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In reply to the discussion: Charles Manson follower Leslie Van Houten released from prison after 53 years [View all]walkingman
(10,778 posts)54. What a dumb move to have the Hell's Angels for security?? You are right....
During college I worked at the University Hospital (3-11 shift) to pay for school. I had long hair, left work one night and stopped at a gas station..noticed a cop looking at me from the parking lot. Left the station - he followed me and pulled me over searched my car, told me to get out - beat me with a nightstick and called the paddie wagon to pick me up. Drove me around for a while and them told me I had two choices - leave now (not any where near my car) and forget about it or go to jail for possession (weed - I had none). I left, called a friend to take me back to my car and wrote it off as bad luck - but I have never forgotten it (54 years later).
And people wonder why we called them "PIGS"?
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Charles Manson follower Leslie Van Houten released from prison after 53 years [View all]
BumRushDaShow
Jul 2023
OP
I'm on DU and I most definitely do not "agree" she should stay in jail. Stop trying o speak for the
Martin68
Jul 2023
#50
This teenager was high on drugs and had been brainwashed by a psychopath. Charles Manson was not
Martin68
Jul 2023
#51
Barbarity is stabbing someone 16 times. Or any other number of ways people murder.
oldsoftie
Jul 2023
#41
Your self-admitted passion for having the state murder people is telling, as is your continued
Celerity
Jul 2023
#61
So admitting culpability is no sign of rehabilitation. No excuses, no diminishing of guilt. She ...
marble falls
Jul 2023
#74
Only if she had poured cancer-causing chemicals into their water supply....
TheRealNorth
Jul 2023
#7
I only had to try to figure it out due to my nieces & nephews and grandnieces & grandnephews
BumRushDaShow
Jul 2023
#33
Funny, heard that before. I worked for 33 productive years and as of this year
walkingman
Jul 2023
#64
The police were beating up hippies long before Manson's crimes. Manson just gave them another
Martin68
Jul 2023
#52
Absolutely. Some very naive people thought the Angels were just leather-jacket wearing hippies.
Martin68
Jul 2023
#55
Taking bets, within a week she'll have half a dozen book deal offers, in the millions
Shanti Shanti Shanti
Jul 2023
#34
I rather doubt that. A shitload has been written about the Manson family, the murders and the
Martin68
Jul 2023
#53
Maybe, she wasn't in on the Tate murder scene, but the others ... Maybe a screenplay, a movie
Shanti Shanti Shanti
Jul 2023
#56