You Know You’ve Been Living In the City Too Long When…

June 25th, 2008

Via: Salon:

For years, Bean enacted small-scale revenge, breaking in to stop the alarms or letting air out of tires. One night in the early ’90s, an alarm sounded for more than four hours outside his apartment at 97th Street and West End. By the time Bean broke into the car, the vehicle was covered with eggs, beer and tomatoes. “People inflicted their fury, but nobody did what I did, which is break the window, pop the hood and disconnect the battery cable,” he says.

For his crime against private property, Bean was arrested. After a night in jail, and spending thousands on his legal defense, Bean was somewhat chastened, but not reformed. Just the other day, a car alarm started making a ruckus, and he confesses he confronted the blaring vehicle and “did some stuff to it,” but won’t be more specific than that.

One Response to “You Know You’ve Been Living In the City Too Long When…”

  1. Eileen says:

    YIPES! I thought I was on drugs when I went to the Salon article. Flashing lights, sirens. Thank you for a laugh Kevin.
    My ruling planet, Uranus (Ur-ANUS) is going retrograde as I write, and well, I “get” to get it over it again, what has gone in my life for many, many, many moons now. I can only tell you I am flipping and twitching. Astology is cool. Its a chess game is what it is. The better you understand the planets on the board, well, the better I think, you play the right game.
    I was going to write a love story about Kevin, Becky, and Owen.
    Right after that I thought about the people’s guts I’d like to rip out their bodies. And, yes, your tax payer dollars really, really, really,are at WORK. You know how it is, the leader of the “FREE WORLD” who never really ever, ever, ever have to make ONE DECISION for himself or this country. YAWN. Rove, Harriet, Gonzo, well, righto. It’s just been such fucking hard work.
    I also learned today that if I don’t cut stress out of my life in mighty way I’ll lose more of my memory. Like, let’s put it politely, my day job is killing me. I spend too many hours looking at fraud, waste, abuse, deception, alibis, investigations, inspections, audits and it all seems so useless to be the Monday morning quarterback. I’d really like to think what I have to give to my country would be thought of as an honorable profession.
    Took me a long time to shake this one:
    http://www.stariq.com/MarketWeek.HTM
    Then this one:
    http://www.hermes3.net/july108.htm
    So yes I’m schizo.
    The Obama is being set up to be the fall guy.
    Sorry, he’s always going to be a nigger in lots of peoples minds. Imagine the blow back.
    Imagine the “perfect storm” of COSTS – no matter what kind, they are increasing. Wall Street is going to be exposed as a onion skin, a paper chase that offers nothing to, but rather bankrupts investors, ha,ha, add Iraq and Afghanistan. Haw. It’s a set up. Set the last of the race baiters. Forget it. Not worth the LED.
    It looks like from many things I’ve gathered that there is going to be a tax revolution in the U.S.A. Imagine the U.S. populace uniting and having another Tea Party. Hah. We aren’t all weinies I guess. We’ll be more interested in paying local and keeping the lights and heat on.
    Anyways, sorry this comment is convoluted and diabolical. I know this site isn’t supposed to be the church confessional, but I am going stark raving mad. I think I’m going to have to take a vacation from posting, else I will vent well past what’s “politely” allowed in this great democracy we here in the U.S. live in.
    Sheesh, Kevin if you read this and still want to post it, go ahead. You can ALSO delete the whole dang thing. Imagine, owning a website. Our chillen’s, chillen will be telling stories about us someday. How we made it through.

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