Tales From the Ghetto

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Had to break out the MinoHD, turn it on, and start filming, all while driving.

Old ass late 80’s S10 pickup on ~22″ chrome pepboys wheels.

And the lovely Cecily was snapping pics of this car with my phone for this site. Great success!

If you rent a car, then don’t pay for it, make sure they don’t have GPS with starter interrupt, or you may find yourself pushing your new appliances home on a dolly.

While you would assume he’s a vagrant of some kind, he’s actually one of my talented customer service representatives, a rental agent.

Talents include the ability to render a car totally inoperable while “fixing it” and using starting fluid as a defensive weapon against transients and crackheads.

Every time it snows I basically wait for the calls to let me know one of the fleet cars has been crashed into something in a spectacular fashion. Last weekend was no different.

Our first victim, previously a Pontiac Grand Prix was rear ended by a school bus, which knocked it into another school bus. Kinda cool.

The other one was a Hyundai Elantra that someone drove into a pole at what appears to be a decent speed.

Goodnight sweet princes.

While I was back there to check out the damage to the cars, I noticed something kinda odd, so I shot a quick vid.

Yep. It would appear as if someone, presumably a crackhead, decide to camp in my junkyard, going so far as to build a fire for warmth. Awesome.

He’s one of the crackheads that can always be found somewhere in the general downtown Memphis area. He has a limp that gets worse if a group of tourists are around.

He’s actually pretty cool for a crackhead, and will do stuff like clean up tourist puke in bathrooms for a couple of bucks, as he was employed to do when this pic was taken.

(Willy is in the NY hat on the right, I have no idea who the guy in the back is, but he apparently wanted to be in the picture too.)

I have some fun Willy stories on my other site. I’m going to interview him next time I see him, assuming he hasn’t spent his rent money on crack and died of exposure yet.

Ghetto engineering at it’s finest. A stolen shopping cart makes anything instantly portable. Unless it won’t fit in a shopping cart, I guess.