in the corner where the Arizona, California, and Mexico borders meet. White boys are the minority; so we either turn redneck, turn weddo (Hispanic for a white boy wannabe chollo), or just try to hide down low. The SoCal influence is there....so the local LEO's have had to deal with feuds between the Southeastern Chapters (?) of the Crips and the Bloods for some time. Yup, the chollos prefer baggies, Hondas and Escalades with 20's and ground-effects packages; and their second-favorite (behind fighting each other) pastime is cracking on the rednecks. We just get to enjoy more opportunities to crack back - even if it's a bovine animal doing the (rib) cracking. If that doesn't work; sometimes (rarely, actually, which is good) it becomes necessary to demonstrate how a 12 gauge with 00 buck loads can put a greater amount of lead downrange than a Glock over an equal amount of time. Fortunately, all true Southern Arizona rednecks enjoy dove hunting - after a couple of dove seasons, the average hunter can "pump out" a Winchester 1200 or Remington 870 pretty doggone quickly - even with the plug gone. And that usually quiets them down for a year or so.
Oughta mix a couple of deer slugs in there with the 00 buck rounds just to keep it interesting! We're seein more and more GB'ers around here too....mostly MS13 and the such tho'........good news is they all seem to be allergic to lead.
be very wary of the MS13 guys, we're geting a lot of intel about those guys. just one note about the 870, we're one of the few agencies in this state that have them issued to our officers. mine sits on the passenger's side in the electro-lock wtih the extended magazine (8 rounds) and the 6 round side saddle in my CV PI
So far we've been fairly lucky, they've been too busy cutting each other to cause much problems with the locals.........and Suffolk County is starting to crack down on illegals they catch commiting other crimes as well. Personally I think all illegal aliens should be sent back via those leaking and make-shift boats the Hiatians are using to come here!
Yup; seen the same in the company car my buddy "Lefty" lives with. Of course, knowing him; if he ever gets a "Northern" post, he'll be campaigning Game and Fish to open a Rifled/Sabot Slug season for deer and elk Last I heard (which was just one week ago today), he was looking at the Dateland post Says he's in it for the money; but, if close inspection of Vicky's trunk reveals a couple boxes of #6 quail loads....... Hey jst6, since we're jumping further Off-Topic; what's your view of the news that the "Minuteman" gathering has caused the Federales to encourage the border-jumpers to head over towards our neighborhood? And furthermore: I'm starting to take a more mercenary attitude as I age. To whit: When the mini-riots break out; the LEO's should just cordon off the fight to protect the bystanders, and just arrest the survivors. Let Darwinism relieve the burden on the penal system. Okay, maybe I should get off this subject; my neck is starting to feel a rather fluorescent shade of red
AMEN! Yours ain't the only one! I'm proud of mine! (except thru the BLUE Fuzz, my REDneck looks Purple!
hey Lefty and I were in the same academy class. Lefty could only be one former marine i know of out in Yuma! small world. tell him sterl says hi as for the minute men... i think they are doing a great job. here in tucson we jsut had some liberal sob complain to the news that a minute man held a guy prisoner physically. the video tape showed an illegal on the OTHER side of a barbed wire fence and being fed wheaties, milk and given money and a T-shirt while waiting for BP to show up. if only we could rid the world of socialist propagandists.
Actually, he only tolerates the "Lefty" moniker from those of us who've known him for a long while. If you knew him as "Mike" at the Academy, watched girls constantly flock around him, and his first post was Ajo; that's your guy!
