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thomasC:
Ryan Pate's Blog post

http://http://letsmokeweed.blogspot.com/2010/02/great-escape-based-on-true-story.html

I do believe I have heard this story somewhere before, specifically the portion about running into a KKK gathering during the run.

Ursus:
Fwiw, it's also the one and only blog entry he has under that account...

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Thursday, February 4, 2010
The Great Escape (Based on a true story)

In november of 2009 my parents thought i was the worst kid ever and they had had enough! So they had told me that they were going to take me to this boarding school. But what i had to find out once i had gotten down to the boarding school was that it was a boarding school for really bad kids. It was sort of like Juvenile detention, well at least the way they treated us there was worse than that and i don't think many people have heard about this place before, but it is call C.S.A. (Carolina Springs Academy), it's located in Donald's, South Carolina, and it was one of the most horrible places ever!! We were not allowed to speak there, and also for breakfast they would skimp mad hard a d give us like 1 fuckin bagel!! Also, the counselors there were assholes too! One of them trashed my hair with some clippers, forced me to shave bald, then told me my head look like a shaved dick! After i had gotten the grand introduction which was getting fucked up, well i had actually brought that on myself by opening my mouth and letting a bunch of dumbasses know that i had smuggled about 65 dollars worth of weed in there. And actually im quite proud of it cuz after the fact i found out i was the only one whod ever successfully gotten it in there!( And NO i didnt put it in my ass!!!) But anyways the director Mr.Dan (the BIGGEST douche bag alive) told me that my parents had signed a contract for me to be there until i turned eighteen.

After only six days of being at that hell hole, i had enough of it, and i kept thinking to myself like fuck I'm going to be here till i turn eighteen! So i ended up talking to two of my bunk mates, and was like man this places fuckin sucks! Lets ditch it! But they were getting all sketched out about it. So after talking them into it, we were about to make a break for the door when we got busted because some people snitched on us. But after that night we got caught like 2 other times.

So the next night i was like Brock...Tyler...i ain't letting them fuckin hold me here ANY LONGER! LETS GO! So we busted out, and ran as fast as we could toward the tree line because we knew the directors wouldn't be too far behind. But the whole night if i wrote it out would be 4 or 5 pages. So im just going to summarize it! Tyler, Brock, and I didnt prepare very well because we only had sweaters and high top converse on. Also, it rained for about two hours. And we had to walk 30 miles that night through butt-fuck nowhere South Carolina. Also, at one point half way through our journey we actually took a VERY brief break, because we had seen the Ku Klux Klan doin their thing only about 65 yards away, and we were scared as shit! Then at one point the next morning they had told me to go check on cars really quickly in order to see if we could hitch a ride. But there werent any, and when i got down to where we were suppose to meet back up, they were gone! I yelled and searched for about 15minutes, then left. I was all alone now surrounded by dark trees, and still had 10miles to go. So as i got withn 5 miles of town, an old dude picked me up and took me to Wendy's i think.

So i was sooo stoked that despite everything thatd happened id finally made it to Anderson! And i remembered where some of the older boys back at CSA described an old church bus i could stay in and thats where i had planned on goin. So when i got there it was GONE! so i hadnt eatn in almost 2 days, i was freezing my nads off, and i just felt like that was the end. So i pulled it together long enuff to go into a grocery store and steal about 4 boxes of nutty bars, and OMG they were the best thing id ever tasted! Then I started to lose it again because id realized anderson was a horrible part of town. So i finally found these 2 white guy, James and Lee Rumsey. And i told them everything thatd happened and after a whole afternoon of arguing with his mom they finally let me stay in their trailor, despite the fact that they were poor as couldnt afford to take me in.

I lived with these people who pretty much saved my life for almost 2 weeks. Then the police came a knocking and hauled me away. And i was almost certain beyond doubt that i was goin back to C.S.A., and im not one to ever, but i started bursting out into tears, thats how scared and sad i was. I was almost ready to literally kill myself if i had to go back.But then God saved me because my parents came looking for me, and were right down the road. And they told me everything is fine now, they already got my shit and we were leaving first thing in the morning!! But when we got to our hotel room i had to talk to the detective who was working my run away case, and he pretty much told me how stupid yet really bad ass i was for pulling that whole thing off. But i was also relieved to hear that Tyler, and Brock had gotten lost in the woods that morning and that's why we got seperated. But in all im happy i lost them, because i also found out that once they had reached town, they called their parents, and to this day im pretty sure theyre still at CSA. Acctually its not CSA anymore. I think it most have been a sign from God or something, but not even 3 weeks later, CSA had gotten closed down, and out of ALL DAYS TO CLOSE DOWN, it closed down on my seventeenth birthday. It was the happiest birthday present ever. And when i had been told that evening it had gotten closed down, i just had the widest grin ever, and i raised my middle finger in the air like FUCK YOU CSA i was just sooo happy. But the only thing is i think it reopened and when i get enuff money to do it, ima go down there and help bust all of those kids out of there, because nobody should ever have to suffer not even a day in Carolina Springs Academy. And even to this day, over a year and a half later, i still have occasional nightmares of the wretched place!

Posted by Ryan Pate at 11:57 PM  
Labels: 2009, CSA, escape, november, run

seamus:
Ryan Pate saved himself.Bravo.

Ursus:
Thanks to ThomasC (original post here), here's an update on Narvin Lichfield's plan to re-open Carolina Springs Academy as Magnolia Christian School:

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Founder uncertain about future of boarding school in Abbeville County

By Kirk Brown · Anderson Independent Mail
Posted February 5, 2011 at 1:46 p.m.


Narvin Lichfield

Narvin Lichfield spent a night in the Abbeville County Detention Center last month, and now he is having second thoughts about reopening his boarding school for troubled teens.

"I might just liquidate the property," Lichfield said in an interview last week. "I am tired. I am worn out."

Abbeville County sheriff's deputies stopped Lichfield near the campus of the former Carolina Springs Academy boarding school, which Lichfield founded, north of Due West at 3:30 p.m. Jan. 28, according to sheriff's office records. Lichfield was taken into custody after the deputies determined he was driving with a suspended license and that his green Nissan sport utility vehicle was uninsured.

As a result of a problem accessing the National Crime Information Center computerized database on the evening of Lichfield's arrest, the detention center staff was unable to check whether he had any outstanding warrants. So Lichfield, 49, was held at the jail overnight.

While at the detention center, Lichfield also was served with three courtesy summonses from Greenwood County involving about $2,000 in bad checks written on the boarding school's closed bank account.

Lichfield, who divides his time between South Carolina, Utah and Costa Rica, said he was out of the United States when a former boarding school employee forged the three checks in question.

Saying he was unaware that his license had been suspended because of an unpaid parking ticket, Lichfield also said he has been unfairly targeted by the Abbeville County Sheriff's Office.

In an e-mail to both a business associate and his attorney, Lichfield said Abbeville sheriff's deputies "did surveillance on my property for over a week seeking entrapment of me on a parking ticket."

"Why didn't they tell me about the suspended license when I spoke with Abbeville County investigator Mr. Patrick Thompson and specifically asked if there was anything outstanding I needed to take care of when I came back to (South Carolina)?" Lichfield asked in the e-mail.

"Do they do weeklong stakeouts on only people like me and throw them in jail overnight with the excuse the NCS (NCIC) computer was down?" Lichfield wrote. "This moves now to harassment, civil rights violations and federal discrimination of me personally."

Marion Johnson, the chief deputy for the Abbeville County Sheriff's Office, denied Lichfield's accusations involving the January arrest.

“There was no weeklong stakeout for Mr. Lichfield,” Johnson said. “Deputies were acting on information they had received just prior to his arrest.”

He added, “Mr. Lichfield was arrested, booked, bonded and released by the judge just like many others before him.”

Lichfield said he went to the Greenwood Police Department on Monday to discuss the bad checks. He said he filed three affidavits stating that the checks were forged and also submitted samples of his handwriting. Lichfield also submitted an affidavit signed by two former Carolina Springs Academy administrators.

That affidavit says the former employee suspected of forging signatures on the checks previously stole $50,000 worth of big-screen TVs and antique and hunting firearms from Lichfield's home in Abbeville County. One of the stolen firearms later turned up at a Greenwood pawn shop, according to the affidavit, which also states that the former employee left South Carolina in Lichfield's Toyota Camry.

Lichfield unveiled plans in December to reopen Carolina Springs as a Christian boarding school for troubled teens that would be exempt from state licensing requirements.

After finding numerous violations of state rules in the course of 19 site visits conducted in an 18-month period, the South Carolina Department of Social Services revoked Carolina Springs' license in 2009. Lichfield founded the school in 1998.

In his recent interview Lichfield talked about seeking bankruptcy protection for Carolina Springs. But the later the same day he forwarded a prospectus detailing how he is seeking to raise $1 million from investors to reopen the boarding school.


© 2011 Anderson Independent Mail.

Ursus:
Comments left for the above article, "Founder uncertain about future of boarding school in Abbeville County" (by Kirk Brown; February 5, 2011; Anderson Independent Mail):


completion writes: February 5, 2011 2:48 p.m.
wouldnt it be easier to call this man and talk about the stupid parking ticket, instead of all the stake out crap,, my gosh ,, just throw us all in jail over a stupid stuff like a parking ticket,,, just because the car was listed in his name dosn't mean he parked the car,,,, sounds like greenwood needs a new sheriff ,, and the new sherriff would have the capacity to lead,, not decieve and takeJustSusan writes: February 5, 2011 4:52 p.m.
Yes, liquidate. Your record isn't exactly stellar.yankee writes: February 5, 2011 4:59 p.m.
"I didn't know" is not a valid excuse.

"The police are out to get me" is not a valid excuse.

"It's someone elses fault" is also not a valid excuse.

Just take care of your responsibilities and quit trying to lay the blame on others.checkulatergirl writes: February 5, 2011 6:21 p.m.
this man lives in a fantasy world where only he is allowed to do anything he choses and there will be no consequences. everybody else is at fault. as to the man who he says stole all the stuff, he says is a bio-chemist. dud? the sheriff in greenwood is not to blame on this, nothing happened in greenwood. know your facts before you spout off. this man needs to be put in a loony bin and never set free. he is not guilty of harming kids, he is not guilty of starving animals, he is not guilty of driving under suspension, he is not guilty of not having insurance, he is not guilty of writing bad checks. do you believe him? like i said, it is a fantasy.StringCheese writes: February 5, 2011 7:12 p.m.
Huh. I wonder why the story didn't mention the allegations of animal cruelty against Mr. Lichfield?

http://www.independentmail.com/news/201 ... -property/[/list]
dwhit29689 writes: February 6, 2011 9:24 a.m.
Heck...this guy's fortunate for the quality treatment he received when compared to the list of charges pending on him. His check problem whether it's his or not has no bearing on his inability to conform to traffic laws like everyone else does...leave him in the pen awhile so he has some quiet time to re-evaluate his lifestyle choices.checkulatergirl writes: February 6, 2011 4:33 p.m.
in response to completion:
wouldnt it be easier to call this man and talk about the stupid parking ticket, instead of all the stake out crap,, my gosh ,, just throw us all in jail over a stupid stuff like a parking ticket,,, just because the car was listed in his name dosn't mean he parked the car,,,, sounds like greenwood needs a new sheriff ,, and the new sherriff would have the capacity to lead,, not decieve and take[/list]
do you really believe the bull coming from this man? he is narcissistic. always believes everybody is to blame for his deeds. look up WWasp.com and see what you find.[/list]


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