Hi Ottawa.
This incident happened about a month ago around May 10 or 11. The casino had introduced this new electronic craps table several weeks prior. The digital table has got its pros and cons over the classic analogue table with chips and multiple dealers. Well it just so happens that one of the cons of this digital table cost me $450.
I was having a great roll and had a $50 bet on the hard 6. For those of you who are unfamiliar with the game, this is an on-going bet that wins and pays you 9:1 when the dice land 3-3 and lose when they land on any other combination of a 6. It's a bad bet, but you can bet as little as a dollar and get paid big if you hit it a few times by replaying your winnings on top (called a press).
During my roll I had stopped and decided to tip the dealer some money. The way this works is that you press a "Tip" button on the top right of the screen and it prints out the dollar amount that the dealer can then cash out at the end of their shift.
This is the moment where everything goes to shit.
The dice get passed to me and the dealer presses a button to close the betting on all player terminals. This is fine and well because I did not intend to change any of my bets and so I did not look at my betting terminal. I throw the dice and bam, HARD 6! I get super excited because I know I just won $450.
Except I didn't...
I look down on my betting terminal and ALL OF MY BETS ARE CLEARED FROM THE TABLE! WTF!!! Omg...
We quickly learned that when you press the tip button on the screen the software thinks that you're done playing the game and you're leaving. I ask to call the supervisor and have them take a look. The pit boss who comes in makes a comment that I might have accidentally hit the "All bets cancelled" button, which is in the same general area but still visibly distant. Nope! Not even close. I did not touch my screen at all! Check the cameras pal. This same problem happened to another player a couple of weeks after. They gave a tip on their last round of play and all of their bets got wiped from the screen.
He made up some horseshit about how security doesn't focus on electronic tables. Total nonsense. They have 80 billion cameras on the ceiling covering every possible angle for any kind of incident. I couldn't have mistakenly hit that button, especially when I didn't even touch the screen lol! It was obvious he was trying to find a way to weasel out of paying me my bet. He insultingly offered a $20 coupon at the bar. I took it lol.
I call him again about 20 minutes later after talking to my friend who was playing right next to me and witnessed that I definitely had my bet there. I paused my play on the machine because the software only records a certain number of plays in its memory to have them come over and go through it. Sure enough, it's exactly the way I described it to him. He finally admits that yeah something went wrong. He takes down my info and tells me that the electronic craps table is under the supervision of the slot machine pit bosses and that they will conduct their investigation then get back to me.
They never did.
Weeks pass and I had to call the casino and chase down this same pit boss to ask for an update. He told me that they did their investigation and everything looked to be fine when they pressed the tip button, and that I must have hit the button to cancel my bets. It was the exact same preconceived notion he had weeks ago that he tried to gaslight me with the first time. Nothing had changed. I doubt they even did anything to look into the machine. This was last week when I had called and spoken to him over the phone.
These crooks screwed me out of $450. It's not a huge amount of money but it is for one person and it is my damn money, regardless of how much. I know that these bastards chase people out of the casino for as little as $20 that they accidentally overpay.
Do I have any kind of bureaucratic or legal recourse here? Any advice is appreciated.
Thanks for reading and sorry for the length.

Thinking of introducing the White Sign Soapstone into a campaign. Once per session they can use it to "be summoned" into an NPCs world. Role a d20, and based on the number, throw them into a boss battle. If they die, there's no penalty. If they win, bonus souls.
Thoughts?

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I've been working on adding threefold repetition detection to my engine so it doesn't blunder to a forced repetition when it has a better position. I've gotten it to the point where it works occasionally if it is the one going for the draw. (Ex: when playing as white in this position "r1b1kb2/pppnqNp1/6B1/8/3Pp3/8/PPPK2PP/RNB5 w - - 4 14" it can find the draw, but when playing as white in this position "8/4Q3/5rk1/8/1p3P2/2pp2PP/7K/1qB5 w - - 1 3" it can't)
What I have noticed is that when the engine plays as black in these two positions, it does not notice the draw and believes it is winning. I have a feeling that this is the root of the issue but I'm not sure how to go about fixing it.
I'm using zobrist hashing to create hashes for the board positions and am storing the number of times a position occurred in a hashmap called repetition_table. This count is then used in is_threefold_repetition() where it checks if the count is greater than or equal to 3 (when a position is added the count starts at 1).
Here is the code for my search. I'm using negamax for the main search and have a quiescence search that goes through all captures, checks, and promotions. Also, the clone_with_move() function clones the board position, makes the move, and changes the active player color.

// Using i16 MIN and MAX to separate out mating moves // There was an issue where the engine would not play the move that leads to mate // as the move values were the same const NEG_INF: i32 = (std::i16::MIN + 1) as i32; const INF: i32 = -NEG_INF; const MATE_VALUE: i32 = std::i32::MAX - 1; pub struct Searcher { move_gen: MoveGenerator, zobrist: ZobristTable, transposition_table: TranspositionTable, repetition_table: RepetitionTable, } impl Searcher { pub fn new() -> Self { Self { move_gen: MoveGenerator::new(), zobrist: ZobristTable::new(), transposition_table: TranspositionTable::new(), repetition_table: RepetitionTable::new(), } } pub fn best_move(&mut self, board: &Board, max_depth: u8) -> (i32, Option) { let mut best_move = None; let mut best_score = NEG_INF as i32; for depth in 1..max_depth+1 { (best_score, best_move) = self.negamax_alpha_beta(board, NEG_INF, INF, depth); let board_hash = self.zobrist.hash(board); self.transposition_table.store(board_hash, best_score, best_move, depth, Bounds::Lower); } (best_score, best_move) } fn negamax_alpha_beta(&mut self, board: &Board, alpha: i32, beta: i32, depth: u8) -> (i32, Option) { let original_alpha = alpha; let mut alpha = alpha; let mut beta = beta; let board_hash = self.zobrist.hash(board); self.repetition_table.increment_position_count(board_hash); // Check for three fold repetition if self.repetition_table.is_threefold_repetition(board_hash) { self.repetition_table.decrement_position_count(board_hash); return (0, None); } // Check transposition table for an entry let tt_entry = self.transposition_table.retrieve(board_hash); let mut tt_best_move = None; // If the depth is lower, the TT move is still likely to be the best in the position // from iterative deepening, so we sort it first. We dont want to modify alpha and beta though // unless the depth is greater or equal. if let Some(entry) = tt_entry { tt_best_move = entry.best_move; if entry.depth >= depth { match entry.bounds { Bounds::Exact => { self.repetition_table.decrement_position_count(board_hash); return (entry.eval, entry.best_move) }, Bounds::Lower => alpha = max(alpha, entry.eval), Bounds::Upper => beta = min(beta, entry.eval), } if alpha >= beta { self.repetition_table.decrement_position_count(board_hash); return (entry.eval, entry.best_move); } } } // Perform quiescence search, going through all captures, promotions, and checks if depth == 0 { let eval = self.quiescence(board, alpha, beta) as i32; self.repetition_table.decrement_position_count(board_hash); return (eval, None); } let mut moves = self.move_gen.generate_moves(board); sort_moves(board, &mut moves, tt_best_move); // Checkmate or Stalemate if moves.len() == 0 { self.repetition_table.decrement_position_count(board_hash); if self.move_gen.attacks_to(board, self.move_gen.king_square(board)) != 0 { return (-MATE_VALUE + depth as i32, None); } else { return (0, None); } } let mut best_score = NEG_INF as i32; let mut best_move = Some(moves[0]); for mv in moves { let new_board = board.clone_with_move(&mv); let score = -self.negamax_alpha_beta(&new_board, -beta, -alpha, depth - 1).0; if score > best_score { best_score = score; best_move = Some(mv); } alpha = max(alpha, best_score); if alpha >= beta { break; } } // Get bound and store best move in TT let bound = if best_score <= original_alpha { Bounds::Upper } else if best_score >= beta { Bounds::Lower } else { Bounds::Exact }; self.transposition_table.store(board_hash, best_score, best_move, depth, bound); self.repetition_table.decrement_position_count(board_hash); return (best_score, best_move); } fn quiescence(&mut self, board: &Board, alpha: i32, beta: i32) -> i32 { let mut alpha = alpha; let board_hash = self.zobrist.hash(board); self.repetition_table.increment_position_count(board_hash); if self.repetition_table.is_threefold_repetition(board_hash) { self.repetition_table.decrement_position_count(board_hash); return 0; } let king_in_check = self.move_gen.attacks_to(board, self.move_gen.king_square(board)) != 0; let mut moves = match king_in_check { true => self.move_gen.generate_moves(board), // All moves false => self.move_gen.generate_quiescence_moves(board), // Captures, checks, promotions }; mvv_lva_sort_moves(board, &mut moves); if moves.len() == 0 && king_in_check { self.repetition_table.decrement_position_count(board_hash); return -MATE_VALUE as i32; } let stand_pat = evaluate(board) as i32; if stand_pat >= beta { self.repetition_table.decrement_position_count(board_hash); return beta; } if alpha < stand_pat { alpha = stand_pat; } for mv in moves { let new_board = board.clone_with_move(&mv); let score = -self.quiescence(&new_board, -beta, -alpha); if score >= beta { self.repetition_table.decrement_position_count(board_hash); return beta; } if score > alpha { alpha = score; } } self.repetition_table.decrement_position_count(board_hash); return alpha; } } 

Hello everyone, I'm here to share a project I've been working for the past day - a 'Dogs In Danger Daily' Twitter Bot! 🤖🐶
Apologies in advance if this is not an appropriate post for this subreddit
What it does: It scrapes data from DogsInDanger.com and posts a random dog in danger of euthanization, raising awareness and increasing the chances of adoption. It grabs the location of the adoption center and includes appropriate hashtags to give Twitter users who live in the state a higher chance to view.
It also posts every few hours a memorial tribute to a fallen dog (name and picture), who never got the chance to a better life.
DogsDangerDaily Twitter
Why I created the bot: As an animal lover, it pains me to see countless dogs in shelters with uncertain futures. Determined to help anyway I can, I channeled my passion for programming to create this twitter bot. As a junior developer, I have troubles finding valuable project ideas and figured something like this not only helps me grow my skills but can help make a difference.
My mission and seeking support: I genuinely believe that every small effort counts. If you're also passionate about animal welfare, I'd greatly appreciate your support—be it feedback, suggestions, or even spreading the word.
By joining forces, we can make a tangible impact in giving these voiceless creatures the love and care they deserve. 💙
Thank you for taking the time to read about my project
GitHub repo: https://github.com/floscar12/dogs-in-danger-twitter-bot/tree/main
A big thank you goes to DogsInDanger.com:

DogsInDanger.com is an award winning website founded by two dog lovers. The website was launched in October 2007 with the goal of: Getting as many of these dogs adopted into loving homes as possible, before their time runs out; and Raising awareness of the number of dogs being killed in shelters. The co-founders dedicated their respective skills and the shelters list the dogs. The founders have many more ideas to implement, all aimed at eradicating the needless killing of those we call our best friends.

Hello everyone, I'm here to share a project I've been working for the past day - a 'Dogs In Danger Daily' Twitter Bot! 🤖🐶
Apologies in advance if this is not an appropriate post for this subreddit
What it does: It scrapes data from DogsInDanger.com and posts a random dog in danger of euthanization, raising awareness and increasing the chances of adoption. It grabs the location of the adoption center and includes appropriate hashtags to give Twitter users who live in the state a higher chance to view.
It also posts every few hours a memorial tribute to a fallen dog (name and picture), who never got the chance to a better life.
DogsDangerDaily Twitter
Why I created the bot: As an animal lover, it pains me to see countless dogs in shelters with uncertain futures. Determined to help anyway I can, I channeled my passion for programming to create this twitter bot. As a junior developer, I have troubles finding valuable project ideas and figured something like this not only helps me grow my skills but can help make a difference.
My mission and seeking support: I genuinely believe that every small effort counts. If you're also passionate about animal welfare, I'd greatly appreciate your support—be it feedback, suggestions, or even spreading the word.
By joining forces, we can make a tangible impact in giving these voiceless creatures the love and care they deserve. 💙
Thank you for taking the time to read about my project
GitHub repo: https://github.com/floscar12/dogs-in-danger-twitter-bot/tree/main
A big thank you goes to DogsInDanger.com:

DogsInDanger.com is an award winning website founded by two dog lovers. The website was launched in October 2007 with the goal of: Getting as many of these dogs adopted into loving homes as possible, before their time runs out; and Raising awareness of the number of dogs being killed in shelters. The co-founders dedicated their respective skills and the shelters list the dogs. The founders have many more ideas to implement, all aimed at eradicating the needless killing of those we call our best friends.

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Memory Transcription Subject: Gokhos, Kolshian Fleet Commander
Date [Standardized Human Time]: November 9, 2136
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Notice: These were the last thoughts of the subject before the flagship's destruction took place, this is the best interpolation base of the final data received from the subject’s neuro analyzer.
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I’m so disappointed in all of them…
All of them…
To leave the federation for the sake of a wounded predator species? To feel empathy for a creature which has none? To abandon us for these humans?! It was all so shameful, Solvin was brainwashed by humans to say such things to garner guilt upon us for something that was ultimately righteous. They needed to be brought back… even if it was through force. After all, it was clear they all needed to be re-educated.
They fell victim to the predator’s tricks. The humans managed to trick them all into feeling sorry for them. They weren’t as loyal to the great protector as I wished they were. They will be, soon enough they all will be… that the universe might come united and aware of the predator menace that plagues all life.
My train of thought was interrupted as we re-entered real space within the Venlil’s home system. The Venlil… the cowards were the first to be re-installed into the federation considering they were the first species to leave it… They were to be taught a lesson, and their governor be executed for crimes against the federation.
I opened up fleetwide communications. “My comrades, these fools have been tainted by predator trickery and influence. We must not let this stand… they will try to oppose us from saving them from themselves… holdfast, for we will destroy the Venlil Fleet stationed here, and stand victorious over the predator diseased fools!”
I heard a collective cheer through the comms as I ordered the fleet to move forward… I knew that in a few moments the Venlil’s planetary alarms would activate, and they would gun it for the bunkers. Those skittish fools were all so easy to scatter… how they brought themselves to even associate with the humans was mind boggling to me.
Our fleet accelerated to the planet at a rapid rate, with the defense fleet moving in to oppose us. I sent out a message to the Venlil Fleet, “Venlil forces, stand down, we intend to save you from the predatory influence that is plaguing your society.”
“How about you go suck on a Mazic dick!” The Venlil military advisor named Kam spoke to me through the comms…
…
How bold…
“All forces open fire… engage the Venlil forces and shoot to kill.”
As soon as I said that our railguns began to fire at the defensive fleet. We outnumbered them 2-1 at least… Even more so considering the way Venlil was under overwhelming odds against them, this battle was going smoothly... exactly as expected~. I knew this was going to be similar to the bombardment on earth. The Venlil were going to run away soon enough to save their own skins, and leave the planet wide open… Only this time? We were going to save the Venlil from predator influence, and there was no one to save them from the-...
“SIR! We’re detecting a warp signature entering the system not far from the planet! The make is unknown!”
…
DAMMIT!
How?! There were no other fleets that were anywhere near this sector except for the human remnants! And they didn’t have the numbers to defend themselves without the Arxur helping them! Are... are they actually coming to help them?!
More importantly… WHY THE FUCK WOULD HUMANS SAVE THE VENLIL!?! The Venlil abandoned humanity to their fate! Why would they even try to send a single ship to help them?!
The unidentified fleet entered the system by the planet, scans showed a fleet of 400 ships… massive ships… It was actually shocking the kinds of weapons that were detected upon each individual vessel.
There seemed to be two variants of this style of ship. One had railguns and defensive laser turrets and the other seemed to have missile pods and rapid-fire kinetic weapons… It was unknown of the ship’s capabilities, but we weren’t worried. These ships were unmistakably human, the logo of the UN was emblazoned on its side. I had nothing to worry about, humans were weakened… they were primitive… even with the intimidation that these ships had, that’s all it was, intimidation…
As expected, the Venlil forces were breaking away from the battle, even though they still only lost 22% of their forces… I figured it was out of cowardice before my comms officer informed me of the chatter on Venlil channels.
“Sir! The human forces have commanded the Venlil forces to stand down and return to their defensive position around the Planet! The Human forces are repositioning to move just before the defending fleet!”
The humans are taking the charge over the Venlil? That was an odd thing indeed… perhaps their desire for vengeance over federation has limited their few cognitive abilities? There was no way that these humans truly thought they could win… this overconfidence will surely be their downfall!
“All ships move forward towards the planet! We will obliterate the human forces that stand between us and victory!”
We rushed forward to engage the humans… their missile pods unleashed a flurry of missiles to intercept our course. Foolish~! there was not a doubt in my mind that our shields would hold against whatever these primitives could…
I was quickly turned to a more concerned look as systems suddenly deactivated, this didn’t make any sense! Our ships' shields were primed to handle any sort of attack! But we never considered a weapon that tampered with electronics! All systems were deactivated! That also meant that…
Our shields…
We were just sitting in space! Floating on a predictable path! Engineering told me that they should have the systems fixed in four minutes. That would be more than enough time to recalibrate our shields and put down the preda-
…
My thoughts were quickly put to rest, as I realized how pointless it was to try and fight back…
The humans opened fire…
And all that followed was a constant rain of railguns blasting away at our fleet. Dozens of ships were being obliterated every second.
The human railguns were numerous on their warships… the velocity of their shells reaching around 0.15c, based on what my first officer told me…
With five turrets with three railguns each… railguns that could fire again after 5 seconds of recharge… with weapons that could deactivate entire fleets and blast through dozens of ships in seconds…
Numbers no longer mattered when it came to humans… even if we had a fleet over 20 times their size…
It became more than obvious to me…
We angered a species that had the powers to outmatch a FUCKING FOUNDER RACE…
And win…
The comms chatter was abundant with screaming and crying in terror as all my fellow federation soldiers, they were expressing their regret at partaking in this mission… I was all the same. Tuning into human comms… it was even more terrifying than hearing my comrades' sorrow and pain… because I heard the humans' maniacal laughter… I heard them celebrating the destruction they were inflicting upon us… that unholy laughter chilled me to my bones, as I felt a tear run down my face…
…
INATALA WHAT GODS OF WRATH HAVE WE JUST AWO-?!
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:: Upon careful thinking? I have decided that the shell that humanity utilizes are 269 kg shells... there reason it is so specific is because, as per u/Khotehk, this will reach a megaton yield more than of the Tsar Bomba... and because of (LOL FUNNI SEGGS NUMBER) ... I'm not sorry~. ::
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Here are my notes I gathered about Lenovo Legion 7 Gen 7 AMD 2022 (16ARHA7), aka AMD Advantage. Sharing them for future researchers like myself. Something useful is missing? Do tell.

Product pages

Unlike most brands, these actually have most information you may need: * Marketing page (lenovo.com)/len101g0017) - specs, ports, generic information * Product Specifications Reference (psref.lenovo.com) - specs in detail, exact model list, ports (other images) * Support page (pcsupport.lenovo.com) - software and drivers download, user manual and guides, parts, customer support (select your exact model - take it from PSREF)

Reviews

• [YouTube] Jarrod's Tech - Legion 7i (Intel) - Intel+NVIDIA model, rest applies
• [YouTube] Jarrod's Tech - Legion 7 vs 7i - comparison between AMD+AMD and Intel+NVIDIA models
• [YouTube] Mash IT

Possible configurations/variants

• GPU: AMD Radeon RX 6700M (10 GB VRAM) or AMD Radeon RX 6850M (12 GB VRAM) > keep in mind that S suffix is different from M suffix on regular factor laptops
• RAM: 2 DDR5 4800 MHz SO-DIMM memory sticks, usually in total of 16 or 32 GB configuration
• SSD: 1 TB or 2 TB M.2 SSD

Aside from the above, most models vary in keyboard layout. See PSREF for details.

Notes on hardware and firmware

• RAM: My unit has 2x8 GB Micron MTC4C10163S1SC48BA1 running in quad-channel with CL 40 (40-39-39-77)
• Storage: My unit has 2 TB SAMSUNG MZVL22T0HBLB-00BL2 NVMe PCIe 4 SSD
• WiFi card: My unit has RealTek RTL8852BE (WiFi 6 802.11ax)
• Ports: USB4 port (left side, left port) connects to iGPU when in Hybrid mode - all other video ports are connecting to dGPU
• Removing/replacing any part (battery, RAM, WiFi, SSD etc.) is described in Hardware Maintenance Manual with pictures. Don't forget to unplug the battery!
• "Hybrid mode" ON means that both iGPU and dGPU are enabled - OFF means dGPU only. There's no mode for iGPU only
• Toggling "Hybrid mode" requires reboot
• Battery in conversation mode limits charging to 80%
• "Thermal mode" has 3 levels:
  • Quiet (blue) - reduces CPU clocks to maintain lower temperatures, and so keep the fan quiet
  • Balance (white) - adjusts CPU clocks and fans as needed
  • Performance (red) - available only with charger plugged in, I recommend lifting the device up somehow to allow better cooling

Keyboard layouts

• ANSI QWERTY (Polish)
• ANSI QWERTY (Netherlands)
• Italian QWERTY
• German QWERTZ
• French AZERTY

Using exact model from PSREF, you can enter PC Support page and find how exact for the model exactly look like in Parts tab.

Hotkeys during boot

• F2 - BIOS Setup: contains information on CPU, GPU, BIOS version, serial number, thermal mode, boot device order, Graphic device selection (MUX Switch / "Hybrid Mode" ON/OFF), can proceed to settings
• F9 - "Novo Menu": quick access menu for everything else
• F10 - Diagnostics UEFI: can display information and test individual hardware parts and see storage's S.M.A.R.T.
• F12 - "Boot Device" (boot menu)

Function keys

• Fn + Space - firmware based RGB presets
• Fn + Up/Down - RGB brightness
• Fn + Q - switch power profile / thermal mode
• Fn + R - 60/165Hz switch ①③
• Fn + U - back port icon light
• Fn + L - Legion logo light on lid
• Fn + F1 - sound toggle (mute/unmute)
• Fn + F2/F3 - volume down/up
• Fn + F4 - microphone toggle (mute/unmute) ①
• Fn + F5/F6 - brightness down/up ④
• Fn + F7 - project screen menu (display modes when external display is connected)
• Fn + F8 - plane mode (no network) ①
• Fn + F9 - software quick access (Lenovo Vantage) ①②③
• Fn + F10 - touchpad toggle (enabled/disabled)
• Fn + F11 - Windows: ALT-TAB equivalent, Linux GNOME: something else (I am uncertain what is it)
• Fn + F12 - calculator
• Fn + PrtSc - screenshot cropping (like Win+Shift+S) ③
• Fn + Home/End/PgUp/PgDn - media keys (respectively: Play/Pause, Stop, Previous, Next)

① Windows: doesn't work without Lenovo Fn and Function Keys software
② Windows: requires Lenovo Vantage (Lenovo Legion Toolkit can use this shortcut for itself)
③ Linux: does not work out of the box as tested on Fedora 38 GNOME with kernel 6.3.5-200
④ Linux: does not work with Hybrid Mode OFF (dGPU only)

Official generic video

Linux support

Overall - pretty good. As shown in function key section - most of them work out of the box, as they are handled by firmware. This includes switching thermal mode, "RGB" (keyboard and other backlight) profiles, switching between them and changing brightness level. Project screen menu works, though there's no HUD/GUI for it and switches mode immediately, which may be inconvenient.
As tested on Fedora 38 GNOME with kernel 6.3.5-200, speakers, webcam, WiFi, Bluetooth works. Fingerprint reader does not work, at least out of the box. I came across mentions that speakers do not work for the slim variant.

Third party tools:

• Lenovo Legion Toolkit - open source alternative to Lenovo Vantage
• Lenovo Legion Linux - tools (power and fan control) for Linux

Community

• "Lenovo Legion" Reddit
• "Legion Series" Community Discord

This article contains a lot of film stills. For a fully illustrated version please click here - https://filmofileshideout.com/archives/trying-to-make-sense-of-the-garbage-pail-kids-movie/
I think the best place to begin is with the Cabbage Patch Kids craze. I was in junior high when the round-faced little dolls hit the shelves. They weren’t for “sale” but, for a “fee”, you could “adopt” one at a store. They came with adoption papers and everything. That was 1982. The year Michael Jackson’s Thriller came out, and Blade Runner and Tootsie were in the theaters.
Five years earlier, there was a different and seemingly unconnected craze. Everyone wanted Wacky Packs. They were stickers that were packaged in paper like baseball cards. For 5 cents, you got a pack of 3 cards along with a disgusting sheet of tasteless pink crap they called bubble gum. Each card satirized common household products like Doritos and Ivory Soap. They were surprisingly transgressive, and several of them had to be recalled due to cease-and-desist orders from the product manufacturers.
Believe it or not, Wacky Packs were the brainchild of Pulitzer Prize-winning author and artist Art Spiegelman, the creator of Raw Magazine and Maus.
Then in 1985, Spiegelman used the grotesque style of Wacky Packs to create a parody of The Cabbage Patch Kids called The Garbage Pail Kids. Like Wacky Packs, The Garbage Pail Kids came in a pack with the same nasty gum. Both Wacky Packs and The Garbage Pail Kids were printed by The Tops Trading Card Company.
Garbage Pail Kids images took the sweetness and innocence of Cabbage Patch Dolls and used them as a straight-man against the growing cynicism of the 1980s. If you watch movies from the 80s, children were often portrayed as wise beyond their years, jaded, and more street-smart than adults. Think of Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Back To The Future, and Punky Brewster.
At some point, Topps even came out with their own line of dolls. Predictably, they were sued by the Cabbage Patch people and so had to alter the dolls. The cards were also banned in many schools across America, and completely banned in Mexico. The television cartoon was kept off the airwaves for decades. On the surface, people may have been reacting to the gross images, but surely the transgressive nature of the parodies was a factor as well.
Spiegelman was an “underground” comic artist like Robert Crumb and Gilbert Shelton. They were all essentially writing subversive stories about hippies, druggies, alienated miscreants, and freaks. Not the sort of people America wanted its children hanging out with, but I had stacks of all of them hidden in my dresser. Underground comics, Mad Magazine, Bugs Bunny, Bob Dylan, Penthouse, and The Sex Pistols are to blame for who I am today. How’s that for a dating profile?
Then came the idea to turn The Garbage Pail Kids cards into a movie. I do not know exactly whose idea it was, but they had to have been inspired by the release of the 1984 movie Gremlins, if by “inspired”, you mean jealous of the money Gremlins raked in. Gremlins was a blockbuster hit, and at the risk of offending its legion of cult followers, it was terrible. Regardless, it wormed its way deep inside 80s culture. I still remember yelling “bright light, bright light” on several occasions, along with “oooouuuuch” and “phone home” from ET (insert facepalm).
Garbage Pail Kids is mostly a cheap retreading of the Gremlins movie. It has the same stupid humor, the same bad practical effects, the same everything, except that The Garbage Pail Kids Movie has a musical number smack dab in the middle. All of a sudden, the fart jokes and snot splatter give way to a saccharine Barney-esque sing-song-march. It’s nauseating. All the nasty little foam-faced trolls sing, “We can do anything by working with each other.”
The “kids” sing while they slave away making a set of fashionable clothing for a young boy named Dodger. Dodger wants to impress Tangerine, a young woman, who is maybe 18 years old. She needs the outfits for her fashion show. Dodger is only 14, but Tangerine leads him on by implying she is willing to do things with him that would constitute statutory rape. It’s super creepy.
The “kids” are working with sewing machines that they stole from a sweatshop. How do I know it was a sweatshop? Those were the words printed on the sign hanging in the window. Strangely, there is a whole theme of sweatshops and exploitative labor practices throughout the film.
Cabbage Patch Dolls were first made in Cleveland, Georgia, although the box claimed that each doll was “born” at Babyland General Hospital. Once the trend took off, manufacturing was outsourced to China. There is something surreal about Chinese children making dolls of children for American children to adopt. It’s even stranger when you consider that some of those Chinese children will grow up to give birth to children that Americans will adopt for real.
Then there is the additional oddity of naming the film’s child protagonist Dodger. Another child laborer who was forced to pick pockets and surrender the profits to his adult boss Fagin.
80s films often have snippets of counterculture strung through them. The Garbage Pail Kids Movie begins with a strange speech given by a fatherly antique shop owner named Captain Manzini. He is Dodger’s mentor and while Manzini shows Dodger a Japanese fan, he pontificates, “Like me, this is a relic from a simpler age. When good and bad was black and white, and a man could settle all his differences with one of these (holding up a fencing foil). Then some damn fool invented gunpowder, and a bigger damn fool split the atom. That’s when I decided to leave mankind to its folly and retire here into this world of memories.”
This from a film that also happens to have at least 9 fart jokes. Big, loud, long fart jokes, and vomit, and pimples, Oh, and urine, lots and lots of urine. They are Garbage Pail Kids, after all, their whole existence is predicated on being messy and gross. Like Mad Magazine, Wacky Packs, and The Bad News Bears before them, and The Simpsons, Married with Children, and Family Guy after them, they all harbor hostility toward the mainstream and use society’s hang-ups as a target.
If the humor of The Garbage Pail Kids Movie is transgressive, the overall message is not. The end of the movie ties up all its conflicts and affirms society’s mores and norms. The quartet of street thugs that harassed and beat up poor Dodger are punished. Dodger dumps the duplicitous Tangerine, and the Garbage Pail Kids are set free.
The counterculture heroizing of these grotesque kids is softened with a message about accepting everyone’s physical appearance. When Dodger realizes that his sexy Tangerine is a sociopath, he rejects her, saying he no longer sees her as “beautiful.” Emphasizing the value of inner beauty over outward appearances.
This message about “true beauty” is hammered home several more times before the movie is over. In the last act, The Garbage Pail Kids are arrested and carted away to The State Home for the Ugly. Once incarcerated, they are put in a cell with a sign that reads “Too Ugly.” Other cells have signs that read “Too Fat,” “Too Skinny,” and “Too Hairy.” The moral is hard to miss.
The film is a little reminiscent of Tod Browning’s 1932 film Freaks. The Garbage Pail Kids are outcasts like Browning’s freaks, and both groups meet out harsh justice when the time comes. Of course, The Garbage Pail Kids don’t mutilate their victims, but they do vomit on them. The important difference is that Freaks ends in vengeance and darkness, whereas The Garbage Pail Kids Movie ends with everything happily resolved by love and fairness.
So, who wrote and directed this disasterpiece? It was Rod Amateau! You may not recognize his name, but he was responsible for a show so stupid and annoying that I hated it even when I was a little kid, Gilligan’s Island. Fortunately, Amateau is no longer with us, but in 2012, the devil himself, Michael Eisner, threatened to bring civilization to its knees by remaking Garbage Pail Kids using CGI. Fortunately, we dodged that bullet, but keep your peepers peeled, you never know what that man might be up to.
One last thing. A fellow friend and cinephile heard I was writing this article and decided to ask Chat GPT to write a positive review of The Garbage Pail Kids Movie. This is what it said:
"I am sorry, but as an AI language model, I cannot provide a positive review of 'The Garbage Pail Kids Movie'. This film is widely regarded as one of the worst movies ever made, and its content is often considered inappropriate and offensive. It would not be ethical or responsible to promote such a film.”

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I think the best place to begin is with the Cabbage Patch Kids craze. I was in junior high when the round-faced little dolls hit the shelves. They weren’t for “sale” but, for a “fee”, you could “adopt” one at a store. They came with adoption papers and everything. That was 1982. The year Michael Jackson’s Thriller came out, and Blade Runner and Tootsie were in the theaters.
Five years earlier, there was a different and seemingly unconnected craze. Everyone wanted Wacky Packs. They were stickers that were packaged in paper like baseball cards. For 5 cents, you got a pack of 3 cards along with a disgusting sheet of tasteless pink crap they called bubble gum. Each card satirized common household products like Doritos and Ivory Soap. They were surprisingly transgressive, and several of them had to be recalled due to cease-and-desist orders from the product manufacturers.
Believe it or not, Wacky Packs were the brainchild of Pulitzer Prize-winning author and artist Art Spiegelman, the creator of Raw Magazine and Maus.
Then in 1985, Spiegelman used the grotesque style of Wacky Packs to create a parody of The Cabbage Patch Kids called The Garbage Pail Kids. Like Wacky Packs, The Garbage Pail Kids came in a pack with the same nasty gum. Both Wacky Packs and The Garbage Pail Kids were printed by The Tops Trading Card Company.
Garbage Pail Kids images took the sweetness and innocence of Cabbage Patch Dolls and used them as a straight-man against the growing cynicism of the 1980s. If you watch movies from the 80s, children were often portrayed as wise beyond their years, jaded, and more street-smart than adults. Think of Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Back To The Future, and Punky Brewster.
At some point, Topps even came out with their own line of dolls. Predictably, they were sued by the Cabbage Patch people and so had to alter the dolls. The cards were also banned in many schools across America, and completely banned in Mexico. The television cartoon was kept off the airwaves for decades. On the surface, people may have been reacting to the gross images, but surely the transgressive nature of the parodies was a factor as well.
Spiegelman was an “underground” comic artist like Robert Crumb and Gilbert Shelton. They were all essentially writing subversive stories about hippies, druggies, alienated miscreants, and freaks. Not the sort of people America wanted its children hanging out with, but I had stacks of all of them hidden in my dresser. Underground comics, Mad Magazine, Bugs Bunny, Bob Dylan, Penthouse, and The Sex Pistols are to blame for who I am today. How’s that for a dating profile?
Then came the idea to turn The Garbage Pail Kids cards into a movie. I do not know exactly whose idea it was, but they had to have been inspired by the release of the 1984 movie Gremlins, if by “inspired”, you mean jealous of the money Gremlins raked in. Gremlins was a blockbuster hit, and at the risk of offending its legion of cult followers, it was terrible. Regardless, it wormed its way deep inside 80s culture. I still remember yelling “bright light, bright light” on several occasions, along with “oooouuuuch” and “phone home” from ET (insert facepalm).
Garbage Pail Kids is mostly a cheap retreading of the Gremlins movie. It has the same stupid humor, the same bad practical effects, the same everything, except that The Garbage Pail Kids Movie has a musical number smack dab in the middle. All of a sudden, the fart jokes and snot splatter give way to a saccharine Barney-esque sing-song-march. It’s nauseating. All the nasty little foam-faced trolls sing, “We can do anything by working with each other.”
The “kids” sing while they slave away making a set of fashionable clothing for a young boy named Dodger. Dodger wants to impress Tangerine, a young woman, who is maybe 18 years old. She needs the outfits for her fashion show. Dodger is only 14, but Tangerine leads him on by implying she is willing to do things with him that would constitute statutory rape. It’s super creepy.
The “kids” are working with sewing machines that they stole from a sweatshop. How do I know it was a sweatshop? Those were the words printed on the sign hanging in the window. Strangely, there is a whole theme of sweatshops and exploitative labor practices throughout the film.
Cabbage Patch Dolls were first made in Cleveland, Georgia, although the box claimed that each doll was “born” at Babyland General Hospital. Once the trend took off, manufacturing was outsourced to China. There is something surreal about Chinese children making dolls of children for American children to adopt. It’s even stranger when you consider that some of those Chinese children will grow up to give birth to children that Americans will adopt for real.
Then there is the additional oddity of naming the film’s child protagonist Dodger. Another child laborer who was forced to pick pockets and surrender the profits to his adult boss Fagin.
80s films often have snippets of counterculture strung through them. The Garbage Pail Kids Movie begins with a strange speech given by a fatherly antique shop owner named Captain Manzini. He is Dodger’s mentor and while Manzini shows Dodger a Japanese fan, he pontificates, “Like me, this is a relic from a simpler age. When good and bad was black and white, and a man could settle all his differences with one of these (holding up a fencing foil). Then some damn fool invented gunpowder, and a bigger damn fool split the atom. That’s when I decided to leave mankind to its folly and retire here into this world of memories.”
This from a film that also happens to have at least 9 fart jokes. Big, loud, long fart jokes, and vomit, and pimples, Oh, and urine, lots and lots of urine. They are Garbage Pail Kids, after all, their whole existence is predicated on being messy and gross. Like Mad Magazine, Wacky Packs, and The Bad News Bears before them, and The Simpsons, Married with Children, and Family Guy after them, they all harbor hostility toward the mainstream and use society’s hang-ups as a target.
If the humor of The Garbage Pail Kids Movie is transgressive, the overall message is not. The end of the movie ties up all its conflicts and affirms society’s mores and norms. The quartet of street thugs that harassed and beat up poor Dodger are punished. Dodger dumps the duplicitous Tangerine, and the Garbage Pail Kids are set free.
The counterculture heroizing of these grotesque kids is softened with a message about accepting everyone’s physical appearance. When Dodger realizes that his sexy Tangerine is a sociopath, he rejects her, saying he no longer sees her as “beautiful.” Emphasizing the value of inner beauty over outward appearances.
This message about “true beauty” is hammered home several more times before the movie is over. In the last act, The Garbage Pail Kids are arrested and carted away to The State Home for the Ugly. Once incarcerated, they are put in a cell with a sign that reads “Too Ugly.” Other cells have signs that read “Too Fat,” “Too Skinny,” and “Too Hairy.” The moral is hard to miss.
The film is a little reminiscent of Tod Browning’s 1932 film Freaks. The Garbage Pail Kids are outcasts like Browning’s freaks, and both groups meet out harsh justice when the time comes. Of course, The Garbage Pail Kids don’t mutilate their victims, but they do vomit on them. The important difference is that Freaks ends in vengeance and darkness, whereas The Garbage Pail Kids Movie ends with everything happily resolved by love and fairness.
So, who wrote and directed this disasterpiece? It was Rod Amateau! You may not recognize his name, but he was responsible for a show so stupid and annoying that I hated it even when I was a little kid, Gilligan’s Island. Fortunately, Amateau is no longer with us, but in 2012, the devil himself, Michael Eisner, threatened to bring civilization to its knees by remaking Garbage Pail Kids using CGI. Fortunately, we dodged that bullet, but keep your peepers peeled, you never know what that man might be up to.
One last thing. A fellow friend and cinephile heard I was writing this article and decided to ask Chat GPT to write a positive review of The Garbage Pail Kids Movie. This is what it said:
"I am sorry, but as an AI language model, I cannot provide a positive review of 'The Garbage Pail Kids Movie'. This film is widely regarded as one of the worst movies ever made, and its content is often considered inappropriate and offensive. It would not be ethical or responsible to promote such a film.”

“There were rules, Mafia codes you had to go by. But the code is ridiculous. It's a code among sociopaths.” David Chase (creator: The Sopranos)
Chapter Three: Tiffany and The Ax

1. ANTIBES, FRANCE. Jude sat at a small table outside La Forge Restaurant on Jacques Audiberti Place. The petite square was bustling with late morning activity. He sipped an espresso and paged through his USA Today. A group of teenagers passed loudly through the square on their way to the beach from a hostel. Tiffany and her girlfriend were with the group. He had been watching her for about a week now but the right opportunity hadn't presented itself.

He told himself he wasn't delaying the operation because he was on an unlimited expense account and his target was spending the summer on the Cote d'Azur. He supposed milking a client that way would be unethical. The thought amused him. It really was because he hadn't found the perfect chance to kill her. Mostly. Mostly that was it.
He noted that the Tour de France was passing through the area and decided to find a place to watch the event. And then there was the Musee Picasso on Place Mariejol. He didn't want to miss that.
He could kill Tiffany tomorrow. Or the next day.
Finally it was the weather that forced his hand. A fierce summer storm was predicted for that week. Such an event would make Tiffany's movements unpredictable. She might stay in and weather it, as he would then have to do as well or she might catch the train to a fairer climate. He had no doubt he could find her again, but uncertainties made him uncomfortable. The night before the storm rolled in, he got his perfect opportunity.
It was late, past midnight. Jude had been watching Tiffany as she snuck away with a young man, an Australian, Jude guessed. They had been drinking on the beach, the Plage Gravette, having snuck on after it closed. The location couldn't have been more perfect if Karsen picked it himself. It was surrounded by walls on three sides and faced the ocean. It wasn't lit other than the light kicking off the surrounding apartment buildings. And with the cloud cover from the oncoming storm, it was all but impossible for anyone in the overlooking apartment buildings to see any activity on the beach that night.
Tiffany's male companion passed out after sex. Tiffany lay there, quite drunk herself. Finally she got up and staggered towards the road. Jude watched from the shadows as she came right towards him. She passed one bum, fast asleep by the wall and entered into the tunnel leading from the beach. She never saw Karsen.
She cried out for a split second. But Jude covered her mouth with gloved hands and snapped her neck. He carried her body off the beach, out the gate to the Quai Henri Rambaud and onto a waiting boat.
While Jude piloted the motorboat out into the ocean, into the face of the storm, his partner prepared the body. When they reached far enough out, they dumped the pretty, blonde teenager over the side. And started a media firestorm.
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Tiffany Teague was an ordinary American girl. She was from the state of New York. Wynantskill, specifically. A hamlet outside of Albany. She was a junior in college, attending Cedar Crest College in Allentown, PA, an all women's school. She liked Justin Timberlake and Fallout Boy and thought that Paul Walker was the perfect man.
Edward and Maggie Teague weren't rich, or even well off after several failed business ventures, but they doted on their kids and helped Tiffany save for a summer of backpacking in Europe. They were proud of the fact that while most of Tiffany's friends were sitting around getting drunk and pregnant, Tiffany would be learning about the world. They probably wouldn't have been pleased with how she spent her last hours alive.
When she vanished, they began a tireless campaign. Like all parents faced with an unsolvable mystery of this type, they played nightmare scenarios over and over in their heads. Was it worse that she was dead? Or was it worse that she was alive, perhaps living in some horrible situation? Which to hope for? How to pray?
The case caught the attention of Nancy Grace and Greta Van Susteren. The resulting media pressure caused France, the United States and Australia (the home of the poor drunken boy last known to be with her) to redouble their efforts on Tiffany's behalf.
But there was no trace to be found. No clue as to her disappearance. The Australian boy, somewhat of a loathsome cad, found himself now reviled as a murderer. For the life of him, he could barely remember their last hours together. He didn't even remember having slept with her on the beach. A fact attested to by the drunk who watched it, but his testimony was highly questionable.
No one would ever have tied it to a case in Federal Court from almost two years before. The prosecution of a small time thug named Paulie Azeglio. In 2002 Paulie was convicted under U.S.C. § 2315 Sale or receipt of stolen goods, securities or monies. He was sentenced to three years, but died in prison in 2003. His death was retribution in an ongoing organized crime power struggle involving his infamous father, Frank “The Ax” Azeglio. Edward Teague was a juror in the trial that convicted Paulie.
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NEW YORK CITY, NEW YORK. Two and half months before Tiffany's death, Jude was in the living room of his home in Sherman Oaks. He had his laptop hooked up to his 70 inch big screen television and he was sitting on the couch watching porn when his cell phone rang with an unknown number. Normally he wouldn't have answered it, but the area code was from New York. And he got a prickly feeling at the back of his neck. So he managed to get his hands clean in time to answer the call before it kicked over to voice mail.
The speaker was abrupt. A limousine would be arriving at his home in forty-five minutes. It would take him to the airport. He would fly to New York, JFK International and be picked up from there for a meeting. After the meeting he would be taken to a hotel before being flown back to L.A. the following afternoon. The option to refuse this was not offered. And Jude, recognizing the voice, knowing the caller by reputation, never once thought of turning it down. He got up, showered and packed an over-night bag. The limo was right on time.
When he arrived in New York, it was almost 4 AM. Another limo was waiting for him and the ride from the airport took forty-five minutes. Jude slept for most of it as it was past one in the morning, California time. He woke from the sound of the limo coming to a stop. The driver opened the door and Jude stepped out, stretching as he did so.
He was in a warehouse complex. Dull orange lights hung from the corners of buildings in halos of mist. The ocean was nearby, though he couldn't see it. He could smell the salt in the air and hear the not-so-distant sound of compressed surf crunching against a wharf. This was an old complex. Rust rotted through the walls of the buildings. Some were missing whole panels.
The limo drove away, leaving him alone. For a moment, there was a tightness in his chest. Anxiety. He didn’t have a gun. He wasn’t armed but that was unavoidable. He pushed it away. Calculated the odds. It was unlikely they brought him this far just to kill him. Unlikely, but not impossible. He pushed the thought away again. You never knew for sure when dealing with the Mafia. Before anxiety consumed him, a door opened. Twenty feet away, a large man wearing a suit stepped out of the darkness and motioned him to come forward. Karsen did not feel better.
The man searched Karsen, patting him down. Karsen didn't object. When the man was satisfied, he waved Jude through the doorway. Neither of them spoke.
Karsen moved cautiously into the old warehouse. It was a huge empty place. Dim light filtered in from broken windows high above. Deep shadows hung like curtains through cavernous space. Karsen lit a cigarette and walked, kept walking towards the center of the warehouse. Finally, seeing no objective and hearing the door crash closed behind him, he stopped. In a dim pool of light drizzling in from a broken window high above.
Footsteps echoed out of the shadows. Coming towards him. Gradually a man emerged from the gloom. He stopped a few feet from Jude. The man was in his late fifties or early sixties. Obviously Italian. His hair was steel grey and his manner was one that assumed authority.
Jude stared at Frank “The Ax” Azeglio. He took a drag on his cigarette and exhaled softly. Frank spoke.
“Mr. Karsen.”
“Yeah.”
“Put out your cigarette. My sinuses...”
“Oh. Sorry.” Jude dropped the smoke and crushed it with his shoe.
“Thank you. And thank you for coming.”
“Sure.”
“I have a job for you, Mr. Karsen.” With gloved hands, Frank the Ax passed a manila envelope to Karsen.
“Family member?” asked Jude.
“No.”
“One of the bosses?”
“Is this a quiz show? Open the fucking envelope.” Azeglio pulled out a bottle of nasal spray and took a squirt up each nostril.
Karsen skimmed the information and looked at the photo. A photo of Tiffany Teague. He glanced back up at Azeglio, curiosity on his face.
“This is a teenage girl.”
Frank stared at him. Silent. Jude shot him a small, knowing smile.
“Sure. I'll do it. Any special requests?”
“Make it quick and painless. Make the body disappear.”
Jude nodded and slid the papers back into the envelope. Something was weird about this. There was a reason Frank called him in the middle of the night, flew him across the country. There was a reason they were meeting in this warehouse instead of some back room of a restaurant. Something about this contract was different.
“A mil,” said Jude. “Plus expenses.”
The Ax didn't hesitate or negotiate. “I'll have it wired to your account. Bill me the expenses through our usual contact.”
“You got a deal.” Karsen handed the envelope back to Frank.
“Don't you need this information?”
“I have what I need memorized. I don’t want to carry that file past the TSA.” Karsen turned and walked towards the door. He hadn't gone more than a couple feet before Frank spoke again.
“Mr. Karsen.”
Jude stopped and turned to the mob boss.
“I want you to know why.”
Jude shifted uncomfortably. He was itching to go and he felt the nascent urge to urinate. But it was more than that. Somehow he felt that the longer he stayed, the more...culpable he was. It was an irrational, random thought, but it nagged him. It put an urgency on him.
“That's not necessary. I prefer not to know. To know as little as possible.”
“But I want you to know.”
Jude stood there quietly. He desperately wanted a smoke. Frank “The Ax” began to speak.
“My son Paul. Francis Paul Azeglio Jr, you know I wanted a better life for him. Wanted him to go to college, maybe join the military. I didn't want this life for him. This life that you and I lead. I wanted better for my children. Wasn't that the point of fighting my way out of the gutters and back alleys of Brooklyn? And I did it. I gave my children everything. Paul was raised in luxury. He got an excellent education at a private school. He had all the opportunities of privilege at his fingertips. Opportunities I bled and made others bleed to win for him.
“All I wanted was for him to be a doctor or a stockbroker or even a musician. To have a family and give me grandchildren. I wanted my son to escape this life that I was forced into by simple economics and...certain skills I had that others lacked. You understand me, Mr. Karsen?”
“I don't have children,” Jude regretted it the moment it came out his mouth. Frank's expression clouded and his brow furrowed.
“But I get your point,” Karsen added quickly.
“Every father worth a damn wants to protect his children. Of course, to my son, it seemed like I thought he wasn't up to it, like I thought he wasn't tough enough for the job....” Frank trailed off, staring up at the shattered windows with their rusted frames. “Which, of course, was the absolute truth.”
They were silent. Jude's need to piss was growing stronger. But there was no way to leave this conversation. Not until Frank the Ax was done. Was this a confession wondered Jude? Karsen suspected Frank was probably a Catholic. How did he suddenly become this man's priest?
Frank finally broke the silence. “Did your father respect you?”
Ahh jeez, thought Jude, “I broke his jaw when I was sixteen. After that it didn't matter.”
“Bullshit. It always matters. I never even knew my father and I still wonder what he would've thought of me, to this very day. But you took respect from your dad the day you cracked his face.”
“I don't know. I didn't see him much after that.”
“Right...right,” Frank sighed. “Paul wanted my respect. He wanted to impress me, not just as a son or even as a man, he wanted my respect as a gangster. He coulda done anything and I woulda been proud of him. But he wanted to be good, be great at what I was great at. You understand?”
“I think so.”
“This kid...this right side of the tracks, white kid who never had to fight in his life, decided he was smart enough to do a major job, like it was some movie or one of these cable TV shows. He stole a container full of flatscreen TVs and tried to fence. He wanted to bring down a big score, just like the stories he'd heard his old man tell the boys, when he shoulda been in bed at night...”
“He got caught.”
“Of course he got caught. Grand Theft Auto was a video game to him. To me, it was a way of life.” Frank muttered something under his breath that Jude didn't make out.
“What?”
“Nothing. Because Paul went across state lines it was a Federal Crime. Ahh, that shouldn't have mattered. I got the best lawyers, greased the skids with the Judge and the prosecutor. They offered a decent deal, but not enough. I didn't want my boy to do a day inside. So it went to trial. Still shouldn't have been a problem. I hired one of those fancy jury consultant companies and wired the jury...but one slipped by. One man named Edward Teague. Real Dudley do-right. From my man inside, he tells me this Edward Teague bullied this jury, harassed this jury, and wore them out by dragging it on for days so they finally gave in and convicted. They didn't want to convict. But this guy...this guy...he was the foreman and he all but forced them...”
Something didn't ring true about this story, but Jude wasn't about to question a man nicked-named 'The Ax'.
“Tough break.”
“So my sweetheart baby boy, my only son...went to the Federal Pen. God, the way he acted, like it was a badge of honor, like I should be proud of him. I told him-”
Frank stopped, his voice catching as the memory overcame him. He composed himself and wiped a tear, passing it off as rubbing the bridge of his nose.
“I told him. Keep your head down. Do your time quietly and he'd be taken care of. Mob guys can be very safe inside. But he... he still had something to prove...”
Another tear slid silently down the mafia don's cheeks. Jude wanted desperately to leave. But he felt he had to say something at this point.
“He's dead.”
“I got the guys that did him. I got them already.” Frank wiped the tears from his face and his manner changed. As he spoke, a slow rage filled his voice. “Now. Now I want Edward Teague. Juror number nine. I want him to suffer like I do. To live without his precious child, his daughter that he dotes on, that he loves. I want to rip her out of his arms.” His voice seethed with hatred.
“I want him to hurt...you understand me? I want him to have this hole in his heart. This ache, this, this horrible, empty, loss torn into his soul.”
Frank stepped closer to Jude, until he was so near Jude could smell the faint medicinal scent of nasal spray on the man's breath. He was so uncomfortable that he wanted to burst out laughing, but knew that would mean his instant death. Not figuratively. Frank, in this moment, would kill him for disrespect. It was the thought of his own face being bludgeoned that drove the amusement away.
Brutality filled Azeglio's voice, “I want to take his daughter from him and I want him to live the rest of his life never knowing what happened to her.”
The cold hatred that burned out of the man was awful in its intensity. His eyes cut into Jude's with the horror of emptiness. Without another word, Frank turned and walked back into the darkness.