This is the good Samaritan girl who jumped off
an
art car to stop my bleeding.
The next day, a Ranger who was with our camp encouraged
me to go to the DMV (Department of Mutant Vehicles)
to identify the car, so that the rangers
could discourage them from shooting people. This seemed
reasonable to me, since a girl on a moving car, shooting a guy
on a moving bike, could have easily shot me in
the eye instead of the hat. I don't want that to
happen to someone else.
But the DMV was closed.
So I went to the Ranger station and showed
them the photos. They got very upset, and escalated
the matter through four tiers of Rangers until a Head Honcho
was called. He insisted that he had to call the sheriff,
because it's a felony or something to shoot
people in the head.
Now, I'm starting to regret
telling them in the first place.
The sheriff comes and takes a report.
He encourages me to press police charges.
I decline, saying that I only wanted the Rangers to know so
that they could discourage this girl from shooting people.
Apparently the Rangers did find the driver of the car,
who of course disavowed any knowledge of
the trigger happy cowgirl.
Thus the story ends.
And now I have a genuine bullet hole in my
cowboy hat, which should make for good playa
conversations in the future.
previous