A CASA Student Gone Wrong

May 4, 2006

Sometimes events place a horrible responsibility upon this blogger.. and it becomes necessary to report the fall of a former fellow CASA student. Scott as we all remember him was intent on peaceful solutions.. in fact I recall that time in Egypt when I took him down to the floor in a wrestling match. It was all in good fun and I let him up after he cried out for mercy.. but there was no question of Scott using force to impress his own ideas on others.

Something has gone horribly wrong. Perhaps growing up out of that feeling of powerlessness that he acquired in our wrestling matches, he began to frequent martial arts bars.. and not the kind to which people send their children to get fun black belts.. This was serious Jiu-Jitsu. Slowly.. inexorably.. Scott gathered a group of brutal thugs around him. In this exceedingly rare picture, we find Scott surrounded by his group of trained killers. Scott, you may or may not be able to see in this reproduction, sits with a smirk on his face, as if to say: "Let Martyn try to take me down now.."

Scott loves his anonymity.. indeed nothing else can explain his ability to steer clear of the law for so long. In this picture only his central location betrays his position of power. He also refused to take off his shirt, for fear of revealing the identifying tattoos that have been stitched into his skin, one of a pair of palm trees surrounded by the cryptic statement stands out on the left side of his chest: "I live for Wild Palms." Right along the collar of his short is another message: "Creedence Clearwater and Masudi Forever." I note this simply for your curiosity, knowing full well that if you are close enough to read those statements, you are probably dead.

It is also rumored that Scott will be getting married soon, up in Madison, Wisconsin. It is unknown just how he convinced a nice girl like Hannah to marry him, but it may have something to do with the art of Jiu-Jitsu, which is all about getting someone to lie on his or her back. There may have been a threat involved: "Marry me or I will release my little band to wreak havoc in your hometown." It is also entirely possible that Hanna does not know about Scott's dark doings.. and it is also possible that she will talk him into Yoga, or at least Twister.

Scott's outlook on life has gotten much brighter since seeing this promising advertisement.