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Not aout that event at all..........might be worth checking out for correspondence class credit.
Filmed in 1954, starring Spencer Tracy and Robert Ryan and Ann Francis. A story of a one-armed stranger who gets off the train in a dusty town and starts asking questions............
Hmmm........now why does this town sound sooooo familiar
Not aout that event at all..........might be worth checking out for correspondence class credit.
Filmed in 1954, starring Spencer Tracy and Robert Ryan and Ann Francis. A story of a one-armed stranger who gets off the train in a dusty town and starts asking questions............
Hmmm........now why does this town sound sooooo familiar
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LOL!!!
Was he also known as the "One Armed Bandit?"
For a photo fo the one armed bandit who showed up two years ago on the 80 check out the photo gallery in the DPW tribe. The golved hand in the picutre is mine. In the end I received a gift of a Washoe County Sherif BM 2003 shirt by the deputy who interviewed me as part of the homicide investigation. The shirt is one of my most prized posessions. I just wish I didn't get it an indirect result of the events that transpired. -
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Hehe, no, not THAT one armed man!
OMG, I remember that whole thing with you all out there on the ranch too! Everyone sitting and having dinner with a murder........lovely....
And ya, woulda been nicer to get the shirt via a different means.
Who would have known Gerlach and the surrounding area to be so rich in colorful hunting grounds AND psychos? -
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It's a crazy story to say the least.
Reader's Digest Edition:
Dude shows up on Work Ranch in 2K3. Dude voulenteers himself. Dude sits next to me at dinner, scares me (To be scarry around DPW types takes skill), then shows me a scar on his forehead and says he "Killed the mother fucker." I begin to shovel my food faster and finish dinner in record time. Hanging out with Rip Cord later that evening when a medical call comes in. The call was for scarry dude at dinner. I start to clean his wounds, dude pulls a knife out due to many people surrounding him, knife is inches from Rip Cord's stomach. Dude really scares me now. Washoe was already or soon to be on it's way due to threats to others on the ranch. 3+ hours later Washoe Sherif shows up. Come to find out a van was found on the way to Alturus earlier that day with a dead body. Dude, aka One Armed Bandit, aka Christopher Scott Johnson is arrested and later linked to said dead body. A few days later Washoe shows up on the Ranch (They were easy to spot, clean clothes and a sidearm). Nearly everyone involved was interviewed. A year later he goes to jail and nobody had to come to Reno to testify and party on Washoe County's dime. -
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Clearly, this one could be a good educational addition to the course offerings here at BRU.
Hmmm.......What would the title of that class be?? -
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Christopher introduced himself to me in Gerlach office as:
"I am Christopher Scott Johnson, an educated man, just out of Wisconsin, and I am looking for work. I got a meal down the street and somebody at Bruno's said you were hiring."
Then because he was waving a photocopy of a diploma around in front of me, carried in a plastic "sheet protector" I reached out my right hand to shake with him -which is when he dropped the diploma on my desk and put forward his left hand, which I shook, realizing there was no right arm. The dude sported broken glasses which were "fixed" with a dirty bandaid.
I would think the class might be called something like:
"How to revive your dead career"
"Only 40 more miles to employment, please drive safely"
"No need to primp, it's just one night in the desert."
also based on what I heard he did at frog pond the night before:
"Just because you CAN sneak into frog pond by cutting fence, does not mean you will get away with it around here, boy."
shit, someone stop me now, because I spent 10 minutes with the guy and it STILL affects my heart rate to imagine what he did.
Afterwards, when the police report named "mile marker 108" or something like that - I just HAD to drive out there and you know what?
Just before you get there, there's a huge billboard to say:
WELCOME TO SURPRISE VALLEY
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