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jon f mn

jon f mn

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As you know I drive truck over the road, and yes you see all the stuff you've heard about, altho I think less often than some would say. Every once in a while I see something that bothers me such as about 5 years ago when I saw a car sitting on the side of the road with a small boy standing in the back seat. I didn't see any adults and thought about stopping, but by the time I made up my mind I was well past. So I just called 911 and reported it. It may have been just someone who had to make an emergency stop to pee and I missed them, but it took long enough for the boy to stand up in the seat. The cop said they would check it out, but I've always regretted not stopping to check myself to make sure that someone wasn't sick or something. Which brings me to yesterday. I was driving up I57 in Il. and I saw a guy with a girls hair in his hand playing with it. No girl, just a chopped off pony tail. I was very creeped by it. I know there could be many harmless reasons for it like the death of a loved one, but what if it was something worse like a trophy from a dead girl or something. I sure wish I had gotten his plate and reported it. I'm just wondering if I'm the only one who would let this bother me or would this bother you too?
 
That would bother me too.....But maybe that guy was playing with his OWN chopped off ponytail.LOL
 
Creepy is...Finding a fresh holstein cow's front leg (skin on and neatly severed 3" below the knee on the only place it can be done with a knife) in my bison pasture 30 miles from the nearest dairy and 3 miles from the nearest road and 5 miles from the nearest neighbor.
And double creepy is finding another fresh front leg cut the same way but from an other breed cow 2 months later in the same pasture. :shock:

No bite marks on either leg
 
I would tend to agree, you do see some things from the higher perch in the seat of a tractor trailer,some of which would be inappropriate to mention here ;) .

Years ago, we had our own rig, for a business, but we did hire out to keep the truck busy, and one load headed to Florida was a generator set, for a building project. Somewhere along I 95, not sure where, and maybe it was another road, destination was Palatka Fla., I saw a kid, with light brown or maybe a darker blonde hair, was a definitely a kid judging by size, face down, head oriented closest to the white line, along the side of the road, at night, no vehicle nearby. It was 1983 I believe, myself and another guy in the '80 GMC Astro. I believe it was reported on channel 9 on the CB, never knew what happened, but its something that gets under your skin, just bizarre to see a person, a kid no less, face down along a highway late at night. Its human nature for most to want to help or rescue someone from a bad situation, some of these things you just don't forget and wonder about.
 
Better be careful. Back in the 50's 60's it was a trap to lie beside the road to ture a good Samaritan to take his money when he stopped.
 
Before I retired, I worked for the MA Highway Dept. for 32 years and could wright a book on all the things I have seen. I can"t tell you how many times I called the police or fire departments for issues on the road and almost never heard the outcome. Most times I felt I did my best to help and let the experts do their job. I was ok with that.
 
I worked in road construction for 33+ years, and my job required a lot of road time. I've stopped for maybe a hundred disabled vehicles, and luckily they all had a good outcome. As I got closer to retirement, I figured my luck would change for the bad, but it never did. You do have to be careful. I'd draw the line at a night stop in unfamiliar territory for a body along the road, especially now that we all have cell phones.

The ponytail - there are some weird people out there.
 
Several years ago I was hauling a combine in the Cody WY area (I think?) on a highway with trees on both sides and a long embankment on my left side ending in a ravine . I saw a dead deer laying on the road and then I just caught a glimpse of a vehicle way down at the bottom of the ravine with broken saplings leading to it. The traffic was a little heavy, mostly cars and I was 13'6" wide with a narrow shoulder and a fairly steep downhill and didn't feel like messing with the phone so I didn't call it in. I've always thought about that. The cars couldn't see it but I could see it from the truck and the visual opportunity was only a second or two. I couldn't pull over at that location but I could have found a place to stop a few miles down the road to make the call. It could have been one of those cases where the vehicle isn't found for several days. Jim
 
Working on the Railroad..A train had hit a person
laying across the track..suicide by Locomotive,
There were brains and hair all over the front
axle..had to take a fire hose and wash it off.
That was in the 1970"s...Today, because of AIDS
a special crew, wearing tyvek suits, is called in
and sprays everything with bleach,including the ground, after the rinse off. Deer, cows, raccoons
are common everyday occurances. Humans, once or
twice a year!
 
I used to stop at disabled vehicles, but at my age now I don't stop. I did plenty of that in my time, now I leave it for someone younger.
 
My brother dropped me off at a gas station just off I35 in Kansas on his way back from a rush trip across country. I called my wife to come pick me up. It was about midnight and she pulled into the pump area to fill up (no point in wasting a trip into town). As soon as she put the nozzel in the tank some guy came out of nowhere and started asking her for a ride, where ever she was going it didn't matter.

I came out of the station and approached the pump and said "You need to leave her alone and get on down the road". The guy turned around and told me to mind my own business as he was talking to the lady and not me.

The police were called that night and the guy spent a couple days in jail. Turned out he had a couple rape/$exual assault convictions and several other unprosecuted charges and was definately high on something. He was from the KC area and couldn't explain how he came to be face down in a parking lot 50 miles from home.

My wife had always taken it for granted she was pretty safe in our little town but learned that night that the highway brings in a lot of trash.
 
I've seen similar, couple of girls with their thumbs out, hitch hiking, when you stop, some thugs come out... the ways of the wicked never cease to amaze me, one does need to use discretion, its always on my mind, things are not always as they appear, a philosophy to live by in this world. Ladies of the night at truck stops, pickle parks, over the road trucking does learn ya a few things to avoid at any cost.
 
Driving home with my brother one night from a bar. 2 in the morning - pitch black back roads through the woods.

Suddenly passed a little girl dressed in a fancy white dress just standing right on the side of the road.
(maybe 6 or 7 years old?)

My brother screamed out a "what the )($#$ is THAT". We had to ask each other if we just saw what we thought was saw.

slammed on the brakes and turned around, but she was gone. We drove up and down the road several times, and there was nothing.

No houses around there, just woods woods and more woods.

Freaks us both out to this day.

Back in the days before cell phones - couldn't call the police.

Maybe somebody was just messing with us, but seems an odd place to mess with people - the kind of road where there's like 1 car every two hours (during the day - much less at 2 in the morning). Can't see a little girl having that kind of patience for a prank on a freezing cold fall night. But I can't think of any other explanation.
 
A friend of mine found a dead body in his corn field on the first round opening up a field.The guy had been shot 4 times in the head.
 
Odd one at Walmart the other day.
Two gals waived me down and needed a lift. One got in back and the other in front The one in front started sliding her top up! Boy did that get my attention!. While that was going on the other one took my wallet!
I called the cops on that, all right. They wanted to know when it happened.I said "twice on Sunday, and again on Tuesday and Wednesday"...
 
A friend of mine was a truck driver all over the eastern half of the US of A for 4 years. He told me that he saw many wrecks where you know people had died.
I had a strange incident happen several years ago. A woman pulled up next to me at a red light and asked me if I wanted a free stereo. I declined (she was in a step van) Quite possibly 2 thugs would have jumped out of the van and mugged me. (There are some real lowlifes out there) I do not stop to help anyone, Just call it in to a cop. (better to be safe than sorry)
 
Here's one from the family lore files: before my parents married, mom lived and worked in Milwaukee. She and a friend, also from the area, had a long weekend and decided to drive home. This was in the early 1950s when people were mysteriously disappearing into Plainfield Wisconsin area. Because of their work shifts, they did not get to leave Milwaukee till sometime well after midnight. As they were pulling through Plainfield at 5 AM they saw a local café opening up and thought coffee and a doughnut might make a good breakfast. As they ate, there was an older small man eating at the counter. When they got up to leave he was gone. When they got their car, he comes out of nowhere asking for a ride. Not even caring which way they were going. This creeped them out, they refused offer him a ride, got in the car and took off. They hadn't seen him in the street and surmised that he had been hiding in a recessed doorway. Fast forward several years. Mom and dad were married and so was her friend. One evening a friend comes over an absolute panic with the newspaper. It had the story of a man named Ed Giens, from the Plainfield area who had been caught cannibalizing people. The story included a photograph, it was the same man who I tried to get a ride from the two of them in Plainfield years earlier.
 
I had a trucker ask me, over my car's cb, to stop and help an old lady broke down beside the road. It was 30 minutes east of California City. I obliged and was reward with a small hammerless snub nosed revolver in my ribs. She wanted a ride to Mohave and she got one. She told me to pull in to a parking lot and get out. She was real excited and got out first. I left. CHP wasnt' interested. She had done it many times before and hadn't shot anyone yet, they said.

Aaron
 

In the early 70s our company had a check threw garage East of Gary In. Some steel hauler had hit the side of the bridge on 53 at Ripley street where the our check thru was on old US 20. I was coming from the West some where, probably Iowa, had to get off at Cline Ave, go North to US 20 then East threw Gary. This was about 4 in the morning, coming up to a traffic light there was a car in the left lane just setting there while the light was green. When I got up there the light turned red, pulled up next to the car and looked down into it, and saw a guy laying over in the seat with part of his head blown off. Blood all over every where. I put it in gear and ran threw that red light. At our check thru, I was telling those guys about it, and another driver came in, said cop cars all over back there. Never did hear what happened. Figured mafia bumped someone off.
 
Creepy is fixing a phone in a morgue or funeral home next to a corpse laid out in the drain table. Done it more than once. Creepy is having a forensics person at a state police crime lab role a human eyeball across the table at you while you are fixing the wall phone. Creepy is fixing the phones at the super duper offender place, after they get out of prison for heinous crimes that are not repeatable here, and are so bad that they are turned over to the department of human services mental health, and will get in your face and tell you that there was nothing wrong with what he did, so heinous that its not repeatable here, that society is messed up for locking him up...and be serious when he says it. Creepy is standing next to a an inmate in a prison where are fixing a phone, and they call the guy "72". You ask why they call him "72", and they tell you that he has been tied to 72 murders around the country, and they aren't joking.

There's a whole lot of creepy stuff and people out there. Creepiest of all is that you see so much of it that you get numb to it, or buy video games for your children that recreate much of it. I don't have kids of do video games, but I am numb to some of the creepiness that I see many days.

Mark
Radiohead Creep
 
I worked in a plant in Union City Tennessee back in the'90s, it was right on the Obion River. We had a strange one, the local slaughter plant(Reel Foot Packing) closed down. A few months later one of our trucks is coming in and sees a car parked on the bridge, driver gets a little freaked out as there was a pair of lady's shoes on the trunk of the car. He drops his trailer and comes into the office and talks to the plant manager, they decide to call the Sheriff. They come out run the tag on the car, the R.O is one of the former bookkeepers from Reel Foot, they look in the car and find a suicide note, seems she had been embezzling from Reel Foot and was now feeling guilty about all the folks out of work with the plant closing. The note told them to look in the trunk,all the money she had left from what was stolen was in the trunk.
 
(quoted from post at 16:32:52 12/03/13) Here's one from the family lore files: before my parents married, mom lived and worked in Milwaukee. She and a friend, also from the area, had a long weekend and decided to drive home. This was in the early 1950s when people were mysteriously disappearing into Plainfield Wisconsin area. Because of their work shifts, they did not get to leave Milwaukee till sometime well after midnight. As they were pulling through Plainfield at 5 AM they saw a local café opening up and thought coffee and a doughnut might make a good breakfast. As they ate, there was an older small man eating at the counter. When they got up to leave he was gone. When they got their car, he comes out of nowhere asking for a ride. Not even caring which way they were going. This creeped them out, they refused offer him a ride, got in the car and took off. They hadn't seen him in the street and surmised that he had been hiding in a recessed doorway. Fast forward several years. Mom and dad were married and so was her friend. One evening a friend comes over an absolute panic with the newspaper. It had the story of a man named Ed Giens, from the Plainfield area who had been caught cannibalizing people. The story included a photograph, it was the same man who I tried to get a ride from the two of them in Plainfield years earlier.
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yeah, FOLKlore - as in "not true"

Gein was more a grave robber than a murderer. He only killed two women, both known by him. That, and Plainfield is not on the way to anywhere from Milwaukee - it's an hour and a half north of Madison. I've been there many times as we had a fertilizer plant in Almond, WI, just north of Plainfield. I think your mom told a story to thrill the kiddies.
 
I've seen stuff that would bother you for the rest of your life. I know it does me. You know how everybody gets mad because they're sitting in their car eating or sleeping or whatever and some cop comes up wants to check on you? I've interrupted a couple of se xual assaults, a rape, several suicidal people and found several successful suicides. Also found a lot of less creepy stuff. The things people do in their cars is kinda weird.
 
A. I take exception to myself or family members being called liars.
B. Story was not told in a manner to frighten children. I didn't hear about it until I was 18. I heard it discussed between my mother, father and her friend, and her friends husband at a family gathering.
C. just because he "only" killed two women, does not mean he was not looking for the opportunity to kill more.
D. according to my understanding of the case there were more preserved female body parts in his possession then were accounted for for by the graves that were robbed. There are a number of unsolved missing persons cases from that time frame in that area.
E. in the days before the interstate system, and even today Hiway 73 goes directly through Plainfield in route from Southeast Wisconsin to County Highway W leading to the small town of Lynn. This is where my mother grew up.
F. I know better than to expect an apology from any of the"we know better than everybody else"group inhabiting this board.
 
I was in Gary one time for work and as I left the jobsite I came around a corner and a cop car was sitting there. He flagged me down and came over to chat. He said, "yea we got a dead body here, just go on around". He said it like it wasn't a big deal. As I went around his car a dead black teenager was propped up against the guardrail with a bullet hole right between his eyes. Sad thing is on my way into the jobsite, I almost turned on that backroad and would have been the one to find him.

Then there was this time driving down the interstate and had a car load of girls pass by standing topless through the sunroof. I almost wrecked that day.
 
(quoted from post at 06:50:21 12/04/13) A. I take exception to myself or family members being called liars.
B. Story was not told in a manner to frighten children. I didn't hear about it until I was 18. I heard it discussed between my mother, father and her friend, and her friends husband at a family gathering.
C. just because he "only" killed two women, does not mean he was not looking for the opportunity to kill more.
D. according to my understanding of the case there were more preserved female body parts in his possession then were accounted for for by the graves that were robbed. There are a number of unsolved missing persons cases from that time frame in that area.
E. in the days before the interstate system, and even today Hiway 73 goes directly through Plainfield in route from Southeast Wisconsin to County Highway W leading to the small town of Lynn. This is where my mother grew up.
F. I know better than to expect an apology from any of the"we know better than everybody else"group inhabiting this board.
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Well now, I didn't call you a liar. You were just relaying a story told to you. I wasn't even calling your mom a lair. Maybe she genuinely believed she met him at the cafe. It is more likely she did not, but mis-identification can be made. People like to be connected to significant events. It's human nature. If everyone who claimed to be in Dallas the day Kennedy was shot was actually there, there'd have been 10 million people in town. The same goes for connections to Gein. It's unlikely for you to remember a 5 minute encounter with a creepy dude in a cafe in a small town well enough to ID him 10 years later in a newspaper picture.

People around Plainfield either claim they knew him very well or deny his existence. The facts are the facts. He murdered two women and robbed approximately 9 graves by his own confession. They didn't even dig up all the graves - only three - so how would there be an accounting of the "trophies"?

I do apologize for doubting your mom was in Plainfield in the 50's. You never mentioned the she was from the area, just that she was passing through. I think we can both agree that is true that Plainfield is an unlikely town to "pass through" on the way to anywhere from Milwaukee - even in the 50's.
 
" People like to be connected to significant events. It's human nature.". It was not something she bragged about or even wanted to talk about. she only told it the one time.
"It's unlikely for you to remember a 5 minute encounter with a creepy dude in a cafe in a small town well enough to ID him 10 years later in a newspaper picture". Again with the conclusions with out facts. two people made the id in a little less than a 2 year time span. And mom was a person who recognized people she met in grade school well into her 70's
 
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