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Mario Morris Inner circle Mario Morris 2044 Posts |
Today busking some where in England, I lost my hat. One min it was their the next gone.
This was my prize bowler now. Be gone and by gone, I go around the corner and aint joking their is a 6-3 foot biker wearing my hat with added US bandaner wrapped around it. So I walk up to the fella that is fuiled up stinks of boze and say "that's my hat your wearing" hes says no it aint I got it three days ago. I say can I have a look at it he says F-U but I an going to finish this fag go down the rd and start busking with my penney whistle he says strong Irish accent. When I do I am going to put my hat on the floor your well come to look at it then. It was this all fight for my hat the !**%. So I follow this guy who is covered in tatoes and black leather to his pitch but on the way he stops in the John. He does not know I following him I hope but if he does then hes probally crapping in my hat, I thinks. 5min passes and he's out and does what he says he sarts to busk he plants his hat on the floor, so I go over and have a look and this hat is the same make but it looks nothing like my hat, it ripped no leather rim no band nothing just one battered hat. I say that's not my hat I am so sorry man I really am. He says I would never nick anything from you man that is not my styile. We shock hands and I walked away. To Be Countinued Mario |
The Great Zoobini Elite user Boulder, Colorado 443 Posts |
Oh goody..a hat story...me likey hat stories!
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tabman Inner circle USA 5946 Posts |
Wow!!! What a story!!
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TonyB2009 Inner circle 5006 Posts |
My very first experience on the street, at a festival in Limerick (the crime capital of Europe) I was doing a show and some lippy teen grabbed a hat I used as an effect (The hat turned into different hats every time I turned it inside out). I tried to be nice, but he just laughed at me. So I paused my show and went for him. He threw the hat to another teen. This went on for a while, with me looking like a prick. I was never fast enough to catch the one with the hat.
So I switched tactics. I grabbed the one who had just thrown the hat, twisted his arm into a vicious judo arm-lock, and brought him to the ground. In my loudest voice I proclaimed that if my hat wasn't back on my head by the count of five, the kid would be spending the rest of the day in the emergency ward having his arm re-set. Then I began applying pressure. The hat was back on my head before I reached five - and I got a big round of applause from the crowd who had been enjoying my show. I hate when a hat is stolen. I had a lovely, expensive leather hat stolen at a magic convention recently, and it spoilt the whole event. Good luck with finding the hat, or a suitable replacement.
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The Great Zoobini Elite user Boulder, Colorado 443 Posts |
Tony...probably the first time a busker has used violence to good ends
Considering Mario's dilemma, my guess is that someone laced his lemonade and it's been on his head the whole time...
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TheAmbitiousCard Eternal Order Northern California 13425 Posts |
Someone tried to walk off with my bowler at a Trade Show I was performing at.
I had it sitting near me and he picked it up and started to walk away with it like it was a free trade show giveaway.
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Mario Morris Inner circle Mario Morris 2044 Posts |
Afterwards, I returned to the john that I saw the chap go into and looked into the bin and there were the bits of my hat the hat band and the internal brim which was still in one piece. So I took this and marched back to this biker without a bike from hell. In not so many kind words I said - how can you have done this to my hat he looked at me and still denied to know what I was talking about I said well, I'm taking my hat, ripped and cut as it may be, I'm taking my hat! I emptied his smash onto the ground and proudly put my hat on my head. He gave me the finger and called me a theif as I walked away. I turned and tipped my hat to him as I said -top of the morning to you.
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TonyB2009 Inner circle 5006 Posts |
Fair play to you Mario. Glad you didn't let him get away with it.
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Andy_Bell Regular user my mindless rambling's now total 162 Posts |
Sorry to hear that Mario, I know you are quite attached to your hats. At least you got it back, but will it ever be the same now that it's been abused by a biker?
I was put on this earth to do a great many things..... I'm now so far behind that I don't think I'm ever going to die!
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Mario Morris Inner circle Mario Morris 2044 Posts |
Hi Andy
The truth is I love it even more, it now has its own story. Mario |
The Great Zoobini Elite user Boulder, Colorado 443 Posts |
I was walking down a wet Swiss sidewalk at night thinking to myself that I needed a kind of hat that stayed open when I bottled. A little to the left in the street appeared a brand new red dyed wool british cap that was stiff enough to stay open.
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Mario Morris Inner circle Mario Morris 2044 Posts |
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On 2009-07-09 20:17, The Great Zoobini wrote: I was walking down a wet Swiss sidewalk and I lost a brand new red dyed wool british cap. |
The Great Zoobini Elite user Boulder, Colorado 443 Posts |
Was it blue?
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Michael Peterson Inner circle is where I'm trapped, because of my 4071 Posts |
Mario, that is quite a story, cheers for standing up for yourself!
TonyB, good for you on standing up to the punks & getting your hat back! Mike |
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