Re: wondering about alarm dealer moved to florida 80's

[nick markowitz <nmarkowitz@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Apr 14, 12:03=A0am, Jim <alarmi...@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Apr 13, 8:21 pm, nick markowitz <nmarkow...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > There was a notorious alarm dealer up here in Pa that went by AAA
> > alarm his name was Morie (mooky) Marcus he supposedly retired to
> > Florida mid 80's has any one ever run across him he would be in his
> > 90's at this point if he still up and around.
>
> Well .... it seems that when Mooky first moved down to Florida, he was
> takin a walk down in Fort Meyers. He came to an intersection and there
> was this car being driven by another old guy, coming down the street.
> Although it's common knowledge to most seasoned Floridians, Mooky,
> being new to the area, saw the left hand signal flashing and didn't
> realize that most drivers in Florida drive with their signal lights
> flashing. Mooky thought the driver was going to turn at the
> intersection and stepped out into the street. A witness thought, but
> couldn't be positive, that he heard the car accelerate before it hit
> Mooky. So actually, the driver was the last person to "run across"
> Mookey. The driver said he didn't know he'd hit anyone. He said that
> he thought that he'd hit a speed bump and just kept on going.
>
> Ironically, when they finally caught up with the driver, in the course
> of the investigation, it was revealed that years before, when the
> driver had lived in Pennsylvainia, Mookey had collected payment for
> installing an alarm system from him, but ran off with the money.
>
> No one is really sure of how aware of what happened ...... =A0the old
> guy is.
>
> Funny how these things work out sometimes ..... eh?

If the story is true that would be a very ironic ending indeed but i
could see it happening down there.