Michael Grant Posted January 7, 2014 Share Posted January 7, 2014 locking dpu in canada now .. likely because of shit like this Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
igetupinyourcityalot Posted January 10, 2014 Share Posted January 10, 2014 Bump homeless people in ATL, shout out to Gerald for watching my back for 3 bucks and then following me back to megabus stop and asking everybody for money and flashing his rocks, making sure people realized that it was his "bread and butter" 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rolling nowhere Posted January 14, 2014 Share Posted January 14, 2014 Rode the absolute slowest train ever. Figured it was wb turned out to be sb probably to mexico. Ended up back in san anto which is basically where i started. I dont think it ever hit 50mph slowest ds train everrrrrrrr...maybe 30 hrs from pine bluff-sa. RIDICULOUSO. Last time i caught a sb to houston outta therr it took maybe 12. Motherfuckin snail trail! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KaBar2 Posted January 15, 2014 Share Posted January 15, 2014 I got on a junk train in Cicero Yards one time that took eleven days to go from Chicago to Livingston, MT. Jeez, it was like being tortured. I finally just hitchhiked to Butte. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FR8HOUND Posted January 22, 2014 Share Posted January 22, 2014 WOW...Just catching up here. Sorry to hear Fran has passed, that is sad, great guy. Spoke many a times. I talked to Stretch last week, he's out in AZ, heard about Burl. Great dog, met her many times in person. Very unfortunate. So much sad news the last week or so.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
securitycameras Posted January 23, 2014 Share Posted January 23, 2014 I am agree with you, very well said, thanks for sharing it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
securitycameras Posted January 23, 2014 Share Posted January 23, 2014 You have explain it very well. Thanks for sharing it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rolling nowhere Posted January 27, 2014 Share Posted January 27, 2014 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dCH1AGXq2KA i just saw this a few weeks ago and my mind is still doing a fucking backflip. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KaBar2 Posted January 27, 2014 Share Posted January 27, 2014 WHAT A COUPLE OF FUCKING MORONS. He should have just waited for the train to pass over him. Going out between moving trucks (the assembly with the wheels under it) was galactically STUPID. As long as he wasn't hit by dragging gear, he would have been relatively safe. WHAT A COUPLE OF FUCKING MORONS. NEVER DO THIS. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hua Guofang Posted January 28, 2014 Share Posted January 28, 2014 Dumb, yes. That his mate didn't help pull him out when he emerged, even dumber. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CILONE/SK Posted January 28, 2014 Share Posted January 28, 2014 I really like this pic. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abcs Posted February 9, 2014 Share Posted February 9, 2014 http://delaware.craigslist.org/rid/4313481802.html Before it gets pulled down. All inclusive 1 way trip to Florida. thats not me btw. Just thought i would share 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sunnycider Posted February 11, 2014 Share Posted February 11, 2014 Very nice image.... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fist 666 Posted February 12, 2014 Share Posted February 12, 2014 How has that been posted for 11 days w/o getting flagged? Also, is it common to drop the names of people that "may or may not be selling heroin" on a CL post? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abcs Posted February 12, 2014 Share Posted February 12, 2014 full experience 'd nans on him not doing heroin too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KaBar2 Posted February 15, 2014 Share Posted February 15, 2014 I do not know a single trainhopper that uses heroin. What kind of bullshit is this, anyway? Anybody caught with heroin is going to prison for a serious sentence. If you are travelling with somebody hooked on this shit you are taking a bigtime risk. If the cops have enough dope to charge him, there might be enough to split and charge you too. "Oh, the police would never do that, falsify evidence." Really? Are you sure? 'Cause in my experience, uh, yeah, they do. Heroin addict? As a road dog? Absolutely fucking NEVER GONNA HAPPEN. Ditto for any other hard drug. Marijuana, okay maybe. But cocaine, or any of that other shit? No fuckin' way. "I don't judge." You gotta be kidding me. What a moron. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rolling nowhere Posted February 25, 2014 Share Posted February 25, 2014 I do not know a single trainhopper that uses heroin. oh theyre out there. that ad is silly. a friend of mine told me i should do that for suit and tie guys and charge them like a grand. people would do it. but thats not my style. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
InfraRed Posted March 5, 2014 Share Posted March 5, 2014 I guess it depends on what your definition of a train hopper is. Maybe the junkies are lying about hopping trains and the train hoppers are lying about doing junk. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KaBar2 Posted March 5, 2014 Share Posted March 5, 2014 Or maybe they're just stone cold dead from an overdose, or dying of HIV. Fuck needle drugs and the morons who use them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KaBar2 Posted March 6, 2014 Share Posted March 6, 2014 Here ya go. The Cool Life on Heroin. I like the guy with the bone hanging out of his arm from an unstoppable flesh-eating bacteria infection he got from shooting up. Nice, eh? Stupid assholes, all of them. http://photobucket.com/images/heroin+addict/?page=1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KaBar2 Posted March 24, 2014 Share Posted March 24, 2014 K-Bar up at Britt cooking Pizza Soup HOLY SHIT, what a big, fat tub of lard I am! I found this video by accident on YouTube. What a disgusting fatbody. This video guy was bugging me to show him about pizza soup. I had mentioned it, and he just insisted, so I did it. It was pretty tongue-in-cheek, but I didn't think it ever actually was put on YouTube or anything. So here you go, the Hobo Convention up at Britt, Iowa. It was several years ago. I'm probably a bigger tub 'o lard now than I was then. ("Does this tee shirt make me look fat?") Jesus. They say the camera adds ten pounds. In my case it must have added eighty. I know pretty much everybody in this video. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xen Posted March 24, 2014 Share Posted March 24, 2014 That is not the voice I hear when I read your posts. I hear it in a much more southern accent. Though I will now read them in a more Jabba the Hut accent :) Have you ever ran? Do they actually wear the crown on the road? Is the same crown handed down to the next king or do they make a new one every year? If they make a new one, is it still Folgers and plastic? I really need to make it one year just to go. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KaBar2 Posted March 24, 2014 Share Posted March 24, 2014 I know that it sure don't look like it, but when I got out of the Marine Corps in 1981, I was lean and mean, Xen. I must have run ten thousand miles in the Corps, and probably half of them wearing a flak jacket. I weighed 185 pounds when I got out and there was very little blubber, if any. We went running every day at lunch and worked out with free weights every night. Now I weigh about 265, and I definitely need to lose weight. Wow. What a lard ass. I chalk it up to three things--one, Zoloft. I started taking Zoloft when my mother passed away in 2003, and I took it for about ten years. Zoloft can make you gain weight, but it's just one element. It helped with the depression, certainly, but it has its drawbacks too. The second thing is (I hate to admit this) the internet. The net is interesting and leads one to a sedentary lifestyle. I'd rather surf the net than exercise, and you can see for yourself where such laziness leads to. The third thing is my work. The nature of my work is very low impact in terms of exercise. The last time I caught out with Stretch I lost thirty pounds. Maybe it's time to retire and go ride a few trains! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KaBar2 Posted March 29, 2014 Share Posted March 29, 2014 Homemade banjos I think I've mentioned my interest in homemade musical instruments on here before. I've made about ten homemade banjos out of stuff I found. A lot of the wood I got from what I call "curbside couches," abandoned furniture that people throw away. Building homemade, "found object" banjos got to be a sort of a hobby, and I set myself some rules. I could use anything I found on the street or in a dumpster. I could use anything I could buy in a hardware store, and I could use strings and tuners from any source. As time went on, I scored a violin peg shaper from a dumpster behind a violin store in west Houston, and later I bought a violin peg reamer (to ream the holes the pegs fit into.) I tried various things for frets, including finishing nails, copper wire and the stiffeners out of discarded windshield wiper blades. None of those things worked satisfactorily, so I went to a music store that a high-school buddy owns, and he gave me some banjo fret wire just for the hell of it, and also gave me permission to dumpster dive their dumpster anytime I want. Obviously, I can afford to buy a banjo anytime I want, but the fun part of building them from junk is looking for the needed parts and pieces. I built a couple using the rawhide from large "dog chews" I bought at the grocery store for the banjo head. Worked pretty well, too. (To make a dog chew, they take a piece of rawhide about eight by twelve inches and roll it into a sort of cigar shape, then tie a knot or two in it. Soak it in water, and presto--you can untie it.) Anyway, below is a video from a good ol' boy from Indiana named Bill Withers who makes his own instruments, and plays pretty well, too. He plays "clawhammer style" in this video, but I think he also plays three-finger Monroe style. ( Clawhammer is appropriate for a fretless banjo.) "OLD SCHOOL." Same guy, with his homemade frettless banjo made from a salad bowl from Goodwill and cherry wood from his dad's corn crib. Here's the same guy with his homemade "lap steel" guitar. Damn, I like this guy. "Lean On Me, " on an Epiphone ulelele. Wow. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KaBar2 Posted March 29, 2014 Share Posted March 29, 2014 More homemade banjo stuff. This guy plays "Julianne Johnson" clawhammer style on his fretless Appalachian banjo. Here's the same guy, playing "Walk Right In" on a six-string guitar made from a gas can. "Satan Your Kingdom Must Come Down" on a three string, cigar-box guitar tuned D-A-d. Awesome! "Here Comes the Sun" on a short-scale, home-made six-string, cigar box guitar. "Angel From Montgomery" on a home-made, cookie-tin banjo. "Cold Frosty Morning" on a home-made, cigar box fiddle. "When the Roll is Called Up Yonder" on a cigar-box mandolin. Awesome! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KaBar2 Posted March 29, 2014 Share Posted March 29, 2014 I don't know what they call this kind of music--some kind of retro-Gay Ninties/ Roaring Twenties music. It reminds me of the band Old Crow Medicine Show. Garbage Man Blues (awesome) Anyway, this guy's name is Pokey Lafarge and his band plays some cool old blues music. The La La Blues In the Jailhouse Now Also Dom Flemons. The guy is phenomenal on the tenor banjo. He was in a band called the Carolina Chocolate Drops that played music from the Piedmont region of North Carolina. Going Back to Arkansas Your Baby Ain't Sweet Like Mine Pretty Girl With A Blue Dress On San Francisco Baby Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KaBar2 Posted March 30, 2014 Share Posted March 30, 2014 Xen-- I missed answering a couple of your questions. No, the people who get crowned Hobo King and Queen do not keep the crown. The crowns are pretty old, they were made for the election of the King and Queen years ago and they don't travel well. They are kept in the Hobo Museum in Britt. Frankly, they are pretty cheesy and should have been replaced with something better years ago. I've seen photographs of the King and Queen taken in the 1930's and it looks to me that they were wearing cardboard "crowns" covered with aluminum foil or something. Several "traditions" up at Britt were invented in the 1980's by a couple of old timers--Steamtrain Maury Graham and Fry Pan Jack, I think. The Hobo Convention didn't have much in the way of activities for tourists to observe. Tourists mean money. Money means the Convention has a reason to continue. Steamtrain convinced the town fathers to create the Hobo Museum. He also "invented" the Hobo Shuffle and all the rest of the "traditions" (like the Four Winds thing) that have become much beloved antics by people who regularly go to the convention. I got dubbed a Crown Prince of the Hobos once because I served as crumb boss. I didn't seek it out, but I didn't want to refuse and embarrass everybody so I went along with it. It's kind of silly stuff, sort of like Boy Scout ceremonies or King Neptune celebrations when a ship passes over the Equator. The tourists love that kind of stuff. I guess they think they are seeing "real hobo culture" I don't know. It kind of reminds me of Mardi Gras parades or the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo--a lot of corn for tourist dollars. The West Coast Hobo Gathering is a lot realer, but it has it's drawbacks too. It embarrasses me that the same town that brags about hosting the National Hobo Convention won't let tramps drink in camp or let hobo dogs run loose. They want the tramps to be picturesque and be pleasant to tourists who are sometimes pretty rude. Still, it's the only Convention we've got. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xen Posted April 7, 2014 Share Posted April 7, 2014 I figured it was nothing but a giant jar of Cheez Whiz conjured up for tourists but still, I want to make it one year just because from the time I first found this thread to the first time I climbed on a train, I said I'd go one year. Those banjos rule. Train Doc looks nothing like I thought he would either. Nothing Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xen Posted April 7, 2014 Share Posted April 7, 2014 What's up with the Train Days down in Amory, MS? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flatcar Posted April 8, 2014 Share Posted April 8, 2014 Amory is this weekend. It's mostly the older hobos and the camping is in a public park. It's also a dry county. May not be much fun for a younger rider. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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