Physiognomy, phrenology, and telepathy - Page 4 - PeachParts Mercedes-Benz Forum

cmac2012 · #46 02-17-2007, 07:42 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by A264172

August 5, 2002
ANNALS OF PSYCHOLOGY

"Can you read people's thoughts
just by looking at them?

1.

Some years ago, John Yarbrough was working patrol for the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department. It was about two in the morning. He and his partner were in the Willowbrook section of South Central Los Angeles, and they pulled over a sports car.

That is an interesting article. Not sure if my balls would hold up as well as that guy's, that's pretty impressive.

I would never claim to be flawless in reading people but I think most of us are going to do it to some extent no matter what.

One experience I had at a young age may have planted some seeds for this kind of stuff. After we moved up from N.M., my dad got a job with the Wa. state mining division of State Dept. of Nat. Res. He had a geology degree from years before. He took a significant cut in pay from his contracting days in N.M. and was on the lookout for some way to make more funds in some self-employment on the side.

He answered an ad he'd seen somewhere about making money in sporting goods. A salesman came to our house (I was around 17 or 18) to make his pitch. It was for a sort of kiosk affair to be placed in grocery stores with a display of sporting goods -- tennis balls, baseballs, and footballs, ping - pong paddles and balls, volleyball nets, etc. I don't know why, but I was way more suspicious of the guy than my dad who was normally pretty savvy about that stuff. Like when we went looking for a bone yard tranny for my truck a couple of years later.

I guess his ambition got the better of him and he was getting swept up in money making fever. The salesman struck me as a 13 carat sleezeball and when it came out that my parents were mormon (my dad a jack-mormon, thank God), the guy says, "We're mormons," in the falsest smiling face I'd seen in my memory. And I was also thinking that talking grocery stores into giving up some of their floorspace might be a tough one.

The entry cost was $5,000, this in the late 60s. My dad said he needed to explore financing, maybe he was smelling a scam also by then, and the guy was to come back the next morning. It was summer time, I was at home, my dad went to work and told me to tell the guy that he couldn't get financing. When the guy came back, all big, happy smile, and I gave him the news, the smile morphed into a death mask of fury. "You tell your dad he's missing out on the chance of a lifetime!" or some such nonsense.

I wouldn't have trusted the guy to watch my coat.

INSIDIOUS · #47 02-02-2024, 09:53 PM

phrenology you say?

Check out this comparative brain case capacity:

which one of these guys do you figure is all hair and no cattle?

cmac2012 · #48 02-03-2024, 10:37 AM

I don’t like either one of them for a bunch of reasons. The size of their skull doesn’t enter into my thinking.

But, oh my God, thank you for finding this thread. I have thought frequently about some of the posts, some of the information shared here. I’ve reread part of it, will read the whole damn thread soon.

cmac2012 · #49 02-03-2024, 10:41 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by A264172

I just finished reading the rest of the article and it gets even better...(here's another supercop excerpt):

"I was working in West Hollywood once, in the nineteen-eighties," Harms said. "I was with a partner, Scott. I was driving. I had just recently come off the prostitution team, and we spotted a man in drag. He was on Sunset, and I didn't recognize him. At that time, Sunset was normally for females. So it was kind of odd. It was a cold night in January. There was an all-night restaurant on Sunset called Ben Franks, so I asked my partner to roll down the window and ask the guy if he was going to Ben Franks-- just to get a reaction. And the guy immediately keys on Scott, and he's got an overcoat on, and he's all bundled up, and he starts walking over to the car. It had been raining so much that the sewers in West Hollywood had backed up, and one of the manhole covers had been cordoned off because it was pumping out water. The guy comes over to the squad car, and he's walking right through that. He's fixated on Scott. So we asked him what he was doing. He says, "I was out for a walk.' And then he says, "I have something to show you.'"

Later, after the incident was over, Harms and his partner learned that the man had been going around Hollywood making serious threats, that he was unstable and had just attempted suicide, that he was in all likelihood about to erupt. A departmental inquiry into the incident would affirm that Harms and his partner had been in danger: the man was armed with a makeshift flamethrower, and what he had in mind, evidently, was to turn the inside of the squad car into an inferno. But at the time all Harms had was a hunch, a sense from the situation and the man's behavior and what he glimpsed inside the man's coat and on the man's face-- something that was the opposite of whatever John Yarbrough saw in the face of the boy in Willowbrook. Harms pulled out his gun and shot the man through the open window. "Scott looked at me and was, like, "What did you do?' because he didn't perceive any danger," Harms said. "But I did."

Fascinating story.

I knew we hadn’t seen Marty/A24 in a while, I clicked on the find posts button, I see he last posted in 2016. He has been missed.

cornemuse · #50 02-03-2024, 11:07 AM

I miss Botnst, , , ,