"But now I have all the reconn intel I need to do a slow night crawl up your long driveway some night and light a bag of doo doo on your porch and ring the bell!
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RJ:
That kind of thing reminds me of one of my father's really great old friends, Warner Jones from Kentucky, God rest his soul.
Warner had to be one of the funniest guys I've ever known but he had a sense of humor that could lapse over into the slightly evil and bizarre now and again. He was the president of Churchill Downs and the owner of Hermitage Farm in Kentucky, one of the premier thoroughbred operations of its time.
In his early days Warner could hit the sauce pretty heavy now and again and it got him into some serious hot water sometimes.
One time he tried to rip all the cloths off movie star Fay Wray on an airplane and they had to put him in a straight jacket. Another time he got pissed at something he heard on TV and pulled out his shotgun and blew the television set to Kingdom Come. One or both of those events got him slammed into some dryout place but before he was incarcerated in it he hid booze all over Hermitage Farm, made a map of it all and gave a copy to the Farm manager I guess in case he lost his copy when he got out.
When he did get out sure enough he'd lost his copy of the map so he went to his Farm manager who tried to hold him up for it for some enormous sum. That of course created another serious kerfuffle.
But Warner did quit the booze for the rest of his life but even with that his wicked sense of humor did get the better of him sometimes and it reminds me of what you said about the do-do on my porch. Warner got really pissed at some guy down in Delray/Gulfstream where he lived in the winter and he had three large truckloads of horse manure dumped right on the guy's front door step.
Of course that got Warner into hot water with the Delray police but somehow that too passed as all things seem to eventually even though the restitution he had to pay was a whole lot more than the intrinsic value of three large truckloads of horse manure.