IN-Famous people

[superlightweigh]

I remember seeing OJ Simpson on the sidelines and the tunnel at Bill's games when he still worked for NBC before, well, you know.... I was close enough to exchange a few words with him and make eye contact a couple times.

Another time I was doing some consulting work for NY State Corrections out at Attica. We had to stop and wait for like a half hour one time while the Lt. went to get a set of keys, and pretty much all there was to do was watch some guy mopping out some empty cells.

Turns out the mop guy was Mark David Chapman.

So who else has encountered really creepy people, even casually like that?

[emu!]

Does it have to be a murder?

If not, I have a nephew who can fart on cue. All you have to do is ask him, and he will...err...squeeze one out. Intestinal fortitude.

[Caboose]

Me and two friends (brothers) walking home from school, I think I was in 3rd grade and they were in 2nd and 1st. VW bug pulled up and asked us something - can't recall what, but nothing notably creepy or anything. Turns out it was Ted Bundy. The two brothers' mom was walking down the sidewalk to meet us, saw him pull over by us and got his license plate number. Found out later from a police officer friend of their family that it was him.

Never really felt too chilled by it - I don't think we were histype, but he was a serial-killer of college-age girls in the area (NW Washington State).

[uriah1]

I wonder if they liked fava beans

[Brad Pittiful]

you shouldve went up to mark david chapman and pummeled him

[fuzzbender]

yep, that's ironic, he ends up with a mop top

[RevMike]

I went to Jr. High with a kid who later in life became a Ninja murderer. He was on death row for the longest time, escaped and was recaptured. I think his sentence was converted to life without possibility of parole.

I also went on a Boy Scout jamboree at a farm adjacent to the facility in Butner, NC where Hinkley was being housed right after he shot Regan.

I must say that despite these two things, the one time I ever remember getting a cold chill about something like this was the first time I walked past the entrance to the Dakota where JL was murdered. I remember specifically standing there just being moved by the tragedy. I think that was a turning point for me, because before then, while I liked the other Beatles, I always wrote off Lennon as an angry henpecked weirdo. It was at that point I was able to feel how much impact he had on people....meanwhile his biggest wish was to be a humble and ordinary fellow. I've learned a lot about him since, and have a new found respect.

[superlightweigh]

Originally Posted by fuzzbender

yep, that's ironic, he ends up with a mop top

well played sir!

you shouldve went up to mark david chapman and pummeled him

John wasn't really my favorite Beatle but I do respect his accomplishments tremendously, and nobody deserves to be shot in the back in cold blood by some wacko, but, no, I didn't feel like losing my job that day

Turns out it was Ted Bundy.

Yeah b/c of stuff like this, my wife will get up even if she's sick in bed with Pleurisy and drive our kids four blocks to school in the dead of winter.

[superlightweigh]

[QUOTE=RevMike;4120123] I think his sentence was converted to life without possibility of parole.

I must say that despite these two things, the one time I ever remember getting a cold chill about something like this was the first time I walked past the entrance to the Dakota where JL was murdered. .[/QUOTEu]

yeah about 5 years ago everybody on Death Row in NYS got a free pass (so to speak) b/c of some legal technicality. They'll never get out, mind you, but they won't be put to death either.

You just described the feeling I got and probably millions of others, when I stood at the edge of Ground Zero in early 2002 when it was still just a gaping hole in the universe. Unless your a psychic or something I don't think you ever feel that many times in your life, pretty profound stuff. It can change the course of your life.

[rghill]

I worked for a guy back in the '80s that ended up killing his family years later, and I was not surprised in the least that he did it.

I worked in a grocery store, and they hired this guy as my manager. He was odd, but friendly. We had two stores in town, and he worked at one until he had problems with the store manager there. Instead of getting rid of the problem, they switched the produce managers between the two stores, and I started working for him. Finally, he snapped one day and barricaded himself with his family in their home. After a day long standoff with police, he was arrested. The company quickly fired him then.

Fast forward years later, I hear a familiar name on the news. He had been arrested and was being investigated for the disappearance of his family. After seeing the picture of him, I recognized him as my old boss. A chill went up my spine, and I told my wife, "Oh yeah, he did it". He was convicted, and about a year later, his family turned up buried in the desert in plastic barrels.

It is frightening to know that I had been close to someone capable of such a brutal crime.

[RevMike]

Originally Posted by superlightweigh

yeah about 5 years ago everybody on Death Row in NYS got a free pass (so to speak) b/c of some legal technicality. They'll never get out, mind you, but they won't be put to death either.

You just described the feeling I got and probably millions of others, when I stood at the edge of Ground Zero in early 2002 when it was still just a gaping hole in the universe. Unless your a psychic or something I don't think you ever feel that many times in your life, pretty profound stuff. It can change the course of your life.

This guy is in NC, where I grew up. I don't remember the story specifically, but I think a bunch of local people lobbied the gov on his behalf. I could be wrong. I haven't lived in NC in years.

As far as ground zero.....good point. I think, I (sadly) got a little numb, because I see it EVERY day. I am actually in my office about a block and a half from it at this very moment. That was a day...whew...man was that a day.

[Caboose]

Yeah b/c of stuff like this, my wife will get up even if she's sick in bed with Pleurisy and drive our kids four blocks to school in the dead of winter.[/QUOTE]


Yeah, I'm the parent of two younger kids too. I wouldn't describe us as "helicopter parents", but we probably are a little overprotective. Can't chalk it up to the Ted Bundy encounter, but all the stories you hear on the news all the time kinda' get ya a little weirded out... But that's another topic for another thread.

[RevMike]

Another story...some may find a little humorous in a dark way. Not too long ago, the guys in my office were sitting around having lunch. One of the guys was having chili he brought in a tupperware. He was telling us, he was given a big tub of the chili by his widower neighbor. He told us how the guy who made it was a little quiet and strange but seemed nice enough. Then one of the guys asked him....."what happened to his wife?" To which he replied "nobody knows...she just disapeared one day," and he took a big bite of chili. The room just got really quiet and after a moment of awkward silence with everyone staring at him with creeped out looks ....he spat the chili back into the bowl and dashed to the kitchen to dump it out. We all howled with laughter.

We were makin' jokes out of that for a few weeks. "Yeah, Tony's neighbor's a little odd, but his wife makes a good chili!"

[adeiderich]

Didn't get to see him up close but when I was a kid, I saw the Browns play the Bills in Cleveland. OJ had a nice 64-yard TD run that day.

( I wanted to say he slashed through the line and took off like a crazed cocaine addict being chased by the cops but I thought it would have been a little too cheeky)

[blowtorch]

When I was kid I took guitar lessons from this old coot, who was the county dog catcher. We lived in a very rural area. Years later, when i was I guess in my twenties, I heard he'd died in a gunfight with the cops after finding out his young bride had been cheating on him. He'd shot they guy and it all ended in a big standoff when they turned his car into swiss cheese.

I think that's pretty cool, actually, and I've intended to write a song about it sometime.

[kelnet]

Originally Posted by adeiderich

Didn't get to see him up close but when I was a kid, I saw the Browns play the Bills in Cleveland. OJ had a nice 64-yard TD run that day.

( I wanted to say he slashed through the line and took off like a crazed cocaine addict being chased by the cops but I thought it would have been a little too cheeky)

You totally should have typed that. It would have been funny.

[mad dog]

I got pretty creeped out, long ago, by a guy I met in Boston. Having a few beers at a bar on Comm Ave. Got talking with the guy next to me, somehow got on the topic of having done certain things you'd rather not have done. He starts describing in great detail about the time he shotgunned his best friend, watched him die. The look in his eyes was not right, really chilled me. I found reasons to leave early.
MD

[blowtorch]

I lived with a guy for awhile a few years back who shot his stepdad dead when he was in highschool yet. It was ruled self defense. I thought it was likely a BS story until his real father came to visit and confirmed it

[superlightweigh]

Originally Posted by kelnet

You totally should have typed that. It would have been funny.

Most definitely He actually had the nerve to show up at another game after he was acquitted, but security politely made him leave.

"Yeah, Tony's neighbor's a little odd, but his wife makes a good chili!"

CLASSIC!

I worked for a guy back in the '80s that ended up killing his family years later, and I was not surprised in the least that he did it.

Are you sure you didn't just watch that on CSI? No I'm only kidding one of my closest business associates spent many years in the Retail Grocery Game and still has lots of contacts with interesting insights into what goes on. I'll be sure to show him this

[Telesavalis]

I was at a local fundraiser a few years ago and met an old timer who was the son of one of the LEOs who shot Bonnie & Clyde. He was a real character...had a big photo album of his father's years in law enforcement and lots of photos and articles related to B & C.