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September 21: Court and Apples

2007-09-22 · Hank · watch on YouTube · Personal life · personal update

Hank goes to court in Missoula over a bicycle stop-sign ticket and feels like he is intruding on a serious world; then he describes volunteering with Katherine to glean apples in the Rattlesnake Valley.

What is said

00:00:00 — Outside Missoula City Hall: a bike stop-sign ticket, an hour and a half in court, a $10 fine among DUI cases

  • ★★★ Hank got a ticket for not stopping at a stop sign on his bicycle and has to go to court at Missoula's City Hall. — 00:00:09 · Missoula, Montana
  • ★★ Hank says he was told the fine would be $81, but it was reduced to $10. — 00:00:09
  • ★★ Hank calls the court visit a waste of time: he waited about an hour and a half to be told what the ticket already told him, when he could simply have paid $10. (playful) (hedged) — 00:00:46
  • ★★★ Hank felt uncomfortable paying $10 while others, mostly there for drinking offences, faced fines of hundreds or thousands of dollars; he seemed to intrude on a serious world. (hedged) — 00:01:15

00:01:51 — Apple picking with Katherine: free gleaning in the Rattlesnake Valley, bears, pies, shaking trees

  • ★★ On Monday Hank and Katherine volunteered to pick apples in the Rattlesnake Valley, taking home cider and a box of apples; Katherine made three apple pies. — 00:01:51 · Katherine Green
  • ★★ Hank says the Rattlesnake Valley has so many apple trees that the fruit must be picked, or bears come for it and then get shot or hit by cars; so picking is free. — 00:01:51 · Missoula, Montana
  • ★ Hank explains that in a hurry you shake the tree and gather apples off the ground, hooking higher limbs with a stick from a ladder. (playful) — 00:02:24
  • ★★ Hank explains that gleaning, which viewers may have a program for where they live, means free fruit from trees whose owners don't want it. — 00:02:54

00:03:22 — Pluots and unwanted yard fruit; plan to film They Might Be Giants on Sunday; sign-off

  • ★★ Hank says they are going to see They Might Be Giants on Sunday and he will try to smuggle in the camera for footage, with no guarantees. (hedged) — 00:03:22 · They Might Be Giants

Humor (significant)

  • Hank wishes the court had just asked for the $10 without the hour-and-a-half wait. — 00:00:46 > «then it would have been a little bit more like highway robbery, but also a lot more convenient»
  • Hank explains why he shot little B-roll inside City Hall. — 00:00:46 > «there are a lot of college-aged young women who probably don't want YouTube to know that they got a DUI»
  • Hank explains how to reach apples on the higher limbs with a ladder and a stick. — 00:02:54 > «and then you fall off the back of the ladder. Or very nearly.»
  • Hank voices the yard owners who give away their fruit. — 00:03:22 > «get these out of my yard so that the bear doesn't eat my dog. What a world.»

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