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I thought of him recently, usually passed him on the street, said "hi", all through the summer...he showed up when I was doing Tarot readings (here: https://rodboyle.com/index.php/archives/blog/tarot-on-baker-etc), hadn't seen him for a while...He was the Grandpa Simpson Character. Always polite, chatty, up for a talk.
Apparently passed away. Not a surprise, when I think of people I haven't seen for a while that's usually why.
What caused me to think of him was the latest missing person reported in Nelson: https://www.nelsonstar.com/local-news/nelson-police-seek-missing-man-7741101, whom I half-think I recognize as the "Blue Eyed Samurai" ... I wrote about it, then deleted, Stalker problems. Didn't want to cause any harm - my opinion of him being irrelevant to who he is.
But - if it's the same person (and looks - a bit - to be) he disappeared a short while after my last posting (wherein he came into the restaurant and had his own private rave party and then proved unable to pay his bill). I'm not sure it's him.
Anyways, I recognized I hadn't seen him in a while, and the photo jarred me - I've met him, for sure, and - it's tough to know, a lot of the homeless people here, they come from out of town, just to hang out, party, then disappear the same way, only to show up a few months later on a missing person's list. Who knows where they went after here (if anywhere?).
And this stream of associations brought me on to a few of the other local missing persons cases, many of whom we know - roughly - what might have happened, only lacking the bodies or proof, but there's a curious one that still intrigues me:
https://www.nelsonstar.com/news/missing-nelson-man-found-dead-2-4910599
Which gives no follow up (none that I ever found) as to what passed in his 2 month's before finding. Was he already dead? Hiding out? The lack of answers makes one only the more curious.
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Anyways, for a town so small we pack well above our weight in missing people/unsolved murders/disappearances. David Lynch Territory for sure.
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Finally, a "monkey" worthy of Karl Pilkington.
Link: Joe Martin (Wikipedia)
I like how his alleged assaults were all in "defence of..." others.
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...and I just heard - via Facebook, of one of our more charming homeless local's unfortunate demise. B*****, met her some 6 or so years ago, just becoming an addict. An abortion she didn't want and no ability to process the trauma.
When I met her she was housed, then soon enough not, always pleasant, usually after a fashion sober - but her habits were probably more nocturnal and done away from the madding crowds and main streets. A victim, one of three, a couple of weeks ago, the "bad batch" the police posted a warning about.
You'd run into her, in the niche in the alley outside my back door, sweeping it out, organizing the trash, pulling weeds, setting up house for a few hours. Notes written on signboards to her. She was pretty and popular.
So to read of her death was a bit of a shock, no obituary, but the street agencies did a celebration of life for her, and the comments on Facebook, almost a hundred, all kind. A decent person laid low by circumstance and trauma.
The other two, I don't know, maybe locals but I've heard nothing, there are so many itinerant homeless on the streets that it's hard to say, did they move on, or did they become statistics? I should start volunteering at the soup kitchen, it would keep me more in the loop...
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And that guy I've been following on Facebook, the guy with the videos of him chiselling out rubies, sapphires, smoky-quartz pockets, spessartine garnets, he's done for the season, and has put out his plea for "Need money for gas and food" on Facebook.
Bloody Hell. How does this happen? I mean, with me, sure, but I'm rarely digging up anything that good, but him? HIM?
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And I have this neighbor, I run in to her all the time when stepping out for a cigarette.
A proper muppet.
In appearance, tall, slender, dressing to great advantage, she has a certain style. "Pretty Woman" if you know what I mean. It becomes her.
But she's not well. On disability of some sort, she claims to have a heart palpitation, a weakness, condition.
I've seen her around with an older man, balding, sunglasses, reminds me of Hunter S. Thompson.
I ask her about him. She denies knowing him. I point out that I've run into them together in a few places, at the mall, bus stop, out behind the building. She corrects me, I saw a man near to her who looks like Hunter S. Thompson but she doesn't know who he is.
She's a muppet. She sits, desponding, for hours on end reading Rumi, the Sufi Poet. She has a dozen editions, different translations. She has loud arguments on the phone, cursing, swearing, walking up and down, waving her arms, she gets incredibly animated, her arms thrust out in front of her, 90 degrees, and then she runs up to them, bobbing up and down like a muppet, her eyes wide, eyeballs like ping-pong balls looking madly off in all directions, hair flying everywhere. I said she has these arguments while on the phone, but often she doesn't have a phone in her hand, these arguments, they're a rehearsal for when she picks up the phone. If she sees you nearby she'll abruptly stop, ask you for a cigarette or to push-start her car, normalcy resumes, you've interrupted her inner monologue.
Her car, apparently it's the source of a lot of her problems, according to the neighbours (a vituperative group of old ladies) she's behind on her car payments, hence she's always looking for a boost or to move it, she's afraid of it being repossessed.
Anyways, a proper character, and a good reason to start taking my cigarettes a lot further from my building...