Comments for Tom Mangan, Verb Nerd

Comment on Something that could happen only on the Internet by John C. Anderson

John C. Anderson — Thu, 11 Aug 2016 14:45:16 +0000

I just came upon this, I don’t know how I missed it. Thanks.

I went to a Freedom Run in East Moline a couple of weeks ago and I only did 25 chins.
I hadn’t been doing any serious training lately.

I’ll be 72 September 2nd and I’m toying with the idea of going to Muscle Beach and showing those guys how to do chinups, pullovers, foot hangs and squat budges.
A squat budge is a standing top of the range, maybe 2 or 3 inches.
Right now I can only do about 500 at a weight of 135 or so, but maybe I’ll do a little better at the Beach.

Comment on A fatal turn down the road by Sheila

Sheila — Sun, 07 Sep 2014 08:09:14 +0000

I moved to Milpitas a short time after this happened. My ex was one of the people invited up the hill. He said he did not go but who really knows. He told me that he heard that she was killed because she made fun of Jacques mother and she was not killed there but dumped there I guess. They were not dating. I have been up Marsh road too many times to count. My ex actually left me stranded up there by the bridge in the middle of the night with no shoes on once. I walked about 1/4 to 1/2 down the road in the dark before he came back and picked me up. I have never seen the white lady that many claimed to have seen since before this event. I have seen the trucks people said disappeared – they go to the little plant or whatever with the caretaker house for the reservoir. There are wild boars up there and a lot of what people have seen or have heard upon further investigation have been animals or sounds of the boars. The only strange experience I can recall would have been on a hillside on Old Calaveras Road. The aftermath of Jacques actions affected a lot of people for the rest of their lives. It caused an investigation that lasted a couple of years I believe into the reason behind the kids not reporting this at first. It ended with a lot of people who were unrelated to the case being arrested for a variety of offenses. Some of these peoples lives were changed forever. Some of them never really got a chance at life.

Comment on A fatal turn down the road by Sheila

Sheila — Sun, 07 Sep 2014 08:09:14 +0000

Comment on A fatal turn down the road by Kathryn ferguson

Kathryn ferguson — Sun, 16 Mar 2014 07:45:08 +0000

He raped and killed her at his home in the pines .then put her in the back of his dad white pick up truck with one of the flat covers on it . He put her dead body in th back drove her up to marsh road and dumped her like a bag of trash . And no Marcy was not and would ever date ,go out,sleep with him on her own free will. She was friends with him from when they were just kidsand she felt sorry for him but that is it. Her only problem is that she had to kind of heart.

Comment on A fatal turn down the road by Kathryn ferguson

Kathryn ferguson — Sun, 16 Mar 2014 07:37:26 +0000

All y’all writing about how you go up there for a thrill. There was nothing thrilling about Marcy Conrad’s murder .She was a great friend and she is missed everyday .and guys for one thing remember she died at his house ..so if she haunting anywhere don’t you think comon since ,she wouldn’t be there. Anyway Marcy is an angel in heaven making her mark there.

Comment on Memories of 2006 by Steve L Batts

Steve L Batts — Sat, 18 May 2013 07:07:02 +0000

At 67 years of age, climbing high line poles and towers, sky diving, and a few other bad habits, what I walk on or type with is from the best orthopedic surgeon’s parts bin in Kansas. So we won’t be meeting on any hiking trails. Putting my last bad habit behind me next week and selling the last touring motorcycle.

Comment on New arrival of the four-pawed variety by Steve L Batts

Steve L Batts — Sat, 18 May 2013 06:57:58 +0000

I am one up on you. After the service 1963 to 1967 US Army Medic, I went through two wives and couldn’t land in one spot. After becoming a High Voltage Power Line Lineman, I landed a woman and started 48 years of tramping the US of A and more than a few foreign countries building their power transmission grid. From 1972 to today, our one or two constant companions has been of the four legged fur ball variety. They will let you slave to please them and serve as your master for their only too short of a life span.
Actually I came looking for you, as a veteran I miss your articles relating to politicss and the military, with all that is happening in DC.

Comment on Memories of 2006 by Peter Weyzen

Peter Weyzen — Sun, 24 Feb 2013 03:47:28 +0000

I like your shed of signs from Castle Rock. I have a few pictures of that place too. It was a strange highlight of that hike. Sadly, the shed of signs is no more — those little buildings have been emptied out 🙁

Comment on A fatal turn down the road by Emilia

Emilia — Sat, 16 Feb 2013 22:26:14 +0000

I have recently found out what happened on Marsh Road. Ive seen Rivers Edge years ago, but did not know it was loosely based on what happened. My only question is if Marcy and Jacues (I probabaly spelled his name wrong) were not dating, then why were the two of them together alone, on Marsh Road? Ive read up on her passing but no one has stated why she was there with him.

Comment on A fatal turn down the road by Sean

Sean — Wed, 05 Sep 2012 03:17:18 +0000

In reply to Joe. Joe- My google map gives the following coordinates for the bridge: 37.445903, -121.804628