Baltimore, 7 Shot at Cookout

[Zappa]

 

[AHM]

My opinion of Baltimore is based on a single business trip there. I picked up my rental car and there was a bullet hole in the hood. But no problem, the agent casually said "I'll mark that down". Ah NO, I want a different car, not the one just used in a drive by.

No kidding.

Uncle Al told me that Back in the Day (quite possibly during/before the Great Depression),
some city slicker friend of his leaned his firestick against his car while hunting.

It fell over, and an ND put a hole in the fender.

The guy would not return home to the city.
because he was convinced that if NYPD spotted a car with a bullet hole,
they would throw him in the basement of the precinct house
and beat him within an inch of his life with a rubber hose
until he confessed to whatever armed felony they liked him for.