Stickman: Speak Softly & Carry A Big Stick
RE: Vandals attack Mudgy & Millie Downtown
I have a story about something that happened this past summer. 
As I was sitting doing what I do best, making sticks and giving them away of course, 5 young toughs drove up across the way and started throwing beer bottles all over the parking lot and causing complete mayhem. I grabbed my biggest stick and wandered over. They were surprised a bit that an old guy would approach them I think, but I was calm and they turned very defensive, must have been the giant stick. They wanted to know what I was going to do with the big stick, and all I said was that I make them and give them away. Would they like one. Of course they said, they are beautiful. I mentioned that first could we please pick up all of the glass in the parking lot and then they could come over for a stick. We did and they came over and had a ball. To this day I still see them and they wave when they come by and they have never thrown another bottle in that parking lot. I could have called the cops, or caused some sort of commotion, but tact was in order right then. It worked. It doesn't alway/Stickman.
