Blood sport? Gettin’ religion.
Oh, the horror! (Updated story)
Make that bloody spot.
His next book title will be “I Was Wrong”?
Or “The Irony of Life”?
Or maybe not – someone did stop to help.
Montana has some Badlands
(Image http://www.glasgomontana.com)
Raymond Dolin, a 39-year-old man from West Virginia, is inspired by the kindness of people and is hitchhiking across the states to gather anecdotes for a book, “The Kindness of America”.
He had made it close to Glasgow, Montana about 6 on Saturday night. Simply sitting on the side of a road eating dinner and waiting for his next ride.
Down the road came not the Lone Ranger on a fiery steed to assist, but a lone stranger in a maroon pickup. No mask or sidekick, but a gun.
A man alone on an isolated road. A mysterious stranger drives up.
The stuff slumber party legends are made of!
OK. So it’s not a gun, but looks scary,right?
(Book image: http://www.amazon.com)
Dolin is shot!
Just like shooting a bunny in a box.
Out of random meanness?
Sure there’s some logical explanation.
(Uh, we’re waiting – it’s surely coming soon – that lawyer on the phone?)
Montana. (Image: http://www.glasgomontana.com)
Fortunately for Dolin, SOME people are kind.
Someone driving by saw Dolin bleeding and stopped.
Dolin is now in the hospital in Glasgow, Montana.
And apparently SOME people are not too smart.
The shooter stopped and asked directions from a man just down the road.
The maroon truck was spotted driving in Poplar. Then not far away in Culbertson.
Within 4 hours, the driver 52-year-old Charles Lloyd Danielson III, of Washington, was arrested in connection with the shooting: Suspicion of felony assault with a weapon and driving under the influence.
Glasgow Currier building.(Image: http://www.glasgowmontana.com)
Who knows why he shot the hitchhiker.
They didn’t know each other.
Totally random?
Wrong place at wrong time?
Mean “Bakken Scum”? (Did he even work at the Bakken Oil Fields?)
Hate crime against writers?
Just a bloody mystery.
UPDATE: June 15. We’ve got that “logical explanation” now!
Dolan shot himself!
According to Valley County Sheriff’s office, Dolan shot himself in a ”desperate act of self-promotion”. Here’s the story: “Montana authorities say hitchhiker shot himself”. Dolan has not been arrested, but he has confessed. The gun has been recovered. Just the day before, the would be author talked with AP about his planned memoir.
Just when you think things can’t get any stranger!
What a horror story!
Who knows what evil lurks? Maybe the Legend of Horror video does?
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As odd as one convict out for blood in the name of religion.
A prison inmate, Courtney Royal, has sued Texas prison personnel for violating his civil rights as a vampire.
Yes, bloody religious beliefs.
Background:
Serving a life sentence for all sorts of things: aggravated assault, robbery, and escape among others.
This lawsuit started 2 years ago and made its way to the New Orleans 5th Circuit Court of Appeals.
He’s carefully worked on his presentation: a 9 page single spaced typewritten document.
(He realized legibility is important. If you can’t read it, it can’t get graded)
Home of the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals
New Orleans (Image: Bobak Ha’Eri / WIKI)
The Court must have thought his document was more clear than his argument. They tossed it as frivolous.
Frivolous – not frightening.
Royal is probably regrouping.
(Plenty of time to think in prison.)
Possibly watching Dark Shadows video?
(Image: Amazon.com)
Distressed he can’t practice ”West African spiritualism and 18th Century Catholicism” including prayers to “Africans reincarnated by blood”?
He feels this philosophy isn’t so different form Christian belief - also “unproven”, he says.
Annoyed recent movies and books have made Vampires more of a hobby than a religion?
Sorry Mr. Royal “Vampsh Black Sheep League of Doom Gardamun Family Circle Master Vampire High Priest”.
Pure Terror – the horror of it all.
(Video box Image: Amazon.com)
So what’s his next move?
Scaring up friends on Facebook?
Asking Hollywood celebrities for support?
Working on a script for a blockbuster movie deal?
Coryell County Courthouse, TX
(Image. Larry D. Moore : WIKI)
Authorities may want to keep an eye on what he’s reading.
Keep him away from those Karankawa Indian articles.
Might give him ideas.
OK. So they weren’t really cannibals.
So they only ceremonially ate the flesh of dead or dying enemies as the ultimate revenge and a way to capture the enemy’s courage.
If he started thinking in that direction it could cause problems.
- He’s bound to already wrestle and try to demonstrate physical strength.
- Next he’ll be demanding yaupon leaves to brew ceremonial “black drink”.
- Next he’ll be typing another appeal.
- He might claim to be a descendant. (The tribe was pretty much gone by 1858, but that’s not so long ago…especially for a vampire.)
Couldn’t do that, you say?
Well, there’s precedence for claiming heritage. That Elizabeth Warren out of Oklahoma.
People screaming for blood over that one.
A bloody mess. No mystery there.
So the summer’s new legends of horror begin.
Vintage movie poster.
(Image: http://www.amazon.com)
Best watch out for isolated unkindness and anyone looking for blood.
Leaving a bright light on for ya’,
Phil, the Philosopher Mouse of the Hedge
Read more or watch news VIDEO:
Huffington Post. “Raymond Dolin, Hitchhiker Writing ‘The Kindness of American,’ Allegedly shot by Charles Danielson”
I didn’t know anybody hitch hiked anymore. I would be wary of such a thing, but who knows? Whenever I see crumpled mailboxes in a row that someone bashed overnight for fun, I can’t understand it. I don’t know what fun there is in shooting innocent people, bashing mailboxes, or drinking blood. I’ll stick to a little red wine and call it a day.
He wanted to prove people wrong about the danger? He’s got some adventures for his book now…and probably a publisher interested…and TV interviews to set up. Pretty tough way to do all that. (not all the dangerous people are in jail)
I’m with you about the wine. Cheers -and thanks for dropping by.
More evidence that we live in a very bizarre world!
Trying to put the pieces together, it just doesn’t make sense. So strange. Thanks for stopping by
I can’t understand violence in any form — against fellow humans, against animals, or against inanimate objects like mailboxes. Too many days I think the best thing for the planet is another asteroid sending us the way of the dinosaurs. . . . I think I’ll go pour a glass of white wine (cooler in this heat).
All you can do is shake your head at some of this. Thanks for stopping by to chat
What can I say? Bloody brilliant!
Scary legends are being created as we speak! Thanks for hanging around
No offense to Mr. Dolin, but I don’t want to read a book about the essential good nature in humans. I’ve already seen a great deal of their dark side, thank you very much. Now I think the book he writes about dealing with his anger over being a victim of a senseless crime? That will be of far greater interest.
He’ll probably get a 2 book deal.
On a positive note, some local animal shelters are participating in “Just One Day” where no adoptable animals will be euthanized. (The city of Houston has a horrid record – Austin’s good.) Ft Bend is offering to discount adoption fees to $11.00 all week (vaccinations and $1.00 adoption fee). All pets must be microchipped and neutered/spayed (there are vets/clinic discounts). Thank you Fort Bend – and all of the shelters for participating.
For more information on Just One Day visit http://www.justoneday.ws
It’s baby steps, Rumpy, but it’s a step in the right direction.
Baby steps are better than no steps at all.
Gee whiz. You really can’t make this stuff up—truth really is stranger than fiction. I wish I could have seen the faces of the folks who read Royal’s petition. That must have been entertaining.
It’s a joke, right? How did it get all the way to the 5th Circuit Court? He wanted a list of “religious items” and a “spiritual guide”, too.
A real creative guy to say the least.
Thanks for stopping by to chat
Mean drunks with guns and nothing better to do with them than shoot strangers by the road. Another reason we need stricter gun laws. But that’s probably as unlikely to happen in Montana as it is in Texas.
Why don’t we just get rid of mean drunks? Might work. (won’t make any difference to the vampire) Thanks for dropping by
Even though I am inspired by people’s kindness, I am aware enough of the evil to not test it out by hitchhiking across the country (or walking in dark alleys alone at night, or by pinning a $100 bill on my shirt and strolling downtown.)
As for the vampire civil rights – some people have waaaaay too much time on their hands.
Yeah, some of us are more wary than other….or maybe they have just been fortunate to lead a sheltered life.
(and the vampire guy….whose tax dollars are supporting you? Food, shelter, medical care, entertainment, college degrees, law libraries, computers, workout rooms, flat screens….)
Thanks for stopping to play!
Good points. I thought that the 15 minutes of fame comes to you – maybe some people work a little too hard to get it!
So true! Thanks for drifting in
Ironic is not the word!
A prisoner in the UK is suing the British government for the right to vote, as prisoners up til now had no right to vote. He is doing it through the EU court of (in)human rights. The Court has found in his favour and has now given an ultimatum to the British government to allow prisoners to vote or pay a huge fine! The PM has stuck his heals in and won’t budge, but the European Union is an all powerful bunch of unelected bureaucrats and they will probably win! Prisoners have rights you see!
I don’t believe prisoners should vote either. You screw up, you lose rights.
For weirdness, what about the prisoner who got on the ballot for a recent election – and won? The people hated the other guy.
Good luck with the EU – It seems the more people involved with decisions – the stranger the outcome. THanks for stopping by to chat.
There are just too many layers of weird here for me to even figure out what to say. I mean… really?!! It’s all weird.
It’s totally weird! Thanks for stopping by to puzzle over it
And continuing on with my weird theme… have you now read that the “victim” of the shooting shot himself to get attention?!! Like this story could get any more strange.
Insane!Just saw it.
Just when you think it can’t get any stranger – it does.
I’ll have to do an update!
Thanks for keeping up with the weirdness!
Reminds me of the film The Hitchhiker (old, like me). Just been reading some spooky books about killing off writers. Some of them tread a fine line with their research…
You have to hand it to the Vamp, certainly imaginative.
It does seem just like those old spooky tales! Thanks for wandering by
While hitchhiking isn’t my cup of tea, i do know some who do. It is unsettling, what twisted people can be up to.
As for Prisoner Vampire? Clap clap.
… Very unsettling.
Scary in several ways! Thanks for stopping by to chat
Maybe the drunk shooter should share a cell with the vampire prisoner–both could practice blood sport on each other. A 2 for 1 deal! More wine pmh–we’ve drank the bottle up over this one!
Sensible! (both comment and solution). Thanks
No real fan of vampires, voodoo or other such bits of weirdness, but it’s worth remembering that in some cultures the strange rituals were firmly embedded into a belief system and a culture. Think of Marie Laveau and New Orleans. When people take only the strangest and most sensational aspects and adopt them as their own, trouble is just an incantation away.
As for the hitchhiker – I wonder if he had this on his ipod?
I was wondering if anyone would bring up New Orleans – and Florida, too!
Just looks like new urban legends in the making.
Thanks for hiking over
Very scary and sad.
It does sound like horror stories. Glad you weren’t scared away!
I sense a theme here… frivolous, self promoting, attention seeking. Obviously, reality is just not enough: the drug users lament. Self delusion is just another drug with all its social & legal ramifications. Idiots. Oh, fantastic post as usual
Astute observation – THanks for tossing that out here
Uh… whoopsie. Speaking of reality not being enough, we have this update: Authorities say hitchhiker shot himself.
Sigh.
Yeah, I updated that story a while back. It’s a real American horror story!
(I’ve been by your last post a couple of times, but have gotten interrupted while commenting – will – there it’s happening again here = sigh…will get back…Thanks for keeping a look out!)