Your Claim to Fame?

[SAnd]

I used to carry a newspaper clipping reporting my death in a car accident in 1973. The report was in the paper two days after the accident.

And a television station in Minneapolis reported I was killed in an airplane accident on thier afternoon news show. This was in 1975. Fortunatly my folks had the correct info before then.



I ain't dead yet. Oh and I don't do boats or water stuff.

Steve A.

[Zundfolge]

I was the shooter on the grassy knoll
(which was kinda cool since I was born in 1969).


Seriously though, I was on Romper Room once when I was 4.

[theGinsue]

I used to carry a newspaper clipping reporting my death in a car accident in 1973. The report was in the paper two days after the accident.

And a television station in Minneapolis reported I was killed in an airplane accident on thier afternoon news show. This was in 1975. Fortunatly my folks had the correct info before then.



I ain't dead yet. Oh and I don't do boats or water stuff.

Steve A.

Dead man walkin! (Sorry, but someone had to say it.)

Boy Scouts National Court of Honor: Certificate of Heroism and Medal for Meritorious Action for saving a toddler from drowning in a winter lake when I was 12.

I have a similar story. My biggest claim to fame was when I was in the Scott AFB paper for saving a guy from drowning in the base pool. It was during a pool party with the Med Group and there was a Life Guard on duty. The Life Guard didn't budge and when I pulled the guy out of the deep end then out of the pool and he wasn't breathing, it took the computer geek (me) to clear the guys airway and get him breathing again. Of course, the newspaper story mis-quoted me and made me look really stupid.

I've been in papers here and there for piddley little crap that I can't even remember.

[ChadAmberg]

Me and a buddy were first responders to a plane crash, so made the full color front page of the newspaper: http://pirate-king.com/episode/8

That's me on the left.

[gnihcraes]

Me and a buddy were first responders to a plane crash, so made the full color front page of the newspaper: http://pirate-king.com/wp-content/up...ewsJournal.jpg

That's me on the left.

link failed for some reason...

[ChadAmberg]

link failed for some reason...

I know, I fixed it in like a minute. Damn you all are quick to click things!

[Great-Kazoo]

met frank serpico. friend of the old man's. interesting guy. and no he looked nothing like A. Pacino.


my attorney in the formative years (very early 70's)is this guy
http://www.politico.com/blogs/thecry..._country_.html

too bad he has drifted from his roots. i told him at my folks 80th b-day, he was loosing support from those who put him into office, based on his gun law "ideas"

my old man was NYPD, like his dad. there were some many famous/actors, broadway folks i met when a kid in the city we don't have enough room.

Juliet Prowse signed an autograph for him when he was her "bodyguard" it read
....................To The Best Dick in New York ....................

he recovered Mickey Mantle's world series ring after a break in.
blah blah blah.

[SA Friday]

Well, I wrote this:

http://www.airforcetimes.com/communi...etters_070702/

I've been in a couple of AF base papers for exercises and LE actions that happened on the various bases. (Insert the 'spankin the monkey' emotacon here.)

I helped catch these guys too (not as much as the ATF and FBI, but I worked my ass off on the case), but didn't make the press release. Then again, who the hell knows who OSI is...

http://www.justice.gov/usao/co/press...6/1_26_06.html

Helped the Marshals transport this punk ass bitch to Florence. OSI didn't make the papers again... But, in fairness, we did bring him in at 0230 through the base side of the airport to avoid the news vans camped out on the other side of the airstrip.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zacarias_Moussaoui

[Irving]

I bought my first, and only so far, privately sold gun from Marlin when I first joined the site. I have another one that I just thought of but I really can't mention it on here.

Oh yeah, so far everyone on here has pretty cool stories.

[Bailey Guns]

What a great thread with some really interesting stories! I'm just kind of a nobody but have had some cool stuff (to me, anyway) happen in my life.

By far the biggest thing is (it didn't happen to me but it's probably the most proud I've ever felt in my life):

#1 - Was with my youngest son when he was told he'd won a Bronze Star w/Valor in the battle for Fallujah as an A1C.

Now for my mostly lame stuff:

-Married to my wonderful wife for 20 years
-Presented Meritorious Service Medal by Caspar Weinberger in 1983
-Several articles published in Denver Post re: police stuff
-Got sued for $16 Million by a little scumbag who lost big because he couldn't keep his lies straight
-Lots of other awards from Electronic Security Command and Air Weather Service and cop stuff