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My life is so weird, or: More Strange Tales from the Bastard City

 
 
Tuna Ghost: Pratt knot hero
19:35 / 31.07.02
Yesterday I saw my friend from work, who we'll call "Dave", get stabbed several times by a crackhead. A transvestite crackhead named Blondie with a big ass butcher knife.

He's okay. Despite being stabbed eight or nine times, he got away with only a gash on his neck that didn't bleed too badly. It was so surreal...

We were chilling in Brian's apartment, when Brian's roomate walks in and demands that Dave pay Blondie the money he owes hir. We agree, because irate crackheads usually mean a bad time, so we recommend that he just pay and settle things. Dave is really drunk, and decides not to pay. So we ride down to the Marathon gas station to pick up some ciggarettes when Blondie catches up with Dave. We tell Dave to settle this now so as not to draw heat on the rest of us. His reply is that he needs ciggarette money and doesn't want to pay. I kick him out of my car.

He goes to talk to Blondie, who immediately steals his wallet. He tries to get it back and she/he pulls out a big ass butcher knife and goes to town on Dave. Brian, who is driving my car, sees this in the rear view mirror and whips the car around to see what the hell is going on. Here's the conversation that followed:

Brian: "What the fuck?"
Myself: "Dude, is that a knife?"
B: "Yeah man, a big one."
{slight pause. At this point, Dave has been stabbed several times, but the situation is so surreal that we are in a state of shock}
B: "...Dave, run! Run, Dave! Run!"
Myself: "Run! Dammit Dave, forget the wallet and run!"
{Dave is still being stabbed.}
B: "Dave, just run, you dumbass!"
Myself: "Run! Just...Dave, run!"

Blondie drops hides the knife and gets back in her car and tries to get away, but a bloody Dave has his hands on the hood of the car to keep it from going anywhere. Dave finally hears us and lets Blondie leave with his wallet.

Later on, relating the story to my friend Pat, Pat says "Damn. He got beat by a crackhead? Who's gay? And gansta, no less. Damn. The gay side of gansta can be rough...apparently. Hell, I dunno."

I hate this town.
 
 
Ganesh
19:45 / 31.07.02
How did he get stabbed "eight or nine times" with a butcher knife yet only sustain a minor gash to the neck? Was Blondie using the right stabbing end?
 
 
Tuna Ghost: Pratt knot hero
19:53 / 31.07.02
That's what was so surreal about it. I saw hir stab Dave at least that many times, and couldn't understand how Dave was still standing, let alone able to attempt retrieval of his wallet. I thought to myself Dave is going to die. No one can live through that. Why is Dave still alive?

I can't explain it. His shirt was wet with blood, but the only wound was on his neck. Maybe he has really tough skin. Or a really tough shirt, anyway.
 
 
w1rebaby
19:57 / 31.07.02
crack - I guess unpredictable violence and poor aim come hand in hand
 
 
Ganesh
20:04 / 31.07.02
Perhaps it was one of those retractable comedy knives. And a couple of blood capsules.
 
 
Grey Area
20:06 / 31.07.02
The question I have is just how much money we're talking about here if buying a pack of cigarettes would mean he couldn't pay back the debt...I'm assuming/hoping the guy didn't get stabbed in the neck for the sake of a fiver?
 
 
Wrecks City-Zen
21:15 / 31.07.02
Which city is the bastard city???
 
 
Slim
21:45 / 31.07.02
Detroit is the true bastard city.

And why didn't you try and help him instead of watching him get stabbed?
 
 
Thjatsi
06:41 / 01.08.02
Hey, they did drive back for him.

I have to admit that I am a bit curious as to why you would borrow money from a tranvesite crackhead in the first place. Bad credit?
 
 
Ethan Hawke
12:18 / 01.08.02
I have to admit that I am a bit curious as to why you would borrow money from a tranvesite crackhead in the first place. Bad credit?

"Blondie" is Alan Greenspans nom de guerre when he's making the scene, don't you know?
 
 
Less searchable M0rd4nt
16:25 / 01.08.02
Why is Dave still alive?

Probably because the assailant was using a large knife and striking wildly at the chest area. This generally means that the weapon will strike a rib or collar-bone and rebound rather than actually penetrate the body cavity, resulting in superficial injuries.

Still plenty fucked up tho'.
 
 
Tuna Ghost: Pratt knot hero
18:20 / 01.08.02
Why is Dave still alive?

Probably because the assailant was using a large knife and striking wildly at the chest area. This generally means that the weapon will strike a rib or collar-bone and rebound rather than actually penetrate the body cavity, resulting in superficial injuries.


This sounds like the best explanation so far. Although I was kinda hoping Dave had ultra tough skin like that animal grant was talking about in another thread that digs up corpses and eats 'em.

And why didn't you try and help him instead of watching him get stabbed?

There was the immediate shock, and besides, had I been calm enough to actually plan a course of action, my affection for Dave hasn't reached a level where I'd be willing to come between an angry, knife-weilding crackhead and someone who stiffed her on a couple rocks. Had it been someone like Brian (who wouldn't have put himself in such a situation through his own stupidity, and as a large muscular black man would have had no problem defending himself) I would have beaten down that crackhead like I was mad at something.

I have to admit that I am a bit curious as to why you would borrow money from a tranvesite crackhead in the first place. Bad credit?

Dave also smokes crack, and she floated him twenty bucks worth of rocks, as Blondie is wont to do on occasion.

I was talking to the police after the incident, and expressed my hatred for Detroit and my desire to get back down to Nashville. The cop said "Do it, man. I don't want to live here, and they give me a gun."

There was no money in the wallet, just a gascard, and we all know where Blondie lives. So she better hope the cops find her before Brian does, because he will beat her senseless, and then really start going to town. Which is really a shame, because Blondie was so nice to everyone. No one saw this coming. Although, if you throw crack into any situation, the rules change but quick.

Which city is the bastard city???

Detroit, the town where if you signal your turns, the locals become alarmed and start shooting.
 
 
Slim
19:42 / 01.08.02
I think Detroit would become a much better city if you didn't spend your time with people who smoke crack. The least you could do is move to upper-class junkies, like those who do heroin or non-rocked cocaine.
 
 
Thjatsi
22:52 / 01.08.02
Are you sure about moving back to Nashville? Dealing with a few knife wielding crackheads seems like a small price to pay for not living in a city where Country music is so pervasive.
 
  
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