How about a reservation at the Forestry Dept. Homeless Shelter? So mafia!
04-11-2017
Mr. Curry
Favor –
How many
true stories do I have to relate before someone allows me to speak at a public
or closed meeting regarding the troubled Metrolink system? When I heard Charlie
Brennan’s interview with John Nations on KMOX yesterday, I called the radio
station and was given his producer’s name. I also called “Dolly” at the County
Executive’s office and was given your name.
Today, I
spoke with Sarah about what Mr. Brennan had said, According to Charlie; the
County Executive has called a meeting about the transit system and not invited
Mr. Nations. In my vast bureaucratic experience this could lead to Mr. Nations
being fired and he sounded audibly nervous about the troubles.
I wondered
aloud to Sarah about whether Mr. Brennan wasn’t just “running his mouth,”
because I am indeed a native of this community and it was a neighborhood expression
to say, “We’re having a meeting, and you are not invited.” Charlie boasted of
beating a traffic ticket in Moline Acres, whereas I used one of their real
early 1970’s cops to create a 2002 screenplay character. When I returned from
showing the script to a person formerly in the movie business, I was issued a
ticket by one of your female police officers who did not see the alleged infraction.
That went to a traffic law clinic, because you are not raising my insurance
rates with that garbage.
Exasperated
about years of mystery regarding where my motor vehicles landed—not on the
backside of Mars—I told Sarah the following:
1.
I
was on a bus when the driver fell asleep and nearly had a head-on collision
with a dump truck. After “nodding off,” he yanked our bus to the right and the
near miss could have been measured in inches. What would have happened to me in
the front of the bus? I’d be dead. (And, there were additional reportable
incidents on the same crazed #40 route ride).
2.
I
boarded a #73 bus and smelled a very strong scent of marijuana on an
African-American bus driver.
3.
Recently,
I had the misfortune of seeing this same driver piloting the #21 bus without
the “reefer stench,” and he was rude to me. We can speculate in a private
meeting about why his attitude is in need of an adjustment. Do you people run
drug screens on these drivers? I’d like some answers, please. Mr. Nations has
not been fired? He ought to be.
4.
This
item will not be ignored or I will ask a cop to handcuff me to Sam Dotson’s
office door until something is done about rampant drug trafficking in this
town. In case you do not know, as I told Sarah, illegal drugs are openly offered
at your transit centers. While I jokingly call 14th & Spruce “The
Kit Bond Train Station,” this is not funny. After being offered drugs many
times in slang I don’t understand and directing marijuana smokers to nearby stores
with rolling papers, a young man clarified matters by asking “Do you want any
cocaine?” within earshot of a transit guard.
5.
I
further mentioned to Sarah I have dozens of additional accurate reports that
Civic Pride and MAC members don’t want to hear. You’d better listen to me,
because I spent a career assessing dangerousness for mental health agencies. Therefore,
you might want to discuss your hotheaded bus drivers who boast of their guns on
the job. Take it from a firearm hater; if you have a mass shooting, it’s going
to be the driver, not a bum on the bus. We need to talk—soon.
Guess
what? I might need something in return, like a stipend, a paycheck, a per diem,
or a lift to a movie producer’s office in LA who has been waiting three years. Please
don’t join the ranks of young neo-fascists who would jog under my window and
ask, “Got any money?” I may well ask you “Got a printer?” because I am not paying
one penny to reproduce my two letters sent to Bi State which received
absolutely no response, and those were serious allegations. Could we add somebody
shooting an AR-15 at my #8 bus stop? Didn’t I mention we need to talk?
Thanks,
William C.
Hughes
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