Minimaster Posted November 17, 2005 Share Posted November 17, 2005 This past Summer while driving through Nebraska(or there abouts). Blue Knights and The Troopers were able to stop a drunk driver after he almost crashed/caused an accident numerous times. This guy actually spun his SUV around and started to drive the wrong way on the highway. That's when the BK staff van, BK and Trooper buses closed him in. Staff members subdued the man until the cops arrived. Man was Jason Buckingham ###### at that guy. It was quite a scary situation. I had a front row view on the BK horn bus. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geneva Posted November 17, 2005 Share Posted November 17, 2005 (edited) In the Appleknockers in the early 1970's, we had a wayward member who was having frequent brushes with the law. His father had brought him into membership with hopes of instilling some sort of discipline and rehabilitation. Well, apparently the grand plan was not working as we were to find out one summer's day at a parade. As we were waiting along the route at parade rest, we noticed some New York State Police officers closely inspecting our ranks. Soon it became evident that their interest was more than just ceremonial as they escorted our troubled member in full uniform into their waiting cruiser much to our chagrin and collective embarrassment. Apparently the night before he had vandalized a local ice cream store including spray painting his initials on the walls (surely something which would qualify him for a Darwin award). To add insult to injury, the local newspaper reported his apprehension in great detail including that he was found in our company! Oh well, there went our member recruiting campaign for that year. Edited November 17, 2005 by Geneva Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fever_Euph_Beast Posted November 26, 2005 Share Posted November 26, 2005 so there was some stuff on the first 10 pages about haveing to save bottles for pee. well let me tell you, that's not just a wisconsin thing. we do that at Fever. we dont want people's urine smelling up the bus so we tell them to save whatever they can. and we never have the incident mentioned earlier about the open container falling on anyone's head. we require caps and we leave them in the bathroom. we also leave the empty bottles in the bathroom, we're generous. of course we did have that one dangerous incident involving rookie talent night. when you dont have a talent, we appoint one for you. and when we have pee bottles to juggle, you dont want to be a rookie without a talent. oh man that was scary. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jbl Posted November 26, 2005 Share Posted November 26, 2005 ...(surely something which would qualify him for a Darwin award). To qualify for an award you must remove yourself from the gene pool. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geneva Posted November 29, 2005 Share Posted November 29, 2005 Honorable mention then! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bstar82 Posted December 7, 2005 Share Posted December 7, 2005 I don't remember which John Belushi film it was, but there was a scene where someone is attempting to drive a car into a garage and Belushi is directing the car into the garage and as it hits a wall, Belushi says" That's good". That scene always brings back a memory for me with the Blue Stars in 82 in Canada staying in a small town outside Montreal (Varennes)? The director's wife was driving one of the buses to Olympic Stadium that day for finals. Our bus somehow got lost from the rest of the corps and we ended up on some really narrow neighborhood street. The kind of street that has cars parked on both sides as far as you can see. Anyway, Mrs. ??? asks me to jump out and direct her as we hit a dead end and she's gonna try and turn around with the help of a narrow alley. I'm barely 4-5 steps off the bus as she starts backing up and takes the side off some sedan on her rear side. Before I can get to the front as she pulls forward, she takes the rear bumper off another car. Trying to pretend she didn't know what she had done, I told her, "You're all clear now". Needless to say she went like bat out of #### down that street and I somehow kept thinking how we would be spending a lot more time in Canada than the summer schedule had mentioned!! Ah, the memories!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ambassadorhorn Posted December 7, 2005 Share Posted December 7, 2005 Except that Sarnia Sam debunked the Madonna rumor -- including Bluewater Bucs -- a number of pages back... I wrote up what is known here: Bluewater Bridgemen: Drumcorpswiki on Drum Corps Wiki. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MHSmirage Posted December 7, 2005 Share Posted December 7, 2005 The one that I've heard, and please someone let me know weather it true or not, but the BD soloist from 89....rumored that after Finals, no one could find him. They eventually found his horn and uniform folded near a dumpster. True? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bd5times Posted December 7, 2005 Share Posted December 7, 2005 false Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MelloMatt Posted February 21, 2014 Share Posted February 21, 2014 Bringing this back because all the great stories i'm sure are out there that have yet to be told. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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