Unabomber's Accomplice?
I used to live in a town about 10 miles from a mid-size American university. One day I ran into a guy named Dave who just looked like the mountain man type: long hair, long beard, unkempt, etc. I got to talking to him and he said he used to be a professor at the Univeristy. He got tired of the rat race and all the politics, so he and his wife ran off to the woods out West, and was living in a cabin about an hour and a half northwest of Helena, Montana. Well, his wife eventually left, and he got so lonely and crazy he decided to see if he could come back to the University (you'd have to be lonely and crazy to do that!).

That was on a Monday, I saw him once more that week, and on Saturday they announced they'd caught the Unabomber, Ted Kaczynski. Living in a cabin. In Montana. An hour and a half northwest of Helena. I thought that was really strange, and was going to ask Dave about it, but Dave disappeared immediately after that. I nearly died when I heard that Mr. Bomber's brother, DAVE, had been the one to turn him in.

I've seen pictures of Dave Kaczynski, and it's not the Dave I met. But ever since then I've wondered if my Dave was involved, but was tipped off that the feds were moving in and hid out until Ted was nabbed. I have this lurking notion that I should have told someone, and a lurking notion that someone is going to say "yeah, I wish you would have."

Freakiness
( setimret likes his metaphors mixed, not stirred, Thu 24 Feb 2005, 16:58, Reply)