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RE: Fuses and stuff

"About the jail thingy, not so funny, but it'd be fun to read the story."

I used to jam my (_|_) off. I went through speakers like people go through underwear. As far as jail, I always had really fast cars and they got me there too, especially drinking. My first car was a 1970 W-34 Olds Toronado, the only car in history to be classified as both a musclecar and a luxury car. I blew the doors off Corvettes if they had one of those boat anchor 305s in them, but the big block ones would beat me.

Anyway, this is the middle of a very hot summer but it was nighttime so I turned off the AC and opened the windows. You get tired of those electric bills. Cranking out my usual, Priest, this and that maybe some Floyd.

So the cops come. Top cop Simone actually, you can probably find him on the net. I went to the door and was escorted to the police car. Simone shit in my toilet, I could tell when I went back in.

Now this stereo was a little bit hard to figure out because I had a Pioneer SX-3800 I couldn't get the amp to work right for some reason and the actual amp was way down at the bottom. The Pioneer was just a tuner, the CD was playing. I ask if they wanted me to turn it off and they said "We'll turn it off for you". Bottom line he wanted to use the bathroom LOL. So I get back up there and everything was still turned on but a bunch of the cables were pulled.

So court is about a week later, the waiver seemed a bit high and I had enough experience with these people to know that you can get a lower fine when you actually show up. So I did and the fine was only ten bucks. However court costs brought it up to $67 and I onlt brought like $60 with me.

Now normally in Cleveland they will give you time to pay but this judge had something up the dupa that day and would not give time to pay. And most people do not expect to pay the fine right away, I guess if from out of town but as a resident they would always give you time.

They hauled all of our asses to the jail. I told them I could have the money down here in 15 minutes but that was no good.

So, it is like 95 degrees outside and the jail is cooled down to about 65. They could not "process" so many people so we still had our money, whatever. People got a poker game started, and I mean with real money. Back then almost noone had a cellphone but if they did they would still have them.

One Black guy was bitching about it being too cold and I said "Git up". I showed hi he was sitting right over the AC vent. I traded seats with him and got happiness, oh so cold, almost like a refrigerator cold. I hate to admit it but I am one of those people who would set the thermostat at 80 in the winter and 60 in the summer.

When you go to jail like that, the fine ad court costs are cancelled. Finally in the morning I got my phone call. Me and the olman had a double house, shared the utilities and all that, and he was particularly useful i getting people downtown. He had a little known shortcut. So I call him up and say "Umm, you didn't by chance pay my fine did you ?", he said "F___ no". I said "Good because guess where I am".

I was out of there in another hour and went to the local watering hole called "A Taste Of Honey". That was where everyone went when they got out of jail.

Also, during that phone call I found that the IRS found in my favor. I had a slightly complex tax situation with UI, 1099 ad W-2 income. I figured it out three ways, one way I owe them, another way they owe me like two bucks, another way they owe me alot more. I just attached it all and scrawled on it "DO IT FOR ME", which they will do. They sent me a bunch of money. By their rules it was wrong but since they figured it out, go ahead and audit me. YOU did it.

All in all it was a pretty good week.



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