Don’t know that I’ve heard the NJ story …
So, Dave’s space program story. I first heard this from a mutual friend (Ken Hackathorn) when Ken learned I was considering bringing Dave on as a member of the Beretta pistol team. I apologize in advance for the lack of details, it’s just been years since I heard the story.
Dave was in Group and deployed somewhere in Africa. His team had been tasked with a mission that involved getting panoramic photographs of certain parts of the local terrain.
While looking for an ideal vantage point, the team comes upon a village. The village elders come out to meet the team. The village, they say, has been there for countless generations … literally thousands of years. The team informs the village that the next morning, they’ll be traveling to this huge collection of rocks a few klicks away to do their photography from as high a vantage point as they can.
One of the elders is flabbergasted. No one, he tells them, has ever climbed the rocks. No one in those countless generations, thousands of years, has traveled to those rocks a few klicks away and climbed to the top. No one!
“And that,” says SuperDave, “is why you’ll never have a fucking space program.”
That is a classic one for sure.
The NJ story is basically SD and friends loaded up with every piece of .mil hardware they can find and get pulled over by a NJ Super Trooper at night. SD was of course driving. It does down hill from here…
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system
February 13, 2008, 7:11pm
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Some photos I’ve taken of SDave over the years:
M4arc
February 13, 2008, 7:18pm
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That was a very humbling experience but worth the price of adminision because I learned a ton. I haven’t practiced any of it but I learned!
Perhaps if S Dave comes back to this region I’ll try to get into a class with him.
Steve
February 14, 2008, 2:14am
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just come to michigan,
we have about 5 slots left:D
MI is a bit of a drive for me. The 8 hour drive to Ohio for the lowlight class sucked… I can imagine tacking on a few more hours couldnt be any better
Sam
February 14, 2008, 12:07pm
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On the reverse situation, a few years ago a couple of guys from Michigan (Lansing, I think?) drove down to north GA to take an SD class.
Steve
February 14, 2008, 2:04pm
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its just over the Ohio MI border. so its 9 hours. not bad…
Sam
February 14, 2008, 2:26pm
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One of those boys ended up hosting an SD class in his Michigan town.
This is why you practice reloads… So you don’t end up like
Steve
February 15, 2008, 3:28am
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yes that was dave G he is in NC now working
Dave_G
February 26, 2008, 2:51pm
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The goat story rings a bell, someone tell it though
system
February 26, 2008, 5:16pm
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Short version of goat story:
SDH is deployed somewhere (can’t remember where).
Local witch doctor sells Dave a gris-gris and promises that it will make the wearer immune to bullets.
Dave puts gris-gris around the neck of a goat, shoots goat. Goat dies.
Empirical science at its best.
Short version of goat story:
SDH is deployed somewhere (can’t remember where).
Local witch doctor sells Dave a gris-gris and promises that it will make the wearer immune to bullets.
Dave puts gris-gris around the neck of a goat, shoots goat. Goat dies.
Empirical science at its best.
I heard that after he shot the goat he looked at the witch doctor and said, “That shit don’t work.”
Sam
February 26, 2008, 7:57pm
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The witch doctor better be glad it was the goat.
