Bizarre stabbing in Fannin County

FANNIN COUNTY, Tex. -- One man is in prison after allegedly stabbing the driver he hitched a ride with over the weekend. The victim is recovering, but it's the details of the case that officials say make it unlike any they've ever seen.

Fannin County Sheriff’s Deputies received the original call at 2:40 on Saturday afternoon about a suspect involved in a stabbing located at the intersection of County Road 3830 and Highway 11. When deputies arrived on the scene they found that the case they were working on involved a lot more than they had planned.

Fannin County sheriff Kenneth Moore says he was shocked when he heard what happened this past Saturday just west of Wolfe City.

When deputies arrived on the scene they found James Wayne Evans, 43, a hitchhiker who confessed to stabbing the person who gave him a ride and apparently expected something in return.

"Whenever the individual that picked up the hitchhiker wanted more intimacy and that was about to happen, he determined at that point the intimacy would stop," said Fannin County Sheriff Kenneth Moore.

Officials say Evans was hitch hiking down Interstate 30 in Arlington when a white female known only as ‘Angie’ picked him up.

Soon thereafter, the 42-year-old driver invited Evans back to her horse barn just outside of Wolfe City.

When they arrived, the two became intimate, and officials say ‘Angie’ asked Evans to perform oral sex on her.

That’s when they say Evans got quite a surprise.

"(When he did) comply with the female subject, he found out it was in fact not a female, but a male," Sheriff Moore said.

Officials say Evans pulled out a knife and stabbed ‘Angie’-- who is a man-- multiple times.

‘Angie’ was flown to Parkland Hospital where he was treated and released.

Authorities warn regardless of the situation that picking up hitch hikers is never a good idea.

"You don’t know that individual walking down the highway. Why in the world would you stop and pick up someone you don’t know because in today’s environment that’s just not a safe thing to do," Moore said.

Evans was taken into custody and taken to the Fannin County Jail where bond has been set at $50,000.

Crocodile Dundee knew how to check for this particular problem.

JAS

What was the country song and who sang it? Good ole boys getting the same surprise?

Mental gymnastics

1. Man w/ middle name of Wayne, armed with a knife: has to be guilty of something.

2. Man calling himself Angie, getting dates w/ hitchhikers. Gets stabbed. Puts the make on an unsuspecting ambulance driver and an x-ray tech.

3. Kenneth Moore, elected official has to jail the Wayne fellow and provide the remaining resources of his department to Angie. The sheriff remembers the easier days of being chief investigator for D.A. Tom O'Connell.

4. Furniture store in Houston called "The Dump" has capacity crowds every weekend. Furniture stores in Houston called "Star" and "Ethan Allen" barely see a dozen customers in a week.

5. Consumer Credit Services will take care of your credit card debt, but only if it's at least $10,000. Poor sucker who lost his job and has $8,950 in Visa debt gets nothing.

6. Former IRS agent/lawyer will settle your debt with Uncle Sam; he got Louie Splovidian's $150,000 tax bill whittled down to $12.38. Single mom and real female Angie Schnitzwhipple owes the IRS $250, and they just notified her that they're taking her single-wide, but leaving the front steps.

7. Greg G. plays good, but he steals the banjo player's tag line. (Yes, Greg I noticed that, you plagerizer)

8. Picker tries again:
Exit only.

Hitchhikers. Giggle, snort.

Seven little chipmunks twirlin' on a branch, eatin' lots of sunflowers on my uncle's ranch . . . it's like you're dreamin' of gorgonzola cheese when it's clearly brie time baby.

Rest stops are the bathhouse of the 90's.

Angie, Angie
When will those clouds all disappear?
Angie, Angie
Where will it lead us from here?
With no loving in our souls
And no money in our coats
You can't say we're satisfied
But Angie, Angie
You can't say we never tried
Angie, You're beautiful
But ain't it time we said goodbye
Angie, I still love you
Remember all those nights we cried?
All the dreams we held so close
Seemed to all go up in smoke
Let me whisper in your ear
Angie, Angie
Where will it lead us from here?
Angie, don't weep
All your kisses still taste sweet
I hate that sadness in your eyes
But Angie, Angie
Ain't it time we said goodbye?
With no loving in our souls
And no money in our coats
You can't say we're satisfied
But Angie, I still love you, baby
Everywhere I look I see your eyes
There ain't a woman that
comes close to you
Come on baby dry your eyes
But Angie, Angie
Ain't it good to be alive?
Angie, Angie
They can say we never tried

(Jagger-Richards, 1973)

It's not, "Angie, Angie".

It's actually "Angie! AYYNNN-GEHH."

quote:

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Originally posted by A.P. Merillat:

7. Greg G. plays good, but he steals the banjo player's tag line. (Yes, Greg I noticed that, you plagerizer)

Exit only.

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DO NOT try to include me in your story, my friend. How about using a banjo joke or a tale about noodling. I bet Angie likes banjos ALOT!

Seriously, this should be added to the set list.

Other songs that could be a contender along with Angie for the soundtrack to this story are Lola by the Kinks, Cuts like a Knife by Bryan Adams, Sweet Hitchhiker by CCR, or the ultimate weirdo song, Take a Walk on the Wild Side by Lou "if you thought Truman Capote or Andy Warhol was weird, wait'll you meet me" Reed.

As AP and The Hitchhiker say: "Exit Only".

[This message was edited by Greg Gilleland on 10-26-07 at .]

[This message was edited by Greg Gilleland on 10-26-07 at .]

What was the country song and who sang it? Good ole boys getting the same surprise?

Uneasy Rider 88, by CDB, the Charlie Daniels Band. Just a sad echo of the real Uneasy Rider, whose lyrics are found here: Uneasy Rider



Me and my buddy got us a wild hair
And figured we wanted to go somewhere
So we loaded up in my ragtop Chevrolet
We had a little bit of money
And a whole lot of show
Adn with Hank Jr. blaring on the radio
We got us a tank full of gas
And we was on our way

We figured we'd go down to New Orleans
We were barrelling down old 17
When a man with a blinking red light
Was on our tail
He said you were doing 60 in a 45
But I'm gonna let you go this time
But if I catch you again
I'm gonna slap you in the county jail

We said thank you sir you sure been nice
And you ain't gonna have to tell us twice
And we were Southbound and down with the wind
Blowing in our faces
We kept on rolling and pretty soon
The radio was cooking out a Haggard tune
And we were pulling into Houston
Checking out all them places

I was feeling dry and I said I think
We ought to stop and get ourselves a drink
And old Jim said yeah 'cause we got time to kill
We kept on rolling and I seen this spot
And we pulled into the parking lot
Of this place called the Cloud Nine Bar and Grill


We walked through the door
And the place was jammed
The lights were low they had a punk rock band
And some orange haired feller singing about suicide
I said Jim this ain't our kind of place
He said well let's just have one round anyway
So against my better judgement we walked on inside
Went up to the bar and we sat down
This feller walked up and said I'll buy this round
And he sat down on the barstool next to Jim

He looked like a girl but he talked like a guy
He had lipstick on and mascara in his eyes
And everybody in that place looked just about like him
I said Jim this ain't our kind of bar
Let's just go on out and get back in the car
'Cause there's gonna be trouble
Ain't no sense in taking a chance
We was getting up getting ready to leave
When somebody grabbed old Jim by the sleeve
And this good looking girl was asking my buddy to dance

I said Jim don't do it there's something missing
There's fellers dancing and fellers kissing
There's a feller in high heeled shoes wearing panty hose
He said partner I just can't turn this down
You just go over there and have one more round
And I'll dance with the lady
And we'll get on down the road

So he walked away and left me alone
But this funny looking feller kept coming on
And he was making me mad with some of the things he said
Then he put his hand on my knee
I said if you don't get your paw off me
I'm gonna locate your nose around
The other side of your head

He said I love it when you get that fire in your eye
I said well partner try this on for size
And I unloaded on him and he went out like a light
Everybody in that place must have been his friend
They all headed for me I said this is the end
But where I come from we don't give up
Without a fight

They were screaming and yelling and scratching and clawing
I was punching and hitting and kicking and pawing
I was holding my own 'cause I've been in a scrap or two
Old Jim come running up out of the blue
And that gal he was with come running up too
And proceeded to beat on me with a high heel shoe

I grabbed her by the hair it came off in my hand
And that beautiful girl was just a beautiful man
And old Jim just got sick right there on the floor

He dropped that dude like a shot from a gun
Smeared his lipstick made his makeup run
And me and old Jim started fighting our way to the door

We lit out of there in that Chevrolet
I put in on the floor and it stayed that way
We were going down the highway
Doing about a hundred and ten
We were headed for home and we was getting nearer
Then a red light came on the rear view mirror
And that same blame cop was pulling us over again

Now I'm sitting here in this county jail
I had to call my daddy to go our bail
But I learned me a lesson
That I never will forget again
I've done give up drinking I've give up bars
And running around the country in souped up cars
I'm going back where the women are women
And the men are men

Cruise into a bar on the shore
Her picture graced the grime on the door
She's a long lost love at first bite
Baby maybe you're wrong but you know it's all right
That's right

That, that
That, that

Backstage we're havin' the time
of our live until somebody say
Forgive me if I seem out of line
Then she whipped out her gun and tried to blow me away!

[Chorus]

Never judge a book by it's cover
or who you gonna love by your lover
Sayin' love put me wise to her love in disguise
She had the body of a Venus, Lord imagine my surprise.

[Chorus]

So baby let me follow you down (let me take a peek dear)
Baby let me follow you down (do me, do me, do me all night)
Baby let me follow you down (turn the other cheek dear)
Baby let me follow you down (do me, do me, do me, do me)

Oo, what a funky lady
Oo, she like it, like it, like it, like that.
Oo he was a lady!

[Chorus]Dude, dude, dude, dude looks like a lady
Dude, dude, dude, dude looks like a lady
Dude, dude, dude, dude looks like a lady
Dude, dude, dude, dude looks like a lady
[Chorus]

I got one of my Hatian friends to wipe the memory of that Aerosmith song from my brain. My mental catalogue pretty much stops now at Sweet Emotion.

(Walk This Way is filed under a different folder.)

But you are right, Aerosmith is a rockin' band.

[This message was edited by David Newell on 10-31-07 at .]

I must align myself with the Honorable Mr. Newell. Although I didn't use a Haitian friend to erase my memory (I'm afraid to know how that works but does it involve chicken bones, David?), I refuse to acknowledge any of Aerosmith's tunes after Walk this way, although the collaboration with Run/DMC was certainly acceptable.

I'm afraid I just don't like the above-Aerosmith selection. As far as where are the rockers, well, Mr. Newell and I, along with others, are right here.

As evidence thereof, witness my suggestion above regarding Lou "If you thought Truman Capote or Andy Warhol was weird, wait'll you meet me" Reed. You can't get more rocking than Lou in his early 70's prime. Weird-Yes. More rocking than Aerosmith in their Dude phase-Absolutely.

I can think of one song off of Aerosmith's Toys in the Attic record that might be appropriate for this situation, but decorum prohibits me from suggesting it.

I'm sure Fred Edwards will tell you that Newell and I are some of the most rockin' dudes he knows. Next to Freddy Felcman.

Though I'm none too fly, and I still think "urban" refers to municipal zoning considerations, '80s rapper Ton Loc's words, from the haunting ballad "Funky Cold Medina," seem to resonate with the misguided direction this thread seems to have taken:

I went up to this girl, she said, Hi, my name is Sheena
I thought she'd be good to go with a little Funky Cold Medina
She said, I'd like a drink, I said, Ehm - ok, I'll go get it
Then a couple sips she cold licked her lips, and I knew that she was with it
So I took her to my crib, and everything went well as planned
But when she got undressed, it was a big old mess, Sheena was a man
So I threw him out, I don't fool around with no [name of specified food company's processed food product]
You must be sure that the girl is pure for the Funky Cold Medina

You know, ain't no plans with a man
This is the 80's, and I'm down with the ladies
Ya know?

(I fear I may have jeopardized the status of my Redneck West Texan card by even recalling the identity of Ton Loc. Oh, and BTW, Greg, that "record" of Aerosmith's -- whatever its size -- is a good call with its swing/jive tempo.)

[This message was edited by Scott Brumley on 10-31-07 at .]

You're pretty fly for a white guy.

Yes, Scottie B., I must confess to being familiar with the short-lived but none the less interesting career of Tone Loc, who made some appearance in a kid's B movie (Blank Check 1994) in the 90's as a henchman.

I had forgotten all about that song.

He's a much better rapper than a actor.

And Yeah, that unmentioned record of Aerosmith, well, it's a record of my favorite blues.

Sometimes, you can hear 'em talk,
Other times you can't
All the same old cliches
Is that a woman or a man?


I remember when my stepson was about 4 1/2 and asked me if someone was a woman or a man. We were in the ladies' room, and the woman's "friend" was also there waiting for her. They chuckled, and as mortified as I was, at least had the present sense of mind to respond "everyone in this bathroom is a woman except for you."