I met an old friend today that I hadn't seen in years. I went to the post office and he asked me if I was so and so and I told him I was. He then reminded me who he was and that's when I realized who he was. We got to reminiscing about years ago and an incident that happened while we were in high school. It reminded me of this movie mentioned in the title to this post.
A fellow a few years older than us, he was 19 and we were 14, held up the Mom and Pop drugstore here in town. He ended up shooting and killing Pop and Mom was also shot, but survived. At that time, he pled guilty to second degree murder, attempted murder and robbery, which netted him 40 years w/o parole. His first name was Dane. He had a reputation in town as being a troublemaker and an all around bad kid.
This fellow that I met asked me if he ever got out of prison. I told he got out on his second attempt at parole. He stayed around town for about 2 years and then one day, he was gone. His sister had told me that he went to live with his other sister in Arizona. He stayed there for awhile and then he left again and this time nobody knew where he went until his sister received a letter from a prison in San Diego County advising her he had been arrested, charged and pled guilty to robbery while using a handgun and received 15 years. He was asking for permission to write to his sister.
I thought this story sounded familiar to the movie, but this man never escaped prison or left the country. He's back out on the streets again and unfortunately for us, he's back in town. He never made anything of himself and makes a living by working part time jobs. He's also been known to stand on the street corners begging for cash.
I think it's sometimes strange or ironic how one event can cause a person to relate to a movie or another event that happened in history.
A fellow a few years older than us, he was 19 and we were 14, held up the Mom and Pop drugstore here in town. He ended up shooting and killing Pop and Mom was also shot, but survived. At that time, he pled guilty to second degree murder, attempted murder and robbery, which netted him 40 years w/o parole. His first name was Dane. He had a reputation in town as being a troublemaker and an all around bad kid.
This fellow that I met asked me if he ever got out of prison. I told he got out on his second attempt at parole. He stayed around town for about 2 years and then one day, he was gone. His sister had told me that he went to live with his other sister in Arizona. He stayed there for awhile and then he left again and this time nobody knew where he went until his sister received a letter from a prison in San Diego County advising her he had been arrested, charged and pled guilty to robbery while using a handgun and received 15 years. He was asking for permission to write to his sister.
I thought this story sounded familiar to the movie, but this man never escaped prison or left the country. He's back out on the streets again and unfortunately for us, he's back in town. He never made anything of himself and makes a living by working part time jobs. He's also been known to stand on the street corners begging for cash.
I think it's sometimes strange or ironic how one event can cause a person to relate to a movie or another event that happened in history.
