On June 2, 2006 at 01:25, rguy said...
Back in my car audio days, late 80's, we had crips
& bloods crack dealers that we're some of our
best cash payin' customers. On 2 different occasions
I had to replace speakers in car doors that had
bullet damage. A couple of these guys turned
up dead &/or in prison. Working on their cars
made me nervous sometimes. A few different times
undercover guys would show up & seize cars, etc.
One time a van load of gangsters rolled up &
jumped out with guns, knives, chains, bats, etc.
They we're looking for the owner of a car in
our shop. He was not there at the time & they
took off. Pretty nuts! That was when I left
that shop in Tacoma & went to work for a shop
in rural low crime area about 40 miles away &
a year later opened our own shop in that area
& relocated the family. Best move ever!
rguy,
In the mid 70's I managed a small hi fi shop in Tacoma... Lovely Tacoma!!!
The guy at the record store next door (twice in two months), had guys come in and put a shotgun to his head, and escorted him back to the safe! The dry cleaner on the other side of our store had his head blown off for $50 out of the till...about a month after the record store's last hold-up. We lucked out somehow.
One day, the wife of a customer came in wanting to return a subwoofer, satellite system the husband bought a few days earlier. I asked why? She just said she didn't want it, and needed the money really badly.
I looked it over to see if it was scratched up or damaged.
The grille cloth was black, but it looked like someone spilled something on it... Looked like cherry cola or Pepsi... I could see where the spilled stuff had been hastily wipoed off of the wood portions of the speakers. I just assumed a shook-up can of soda was opened up and sprayed the speakers.
After hemming and hawing a bit, I eventually gave her a partial refund.
That night on the news was a story about how this same womans' husband comitted suicide via a gun to the head in their living room.
Well, the next day the guys and I took a little closer look at the speakers... It was dark red, and a little crusty... (his D.N.A.)... Really creeped us out, as we had all worked with the guy just a few days earlier, and he seemed like this totally happy upbeat guy.
I was happy to get out of Tacoma as well...
Once in our Car Stereo Bay, our installer was under the dash removing a deck... Up under the dash were these big fat bags of white powder jammed up under the dash...
The customer (who was one scary looking dude), was over in the waiting area watching the guy like a hawk... He just pretended like he never saw anything...
Last edited by Mr. Stanley
on June 4, 2006 03:04.