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My favorite moment Let's clear a space for viewer mail. My sister's favorite segment.
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Okay, this is for your sister. Let's give some respect for the mini-sode. It's Mother's Day.
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No matter how you got here. Okay. Hello! And welcome to the mini-sode. Of this My Favorite Murder podcast group.
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That's right. This is the broadcast group, My Favorite Murder, Inc. These are your hometown stories.
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They're your first responder emails. They're your isn't my grandpa crazy emails that you are now sending to us that we read back to you with love in our hearts.
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Here's the first subject line. It is never trust a nice neighbor. Love it. I agree.
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Right. Hi, Georgia and Karen. I hope you all are ready for a story because this is the one I always break out during icebreakers.
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We like you. Hi, we like you. Constant icebreaker life. Hi, you're one of us. Hi.
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I live in the South, specifically in a town where everybody knows each other. A simple trip to the grocery store usually lasts a few hours because you run into everyone you know.
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Oh, I love it. The best. You're lucky. Southern people. Back when I was in high school, I lived with my grandma.
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She was injured in a car accident that we were both in a few years ago and my father passed away.
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And after my father passed away, I decided to move in with her to help out. We had a neighbor whom my siblings and I adored because he had gorgeous horses.
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Oh, that's all it takes. It really is. Really. Every day after school, my sister and I would always go to feed his horse's apples.
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He would always ask about our grandma and even help her out. On various occasions, he would come over and help her install things or with tasks that I could not help her out with while I was at school.
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One night in October, my grandmother had to go down the road for work, so I was home alone.
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I went into the kitchen to get a snack, and I saw a massive fire in his yard. There was a glass sliding door in our kitchen, so I could see his house 24-7.
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I didn't really think anything about it, because he always had been so kind to our family,
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and I just assumed he was having a bonfire or burning some cardboard he needed to get rid of.
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The next day while I'm eating dinner, I see five police cars swerve into his yard with their sirens blazing.
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Oh my god. What if their sirens were on fire? They light him up and drive down the street.
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On fire. They were blazing. On fire with sound. Blaring is the word you're looking for.
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And they then proceed to burst into his house and bring him out in handcuffs. My grandmother and I were beyond confused.
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And when we asked for information, the police refused to say anything. The curse.
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Turns out the night I thought he was having a bonfire, he had killed his wife and was burning her body and the evidence.
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Oh, my God. So our friendly neighbor for so many years turned out to be a murderer and my grandmother and I were in shock for months.
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Holy shit. Thanks for listening, y'all. And never trust your neighbors, Jacob. Oh, my God.
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Twist a roo. Well, now mine kind of sucks. Why? Well, I guess it's from another perspective.
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It's called Why I Lit That Fire. It's called Landlord Murderer. Mmm. Hi, Georgia, Karen, Stephen and furry BBs, like BB babies.
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Got it. You get it. Huge fan. Devout listener. I have a crush on Stephen. Let's get into it.
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For my first two years of college, I went to a small liberal arts school in a very tiny town.
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Sounds idyllic. Sounds drugs. Bucolic. Bubonic. I lived in a shitty house with three of my best girlfriends.
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we had a very odd middle-aged landlord who did weird things like paint the carpet blue
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and then in parentheses, question mark, question mark. Paint the carpet blue. Shit.
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Question mark, question mark. Those are correct. Those are correct. Yes. This being my first time living on my own,
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I didn't know it was inappropriate for landlords to drop by and announce and give us bottles of wine and his shitty homemade candles.
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He kind of gave us the creeps and would often invite us to come over to his place
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because he had a hot tub. Ooh. Although we thought he was weird but harmless, we always wanted at least two of us to be home when he came by.
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Very good. One day he dropped in to fix the kitchen sink and when my roommate and I were home.
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He had scratches up his arm and on his face and even though we didn ask he explained that he got them from a wood chipper while he was cutting down branches in his yards we obviously didn believe him
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because a wood chipper would seriously fuck you up but we shrugged it off i didn't know that a few
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days later we found out he had been arrested apparently when his girlfriend had tried to
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break up with him he kidnapped her tied her up in bubble wrap and threatened to kill her then kill
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himself somehow she fought him off and got away and the following day was when he had come over
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to fix our sink oh my god i know i'm pretty sure the scratches were from her fighting him off
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with the knife he was trying to use to kill her whoa then says you go girl yes after his trial
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he was sentenced to prison and unfortunately we still had to pay rent so this is when we get it
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a free right i'm sorry this is it then but we mailed our checks to his daughter so he felt
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better that he wasn't the one getting the money i forget the number of years he received but i'm
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pretty sure he's still behind bars stay sexy and only rent from female landlords lacy
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gee whiz man yeah the drop by thing is not in any way acceptable your landlord should never come
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over unless you haven't paid rent in three months. Yeah, that's exactly right. I have to stop saying
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that. I really mean it, though. Well, it's the our name. Our name is exactly right, because you said
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it all the time. So I don't know. It's not going to change. I mean, I can't I just don't want people
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to think I'm doing it like quote unquote on purpose. Like pandering? Because I just like it
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when things are exactly right. That's exactly right. I like accurate expressions. Georgia,
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The subject line of this email is my drug addicted needle reusing oral surgeon. Okay.
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So I would say to anybody who is a bit creeped out by bad medical things, you're going to
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want to jump ahead the 30 button a couple of times. I can't do that. For real? Are you no likey?
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I can't. No, I'm, you know, I love it. Okay. Put your finger up if you, if you feel faint.
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No, I'm ready. I'm ready. Let's go. Hello, Georgia, Karen, Stephen and pets. My hometown story is from a suburb of South Denver.
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It is my very own oral surgeon who removed not only my wisdom teeth, but my mother's and sister's as well.
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He was recommended to us by a good family friend who just so happened to also be our dentist.
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I would assume that if he'd known what this oral surgeon was doing, he wouldn't have recommended his family friends to see him.
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And I'm unsure how he got caught. But in 2012, 10 years after we had been to see him, it was found out that from 1999 to 2011,
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this motherfucker was not only committing prescription fraud and using the drugs intended
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for his patients and treating patients while actually on painkillers but he was also reusing
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needles from patient to patient oh my god no why don't do that right that's just you don't need to
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do that this is this is absolutely um in the doctor death category of bum out things that
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could happen okay doctor wise okay and if you haven't our doctor death i haven't i just don't
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want to oh right because if you if you can't handle these kind of squeamish things dr death is like
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times 25 okay but if you can it's one of the best podcasts out there i'm into this right now okay
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okay so letters were sent to any previous or current patients of his informing them of the
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situation myself my mom and my two sisters one of which who had just had a baby so we had the added
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scare of my nephew's health, along with 8,000 other patients of his, 8,000, had to get tested
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for HIV and hepatitis. Six of his patients had tested positive for HIV or hepatitis.
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But of course, it is impossible to say whether or not those patients contracted it from his
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stupidity. Myself and my family all tested negative. Praise Stephen's mustache. Oh, my God.
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That was in parentheses. Oh, my God. Stephen. Look at Stephen's embarrassed sunburned face.
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I gasped genuinely a few seconds ago. You're bright red, but it's also because you went to the Ren Fair and gave a sunburn, not because you're embarrassed.
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This story is already so horrifying. It's horrifying, and then you're pulled into it.
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Yeah. Can't wait. So this family all tested negative and were able to put the whole thing behind us.
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The state never filed charges against this psychopath, but he agreed to surrender his dental license and license as an oral surgeon.
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They cannot file charges against him. I don't know. Karen, I'm mad at you. I will call the Denver PD.
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I wish you would. However, this guy isn't done yet. Uh-oh. In 2013, he was pulled over and arrested in Lake Tahoe for driving under the influence of cocaine.
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Dude. That's specific. That's very specific. Like, how bad are you on cocaine if you get pulled over for it?
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You're talking so much you start swerving. he admitted to being a drug addict after his issue in Colorado
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my sister who is also obsessed with her podcast and I searched to find any updated information after his arrest
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in Lake Tahoe but we haven't found anything I guess that's a good thing maybe he's sharing dirty needles in the privacy of his own home
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instead of with patients in a doctor's office anyway thanks for your amazing podcast
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and the wonderful Murderino community listening to you guys always brightens my day
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SSDGM and always beware of creepy dentists, Anne-Marie. Thanks, Anne-Marie. Us too.
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What a bummer. Like, you go to these doctors that you trust. Like, why go to the trouble of getting a fucking dental degree
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if you're just going to be a piece of shit about it? Well, it's those drugs. I'm sure he started with all the best intentions,
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Goodbye. Goodbye. This is called Almost Arrested in the Paris Airport. which we almost Vince almost did in the Amsterdam airport okay hey MFM gang long time listener
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first time writer thankfully remembered this story after Georgia mentioned her problem that
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was found with by TSA oh yeah which I forgot I fucking even mentioned and so thanks for reminding
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me it says no shame girl I'm a nurse and I have Crohn's disease so I get it okay thank you thank
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you thank you that's beautiful support anyways I was headed to Spain on a missions trip with a
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friend from college. We had a couple of carry-on bags that her boss had asked her to bring with us.
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We were supposed to entertain over a hundred children for the next week, so the bags
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contained several items that would help us remain sane and not want to lock them in a room for
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a while. One of us, one of the bags looked like a men's toiletry bag and contained projector cords.
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We were going through the Paris security check before heading over to customs and
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on to Spain. While our carry-ons were being checked, we stopped and the lady took
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said bag and looked at me and asked to go through it. I obviously said, yes, go for it.
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There's nothing in there but cords. She emptied the contents and then walked it over to the machine
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that detects if it has a bomb remnants in it. My friends and I were like, what the heck?
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She then proceeded to feel around the edges of the bag and finds a small hole in the lining.
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Uh-oh. She then pulls out a bullet. And not just one, but three fucking bullets.
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What? My jaw hit the ground. I literally could feel my heart racing in my ears and just thought this is the end in the fucking Paris airport of all places.
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The security officer looks at me and my friend and we both are speechless. They pull us aside after waving the bullets in the air so everyone in the area could see
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that two young American girls had brought three bullets casually with them to Paris
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and started asking all the questions. We were trying to explain the officers that yes, the bags were ours, but no, we did not pack them.
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They were bought at a secondhand store and obviously we did not mean to bring the bullets.
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After what seemed like an hour of questioning, they finally took all of our passports and wrote our information down and said, next time, jail.
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Cool. Cool. We got to Spain and told her boss the story. And he started cracking up laughing so hard that Kelsey and I were just standing there in shock like, no, sir, this is the wrong response.
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And he proceeds to tell us that he used those bags for hunting. Needless to say, that was the last trip I took with her.
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Love you guys. And I'm so grateful for your show. I'm a traveling nurse and love getting to new hospitals and seeking out other murderinos.
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Stay sexy and check all of your bags, even the lining. Audrey. Oh, my God. What a dick.
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What? That's so shocking. Like, you're just standing there like, now explain these bullets.
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Yeah. And the whole thing of like, did you pack these bags? And it's such a like, you're supposed to pack your own bag.
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Yeah, exactly. I did kind of, but not really. Okay, I'm not going to read you the subject line of this one.
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Okay. Hello. About three years ago on a Saturday, my friend and I agreed to pick up a King mattress and deliver it to her sister's apartment in Linwood, California.
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My friend's cousin agreed to let us borrow his monster truck that neither of us really knew how to drive, but did anyway.
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We felt stupid, but we were also too cheap to rent a pickup truck. I get it, dude. I get it.
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Have you ever been like, was that a thing in Irvine at all? Monster trucks? Not monster trucks, but there were definitely like, yeah, big trucks.
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Yeah. Yeah. In Petaluma, there was a couple dudes. Yeah. And one of them was my next-door neighbor's friend, Tony Jernberger, who had a truck that had those, like, crazy wheels so that you couldn't get into the truck by yourself.
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Yeah. You guys had, like, a lot of area to do off-roading. Yeah. Like, we didn't have that, so no one cared.
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Right. But that sounds terrifying. It's totally insane. Yeah. And it's a very strange way to go around it like a little town when you're in this thing.
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Yeah. It's like, you can also see, you could see him coming, like you always knew he was there.
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It's just hilarious. So anyway, and they're just humongous. So the idea that it's like, we don't have to rent a truck, we'll just use this monster truck.
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That's not the same thing. It's not. Okay. By the time we completed the job it was midnight and we were both dead tired about to drop off this monster truck to her cousin and then deal with the long drive home We had originally reversed into her sister driveway so the truck was facing the street
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It was so tall we could look down into the parked cars in front of us. We were starting the truck up when suddenly a white sedan zooms by.
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In a split second, we saw the driver's face and it was covered in blood dripping down from his forehead.
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My friend asked, is this a one-way street? And I said, nope. the driver was driving on the wrong side of the road as we both leaned forward to watch him go he
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kept swerving and just barely missing the cars parked on either side of this small street
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my friend asked is he drunk and i said yep and she said should we follow him and i said yep and
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she pulled out of the driveway well and followed while i dialed 911 oh my god i'm so here for this
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so they're chasing they're chasing a drunk driver in a monster truck oh my god the next several
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minutes were made up of my friend trying to tail this guy while keeping a safe distance from him
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at the same time as i give a play-by-play of what was happening to the dispatcher on the phone
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we were trying to calmly tell her which streets we were passing as we went but kept interrupting
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ourselves with screams of shock at how this guy was driving at one point we reached an intersection
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with several other cars as he began bearing right at the light as if to make a right turn
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then suddenly made a sharp left turn despite having a red light. He only just missed oncoming traffic.
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We weren't complete idiots, so we stayed at the red light, but he pretty much stopped driving shortly after he made the left turn.
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He ended up in front of a taco place after just having missed a bunch of teenagers skateboarding on a sidewalk.
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As we pulled up a safe distance behind him, the dispatcher asks, Are you guys in a large white truck?
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I said yes and my friend suddenly panicked Because we just behaved like semi-vigilantes
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In a truck that didn't belong to us So as six cop cars descended Upon this drunk driver she and I took off
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In the opposite direction I wanted to stay and watch what happened but she didn't
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Want to have to explain our poor choices To her cousin Stay sexy and don't be a vigilante unless you've
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Vired a monster truck, Roxanna Amazing Heroes And they need to get themselves a monster truck
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Yeah, I think they earned it. Yeah. Sell the mattress, buy a monster truck. I was thinking they were going to ram into the car.
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Yeah. And then roll over it. And then it's like, it's big boy. Sunday, Sunday, Sunday.
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Amazing. This is called mascot assault. Mascot assault is how you say it. Don't fuck with baby Shamu.
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Dear MFM crew and fur babies. I was just listening to Minisode 120. And one of the stories reminded me of an incident that occurred just after college.
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I spent most of my childhood and college years in Central Florida, and it seems to be a rite of passage for many Floridians ended up with a job at one of the many theme parks in the Orlando area after graduating.
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I was working as a mascot in the park, although not likely the one you're thinking at the time.
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And this story happened to one of my co-workers. One day as I was coming on shift, I arrived to find quite the commotion in the break prep room of our office.
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one of the girls had obviously been crying and the side of her face and neck were angry red
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with several obvious scratches about 15 minutes prior she had been out in the park greeting a
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line of children and taking photos when a man who was there with his wife and several small children
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decided it would be hilarious to take a running start and punch the character full in the head
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what man alcohol is a crazy i mean for real dad dude just turn it down a notch how is wednesday
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we're just trying to be on vacation that's right beers cost 14 here like why have you had three of
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them already the girl in the costume fell he punched a girl in the face who was in a fucking
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Disney costume or not Disney in front of a bunch of children and what is wrong with you the girl
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in the costume fell and chaos reigned for a few moments while everyone tried to sort out what had
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just occurred she was quickly ushered backstage to assess the damage and security ran the guy down
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He and his family were ejected and potentially banned those poor children from the park.
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And our employee was treated for her injuries, which were thankfully minor. Here's the kicker.
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The employee was only 17 at the time. So not only was he probably banned from ever returning to the park and any of its sisters,
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he was also charged with assaulting a minor. Stay sexy and don't attack costume characters, Mandy.
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Yeah. P.S. I also have several stories of little old grannies grabbing my butt or hitting on me,
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others while wearing the costumes because why not jesus thanks mandy people are so weird the worst
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people did you ever see the oh there's a video of like i think it's um what's the dog pluto pluto
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a character of pluto at disneyland and this little kid is fucking with this character like being a
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little brat and the pluto finally gets sick of it and turns to like and pretends to scare it like
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be a monster and yells at the child and starts chasing the child and the kid is having a fucking breakdown.
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Look it up. You know what I'm talking about, Stephen? You've seen it, I'm sure. Yeah, you can find it. I love it.
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Fuck that job. Fuck that shit. And inside it's 200 degrees. Oh, it smells. And stinks.
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There's no room for snacks. So evil. Please write in, my favorite murder at Gmail.
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We love all your emails and all your stories and all your family secrets. So please let us know and stay sexy.
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