Sherry the mean Landlordess!!

Once we all got to Gitmo the boys got into MotoCross racing and it became a big part of our lives. Upper pic is Mark flying.

#44 was Jack sliding around a turn. WE had a great time once Sherry took care of the Stateside problems , and came on down.

The boys on the Gitmo ferry headed for a race on Leeward Point.

Now today's entry:

I mentioned in an earlier post that when I went to Cuba, I left Sherry the job of evicting a tenant who was behind 8 months. (Now you understand why I could never be a land lord. Nobody in their right mind allows someone to get that far behind). I had orders to Guantanamo Bay, Sherry and the boys were not allowed to travel until I had housing and that would be three months minimum.

I left and Sherry called the Sheriff to have Mrs. Chambers evicted. She was a lady with children well known around town. She was most well know for going to the various grocery stores, allowing the cashier to ring up the groceries and bag them, and then say I left my purse in the car. I will push the groceries out to the car and bring the money right back in. Then of course she would drive off. She did this at the laundry also, and at gas stations.

Well Sherry’s sister lived just up the hill, when the sheriff came to move her stuff out, she said she was pregnant and they could not do that. The Sheriff said that is what you have said at everyplace I have evicted you from. Sherry was sitting on her sister’s porch and wearing sun glasses. Mrs. Chambers yelled at her and said, “Sit up there Mz. Hollywood all high and mighty, I’ll come up there and drag you up and down this road by your hair.” It scared Mark our son who was in second grade. But it did not scare Sherry, Lennie was right beside her, and Lennie was a rough and tumble kind of girl.

You notice I have used the woman’s name, nothing can defame her. Thirty years later her son Steve (a child at the time) engineered the Big Loomis Fargo robbery.

The Loomis Fargo Bank Robbery of 1997 was the $17.3 million cash robbery of the Charlotte, North Carolina regional office vault of Loomis Fargo and Company on the evening of October 4, 1997 by armored car driver and vault supervisor David Scott Ghantt. An FBI criminal investigation (which became international in scope) ultimately resulted in the arrest and conviction of eight people directly involved in the heist, as well as 16 others who had indirectly helped them, and the recovery of approximately 95% of the stolen money.

The boy was raised right, his mother was helping him laundry the money while they planned to Kill David Ghantt, to keep him from implicating them. So Mrs. Chambers was convicted also and spent some time inside. So her life went. They called it the ‘Hill Billy Heist’. It is the third largest robbery in the USA.

When caught by the FBI, Steve true to form, turned state’s evidence and ratted out all his gang of employees. He was released from prison in 2006.
That is kind of folks I left my wife to evict. WOW. But my girl did it.

Thanks for reading

Nite Shipslog

PS:
Some of the artists of the 60's are revising their hits with new lyrics to accommodate aging baby boomers.

Roberta Flack--- The First Time Ever I Forgot Your Face.

Johnny Nash --- I Can't See Clearly Now.

Paul Simon--- Fifty Ways to Lose Your Liver

The Commodores --- Once, Twice, Three Times to the Bathroom.