Oct 28 2008
Runaway Train
Well dear readers it is now Tuesday and just 4 days till my parole….man I keep doing that….vacation. In case this is your first blog of mine. I am working with some dear friends and we are trying to raise awareness of The Choking Game which claimed my 19 year old brother’s life. Please Google search GASP for more information on this activity. So I have typed my blogs early and have been sharing my favorite stories of my brother.
Like I have mentioned my brother wasn’t always an angel and his Halo is a bit tarnished. When he was 17 my dear brother Justin decided that he was going to steal my mother’s car and run away to Texas. So one night he snuck out and headed out. Now keep in mind his reasoning was he met a girl on the internet. So for several days we had no idea where he was or what he was doing. My mom filed a charge and the car was placed on stolen vehicle list in hopes of turning up my brother. After 5 days he calls and we have to head to Katy, Texas to pick him and her car up. Now keep in mind I am several years older than he was and he was like one of my kids. So after us driving straight through to Texas he had the pleasure of riding with me all the way back to Alabama. I didn’t shut up for a minute. I gave him all kind of crap. Well my mother was behind us in her car that was APB for being stolen. In Louisiana we were pulled over by a state trooper because of my NASCAR license holder was blocking my year on the tag (on a side note I assume the trooper was a Jeff Gordon fan and didn’t like my Dale Earnhardt Jr. Tag). My brother did not breathe the whole time we were pulled over because he just KNEW he was going to jail if the trooper asked him for ID. The look of relief on his face was priceless but I must admit I took a bit of pleasure from his worrying. Also we all thought it was funny that a STOLEN car was right in front of this State Trooper and he passed it by to pull us over for our tag. Go figure…at the time this was funny but now we laugh about it….like I said his halo is a bit tarnished and crooked…
