Moran’s men arrived at the garage around roughly 10:30 (though Moran himself was not present) and proceeded inside. One of the lookouts allegedly confused one of Moran's men (most historians believe it was Albert Weinshank, who physically resembled Moran) for Moran himself: he then signaled for the gunmen to enter the warehouse. McGurn’s men pulled up in two separate cars: one Cadillac sedan and another his practice to gamble on horse racing (unsuccessfully) and associate with the Moran gang, and John May, an occasional car mechanic for the Moran gang, who was with his German shepherd, Highball. The killers told the men to face the back wall and line up. Thinking that this two men though the front door facing Clark Street.
In the early morning hours of November second, nineteen eighty-six, Douglas McIntyre, a policeman with the Savannah Police Department, and Clifford Balentine, the owner of a nineteen eighty-five Peterbilt tractor, were involved in a motor vehicle accident. After his shift on the night of November first, McIntyre went home at which time he preceded drinking some Miller Lite beer that he had purchased earlier that day. Around midnight McIntyre left his house in his pickup truck and visited his girlfriend at her place of employment, by this time he had consumed approximately six or seven of the sixteen ounce cans of Miller Lite. Finding his girlfriend busy, McIntyre drove to Smith’s Truck Stop and bought some gas. Balentine, who owned and drove the tractor involved in the accident, returned to Savannah after his over-the-road trucking haul for East-West Freight and spent his evening at a local club.
Erdrich also uses the red convertible that the two brothers bought as a metaphor for Henry. During the story, the brothers go on a cross-country road trip in their car, not stopping to for maintenance, and as a result, the car becomes old and beaten. Upon returning to their home on the Indian reservation where they grew up, Henry receives a draft notice from the marines calling him to fight the Vietnam war “We got home just in time, it turned out, for the army to remember Henry had signed up to join it”(196). While Henry is away in Vietnam, Lyman decides to repair the car. Unfortunately, when Henry returns from the marines he is a changed man, he no longer seems to enjoy anything “When he came home, though, Henry was very different, and I‘ll say this: the change was
Sitting there, right before we reached the border patrol checkpoint had to look very suspicious to the border patrol agents. My step dad was driving so he was trying to figure out the problem. He accidentally pushed the trunk button and all of our bags fell out of the back. He darted out to put them back in and miraculously, the vehicle started working
The descriptions of the motorcycle and the “greasy character,” both produce the tough image that the narrator, Jeff, and Digby yearn for, whereas the narrator’s mother’s “whining” station wagon does not (125, 127). When the narrator, Jeff, and Digby retreat to the woods and the lake after their attempted rape, the narrator’s car is demolished and trashed by the angry greasy man, and two “blond types [wearing] fraternity jackets” that appear in a Trans-Am. The demolition of the narrator’s car symbolizes how weak and vulnerable he is, like a little school boy getting beaten up by an older, tougher bully, and takes away whatever “bad” boy image he had left. After emerging from their hide outs in the lake, the boys return to their car the next morning and are greeted by two
Peter, who is African American, finds himself walking on the highway after running from a police chase where he and his friend Anthony (Chris “Ludacris” Bridges) attempted to steal a Navigator truck from Cameron Thayer (Terrence Howard). Officer Hanson, who is Caucasian, pulled over and offered to give him ride to where he needed to go. Both men engage in a candid conversation that quickly becomes a life or death situation that gets out of line. Peter begins talking to Hanson about how he likes the country music that he is playing, but Hanson dismisses the notion by laughing, because he thinks that Peter is just trying to make conversation. Peter then looks at the dashboard where he sees a religious figurine, the Saint Christopher figurine, he begins to laugh because he carries the same Saint Christopher figurine in his pocket everywhere he goes for good luck.
Sleep is my only refuge from the harshness of the desert at White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico. However, when my commander Lieutenant Colonel Paul Yingling yells “Trahan wake up” that harshness startles me to attention. Briefly, I slipped into my uniform and secured the driver’s seat of our Humvee, in frustration my commander states the location we needed to achieve. The drive was lengthy and tedious, once we arrived to our endpoint, I spotted a gangly old gentleman; his stare was lethal and intimidating. “Get out of the truck” screeches the timeworn man, it was our brigade commander, Yingling’s overseer.
Ari tells the immigrants he need help building a deck, and 15 of them run to be the first to hop in the back of his truck. One immigrant tries to sit in the front seat, however Ari refuses to let him; he snobbishly tells the immigrant his car was just detailed. The climax of this two minute video is a rude awakening; Ari tells the ‘beaners’ to get out of the
The flat, even tire marks going over the curb showed it to be impossible for Billy’s car to have been involved in the getaway because the Skylark fails to have a suspension system that would do this. Vinny finds Lisa and drags her into court as an expert of cars, to testify to this. He recalls the FBI analyst who agreed that Billy’s car did not make those tracks. Vinny requested a sheriff to run a record check and testified that two men who looked like Billy and Stan were arrested for theft of a stolen Pontiac Tempest which resembles Billy’s Skylark in appearance and color. The car thief’s had possession of the same caliber gun used to kill the store clerk.
Jasmine Zamora Professor Izaquirre English 6015 January 31, 2013 “Love in L.A.” by Dagoberto Gilb Plot: “Love in L.A.” is a story that is set on the streets of Los Angeles in the heat of traffic. Our characters are Jake and Mariana. Ironically, while Jake is sitting in traffic, imagining about all of this freedom that he has, he collides with the car that is in front of him. For Jake it took a fender bender for his freedom to swell up. Even his license plate had “expired so long ago,” that he got one from the junkyard.