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That was me who wrote that.  I guess I forgot to log in.

David

There were two Tims there.  The one I attacked was the taller one.  The other one was a very small guy.  We were on the back row when I did that.  The phaser pileup on me wound up being about 2 yards in front of the guys' bathroom door.  It was probably the most massive, longest lasting takedown in the 9 months I was there.

I wore high-tops in straight, so that wouldn't be my shoe coming off.  That sounds more like the sloppy work of Thomas or Walter.  Heheheheh they were my bros even though I never got to talk to 'em.  There was also this other intense "fighter" guy there who finally got taken to jail.  He reminded me of Jim Morrison.  He was in another dimension.  We never had a clue about him because he never did talk to the group.

My last two months there are the most hazy to me.  That era was after I escaped from 2nd phase, disappeared for two weeks, then started over in November.  

The only Scott I remember is the guy who started at the same time I did, Scott Pangle.  I'd remember you if you show me a pic though.  Click "profile" if you want to get my email address.  I have some pics from when I was 14 (a few months before my time in Straight) that I can email.

David

On 2003-01-20 20:35:00, Anonymous wrote: ""My parents are not some kind of relative I was naturally blessed with, they are rewards for complying with mind rape." Well that says it all! It is interesting the perspectives that we former clients have, and the unnatural and unusual environment from where our perspectives came. This comment of yours hit me like a brick. It was like, dude. I believe this statement was the sum total of what was wrong with Straight. Straight was fundamentally unnatural in the extreme. The idea that we had to defy nature to be loved by our own family is singularly the most devastating part of our experience at Straight in my opinion. I remember you from Straight Atlanta. I was there for a month or two before you were withdrawn. Wasn't it Tim Robinson that you tried to maul? I have a faint memory about you getting restrained and your shoe flying off. The good ole days. Sincerely, Scott P.S.- I finally figured out the "sleeping with any clothes on is bad." I totally forgot about that! I kept my underwear on though."

They sure make that place look cushy in the video.  It looked like they even had girls & guys sitting side by side often in the video.  It reminds me of Northside Hospital's Mental Ward and Rapha.

The piano stuff in the video was overkill.  I can't watch the video twice.  I don't want piano to become "the enemy" of my mind.  Heheheheh

I caught their gloss over of "moving through the levels".  Do they have a hellish, mind-raping, deprivation first phase that kids sit on for 6 months to 2 years also?

Seems like I'm a few years behind the majority here.  I was in the Marietta Austell Rd Straight from March 1988 to January 1989.  I remember Clay when he was a staffer.

My name is David Briley.  Some of my highlights include: sitting on 1st phase for six months, successfully escaping the car in the parking lot (in the morning) with Ricky and Maurice as the oldcomers, coping out off 2nd phase after a week of being back home, tricking oldcomer Jeff into unlocking the phaser room door at 6 a.m. at Art C's house.  I just roamed Art's house all alone until they woke up.  Their whole house was sealed.  I should have broken a window to get out.  I also tried to kill a guy named Tim in the middle of a rap.  I attempted to rip his throat out.  

By the way, I have never tried to rip someone's throat out outside of Straight.  Straight almost turned me into a vicious killer.  I used to plot stomping an oldcomer's neck while he slept so I could kill or paralyze him and escape at night.  I also considered breaking windows in phaser rooms to use glass shards to slice the oldcomers up and anyone else who got in my way of escaping the house.  I also got into Satanism while I was there.  I never once have had any such thoughts since I left Straight.

Twice, I managed to convince psychiatrists I was psycho so I could get a two week and a one week vacation to Northside Mental Ward during my 9 months in Straight.  I LOVED NORTHSIDE!  heheheheh

My time at Straight ended with a "withdrawal" thanks to my parents.  They sent me to a cushy place called Rapha for two more months to please the court (to finish my court sentence).

I was put into Straight because I stole cars.  No, I didn't steal cars to do anything drug related.  I just liked picking up girls I knew, or cruising to Atlanta to hire hookers.

I drink beer sometimes.  About 3 or 4 times a year I wind up having dinner at a restaurant, and I order beer.  It's either beer or lemonade for me in restaurants, since I don't drink caffeine.  I'll drink two beers, maybe three, but I never can stand four.  It's safe to say I am not an alcoholic.

I often wonder about that girl who left Rapha (while I was in there) to get interned at Straight.  She was pale-skinned, black-haired and her name started with a J.

It's horrible that people are/were being treated the way Staight treated us.  I'm glad my psychosis was only a reaction to the situation, and that it did not become a permanent part of me.  15 years later though, I still have nightmares.


[ This Message was edited by: JDavid on 2003-01-19 05:02 ]