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September 24, 2007
The Trip Out West Part XXV: We Roll into Stanton
If you are just coming in to the story, and you want to read all the good stuff about my stint in jail, you should really start at The Beginning.
When we last left off (way back in mid-June) Tom and I had tried out, unsuccessfully, for The Joker's Wild.
Well, you can't win them all.
Our next stop was Stanton, California, not too far from Disneyland.
Tom and I were going to stay with a cousin of my mother's. A person I'd never met and who my mother had not seen in years. And yet they were happy to have us stay with them. Everybody should have relatives like I do.
We arrived in Stanton most likely in the midafternoon. I remember we were in our host's house before the local school let out. I also remember that just a few minutes after we stepped through the front door (in a house in a nice, residential neighborhood) we heard what could only be described as gunshots. A single shot and then several in a row that came pretty close together.
I don't remember if we actually saw the police running around outside across the street or if I'm combining memories. (I remember a friend of mine, he comments here as Buckeyedoc, telling me once that SWAT had been running around in his backyard when he was a student as The Ohio State University. Maybe it wasn't Buckeyedoc that said that, but Ming. In any case I may be adding SWAT running through their backyard to the Stanton memory.)
Anyway, I asked Tom, "What do you think that is?" To which he replied, "A drug deal gone bad."
It wasn't long before our hosts came home from their jobs. As it happens, Tom and I would not be staying in their home with them, but in their giant fifth-wheel camper out front; they thought it would give us more privacy and freedom.
It was really, really sweet.
Posted by delmer at September 24, 2007 9:28 PM
Comments
A stint in jail.......only hardened criminals are expected to talk like that.. OMG..A Delmer a jailbird...and they did let you into the UK? Surprise......:)
Posted by: Jack at September 25, 2007 7:18 AM
I may have told you that (about the swat team) as I was there. I suppose Ming and Craig were there also. If your memory of California included helicopters with spot lights beaming into the house while you're in it, you may be combining stories. (Although O.J. may have been running around Stanton at that time also.)
Posted by: Darrell at September 25, 2007 8:47 AM
Very interesting story.
Posted by: Sue at September 25, 2007 8:49 AM
Jack: Well, the stint was short and mostly just gave me time to catch up on my sleeping.
Darrell: I was pretty sure I heard the SWAT story from you. I'm also pretty sure I saw cops while I was in California. No helicopters though.
Posted by: delmer at September 25, 2007 10:41 AM