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palmspringsbum
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Oh what a night
      #268509 - Sat Jun 01 2002 01:38 AM

I can't believe CrazyMary tried to bust me and I ended up showing the police my plants and they told CrazyMary to leave me alone and suggested I file restraining orders against her and all her friends Monday...

...They watched my videos of the bitch harassing me that I made with my camera in the window, that's probably what saved me...

...and my mother. I had called my lawyer, my doctor, and the property manager (to whom I'd sent copious emails about the situation - there's a book in here...).

And then *I* called the police.

I was on the phone with my mother when the police came to my door. I accidently hung up on her, later when they were trying to decide whether to haul me in or not I called her back, and very uncasually mentioned that my mother is in Marquis Who's Who for being one of a team that designed the military's personnel system...and installed it in Dormstadt and Meinheim (I probably misspelled those) - and that it is the system used now in all of Europe and The United States.

(No need to mention uncle Pat this time...or cousin Ritchy...)

When I called my mother after they left she told me she'd told them she'd met Dennis Peron at my trial, and talked to the judge and the lawyers and knew California law and that I was in compliance...my mother can be formidable.

I told them about the cat that the people behind me had obviously thrown through the hole in the shade-cloth, where the blood stains were. This was a week ago. The site-manager's cat...and they were blaming me for it. But if I say any more about why this story will never end...

But I did sing (to the tune of Who Will Buy from Oliver)

Who could hurt that pretty white Siamese
Who could harm that innocent cat
Who could throw him into my garden
There's only one way to do that

Who could hurt that pretty white Siamese
Who could shoot him then break his back
Who could throw him into my garden
There's only one way to do that.

Everybody look for the shade cloth
Everybody see where it's at
See the opening in the middle
There's only one way to do that

And with my powerful operatic baritone that carried for blocks in the still of the evening.

And then CrazyMary can screaming out her door at me (as I was standing quiet out front) "Are you trying to kill us all...."

But back to the police...

I told them that the people behind me had stolen my plants a couple of months ago. They asked how many. I told them 7.

Me and the police had quite a conversation about manic-depression, major clinical depression, anhedonia (another or my maladies), narccissistic personality disorder (that one doesn't bother me so much - I've known famous people with the same diagnosis), zoloft, paxil, prozac, norpramine, desipramine, and...well...a whole bunch of things.

I never dreamed when I grew up I'd be showing the police my garden on a Friday night...and the officer would suggest I use a voice activated recording mike to write my book about The Club and Medical Marijuana..

One big step for me, a small step for...?

I can't believe I'm still here. Tokin' and lovin' it.

(and all my plants are snug and cozy).



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Re: what-a-night
      #268514 - Sat Jun 01 2002 02:19 AM

sounds like you have won a battle on the front line of the drug war.
congratulations man :)


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Re: what-a-night
      #268679 - Sat Jun 01 2002 01:28 PM

Congratulations!

What a mess to have to deal with. At least you're over the trepidation of calling the cops to defend your medicine, and with what sounds like a good outcome.

My baker's hat is off to you.

Peace!

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Re: what-a-night
      #268818 - Sat Jun 01 2002 09:30 PM

Congratulations for getting over the hump! I hope I don't have to go through this too.

(Going to check for light leaks now...)

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Re: what-a-night
      #269019 - Sun Jun 02 2002 01:25 PM

I suppose the next step is a sprouting...maybe next year.

Well, actually the next step is to swear out restraining orders against CrazyBelle and the 5 people behind me, and another dozen or so of CrazyMary's associates (these people don't have 'friends' but they got lots of associates...).



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Re: what-a-night
      #269150 - Sun Jun 02 2002 07:48 PM

hehehehe CrazyMary thats funny! But glad I didn't have to deal with her :P~

Peace Love and Ganja!

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Re: what-a-night
      #269886 - Tue Jun 04 2002 07:07 PM

The plot thickens.

And this may be one of those best stories that can never be told...I know enough of them already.

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Re: what-a-night
      #272649 - Wed Jun 12 2002 11:47 AM

Well, the legal aid lawyer suggested I wait until after her eviction hearing, which would probably make a restraining order superfluous.

So when I got home I called the property manager and found out the hearing had taken place while I was talking to the lawyer about the restraining order. And, she payed the landlord off and wasn't being evicted.

When I got home she & one of her cronies were out front, complaining about my camera in the window, very threatening. Their kids were in the jacuzzi and someone called the cops about that and told them to get their kids out of the jacuzzi (the water was hot and it was over 100F outside). They complained to the cop about the camera and he said so what.

Later, in her back yard she began screaming I was pepper-spraying she and her children and that she was going to turn me over to god. Working herself up to full pitch she took her act out front, and into the street. Eventually, Randy the site-manager went somewhere with her.

While she was screaming I called the police and they told me I should have gotten the restraining order...

So the next day I drove back to the court-house (so shaken I could not concentrate) in tears. They gave me red-carpet treatment. I arrived at the lawyer's at 2 pm (or later) and the lawyer filled out, filed, got me through financial aid and had the order signed by 5 pm. And delivered the next-day by the sheriff.

The hearing is on the 20th.

And the next day on my way to pick up a burrito my tire blew 100 yards outside the parking lot.

New, top of the line. It was flat in half a block. Her neighbors (and ... associates ...) were watching me in another car a few 100 yards away. I locked the car, walked home, called the police. I couldn't change the tire because I didn't have the wrench (or whatever you call that thing) for the locking nut. So I stayed inside without cigarettes or a lighter (therefore I couldn't smoke my weed) until my neighbor, Maurice, got home.

I borrowed a lighter and some cigarettes from him and the next morning he gave me a ride to my car to put on the spare. Coincidentally there was a tow-truck parked a couple of houses up from where I'd left the car. I bet the fact that my friendly neighbor was also the manager of one of the local supermarkets had something do to with that. He was also the one who volunteered to speak to the local police when my plants were stolen...

What I saw was a right angle - about an inch on a side - cut into the tire. Maurice (the friendly supermarket manager neighbor) noticed the nuts on the tire were loose. The tire store in town didn't have a replacement in stock and sent me to Cathedhral City - about 20 miles away. Turns out they didn't have the right tire either. While they were putting something on to get my by till Monday when the proper replacement would arrive I asked them to check the nuts on the other tires. Every nut on every tire was loose.

I made a police report about this, and called my lawyer and the district attorney's office about it as well.

That bitch sure knows how to turn victory into...well...

I can now have her arrested if she violates any of the following:

she shall not contact, molest, harass, attack, strike, threaten, sexually assault, batter, telepone, send any messages to, follow, stalk, destroy the property of, disturb the peace of, keep under surveillance, or block movements in public places and thoroughfares.

shall stay at least 10 yardas away from me, my residence, place of work, and vehicle.

She lives next door, so 10 yards is...

I could have had her arrested 3 times before the tire for little comments she made passing my window as she went in-and-out.

Maurice asked me 3 times where I was going to get the tire fixed. I haven't read the warranty but I think they did a little beaurocratic shuffle to give me a new tire free.

And this morning while I was having my coffee I look up and see someone has come to inspect the jacuzzi and it's closed because of a loose light.

I'm sure they think I called the inspector.

On the good side, I new neighbor Cathy is talking to me and she and her friends and relatives are coming through here every hour or so - and she and they are behaving as friends and protectors to me.

This is the first chance I've had in over a week to look at the forums...


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Re: what-a-night
      #272656 - Wed Jun 12 2002 12:01 PM

I think it was Sunday I saw the property manager (the boss of the site-managers) was here and waylaid her in the parking lot to tell her the day before I'd asked one of the site-managers (who Marybelle has been thick as thieves with ever since I put the camera in the window - and they tell me they've been 'friends' for 9 years)...anyway when I asked the site-manager to unlock the laundry so I could do mine they told me I could go to the laundramat on Palm Drive.

When I told the property manager this she replied that was ridiculous and I replied I had a witness - the new resident Cathy. I told her the site-managers have been blocking my calls for months and denying me services - access to the laundry and the jacuzzi and etc...

I got so mad about this I told the property manager they were running speed through here. I also mentioned traffic through Marybelle's place as one of the reasons I put the camera in the window in the first place. Also to prevent and/or document the harrassment. To prevent the traffic or document it if it continued.

The property manager gave me a key to the laundry Sunday and all the other residents received one yesterday.

Looks like they're out there fixing the light in the jacuzzi now. They're going somewhere with Marybelle and THEY ARE MAD.

I figure no one in the area reads this thread so I don't need to be all that carefull about how specific I am.

At this point I'm thinking about adding my real name, address and email to the profile on the local newspaper's web-site. If I do that, my real name and address will suddenly appear on all my postings there...but I'm saving that for a really desperate situation and won't do it without running it past a lawyer.



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Re: what-a-night
      #272663 - Wed Jun 12 2002 12:16 PM

And I'm afraid the plants I have outside to bloom are going to go hermaphrodite because I had them locked inside several days in a row for 4 or more hours while I was at the lawyer, or the courthouse, or the tirestore...

...and had them locked inside the veg-room under flourescents at night for several hours before I showed them to the police and while I was waiting for the police to decide what to do about me.


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Re: what-a-night
      #272743 - Wed Jun 12 2002 02:58 PM

Well, while Gary, one of the site-managers was splattering my windows in front, Marybelle was out back raking in the gravel. It smells like she was raking up dog shit and then watering it to make it stink.

My computer boxes are next to her fence covered with plastic and when I checked them to make sure she hadn't damaged them she said, "He just pushed up the tile. Did you see that? So he's the one that's been pushing up the tiles."

And then she told her little girls to stay away from the fence, she didn't want them to get pepper sprayed.

My honeysuckle is wilting in the heat. I need to water it twice a day, but at this point I called the police. And then Marybelle really started screaming, "Go back inside and leave me alone...I have a right to be in my own back yard...don't pepper spray me..."

I don't know what else, I was trying to listen to the dispatcher. I told them I had a restraining order against her and the police are supposedly on their way. I called about half an hour ago.

When I asked the dispatcher if she could hear Marybelle screaming she replied, "Probably better than you can."

I hope this is the end of it and there will be a nice 1 bedroom in a medical marijuana friendly building and police district available soon.

Anyone need a nice little 1 bedroom with jacuzzi and fenced, private 'storage area'?

In beautiful downtown Meth Lab in The Desert?

Come to think of it, my neighbor on the other side is moving this month also. So there are vacancies on either side of me...perhaps...

...the fat lady hasn't sung yet but I can hear her warming up.



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Re: what-a-night
      #272753 - Wed Jun 12 2002 03:32 PM

The police just left. They did nothing to Marybelle, but told me my plants were an illegal grow and to get rid of them. I was on the phone to my lawyer at the time. I am terrified.

I am going for cigarettes and something to eat.

I expect when I return to find my computer smashed.


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Re: what-a-night
      #272801 - Wed Jun 12 2002 05:04 PM

Well, all was as I left it when I returned.

Cathy was outside - thank God - I HOPE she's on my side. Otherwise I'm afraid of what would have happened on my way from my car to the door.

I'm afraid to go outside now...the whole gang is coming and going, intimidating me. All 30 of them.



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Re: what-a-night
      #272808 - Wed Jun 12 2002 05:28 PM

The police came in. Opened my catnip without asking, sniffed it. Told me they hadn't been served notice of the restraining order and couldn't do anything. Asked me if I'd pepper-sprayed Marybelle and her girls. Asked me if I had pepper-spary. Told me they were the narc squad and I had an illegal grow. I called the legal aid lawyer. He spoke to them.

I told them I had video of the sheriff delivering the restraining order and they told me if she denied being served there was nothing I could do.

So much has happened over the past week or so I can't remember when it started and haven't been able to take notes on everything.

I'm a manic-depressive in the first place, I don't do stress well, and these people are driving me nuts and threatening to take my medicine and throw me in jail....

...god help me.

Even though the dispatcvher could hear her screaming at me over the phone - I asked her, I said "Can you hear this?" and she replied "Probably better than you can." - even though the dispatcher heard her screaming at me and this is a clear violation of the restraining order, they did nothing.



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Re: what-a-night
      #272837 - Wed Jun 12 2002 06:32 PM

I guess I cooked my goose, but I filled in my real name and address on the local newspaper's web site. I can't take it anymore and it seems no matter what I do I lose everything, my medicine and everything else: thank you...I am terrified

Took my real name off the newspaper's web site. That was probably stupid - putting it up there. But the paper has my address now.

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Re: what-a-night
      #273152 - Thu Jun 13 2002 01:04 PM

My mother just called and asked for phone numbers: the local police, the property manager, my neighbor the supermarket manager, the lawyer friend I've been calling, the lawyer for the restraining order, my disability lawyer in San Francisco that has massive files on me, and Tod Mikuriya's number who served as an expert witness during my trial.

The plants are back outside...

I'm still here...

And my mother's favorite sister, Audry, is in a coma. She had a aneurism right before the shit hit the fan for me.



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Re: what-a-night
      #273189 - Thu Jun 13 2002 02:14 PM

Your story is both compelling and disturbing. Thank you for sharing it with us, although I think you're sharing it more for the therapeutic effect of getting it out of your system than anything else. I appreciate knowing the details of such stories because it fuels my fire to get out there and work at changing the system. I wish you the very best of luck with your situation and offer warm feelings of support.

With all respect to Friedaweed's post, I'm guessing you would have moved long ago if that were a realistic option. Maybe your nasty neighbours will get struck by lightning... You can always hope!

Take care. Peace & pot.



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Re: what-a-night
      #273402 - Fri Jun 14 2002 09:03 AM

I just received a 30-day notice from the landlord.

Southland Display Company in Orange County.

30-days to vacate.

They're going to try to arrest me again, now, after having failed twice and then try to steal everything I have while I'm in jail.

It's not the first time I've gone through something like this because I'm a medical marijuana patient...not the first time I've lost everything I had.

I'm in debt (partly because of them) and there's no one to help me. They stole my medicine. I'm losing it.

Five years ago my father died of a heart attack during my marijuana trial. He left me (among other things) 20 acreas that was part of my grandmother's dowry. I sold it to my uncle to support myself until my disability claim was awarded and in the meantime the landlord stole everything I had and put me in jail.

The option to buy the land back from my uncle expires in December, and now the landlord's going to try to steal everything I have and throw me out in the street.

I guess I can forget buying that land back - 20 acres on the back of the tallest mountain in Alabama...part of my grandmother's dowry...


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Re: what-a-night
      #273421 - Fri Jun 14 2002 10:20 AM

I just left a voicemail message for officer Judd, one of the officers that responded a couple of weeks ago - one of the ones that old me to get a restraining order and write a book.

I told him the day before yesterday when I tried to enforce the restraining order the officers refused to do so and told me I had an illegal grow and it looks to me like this woman is going to go through every shift trying to find someone to bust me and that I wanted to discuss this with him and try to establish myself as a legitiimate medical marijuana patient.

My instincts tell me they're going to try to bust me today or this weekend so I'll have to spend the weekend in jail (at the very least).

Or they're going to bust me and keep me in jail until after I'm served an unlawful detainer and steal everything I have while I'm in jail. The god damn tweakers have done it to me before, and the police and courts helped them.

I don't suppose Lester Grinspoon has a 'working-vacation' in Palm Springs scheduled in the next few days...?

How much is rent in B.C.?

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Re: what-a-night
      #273427 - Fri Jun 14 2002 10:39 AM

B.C. Apartment Guide

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Re: what-a-night
      #273429 - Fri Jun 14 2002 10:49 AM

I really appreciate a pitch to get $15 dollars out of me right now.

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Re: what-a-night
      #273437 - Fri Jun 14 2002 11:19 AM

Is that what they want?

Sorry....just found it in a search....thought it would help, but guess not....

No good deed goes unpunished.

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Re: what-a-night
      #273699 - Fri Jun 14 2002 11:20 PM

Pangloss used now and then to say to Candide:

"There is a concatenation of all events in the best of possible worlds; for, in short, had you not been kicked out of a fine castle for the love of Miss Cunegund; had you not been put into the Inquisition; had you not traveled over America on foot; had you not run the Baron through the body; and had you not lost all your sheep, which you brought from the good country of El Dorado, you would not have been here to eat preserved citrons and pistachio nuts."

"Excellently observed," answered Candide; "but let us cultivate our garden."


The End...I hope.

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Re: what-a-night
      #273897 - Sat Jun 15 2002 02:32 PM

I went through my normal ritual before I leave the apartment now; closing and locking the veg-room, bringing the plants in, checking the windows, locking the doors.

I was going out for cigarettes, maybe something to eat.

Marybelle and the kids came out when I did.

Danielle that lives behind me came out to check the mail.

There's no one but Them here.

Mario's van is parked out front with a trailer (the people's behind me 13660 Quinta Way) hitched to it.

At first I thought I'd just grab the tape backup and take it with me...and then I realized they could just steal the plants again...

...so I'm waiting for someone that isn't one of them to come home.

I hope you don't mind my using this as my journal.

Inland County Legal Services told me they'd represent me when I received an unlawful detainer on the 30-day notice as it is clearly retailiatory coming after I am granted a restraining order against my neighbor...

...and I need to document the harassment somewhere.

So a neighbor came home that wasn't one of them and I went for cigarettes and everything was fine when I got back.

And I feel foolish.


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Re: what-a-night
      #275885 - Thu Jun 20 2002 11:21 AM

I just got back from the hearing on the restraining order. In a nutshell, the defendent hoisted herself on her own petard. Several times....when she started accusing me of pepper-spraying her through the wall - she accused me of pepper-sparying her and her daughters numerous times and had no answer when asked why she never called the police about this...

...the judge was clearly able to see what I've been dealing with for over a year now.

When I got home from the courthouse my neighbor's tire was flat - the neighbor who's a manager at the supermarket and who helped me with my 'flat' and gave me his address and phone number in case I needed corroboration.

My garden is gone now, I chopped up the plants a couple of days ago.

And I now have a 30-day notice to deal with.

On the good side, I have made new friends through this - and one of them is a cracker-jack lawyer.



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Re: what-a-night
      #276224 - Fri Jun 21 2002 09:13 AM

...and my mother called me yesterday after the hearing and told me her favorite sister (they were inseperable all their lives) is coming out of the coma she's been in for a month. She had an aneurism just before all this started.


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Re: what-a-night
      #276245 - Fri Jun 21 2002 10:09 AM

Looks like things are turning around for you.
Keep it positive.
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I read the news today...Oh Boy!
      #276670 - Sun Jun 23 2002 10:03 AM


Give Pot Its Due


Why is it that The Desert Sun always seems to run away from the subject of the positive aspects of marijuana? Unless it’s a bust, I guess it’s just not newsworthy.

Marijuana is not just a “drug” of the “Let’s not and say we did” generation -- it is a therapeutic substance which provides life-giving tonic to those suffering from a vast array of painful maladies, disorders and diseases.

The fact that it seems to be one of the most life-giving substances ever discovered on the face of the planet by a bunch of bong-hitting stoners is entirely beside the point. The real point is that marijuana in its natural form is a non-narcotic, non-addictive, non-toxic and therapeutically active for millions of people.

That the federal government thinks that they are above the voters of the state of California is another matter entirely. It would appear that the DEA knows more than the residents of our state and reputable doctors.

The fact that The Desert Sun is not reporting that astounds me regardless that medicinal marijuana is the point in question.

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Re: what-a-night
      #277042 - Mon Jun 24 2002 08:46 AM

Sound like you need a little help and a newspaper ad declaring your faith in the Book that offers you God's creation all of his seed bearing herbs. Send it to the local police and DEA as a notice of your faith.

Now if God gives it who has the right to take it away??

Benny Gerraro a Rastafarian in Guam beat them so jump right in to ask for help from the ultimate landLord and owner.

Read the supreme defense in the Spirituality forum then post your ad of your faith and beliefs in the paper them read your first amendment. It is only a usefull amendment if you exersize it!! No good at all if you do not as you will be treated like all of the other commercial entity debtors and will lose.

The ad compells those in the DEA to rebut your claim and prevent you from using God's gift. Genesis 1:29 Romans 11:29. In doing that they commit religious discrimination as they were notified of your faith and cannot make any law in addition to God's laws nor any restricting the free exersize of religion. Duet:4:1-2;12:32

So simple it is hard to believe no one ever did this!

Get with the ultimate program!!

God has always been on your side!!

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Re: what-a-night
      #277134 - Mon Jun 24 2002 01:10 PM

The one thing I don't need is your CRAP right now.

I left Sunday at 5:48 pm. I left my webcam running. My place was broken into at 6:15. I returned about 6:30. They came over the fence from Marybelle's yard, broke the back window over the kitchen sink, opened the window. Stole my Kenwood surround sound stereo, cell phon, CDs and almost got the computer. Evidently they were interrupted at 6:15 when they unplugged the computer.

I showed the video to the police -Marybelle and the teenagers from the apartment next to hers were clearly visible looking inside my place. while you can hear glass breaking.

The police did nothing; no fingerprints, no nothing. I had to call them several times just to get them to look at the video and even though I have a restraining order and all the rest, they did nothing.

I am truly terrified.

And facing eviction - seems smoking weed for manic-depression is far worse than stealing, or harrassing people, or running speed, or anything else for that matter.

This is how Meth Lab in The Desert give the bum's rush to peacefull, disabled medicinal marijuana patients.

Pretty isn't it.

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Re: what-a-night
      #277230 - Mon Jun 24 2002 05:11 PM

That is the Amerikan way.

If you want to protect yourself and your property, start killing those who tread on you.


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Re: what-a-night
      #277234 - Mon Jun 24 2002 05:22 PM

If I even thought about doing to them what they've done to me don't you know I'd be in jail so fast it'd make your head spin?

Why is that?


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Re: what-a-night
      #277236 - Mon Jun 24 2002 05:25 PM

I was just thinking about putting the computer, the cat and whatever else I can get in the car and coming to Canada. Can you get by there on $1000/month? Since the country's named after me, do you think they'd let me in?

I'm day-dreaming of a little cabin in the woods with friends and DSL and a chopping block out front...I could chop wood for weeks and weeks and still not get it all out of my system...



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Re: what-a-night
      #277274 - Mon Jun 24 2002 07:21 PM

Sounds like fun. $1000 US would do you in Canada. Just stay out of the bigger cities. A small town and your comfy with that $.
Just don't become a burden to us Citizen tax payers.

Bring that US $ up here!


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Re: what-a-night
      #277279 - Mon Jun 24 2002 07:41 PM

I was just looking at ads in Seattle, lots of them in my range but I don't know anything about the neighborhoods.

According to expedia, it's 22 hours to seattle/vancover driving from here. And U.S. dollars go further in Canada, and probably will continue to go further, won't they?

But if I come up there I'll get involved in the movement, and I don't wanna play spook games anymore.


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Re: what-a-night
      #277952 - Wed Jun 26 2002 10:14 AM

Palm, I didn't know your story until now. I'll keep you in my prayers. I've been going through a hell of a time too. Maybe we can start a "healing circle" board for those looking for and to give emotional support...

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Re: what-a-night
      #277968 - Wed Jun 26 2002 11:09 AM

This appears to be all the support I have. I left messages for my lawyer friend Sunday, and Monday I spoke to her secretary. She hasn't called me back.

I told my mother to stop calling me for awhile yesterday, she was calling me every couple of hours and upsetting me. And she visits her sister Audry every day who is still in a comma though no longer requiring life-support...

There are 8 units in this little complex. I spend my days at the computer watching Marybel (next door), the people next door to her, the site-managers and the people next door to them watching me suffer and enjoying it.

I'm afraid to leave, afraid if I go anywhere they'll take what I have left. I don't go outside without my phone (they stole my cell phone - all I have is the wireless). The window is still broken. The site-managers are blocking my calls.

And I've been sitting here day-after-day for months, a prisoner in my own home, watching them laugh at me day and night.

They stole my plants, killed the cat and blamed it on me, tried to bust me twice and when i got a restraining order they sabotaged my car and the site manager sent ME a 30-day-notice. And then they broke into my place and robbed me.

And they started all this on my birthday.

I'm afraid to even do laundry now, afraid they'll gang up on me, attack me and then accuse me of attacking them and put me in jail and steal everything I have while I'm in jail.

I'm lucky to be able to even post this. They almost got my computer.

And what to I get from the police and the agencies that are supposed to protect the citizen? "Why don't you move?" and so I tell them if I could afford to move I'd have done it long ago. And then it's decided this is all my fault because I can't afford to move...

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Re: what-a-night
      #277997 - Wed Jun 26 2002 12:10 PM

I'm in the same position of being blamed for what was done to me. I hate those cocksucking mutherfuckers so much. But they have daughters and nieces too, so what they send out will come back on their loved ones. These guys have got it right when they suggested getting to hell out of there. It's not worth your mental and spiritual health. That eviction was a blessing in disguise. I know it hurts when your name is dirtied by these mofo's, Palm - I know how bad it hurts because I'm going through the exact same pain. There are "people" who are nothing more than spiritual savages, demons, dark entities, whatever you want to call them. I try to take solace in the fact that we're going to get the last laugh when it's legalized. It looks good here in Canada; thank God our Senator Pierre Claude Nolin has balls. He's going to set off one hell of a domino effect. United Kingdom, Canada, Jamaica, Holland, Norway - we're all leaning in the right direction. I'll bet that the Commonwealth are going to all go the same direction. The Bush Reich is losing neighbourly support faster than it realizes. As for the haters, their time is coming and they will only receive as much mercy and compassion as they have shown to others - count on it! I have to remind myself that if these bullies weren't coming after me, it'd be someone else they felt threatened by. They're just showing what they're made of. Rest in the ashes, Phoenix - you'll soon soar again. Believe it.

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Re: what-a-night
      #278016 - Wed Jun 26 2002 12:46 PM

Damn GreenGoddess! That was downright inspirational!

I think a great future awaits you as a motivational speaker in the burgeoning cannabis culture.

This bud's for you!

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Re: what-a-night
      #278255 - Wed Jun 26 2002 09:09 PM

I went outside to smoke a cigarette, 3 of them are sitting in a parked car, next to mine. They threw a CD out the window. Probably mine. I wanted to go pick it up and see if it was, but am afraid to get near them, afraid to step away from my front door. I've been a prisoner in my apartment all day. I'm afriad to leave, afraid they'll steal what I have left.



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Re: what-a-night
      #278364 - Thu Jun 27 2002 09:18 AM

They're just trying to see if they can get a rise out of you. I know it's hard, believe me I know, but if you can ignore them, keep a book with you while you're sitting on your step. When I'm boiling, I just stare down at the pages so it looks like I'm reading, when in reality, I'm tossing around homicidal fantasies and trying to make myself laugh in my head. They'll probably make loud comments, toss CD's, whatever because they are so desperate for some attention, even if it's destructive. That's the nature of these dark ones I'm talking about.

I'm tempted to suggest keeping the camera with you because even though some of those pigs are acting like a bunch of cocks, there are a few good ones out there. But that could instigate more shit from them. Then again, if you're sitting on your step having a smoke and all of a sudden you start laughing out loud (minus the book, for full effect, of course) then you might scare them a little. Or not. I don't know. If you choose to keep the camera with you, I'd give your tapes to your mum for safe keeping. Since you're moving anyway (and they can't kick you out for it), why not borrow or adopt a large dog for the rest of the month to help you feel safer in your home and to deter future break-ins. Plus, a dog is great company, doesn't talk back, and will bark at them for you. I just wouldn't get a pitbull or staffordshire because they'll nail you for keeping a "menacing animal". A german shepard or doberman would do just fine... hehehe

I don't know if you have a state human rights commission, but in Canada, it's against the law to discriminate against another on the grounds of physical or mental disability. I have my complaint in front of the federal human rights commission. The bastards (respondents) didn't even bother to respond. The investigation has started and the commission said they'll collect evidence and information without their cooperation. It'll probably end up in a Tribunal. In any case, Palm, going to the human rights commission has given me a small sense of being in control again. It's an empowering way to say to bullies that we don't have to put up with their shit and that if they choose to bully, which is against the law if you can prove it, then there will be a consequence. Have a good one!!!

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Re: what-a-night
      #278390 - Thu Jun 27 2002 10:49 AM

I can't afford a dog.

I can't afford to move.

It looks like my option now is to put what I can in the car and live in a homeless shelter for several months until I can get enough money ahead from my monthly benefit to get a place.

Lookslike I'm going to lose just about everything, and no one is going to do anything to help me or stop them.

They're going to try to steal everything I have before I move, and the cops aren't going to do a damn thing about it. I think they've made that pretty clear.

So the exchange rate is .65 US to 1 CA?

Not bad...


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Re: what-a-night
      #278450 - Thu Jun 27 2002 01:36 PM

You know, it's my observation that what I'm going through isn't at all unusual for the poor and disabled. You just never hear about it. Most poor & disabled can't afford a computer.

And most poor & disabled are either too considerate to burden others with their problems or too ashamed and victimized to want to talk about them.

But the kind of crap I've described is all I've ever known in low-income housing - in any place I could afford.


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Re: what-a-night
      #278488 - Thu Jun 27 2002 02:59 PM

Yup
$1.00 USD = $1.51 CAD

Come spend your YANKEE dollars here.

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Re: what-a-night
      #278665 - Thu Jun 27 2002 11:53 PM

God's gift mine? God's gift Crap?

Hmmmmmm. you knowa respecta the creator he gonna comea and crapa ona you!
I only provide the truth no crap although it is good fertilizer.

I cannot cool your anger you will have to do that. But what I told you is correct other wise Benny Gerraro would never have got what he did from the US supreme court and that is just the beginning for religious freedom of the herb.

Do not bite th hand that offers solutions to your problems lest your look like a whiner not wanting a solution but a satge to whine upon. I do think the lawyer will have fun with your evidense and a law suit agaisnt the police for deriliction of duty. The tape is damming and whooeee you in for some cash if your cracker jack lawyer is in for a probono ride.

If the cop will not press charges file a civil suit like the OJ case and present the evidense of the actions and nail them the cops and your pest neighbor.

"You will know them by their fruit"

Peaches anyone!!!

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Re: what-a-night
      #278808 - Fri Jun 28 2002 10:56 AM

I remember reading a story about how when you're learning to race cars, the only thing - the crucial thing - we must do when we start to lose control is to look at the road - NOT THE WALL. If you look at the wall or the ditch or wherever you're headed - that is indeed, where you'll end up.

Eyes back on the road Palm!!!

Examine all your options. Can you move in with your mum for a few weeks while you get things in order? Do you have other friends or relatives you can stay with for a while? That will give you time to save up for a new damage deposit. Remember, those bastards want nothing more than to see you end up in the ditch.

Don't give it to them - head up - dignity - and the middle finger salute if you please, when you leave. You will make it through this with a new strength that you never knew possible. Or you will crawl through it and end up feeling resentful and angry for a long time.

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Re: what-a-night
      #279148 - Sat Jun 29 2002 01:25 AM

Just a suggestion.
If you are having trouble getting a damage deposit saved maybe you could offer something of yours of equal value as collateral for the deposit. When you get the money together you pay the new landloard and you get your item back. I know you probably don't want to part with it as it is such a part of our lives these days but you do have a computer to offer if it comes down to it.

Just an idea. I was a landlord for 9 years so I know most won't look at you without a deposit, but I would take collateral of equal or greater value.

Also a cool landlord would like someone who they knew would grow a small ammount of weed to move in. He could take pot from you as part of the rent. As long as it's not going to destroy the property in any way, why wouldn't he? He gets a better supply of weed that he knows was grown naturally. Since the renter is doing the growing, the property can't get seized by police if a bust was made. You both win. The problem is finding a cool landlord.

Man now I wish I had the money to buy a rental property out in BC.

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Re: what-a-night
      #279210 - Sat Jun 29 2002 08:28 AM

The property manager told me I'd have the deposit back within 24 hours if I could give them a firm date that I would be out.

Thursday I called Martha's Village, a charity business. They told me they did intake between 8-10 and 1-3 - that they were taking it now. I told them I was afraid to leave because the only one that wasn't one of them, my neighbor Maurice, wasn't home and I was afraid they'd steal my computer.

Friday, I disassembled the computer and put it and a few other things in the car. Took ANOTHER direct deposit advance and got gas to drive 40 miles to Indio, to Martha's Villiage, where they told me I should have been there at 7:30 in the morning to wait in line (first come, first serve) for a room.

I drove home crying.

I wake up crying every morning....

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