[Spridgets] Car Vandalism - no LBC

Brad Fornal tequila.brad at gmail.com
Mon Mar 16 12:17:36 MST 2009


I picked that CD up not so long ago, for a buck at a yard sale.
"cuz you can get anything you want, at Alice's Restaurant..."

On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 1:08 PM, Timothy H. Collins <thcollin at mtu.edu>wrote:

> My property abuts a high school property. Yesterday when I was on my deck I
> noticed 3 kids in the act of vandalizing a car parked at the school. I
> called the cops and took a couple of digital pics from my deck. The cops got
> them but the car had almost all its glass broken and some metal damage. I
> think the car is a donated car to the auto shop program so in one respect
> it's not too bad. Regardless, they shouldn't have done what they did. One
> was a 6th grader.
>
> Got to thinking today about Arlo Guthre and "Alice's Restaurant" and the
> lyric "They was taking plaster tire tracks, foot prints, dog smelling
> prints, and they took twenty seven eight-by-ten colour glossy photographs
> with circles and arrows and a paragraph on the back of each one explaining
> what each one was to be used as evidence against us."  If that song was to
> be written today saying; "They took 27, 9 Megapixle color digital images
> with Photoshopped circles and arrows and a digitally enhanced paragraph
> about each jpeg image" wouldn't be quite the same or have the same impact as
> the original lyrics. And then some of you young guys have never heard of
> "Alice's Restaurant." LOL btw, our police carry USB memory devices as part
> of their gear so they can collect pics, etc. as needed.
>
> Tim Collins
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