Let's play truth or lie. The following 20 statements about me are true, with one exception. See if you can spot the lie. After you are satisfied with your choices, click tha "Answers" link at the bottom of the page. (This is a great ice-breaker at parties or first day of classes). 1. 1960s fitness guru, Jack Lalanne, slapped my face in response to a question I posed. 2. I have attended numerous meetings of the True Knights of Klu Klux Klan and some skin head meetings. 3. I have attended numerous rallies celebrating Martin Luther King Jr. and a few Black Panther rallies. 4. The hereditary Prince of the Island of Bali is a friend of mine; another friend is the god father of my children and is a famous economist whose has been honored by his home country of Malawi. 5. I had a friend (now dead) who was friends with Albert Schweitzer and Albert Einstein. 6. I graduated from Yale University, School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry, Drug Dependence Institute; and was one of the first men to graduate from a private all-female college and the first to win an academic honor there. 8. I graduated high school with honors and was considered to be an outstanding student and was well-liked by the student body.. 9. I spent a day riding around in a limousine with Hugh O'Brien, who was best known in the 1950s as Wyatt Earp; and have spent time with Charlton Heston, Pat Berenger, Meredith Baxter Birney, Carl Sagan, the Rev. Dr. Ralph Abernathy; Fred Grandy (Gopher on Love Boat); to name a few famous people. 10. I have been on high speed chases, numerous drug busts, at many fires and disasters, in various prisons, and I have known and spent a great deal of time with murderers, rapists, child molestors, kidnappers, thieves, etc., and have had my life threatened numerous times. 11. I was invited to get on country-western singer, Johnny Paycheck's bus (Take This Job and Shove It), but another guy got on first and he was seriously beaten -- I also spent time with jazz player, Dizzy Gillespie -- President Gerald Ford, Vice President Al Gore, four governors, and other highly-placed political figures. 12. I have helped change several state laws, several federal regulations, shut-down a major state psychiatric facility where patients were dying mysteriously, have been a guest at many professional seminars and spoke at many schools. 13. I sat in on plans to rob a US Army armory and asked my opinion about the plans success, have been friends with professional call girls -- have met numerous drug dealers and tracked down a child porographer. 14. I was reponsbile for the FBI's capture of a serial bank robber who used bombs as his weapon of choice and I've been on America's Most Wanted and talked to John Walsh. 15. 16. I have been in several TV ads, featured in the beginning of a film, featured on a PBS program, and interviewed by the National Enquirier, interviewed by the Associated Press, on radio and numerous times by TV journalists. 17. I have attended a witches' convention, have known a number of psychics, and have been on several ghost hunts and also investigated a Weekly World News (Batboy's home) story about two kids who were sent through time from the Battle of Gettysburg to the present time, and I tracked down one of their relatives. 18. I have worked with the US Army -- the Governor of the State of Maine, and have known numerous celebrities, international poitical figures and noted scientists, have worked with police, district attorneys, actors, writers, artists, etc. 19. I have taken hundreds of photos of many dead bodies -- in various states of mutilation, etc., and have did forensic photography of various crime scenes for CSI units. 20. I have talked people with guns and weapons into letting their hostages go and then surrendering to police and have told people their loved one had just died -- slapped their daughter because she was raped and interviewed a man suffering from a voodoo curse.
Rogue Reporter
Musings from a reporter used to the backways and highways.


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