Tuesday, May 1, 2007

Llooney Lloyd


Over a year ago me, my girlfriend and a few of our friends saw a large crowd (large in yard sell terms) gathered in front of a dilapidated house hunching over boxes. A neon orange sign stated "Llooney Lloyd's Yard Sale!".
How could I pass up a yard sell with a sign proclaiming the insanity of the seller?
So we combed through box after box trying to find anything interesting when out of nowhere a man I assumed was "Loony Lloyd" gives us a deal we can't refuse. He hands us all bags and tells us that we can fill them up with as much stuff as possible and it'll only cost us a cold hard 50 cents.
It was magical.
The first thing that I see is a box full of PeƱafiel key chains and a few slides from an old slide projector. The slides were of a pretty normal family around Christmas time enjoying each others company. I am pretty sure they were of Lloyd in his youth.
What really caught my eye though was a box full of old tapes. They were mostly country and lame eighties rock with a few homemade mixtapes. Being in a rush I only took one and to this day I regret it.
On the tape were several conversations between a former police officer and some other shady characters explaining past due rent, urination problems and odd sexual behavior. I will forever wonder what is on those other tapes. Perhaps it was all a undercover police sting or maybe Lloyd was a private investigator?
Here's a clip from the tape. I have left out most of it because it's about 10 minutes long and gives out a lot of personal information.

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