Art O’Connor

Wake Up, Kick Ass, Repeat

 

Waste of a bullet.

Blog Category: Blog — Blogged by: Art on September 22, 2006 at 11:51 am

Yesterday I get a call from a new client, a big client that I have been courting for over a year now.  They have a job for me, finally.  So I get up at 4am to get the trailer prepped and drive to the job site.  I open the door and there is a lot more space than there should be, WTF?  The compressor, generator, tool box, propane tanks all gone.  Fucking unbelievable.  Nothing worse than a thief, especially one who steals your livelihood. 

My first summer in Utah I took a job as a laborer on a construction site.  It was a pretty shitty job and my work partners kept quitting because they were soft, until this one guy, lets call him Mullet Man.  He drove a sweet new Camaro and always had a wad of cash on him which was weird since we were both making about $7hr.  At that time there was a rash of tool thefts on the job site.  Someone was breaking into the job boxes after hours and walking away with thousands of $ in tools.  Tools that were putting food on families tables.  When this shit is going on they always look to the lowest paid guys (me and the other laborers) on the site as the culprit, to say the work conditions were tense was an understatement.  So one day I am about half way home when I realize I left my lunch box and house keys at work.  Great.  So I ride my bike back and I see Mullet Man taking bolt cutters out of the trunk of his bitchin Camaro.  I lay low and do a little Black Ops surveillance work and see him go straight to a job box and empty it.  Busted!  So the next day I get there early and tell the foreman what I saw.  He smiles and says he will take care of it.  Mullet Man shows up to work (late as usual) and I am ready for the shit storm.  Nothing.  The whole morning goes by and no one says or does anything.  At lunch we are all sitting around eating and BS’ing as usual when the foreman and the owner of the job box from yesterday come around the corner with a tarp.  Tarp goes over Mullet Man and the blanket party begins!  It is amazing how much punishment a human body can take.  I was sure they killed the guy.  After everyone got their shots in Mullet Man dragged his bloody mouth breathin ass to his Camaro (which now had no windows) and drove away.  To this day it was the most beautiful poetic justice I have ever seen.  No cops, no lawyers, just swift justice.  I only hope the same fate awaits the scum bag who lifted my stuff.

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Comment by slyfox

September 22, 2006 @ 12:47 pm

dude you have the worst luck out of everyone i know. ever since 1990 you get screwed, how is that?

who did you bend over in your past life

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Comment by Swill

September 22, 2006 @ 2:21 pm

Homeowners insurance???

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Comment by Flahute

September 22, 2006 @ 7:46 pm

Business insurance?

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Comment by wendy chao

September 22, 2006 @ 9:21 pm

karma, baby. believe in karma. those assholes have it coming.

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Comment by Clarky

September 23, 2006 @ 3:15 pm

Dude, this proves there are only two types of people in the world. Fucking fuckheads, and the strong-willed. Good thing you are the latter type.

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Comment by wendy

September 23, 2006 @ 4:59 pm

I never get invited to blanket parties - if you have one please let me know, I can swing a lead pipe as good as anyone

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Comment by T-B

September 24, 2006 @ 6:23 am

Damn dude, that’s a bummer man. Let me know if you need to swing a rod any time soon to work out some frustration.

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Comment by luscious

September 24, 2006 @ 8:48 am

check the salvage yards, propane filling, etc.. I hope you find them and when you do, call me. I got two tarps.

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