Cartoon County

Lounging and drifting off in the warm sun yesterday was really relaxing until I heard a voice ask if they could ‘close the pool cover?’—and it was a voice I didn’t recognize. Startled/groggy; I opened my eyes to the 3 young pool boys, I mean farm hands that were getting ready to load up a semi of grain out by Paula’s swimming pool. Gah. ‘Of course!’ I hid under a towel.

Well, at least it woke me up enough to think about this week’s event here in Cartoon COUNTY.

Oh, where should I begin? The 3 suicides? 1-a male in a wheelchair (probably got the idea from the earlier female in the wheelchair), 2-girl in a cemetery, 3- guy in a rental house. Oops, forgot 4-just an attempt. Wild.

Let’s see—Three buildings in the tiny town of Emmett bombed/burned with a fireworks/gasoline combo. (Emmett was up the road from my house and one of our major party-hearty towns when I was in high school—nothing there but ballfields, a bar or two, a gas station and a post office; heard they lost one of the bars.) Wild.

VinnyLuigiAchmed told how he nearly ran over a man laying on the highway…so did Copfriend’s friend ‘Mz Clean’. She also nearly ran over, um, one of the 'Bell' Brothers. He had been shot in the abdomen. Apparently the two brothers (one sane/one crazy) had gotten into an altercation about cows or some other farm-related beef and decided to beat the holy crap out of each other. Even when shot by a .22 (some say a .357-yeah?), the fight continued. The wounded man grabbed the gun and beat the other with the gun butt , then drove himself (almost) to the hospital. He didn’t quite make it and crawled out of the truck to lay on Tuttlecreek Blvd whereupon many individuals saw the body laying in the road and it was assumed to be a car wreck due to the back window missing (shot out?!) He lived (although some rumors say he died). Wild.

I was thinking of these things and the fact that I had been in contact this week with the county attorney’s office…those poor poor people. We have a county attorney and an assistant attorney and they must deal with an entire slew of crazies everyday. Think of the phone calls and stories they endure on a daily basis. No wonder when momstalker decided this week to get a new attorney, and he wanted to take me to court for a freaking ‘jury trial’, it won’t even be heard until next October. Oh Brother. (Rolling my eyes.)

Wild.