The story line was the truck was stolen while the drivers were eating at a Truck Stop and abandoned after discovering an elephant was inside.
After making the recovery, this is Ben being hoisted up in a supposed state of panic.
I'm sure some of you old timers will recognize this truck from Venice, the movie people painted out RBBB.
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Thursday, September 18, 2014
More Movin On! #3
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Yup it was part of Dick Brown's
"Flying Fleet" driven by his team
of highly trained security staff
headed up by Vance
I'll never forget the time Dick threw a television at me because he was angry about the Clown College students.
Among the select elite of Dick's "security staff", were shady, highly suspect, or outright crooked cops, fired from their former jurisdictions, who "retired" to Florida, and gravitated into welcoming positions at Venice winterquarters. To qualify this fairly, it should be added this meant some, not all.
When Doc Henderson hired me out of Texas to work at Winter Quarters with him, Dick Brown wanted to make me part of his Security Staff and I laughed at him and said NO..
A few were known to handle late
night back gate equipment sales
Leading the sales staff was John
(can't remember last name) who
was discharged from the military
on a "medical" & had a bad limp
& jerky head movements
Dick had a fairly thankless task
& not much of a budget for staff
He was ex military & ended up as
a bridge tender on the South end
of Venice island
After the television incident and I had the clown students ("clown thingies as Dick called them")clean up the mess we got on well...even had dinner with him and his wife Nancy at their home.
Nancy took care of some of the
food service for events in WQ
She was even given credit in the
clown college graduation program
Come to think of it both Venice
draw bridges were controlled by
circus retreads as Schwartzie
was on the North bridge
Just remembered that John's last
name it was Falconer perhaps Gary
(or anybody) might remember him
He was truly a character
Of all the stupid unimportant
things to remember when much of
last week is a blur
I also remember that most of them
packed some heavy heat
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