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Weirdness you encounter in the boondocks

by HeySal
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So my niece and I were out hunting turquoise in the wide open spaces in Nevada -- where many "towns" are only 20 - 40 people and every hundred or 150 miles there's a metropolis of around 25,000.

It was getting close to dark and we were off to where we'd decided we were going to camp for the night.

This guy in a huge truck came hauling butt around us.......and he had a doll - a baby doll, hung by the neck dangling from his bumper. That freaked my niece out very nicely for the night. We watched to make sure he wasn't turning on the road we were going to take. Neither one of us was thrilled about the idea of meeting that dude face to face during the night. LMAO.

Anyhow - that trip was strange all around as far as the people went. But the scenery and fresh air and mountains were pretty awesome.
  • Profile picture of the author Bill Farnham
    Don't forget to pack your banjo on those trips...
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  • Profile picture of the author Roaddog
    So, some pretty good banjo music up there?


    Edit: Bill lol you beat me by a minute I need to type faster..

    Like the Hills Have Eyes...can almost hear the bone chimes...

    Good writing Sal :p
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  • Profile picture of the author HeySal
    Oh I carry something much better than a banjo. LOL.

    Trust me on that one.
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    • Profile picture of the author Patrician
      My sentiments exactly.

      Originally Posted by HeySal View Post

      Oh I carry something much better than a banjo. LOL.

      Trust me on that one.
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    Yeah, Sal, there's some, um, really interesting types out there in the great nowhere.

    At least he didn't have the baby doll stuck to a plank with a large spike...baby on board...get it?



    Be careful when you hear the sound of the chainsaw.
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    • Profile picture of the author jonb
      I used to live in the town in Colorado upon which the series South Park was based. One day, some guy snapped and drove a bulldozer into the post office.

      When the Denver papers interviewed the sheriff, he delivered one of my favorite lines ever:

      "South Park's not a cartoon. It's a documentary."
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    • Profile picture of the author HeySal
      Originally Posted by jonb View Post

      I used to live in the town in Colorado upon which the series South Park was based. One day, some guy snapped and drove a bulldozer into the post office.

      When the Denver papers interviewed the sheriff, he delivered one of my favorite lines ever:

      "South Park's not a cartoon. It's a documentary."
      LOL - I've been to South Park. Used to go by it on the way to Ruby Hill and Mt Antero where I used to like to climb. Well, maybe I'm scary, too - I kinda liked the people out that way.

      Actually there was a guy in Wyoming when I lived there (near Cody) that drove his truck through the front of a Mormon Church. He went to get his daughter out - she was seeing a guy who started taking her to the church. When it came out in the paper they actually said that he was ticked off because he couldn't smoke in church. LMAO.

      Originally Posted by mbenton View Post

      Yeah, Sal, there's some, um, really interesting types out there in the great nowhere.

      At least he didn't have the baby doll stuck to a plank with a large spike...baby on board...get it?



      Be careful when you hear the sound of the chainsaw.
      Uh, yeah. I get it.

      Um.........Please let me know when you are going to be out tooling around in the West - and where. I think I might want to be elsewhere at the time.
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      • Profile picture of the author Cesaro31nick
        Your niece definitely never forgot that night in her life. Any way you people enjoy the camp.
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        • Profile picture of the author ThomM
          Sorry Sal, I can't figure out what's weird about that
          The guy was just teaching his kids to put their toys away:rolleyes:
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          • Profile picture of the author HeySal
            Originally Posted by ThomM View Post

            Sorry Sal, I can't figure out what's weird about that
            The guy was just teaching his kids to put their toys away:rolleyes:
            You know me well enough to know I don't get the willies easily, Thom.
            This did. Maybe it's a "had to be there" thing. The truck, the guy driving it, the doll with a noose around its neck......... Turst me, it was weird. It didn't get me as bad as it did my niece, but it did get me.
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            • Profile picture of the author ThomM
              Originally Posted by HeySal View Post

              You know me well enough to know I don't get the willies easily, Thom.
              This did. Maybe it's a "had to be there" thing. The truck, the guy driving it, the doll with a noose around its neck......... Turst me, it was weird. It didn't get me as bad as it did my niece, but it did get me.
              True Sal. But with my low expectations of the human race, I expect things like that. Not seeing something like that would seem weird
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              • Profile picture of the author HeySal
                Originally Posted by ThomM View Post

                True Sal. But with my low expectations of the human race, I expect things like that. Not seeing something like that would seem weird
                LOL - Thom, if you could have SEEN where we were and then read that comment again. Hahahahahahahahaha. Holy cow. It was straight out of a movie. Like I said - it gave me the willies..........but it scared my niece crapless.

                My niece is very sheltered. She still thinks I wear a cape and a sexy tight body suit in my "not around" hours because I dropped a dude hard that tried to steal my purse out here a few weeks ago. I had to go through major contortions to find a place to camp for the night so she wouldn't be scared after that guy drove by.
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  • Profile picture of the author Charlotte Jay
    It sounds like a scene from Jeepers Creepers. I though there were some weird ones around my neck of the woods, but that takes the cake.
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    yeah the world is full of weird people...
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    that really is weird.
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  • Profile picture of the author Sunfyre7896
    I'm not sure which would be worse, the inbreds from The Hills Have Eyes or Wrong Turn. One is desert and one is woods. They're going to ruin every single place on earth for some people. No oceans because of Jaws and Deep Blue Sea, the woods and desert from these, the mountains in Hills Have Eyes 2, and your neighborhood and home in all the slasher movies. Anyway, off topic there, I find that people can be weird and strange everywhere, but I find that the less contact people have with a lot of others like in the cities, they can be very strange at times. That's why if I camp, it's with a decent sized group and we never go trudging off alone in the middle of nowhere.
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    • Profile picture of the author QuickSurf
      Have a friend that has a fake bloody part arm and hand that hangs out of his grill on his F450 once in awhile.... def gets peoples attention hahaha . Looks like somebody stuck in the engine bay lol.
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    • Profile picture of the author HeySal
      Originally Posted by Sunfyre7896 View Post

      I'm not sure which would be worse, the inbreds from The Hills Have Eyes or Wrong Turn. One is desert and one is woods. They're going to ruin every single place on earth for some people. No oceans because of Jaws and Deep Blue Sea, the woods and desert from these, the mountains in Hills Have Eyes 2, and your neighborhood and home in all the slasher movies. Anyway, off topic there, I find that people can be weird and strange everywhere, but I find that the less contact people have with a lot of others like in the cities, they can be very strange at times. That's why if I camp, it's with a decent sized group and we never go trudging off alone in the middle of nowhere.
      Might as well stay in the city, eh? I don't go out to be part of the crowd. I go out to GET AWAY from it. Just me and my dog most of the time. I can't imagine never getting away because some people are nut jobs. That's really sad.
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