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Russ Walling
Gym climber
Poofter's Froth, Wyoming
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Mar 12, 2012 - 06:56pm PT
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I saw Chez naked once.
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Jaybro
Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
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Topic Author's Reply - Mar 12, 2012 - 07:05pm PT
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Wasn't that Timothy Leary, Russ?
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Russ Walling
Gym climber
Poofter's Froth, Wyoming
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Mar 12, 2012 - 07:06pm PT
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hahahaha! Him too! (true story!)
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Mighty Hiker
climber
Vancouver, B.C.
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Mar 12, 2012 - 07:14pm PT
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Imagine Brown and Ronstadt's reactions if they'd seen you in your tighty whities.
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Tan Slacks
climber
Joshua Tree
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Mar 12, 2012 - 07:38pm PT
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Child abuse!!
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ME Climb
climber
Behind the Orange Curtain
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Mar 12, 2012 - 07:39pm PT
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Working graveyards one night my partner and I hear a loud crash about a 1/2 mile away. We go on scene in under a minute. Car had crashed into a telephone pole and a tree at over 100 mph. The car is engulfed in flames from the b pillar (the post right behind the front passengers) back. Driver is unconscious and is burning alive. We are unable to get within 30' of the car because of the heat coming off of it. 5 cops standing around trying to spray fire extinguishers at the car with no luck.
Another picture in my mental notebook of things I have seen that I wish I hadn't. Not to mention the smell.
Eric
The Tool too
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rottingjohnny
Sport climber
mammoth lakes ca
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Mar 12, 2012 - 07:50pm PT
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Stinkeye...You need to join a SOD support group......Survivors of Diamond....Now!
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splitter
Trad climber
Hodad surfing the galactic plane
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Mar 12, 2012 - 07:53pm PT
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back when i was eighteen myself and two friends split two big ol' horsecaps of mez three ways. we wound up going to a movie "Illustrated Man". Just before the flick began we were sitting tripping on the ornate faux paux architecture etc., when suddenly this dood about our age is kneeling on the seat in front of us, giggling and laughing while pointing at a guy and gal sitting a few rows down who had been cuddling and kissing. He kept saying "Those are two guys" and would then bust up laughing. It was a weekday and there were very few people in the theatre. The couple he had pointed out was a dude with short hair and a typical gal on a date back then with womens style coat with a big fur collar and her hair was poufed up on top and shoulder length with a big flip/curl on the end.
The kid came back two three times and i didn'thave a clue what he was getting at until suddenly the "chick" stands up and turns around, whipps off the wig and fur thing over his shouders(big burley guy)and yells "I'm gonna kick your ass" and chases the kid up the aisle and evidently out of the theatre.
Pretty trippy...
edit: btw, first and last time i experimented with foriegn chemicals...
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jbaker
Trad climber
Redwood City, CA
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Mar 12, 2012 - 07:56pm PT
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Well, I would have said seeing the plane hit the Pentagon on 9/11, but that was thoroughly debunked here last year. I must have been duped.
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GDavis
Social climber
SOL CAL
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Mar 12, 2012 - 08:00pm PT
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Felt sick yesterday, decided to try to lead Illusion Dweller AGAIN... hiked out to it four times, each time had someone JUST starting except for the final time (5 min hike, other things in area, no biggie...)
Really psyched, trying to stay "in the zone," been trying this route a lot and always pump out at the top... cruising the initial 5.9 finger crack, get to a stance, turn around to take in the view and see a woman at the base nursing.
That was a first.
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Brandon-
climber
The Granite State.
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Mar 12, 2012 - 08:10pm PT
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When my oldest dog was a pup, he and another pup gravely wounded a fawn.
The mom was stomping her feet and making a lot of noise, I was scared shitless.
Since my neighbors would have reported a gunshot, I was forced to use a kitchen knife to put the poor baby deer out of its suffering. I cut its neck and carried it across the river, bawling the whole time.
It still haunts me, but if anyone learned of the attack, my dog (now eight years old and well adjusted) would have been put down.
Then there was this time on Donner when my buddy severed an artery in his wrist with the edge of his ski. I've never seen blood shoot that far...
I realize we're talking apples and oranges, but those are the two things that stick with me.
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splitter
Trad climber
Hodad surfing the galactic plane
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Mar 12, 2012 - 08:16pm PT
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I use to live on El Nopal(across from the Magnolia Boulders). One morning i was riding my bike, returning from the store and this F-15/16 goes sailing by just clearing the houses and crashes into the side of the hill about a block away.
About ten years later I was living a few miles away just under the flight path for planes returning to Gillespie Field. Planes would fly over about every fifeteen minutes. Got pretty use to it. One morning I heard this incredible roar, the planes at Gillepie are limited to smaller personal/commercial craft. It sounded like a jet liner was making some sort of emergency landing and I new something tragic was about to happen. It was shaking the houses and sounded like thunder.
I lept up and shot out the front door just in time to see another big navy jet come sailing directly over our house...upside down with the cockpit open and no one in it. The roar was deafening(must have had its afterburners on)and the airport was about 4-5 blocks away on the other side of a freeway and I was certain this beast wasn't going to make it(crash into houses).
As i jumped into my car, I heard a huge explosion and was expecting the worse. It turned out that it did make it to the airfield before crashing, but killed and maimed a few guys on the ground.
Rather "disturbing" event...
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enjoimx
Trad climber
Kirkwood, ca
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Mar 12, 2012 - 08:21pm PT
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Splitter, that's nuts. You've witnessed two plane crashes. Ha!
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SalNichols
Big Wall climber
Richmond, CA
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Mar 12, 2012 - 08:23pm PT
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Well, I did put out a burning drunk guy on my commute home one night...don't see that every day. He'd hit a power pole, his truck detonated, and he was burning while standing next to the hood...odd. So I blasted him with my extinguisher. The fire dept. showed up to put out the truck, emt's treated him, cops cuffed him.
I've seen a lot of male-female dramatics while sailing...almost always anchoring or tying to a dock. I'm not a big fan of abuse, physical or verbal. I would have stepped in, stupid as it would have been.
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splitter
Trad climber
Hodad surfing the galactic plane
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Mar 12, 2012 - 08:33pm PT
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I have already(on another thread)told the story of the time when I was about 20 and one cool Fall evening was returning on foot from a friends house whom lived a few blocks away. As we were turning a corner she caught a wiff of smoke and said, "I smell smoke". I couldn't smell anything, so we just continued down the block.
Suddenly, and directly in front of us, this guy shoots out of the side door to his house. It was as if he was catapaulted out the door in front of a huge explosion of flames and smoke. He ran a few steps to the curb and our side and just as he was about to collapse his whole right hand and arm up to the shoulder drip/slide off into the gutter in a huge puddle of wet flesh. He then looks me squarley in the eyes and says in a pleading and terrified voice, "My baby is in there!"
I have already related the rest of the story, but needless to say...it was a disturbing event!
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Jaybro
Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
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Topic Author's Reply - Mar 12, 2012 - 08:41pm PT
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Spot on, Tami!
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justthemaid
climber
Jim Henson's Basement
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Mar 12, 2012 - 08:56pm PT
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Oy- I've seen lots of disturbing stuff. Abusive a-holes being the least of them. Neglected animals always bother me more than people. I volunteered for Children of the Night (underage runaways/drug addicted prostitutes) as a peer counselor for a total of like.. two days before I quit because I was having nightmares
I've found two bodies- one of them murdered (stabbed in the chest), one suicide & witnessed two additional fatal highway accidents - one motorcycle into a brick wall and one guy go through his wind-shield from a head-on collision.
Edit to add: @Tami: You do kinda wonder when you see people act that way in public how bad it is in private. Meh.
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splitter
Trad climber
Hodad surfing the galactic plane
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Mar 12, 2012 - 09:01pm PT
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"Watching a child abused bothers me a LOT"
Yes, very disturbing indeed.
When i was in my late twenties i was about to go into my gym, had my hand on the door but let this couple pass by on the sidewalk first. They were pushing a baby carriage with a pre-one-year-old in it. As they passed i remembered something i had forgoteen in my car. So rather then go in i turned and followed them around a corner. Evidently they didn't realize that i was behind them because suddenly the guy puts his left hand behind his back and with his thumb shifts this huge ring(college style grad ring)so that the big bulbess part is facing his palm. He then lifts his hand and smartly wacks the baby on the crown of its head and it cried out. He wacked it twice in quick succession, the last one was brought down just as i got to his side and enterviened. At that exact moment a county sheriff/cop springs out from between(or out of)a car. He waved me on and arrested the couple.
What really bothered me, and i can still some 30 years later picture in my mind, is that the baby's head still had that wide/round soft spot or opening where the scull hasn't closed in yet. The poor thing cried bloody murder. What a hideous childhood it must have had. I hope it grew up to be okay. Evidently they had been watching them for some time. I have wondered ever since, why would a mother and father do such a thing to their child.
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fosburg
climber
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Mar 12, 2012 - 09:29pm PT
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Seeing a closet misogynist/climbing icon out himself on the inter web.
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aguacaliente
climber
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Mar 12, 2012 - 10:36pm PT
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Back in high school or college, I used to go on long walks around the neighborhood with a friend and just talk about sh#t. We are walking a few blocks from my house, it's dark but by a streetlight we suddenly see a man in a parked car 20-30 feet ahead reach across and WHACK a woman sitting next to him. We hadn't even noticed them up until that. I guess we heard the blow.
I look at my friend, neither she nor I know what to do, but we don't feel comfortable just walking away after seeing that. So we sit down on the lawn right there and continue talking. At least if something happens there is a witness. (This is ages ago, no cell phones or anything.) I'm sure the couple had noticed us by then. We sit there for a long time, eventually I think the man got out of the car, went into a house, came back out and they drove away. We couldn't and probably didn't do any good, but at least we provided a bit of cover if the woman had wanted to leave.
I'm with Jaybro and Tami. Abusive relationships are serious, not just drama. But the problem is that so few people are capable of getting out of them.
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