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Loincloth Larry

Tuesday, 29 June 2021, 9:30 MJA Uncategorized 16

LeDuff: ‘Loincloth Larry’ — A Detroit Tale Of Woe And Disorder.


Deadline Detroit:
I have a friend who works downtown. He sometimes opens the store first thing in the morning. 

Now more than ever, he finds lunatics and drunks flopped out in the doorway. He asks them to move. That’s when they get surly. Some howl. Some threaten. That’s how it goes when the ill don’t get their meds. One guy, “Loincloth Larry,” walks around naked except for an over-sized bandanna tied around his junk.

So my pal calls the cops. Sometimes the operator puts him on hold. After five minutes, he’ll hang up and call again. Sometimes nobody answers.

I don’t want problems, my pal tells me. I don’t want to end up on the news. So sometimes he delays opening the store and sits in his car waiting for the bare-assed buckaroo to grow hungry and amble down the road. more

16 Comments on Loincloth Larry

  1. Welcome to “Liberal Utopia” where the nutz hang out in public!
    (and in Women’s rooms)

    Vagrancy used to be against the law. Now there is no law, much less order!!

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  3. I wonder if this is LeDuff’s friend:

    “I need some honest advice – no blind boosterism and no panning Detroit. I know what Detroit is and I know what it isn’t…I’ve lived in the vibrant cities of the East Coast and I’m now starting a new business. While Brooklyn seems to be the most logical choice (we need some raw loft space to live / work), I can’t shake the lure of Detroit.”

    http://www.city-data.com/forum/detroit/571597-urban-pioneers-i-need-help.html#ixzz6zBW4wMq9

    “the lure of Detroit”…That was from 2009. I reckon the urban pioneers of Destroit are pretty beaten down by the native savages these days.

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  4. Unfortunately, the bad guys are bailing out of the blue cities too, and moving to the rural areas, where they can collect welfare just as easily. We have seen an influx here lately along with an increase in crime, graffiti, and other big city problems, including voting for dems.

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  6. In the late 70’s I worked as a janitor late at night at the downtown Spokane plasma center which was located next door to the Magnet Tavern which we called the Maggot Tavern. I worked there, my mother in law was the head nurse, my wife started as a phlebotomist there, my brother just retired after working for the plasma center for 40 years and became an RN. Anyway, we had a major problem with drunk Indians who hung around the Maggot tavern and sometimes slept in the dumpsters including one dead Indian who got picked up by the garbage truck and was deposited at the local land fill. One night as I was leaving I opened the door hard to get out and smacked a very drunk Indian lying asleep in the door way, it didn’t even phase him, he was totally out and drunk as a skunk, I just left him there. It was a very interesting place to work while I was going to college during the day. And don’t even get me started when the AIDS crisis first hit in the late 70’s and early 80’s and I used to dispose of all the used needles and blood bags etc. from all the plasma donors in the trash and threw them out in the dumpster before they were considered to be hazardous materials. It was a different time back then and we still have a serious problem with vagrancy and homelessness especially with all the new low income housing projects and the nearby House of Charity where all the bums and vagrants hang out.

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  7. That was what Berkeley, CA was like 35 years ago. All left controlled places are soon besieged by the kind of degenerate assholes who more functional countries put in prison or mental hospitals or just disappears. We can’t go on living next to demons, degenerates, and scum forever. Something has to snap.

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  10. We also had a guy who we called Mr. Goodbody who lived across the street in some low income apts. He was totally harmless but also a nut who liked to parade up down 3rd Ave. totally buck naked except for a pair of combat boots. He was an AF veteran who would also salute every plane that would fly over. The cops would always arrive and take care of him. And the time in the mid 80’s when the ragged, filthy, hippie Rainbow tribe showed up in their bus and wanted to donate plasma was a hoot. My mother in law who was a saint and a very good nurse soon put an end to that by getting them out of there pronto, none of them were allowed to donate plasma and they never came back.

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