Alcoholism and brazen, well-plotted acts
Amazing Antics: Stories of Alcoholism-Driven Behaviors
Addicts commit the most brazen crimes
“HOUSE ARREST: For nearly three months, people noticed two men dismantling a vacant house in Lindale, Texas. Even the local cops. “We wondered why it was taking so long, rather than just bulldoze it,” says Smith County Constable Dennis Taylor. No one thought anything of it since it was right next to two commercial construction projects. But then Taylor got a report of a stolen house. “I said, ‘Is it a trailer house, ma’am?”‘ Taylor says. “She said, ‘No, it’s a brick house.’ I said, ‘What?” He quickly put one and one together and arrested the two, Brandon Parmer, 29, and Darrell Maxfield, 44, who confessed to selling the parts to buy drugs. Jesse Vega, 36, was also arrested, allegedly for buying the pieces and giving them men methamphetamine for their work. (Tyler Morning Telegraph) …They were on speed and it still took them three months?”
Planting a finger in a bowl of hot chili and slowly dismantling a house are brazen acts of recklessness that few but practicing addicts would ever even think of, much less dare to attempt. Such risk-taking defies logic, because the lower brain centers ride roughshod over the neo-cortex, the seat of reason and logic. The need to wield power over others takes countless forms, including “watch what I can get away with.” When discovering new continents, the addict serves mankind. More often than not, however, the deeds are destructive acts with negative social benefits. Unless, of course, the house was destined for the trash bin: at least these addicts, unlike many, recycled.
(Story passed along by Randy Cassingham, author of “This is True.”For more alcoholic antics deserving of Darwin Awards, see http://www.thisistrue.com for free subscriptions.)