THE REAL DIGGITY DOGGONE DIGGITY: STRANGE ACTUAL WORDS & EVENTS

In mid-July 1983 my parents and I were in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, where my mildly retarded middle brother was competing in the Special Olympics track and field events. Just before our car drove under an overpass I saw several people sitting on the grass at the side of the highway and checked my watch. Later, on the evening news I saw a report of a murder committed in that exact spot just after we had passed it. So, my parents and I saw the victim and the perpetrators and were at most a minute shy of witnessing a murder! My parents were nonchalant about the news.

Now a side note: Arnold Schwarzenegger and his wife, Maria Shriver--daughter of the Special Olympics founder Eunice Shriver--appeared at one of the competitions involving my brother. They stood at the rail in front of the bleachers. I and other attendees shook hands with Arnold.