Insane/Mentally Ill people at the range.

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Lots'a amateur shrinks here. :rolleyes:
...nobody needs a range bad enough to have that kind of freak running it, and the gun community sure as heck does not need that kind of nutjob fronting for us.
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Last time I checked it wasn't illegal to have strange ideas. If it were then the majority of Americans might find it convenient to lock most of us RKBA believers up 'cuz there's a whole lotta folks that think we're nutjobs.

There's a whole lot of folks in the USA with some really strange ideas but strange doesn't make one crazy. Admittedly some kinds of strange may be potentially dangerous but how many times have folks on this board said, "Punish the act, not the thought"?

I think the original poster missed a wonderful opportunity to have some real fun at the range owner's expense. :neener:
 
I think the original poster missed a wonderful opportunity to have some real fun at the range owner's expense.
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I would, but it's not worth getting shot over if I say something that pisses him off.
 
This doesn't sound all that weird...of course I work in a MENTAL HOSPITAL...the scary thing is....what if he's right??? :uhoh:
I'm sure everyone thought NOAH was nuts too.........donning my tin foil hat now and going on a shopping spree that will end on 9/28 :neener:

While shooting at my range one day with a few buddies,a guy comes up and askes if he can shoot with us.(it's a combat range and doesn't have lanes,just a big"pit")so I think,well this is a members only club so he's proably ok.WRONG......he does some quick draw and double taps(which is fine,he's pretty accurate)except when we go to change targets(silloettes)he looks at his and says"well,Habib is dead."I thought I miss heard so I go"huh?"he repeats and makes some "towel head" references..now for all this guy knows I could be married to someone from the middle-east....and actually one of my buddies who was there is from India(although he kind of looks more Latino)..I couldn't believe this bozo.....luckily he only brought a few rounds with him,and we wern't going to give him any of ours.......I know it takes all kinds,but these people make the rest of us gun owners look bad.....
 
There's a whole lot of folks in the USA with some really strange ideas but strange doesn't make one crazy. Admittedly some kinds of strange may be potentially dangerous but how many times have folks on this board said, "Punish the act, not the thought"?
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I wondered the same thing. The guy definately has some "out there" ideas, but that doesn't necessarily make him mentally ill...just odd. I guess I would have had to have been there to have an opinion as to his "craziness."
 
To be fair, HCRR isn't exactly in Austin (more like Dripping Springs I think). I've shot there before as they are closest to my house and while Richard is crazy or at least "off", he left us alone after we ignored his wild eyed mumbling. I can't say the same thing for Red's.
 
What, I thought everyone knew this. :rolleyes:

The Chinese fly spaceships powered by the radiation given off by old pot-stickers.

The Koreans have teleportation devices from Neptune using gases from Kimchee.

The Italians arrived here 5000 years ago from a traveling comet. They could not afford to keep their spacecraft running. This explains pesto sauce.

Most tinfoil doesn't work to protect the head from the thought police. You must only use foil from Reynolds. Alcoa is in cahoots with the illuminati.
 
The conversation took a quick turn to the apocalypse and how we will all be killed on Sept. 29th 2005.
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Didn't he know that the Incas in South America predicted December 2012? Of course, subtract the 7 year tribulation and he is close. :rolleyes: :)
 
Waffen - were you by chance at a range that has the initials HCRR? If so, that guy (owner) is a very well known loon and is usually called Crazy Richard. Just gotta agree with everything he says or the witches will steal another range. And it is a pretty good range...
 
I knew it was Richard as soon as I began reading the first post.

I've never had a problem with him, but I try real hard not to engage him in conversation. If you let him, he'll tell you all about the End Times, the certain date of the Apocalypse (revised annually), the Zionist conspiracy, the Black conspiracy, the Trilateral conspiracy, the Arab conspiracy, the devil worshippers in Steven Spielberg's nearby hilltop mansion, the local witches practicing human sacrifice in the local Bat Cave, the swindling mapmakers, and the 47 pounds of plutonium "they" put on Jupiter.

He had a falling out with the local IDPA club and they stopped using his range, which certainly cost him a few bucks. (He wanted them to collect and turn over all spent brass to him.)

Oh, well, at least since he got a shave and a haircut he doesn't look quite so much like Charles Manson.
 
planet X

"Chinese people were really space aliens from Mars' second moon that had landed 8000 years ago he had evidence that could prove it, and that is why they were technology leaders."

Hogwash! They're from Planet X and landed during it's last near collision with the earth. It's coming back soon.
 
That's the Thursday before payday which means I'll have to put in most of the workweek and then not get paid.
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Take the week off :neener:

Nope, haven't met many nut jobs at the range like THAT! Thankfully :what:

I do remember a time when one of my better friends called me over to his house to see conclusive evidence that aliens are on this planet. It was a fictional account he was reading, and swallowing :rolleyes: never quite looked at him the same way again after that. Then there was the woman who told me she didn't like going down dark roads at night cause that's when aliens abduct you. :what: Never looked at her the same way again either...

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HankB sounds like you know him pretty well.

I find myself in the same boat is you. I usually frequent "Eagle Peak" and this was just a once a year kind of trip to his place. I knew to expect craziness, this was just a little extreme from what I had previously expirenced.

He does seem "ok" as long as you don't talk to him, however he now has his hair grown out again and is sporting that stylish "Manson" look.

Have you ever seen the inside of his trailer though? I walked up there and it looked like it was almost unlivable, and that is the best structure on the property, next to the "new" shed by the pistol range! :what:
 
"Blacks (cut racist bulls**t) came from Jupiter on a makeshift space craft 2000 years go" and how all this was a known fact.
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It IS a known fact. Listen to some old Parlaiment/Funkadelic records. George Clinton knows the TRUE history of this planet, man... :)

Reminds me of a Futurama episode where the Harlem Globetrotters have their own planet, and every now and then, they come to Earth just to humiliate us over our inferior basketball skills. Turns out the Globetrotter planet is home to the most advanced physics in the galaxy...

I don't want to know what planet my meth-addled redneck neighbors come from...
 
Mixed feelings

This whole story might be funny if not for the fact that he's running off and offending what I can assume to be a fair number of people. Sure, even I have some ideas you might think are weird, but most of know that you
A) don't chase off your clientel
B) don't admit your own race is too dumb to get off this rock in the first place!

O.K. #2 was for chuckles, but maybe someone in the area needs to give this hilljack a history lesson about how every race and nationality has at one time or another taken a turn in the barrel.
 
The real issue is whether the aliens give you the 9mm, 45 ACP or 12 gauge probe in the you-know-where. :eek:
 
BTW my crazy fatherinlaw has similar apocalytic fantasies and my wife went to the trouble to demonstrate to him that his dates were off because he had not adjusted for the various calenders used over time. Now he's completely confused about when the EOTWAWKI will occur and even more confusing to talk to. Luckily instead of pestering us he lives in a shack on a rocky little piece of ground on the edge of the Cumberland Plateau that he thinks "the family" will come to when things fall apart.
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^^ Now thats funny !!!!! ROFL !! ^^
 
HankB sounds like you know him pretty well.
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Not really . . . it's just that, he, well, made an unforgettable first impression.

Scarey thing is, he makes more sense than some of the "Keep Austin Weird" crowd you see around town . . .

I've heard from people that DO know him better than I that he and a relative (brother?) inherited that land, and his brother was institutionalized with court-appointed lawyers as guardians. I guess these shysters were crooks and kept selling off pieces of the inheritance to pay for their services and such. If true, maybe years of being swindled contributed to his now being half a bubble off plumb . . .
 
If aliens have never been here before, how do you explain Janet Reno?

Need ......more.....tin......foil
 
Dang it,

You guys quit talking about this place. You're making me want to visit there just to see!!
 
Dang it,

You guys quit talking about this place. You're making me want to visit there just to see!!
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If you are in the Austin area and don't mind being around crazies it definatly is an expirence you will never forget. Somewhat funny if you are light hearted. Although it has taken about 5 trips total to see him in full force like yesterday.
 
I visited Tuscan, Tuscon...um Two Sonne. Whatever. (Yeah, I know it's Tucson, I'm just kidding. :D ) I visited there about 14 years ago. I hung out almost all night filming nutballs. And four people were shot that night too. I doubt Austin is all that bad.
 
Eccentrics and firearms make me nervous. The more I read about public ranges, the luckier I feel about mine. Very safety conscious and polite shooters. Craziest thing that has ever happened is when a older guy showed me the scar from his back surgery.
I guess I would have left as soon as he made his disparaging remark about my "future neice." I think anyone who acts/speaks in a manner that turns women off to shooting isn't helping our RKBA. I've actually heard guys joking that they loaded up a 3" 20 ga. for the "little woman" and now she doesn't pester them to go shooting any more. These days every prospective shooter is to be welcomed.
 
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