A letter to my fellow hoodlums





These are my opinions and I am referring to no one





The hood is a place to go and converse with people in the same
condition. Being nasty to another person can have a detrimental effect of
another person's state of mind.

That is why we try and crack jokes and be silly. Yes we talk sex, but to my
knowledge that is all it is talk. Yes you can become burned out from the stress
of your problems and others. Spend a few days away and get back in the ring.

Another thing we try and have someone that has another heppers phone number, or
know somebody that does. This way we have a means of keeping up with you. We
don't see our friends and we worry. Also when some one gets bad news, it
affects all of us, we are family, brothers and sisters of the blood, maybe with
all of us we can bring the attention to hcv that we deserve. Each of us has a
special talent that we share with each other.



I have said what I have felt for a long time. Just because I am now on tx, I
am a hepper for life, we all still have a lot to learn and with each other we
can do it..love you all brad





Joke time







1. January 2000: Kathleen Robertson of Austin Texas was awarded $780,000.00
by a jury of her peers after breaking her ankle tripping over a toddler who was
running amuck inside a furniture store. The owners of the store were
understandably surprised at the verdict, considering the misbehaving tyke was
Ms. Robertson's son.

2. June 1998: A 19 year old Carl Truman of Los Angeles won $74,000.00 and
medical expenses when his neighbor ran over his hand with a Honda Accord.
Mr. Truman apparently didn't notice someone was at the wheel of the car whose
hubcap he was trying to steal.

3. October 1998: A Terrence Dickson of Bristol Pennsylvania was exiting a house
he finished robbing by way of the garage. He was not able to get the garage door
to go up, because the automatic door opener was malfunctioning.
He couldn't re-enter the house because the door connecting the house and garage
locked when he pulled it shut. The family was on vacation. Mr.
Dickson found himself locked in the garage for eight days. He subsisted on a
case of Pepsi he found, and a large bag of dry dog food. Mr. Dickson sued the
homeowner's insurance claiming the situation caused him undue mental anguish.
The jury agreed to the tune of half a million dollars and change.










4. October 1999: Jerry Williams of Little Rock Arkansas was awarded $14,500.00
and medical expenses after being bitten on the buttocks by his next door
neighbor's beagle. The beagle was on a chain in its owner's fenced-in yard, as
was Mr. Williams. The award was less than sought, because the jury felt

2. the dog might have been provoked by Mr. Williams who, at the time, was
shooting it repeatedly with a pellet gun.

5. May 2000: A Philadelphia restaurant was ordered to pay Amber Carson of
Lancaster, Pennsylvania $113,500.00 after she slipped on soft drink and broke
her coccyx. The beverage was on the floor because Ms. Carson threw it at her
boyfriend 30 seconds earlier during an argument.

6. December 1997: Kara Walton of Claymont, Delaware successfully sued the owner
of a night club in a neighboring city when she fell from the bathroom window to
the floor and knocked out her two front teeth. This occurred while Ms. Walton
was trying to sneak through the window in the ladies room to avoid paying the
$3.50 cover charge. She was awarded $12,000.00 and dental expenses.

7. And just so you know that cooler heads do occasionally prevail: Kenmore inc.,
the makers of Dorothy Johnson's microwave, were found not liable for the death
of Mrs. Johnson's poodle after she gave it a bath and attempted to dry it by
putting the poor creature in her microwave for, "just a few minutes, on low,"
The case was quickly dismissed.









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