(click pic) This last Saturday I drove down to Gardena to check on my attorney, the 74 year-old homeless camper-dweller, and I couldn't find his camper, the HMS Jamboree, anywhere . . . not in any of the places he usually parks.
Finally, I found the old man. He was standing in the middle of Crenshaw Boulevard close to El Camino College, standing in the middle of the street screaming at the stream of cars driving around him, screaming "They took EVERYTHING! EVERYTHING!"
I pulled over to the curb and yelled at Don to get out of the street. He walked over to my car and got in as if I were a cab he had called hours ago.
"They took EVERYTHING!" he screamed into my ear.
"Who did what?" I asked.
"My motor home. The police took my motor home. TWENTY MINUTES AGO!"
Don said "TWENTY MINUTES AGO" as if it was my fault the police had taken his motor home, as if had I shown up ON TIME for my weekly visit (even though my visits are purely voluntary and the result of pity for the old fart), if I had arrived on time twenty minutes ago, in Don's mind, I could've prevented the police from taking that old piece of shit, raggedy RV and his two dogs.
The police took Don's home and his dogs while Don was taking a free weightlifting class at El Camino College because Don's vehicle registration expired five years ago and he has around $1,600.00 in outstanding parking tickets on it. Even his dogs are expired and license-less.
After calming Don down, I took him to the El Camino Police Station to find out where they towed his RV and to which doggie jail they had sent his German Shepherd and Pitt Bull. Everything in the world he owned and his two best friends were in that towed-off RV.
Don was full of righteous indignation when we walked in to that El Camino Village police station. He was pissed. He was going to get to the bottom of this great injustice of being thrown unceremoniously out into the street by a marauding tow truck.
What Don hadn't counted on when we stormed the El Camino Village Police Station last Saturday was the forgotten fact that he had a warrant out for his arrest from the Hawthorne Police Department, a FTA (Failure To Appear) warrant.
END PART ONE
Finally, I found the old man. He was standing in the middle of Crenshaw Boulevard close to El Camino College, standing in the middle of the street screaming at the stream of cars driving around him, screaming "They took EVERYTHING! EVERYTHING!"
I pulled over to the curb and yelled at Don to get out of the street. He walked over to my car and got in as if I were a cab he had called hours ago.
"They took EVERYTHING!" he screamed into my ear.
"Who did what?" I asked.
"My motor home. The police took my motor home. TWENTY MINUTES AGO!"
Don said "TWENTY MINUTES AGO" as if it was my fault the police had taken his motor home, as if had I shown up ON TIME for my weekly visit (even though my visits are purely voluntary and the result of pity for the old fart), if I had arrived on time twenty minutes ago, in Don's mind, I could've prevented the police from taking that old piece of shit, raggedy RV and his two dogs.
The police took Don's home and his dogs while Don was taking a free weightlifting class at El Camino College because Don's vehicle registration expired five years ago and he has around $1,600.00 in outstanding parking tickets on it. Even his dogs are expired and license-less.
After calming Don down, I took him to the El Camino Police Station to find out where they towed his RV and to which doggie jail they had sent his German Shepherd and Pitt Bull. Everything in the world he owned and his two best friends were in that towed-off RV.
Don was full of righteous indignation when we walked in to that El Camino Village police station. He was pissed. He was going to get to the bottom of this great injustice of being thrown unceremoniously out into the street by a marauding tow truck.
What Don hadn't counted on when we stormed the El Camino Village Police Station last Saturday was the forgotten fact that he had a warrant out for his arrest from the Hawthorne Police Department, a FTA (Failure To Appear) warrant.
END PART ONE
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