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This story is kind of old but after telling it to coworkers and many friends I decided to share it because of their enthusiasm as to the f---ed up situations that has happened to me:

About 3-4 years ago I needed a toolbox for my truck, I wanted a black diamond plate “chest” type that sat in the bed. Tractor supply had them for about $350 and I’m a thrifty shopper so I start shopping around. I hit up craigslist, found one in Conroe (1hour away) for $50, looks mint condition, so I’m like f--- yeah. Anyway I head out there, guy sounds legit on the phone, etc. and when I get there I come to find out he lives in the ****ing boonies.

As I pull up to the ranch I see no one, and the gate at the entrance just opens out of the nowhere. I pull up to the house, get out of the truck and no one comes out, etc. and 6-7 dogs come rounding the corner and the biggest one, a German shepherd buries his nose in my crotch. Next a flamboyant guy comes walking out of the house, snaps his finger at the dog and says “No BRUNO, don’t do that to him, you know you’re your daddy is!” I turn back to my truck and pop a knife in my pocket, now officially freaked out. He keeps wanting to show me the property, saying he has a 9 acre stock pond at the very back, etc. and anyway we walk around the back of the house to walk in and there are I **** you not 6 deep freezers on his patio. So I’m thinking, mother of god those are stuffed with dead bodies, etc.

He says the toolbox is in the house and he can’t lift it himself so we walk in. Mind you this was a country guy living in a four bedroom house on a ranch and the house was perfectly clean, everything in its place etc. with a weird smell, almost like a hospital lab smell. So he wants to give me a tour, as if I had a choice it seemed like, on one side of the house are 3 bedrooms, each one is completely identical, same bed, furniture, wall paper, carpet, etc. and had an empty birdcage in the corner, WTF!!!! His bedroom had a bed sheet covering the entrance, I guess so I couldn't see his rape and torture devices. So we walk into the den where the toolbox is sitting in the middle of the room, so I’m freaking out, thinking WTF now a midget going to pop out of there, stab me and then they will take turns raping me?

He sits down and I go sit on the opposite side of the room, he asks me where I’m from, I lied and said El Paso and then asks me if I had ever been to a foam party, I answered no and he just says “good…people die at those you know” in a really creepy way. Then asks me if there is a lot of sex in College Station, I answer well it is a college town, etc. And then he goes on to say he needs renters and would give free rent if you help out around the house, etc. So then I’m like **** this, and say can we just get the ****ing toolbox out and I can leave. So we carry it out to my truck, I pay him, reach out to shake his hand and he hugs me, WTF!!!! So I hop in my truck do a 180 in his front yard hauling ass out of there and to my left I see a wood statue of a male torso carved by hand, DICK AND ALL, at the exit.

About a week later I get a call from him and don’t answer, he leaves a 5 minute voicemail talking about how much he loved that toolbox and missed it and wondered if I knew of any guys that wanted to live there, rent for free, etc. So I Google him, come to find out he’s a famous gay rodeo star that even has a movie about him. His partner died of AIDS. I never heard anything else from him thank god.

You cannot make this s--- up:

Google: Gene Mikulenka
His Movie:
http://movies.yahoo.com/movie/1808658874/info


Moral of the story, either take someone with you or meet in a public place.



I posted it over here as a comparison to the responses I'd get from the GB.
BreNayPop
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Don't lie... you liked the dog.

That's a crazy story. But sweet that you got the toolbox.
Ol Jock 99
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So do you like the truck box?
ursusguy
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Interesting interpretation of bull riding.
Ag97
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You should have figured something out when it said Brokeback Ranch on the sign out front of his house.
powerbiscuit
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I'd be wiping that fricken tool box down with full strength clorox. You should even consider bathing in it.
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ursusguy
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To make it even more ironic, after breaking his leg (in think in bareback--there's a joke there too---apparently he rode several time later with a cast), his specialty is pole bending.

"Gene has won the Houston Livestock Show & Rodeo three times and earned three world titles in pole bending. And the American Quarter Horse Association has named him to its top-ten list six times. He even did some time as a bareback bronc rider, getting bucked off and stepped on with the best of them."
big ben
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I was 19 at the time....
Texas 1836
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Die Hard Ag
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$50 toolboxes don't come cheap...

Gig'em and Semper Fi,

DHA

Ol Jock 99
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Is this your boy Ben?
Ol Jock 99
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As someone who has been to a fair number of rodeos in my life, I have to note that Gene is wearing a couple of "safety devices" that you don't see at normal rodeos....



[This message has been edited by Ol Jock 99 (edited 10/2/2009 12:30a).]
BQ93
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You're lucky he isn't wearing your skin as a suit right now.



**markandles beat me to it, but it still creeps me out.


[This message has been edited by BQ93 (edited 10/2/2009 12:38a).]
Phantom309
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well told. hahahahahaha
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"IT PUTS THE LOTION ON IT'S SKIN..."

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That is some creepy ass stuff right there. I think I would have left without the toolbox, and just called it a day.



Think. Feel. Be.
Stinky T
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I can see why this story was on the OB - that guy sounds like a hell of a fisherman to me. Of course those $350 boxes at TS make for some expensive bait.
MasterAggie
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This is great!
35chililights
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i just cant seem to run out of excuses to post this

you're welcome to now having that song stuck in your head all day.


and if you're one of the lucky ones, you'll be humming that in the stand tomorrow morning.
Signel
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I spit my coffee up... good friday sir!

RFD
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so i guess you are saying you dont want to deliver the aTm sign to the ranch with me
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Dood....seriously. Cragislist. The last time i went to get something off of there, i forgot my sidearm and decided to use a short dagger in my sock just in case.

You can never be too careful there. One of the last places I went to involved knives, flak jackets, and all sorts of new stuff and it WAS from teh back of a panel van.

Seriously...craigslist is not for teh faint of heart.
Cancelled
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Big Ben would have been wearing those knee pads on his gimp suit if he hadn't high tailed it out of there.

Campfire Soul
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35, that song rocks
UnderoosAg
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Lesson #1 - Quit being cheap and buy it at TSC.

More importantly not many people can say they googled a brokeback rider. Giggity giggity.
Cool_Hand
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LMFAO
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trip
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Suddenly $300 to buy it in a store does not seem that bad.

helgs
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Look at the sh*t-eating grin on his face


confucius_ag
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I did not know Hitler was a bronc rider.
FSGuide
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That. Song. Is. Cool.
BQ93
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quote:
Look at the sh*t-eating grin on his face



That's his "O" face.








***Oh yes I did go there.
Texas 1836
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My craigslist meeting place ... a whataburger parking lot at bass pro.

And I call aggiesq right before the transaction in case it goes south he can help the authorities find me.
Max06
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OMG how did I miss this thread.
 
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