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The Big Buffoon related to me storys about the Forman as mentioned above. The Formans father was an Espispocal priest in an upper middle class town in SO CA where JPL is located. All of the Formans brothers and sisters were either MD's or Attorneys. The Forman had almost completed his engineering degree when he went to work for this major grocery chain.

His appearence was that of one scruffy lookin guy with an unkempt beard. He drove a beat up old Datsun pickup truck with tools and empty soda cans in the bed and in the passenger seat. He had varied interests such as lock smithing and creating some sort of power experiment with a pallet of Sugar that he borrowed from the company. He and his older scruffy buddy were known as Sanford and Son, whose hobby was going around to DWP sites and liberating the brass padlocks which they would resell in Mexico. The buddy was known to have all the master keys to all the major brands of locks on a board in his house. The Forman was also known not to have paid his utility biills and rehooking the power lines himself.

Such was the Forman....why he got involved in his extra curricular activities was that it was as the Big Buffoon described the Forman telling him, "Was to see if he could do it." It was the challenge and not the money, and that was the reason he never got caught. The Big Buffoon was told by the Foreman that people had unwittingly had helped him load trailers that disappeared into the night. that he was talking to the President of Distribution for the company as one of his trailers was going out the gate.

The Forman was known to have opened an employees car and place a 50 lb bag of dog food in the car as a warning to an employee to transfer out of that faciltiy. The employee left and never went back to that facility. Or when he asked the Big Buffoon about a medical leave the Buffoon had taken the Buffoon had enough sense to avoid answering. With 15 minutes the Big Buffoon said another employee came up and asked the same question to which the Buffoon answered, "because the Doc said I was one sick mther fker." Another time the Big Buffoon said the Forman came up and talked to him for half an hour to get the answer to one question, and when he got it, in a few moment s he had left. The Big Buffoon said to me that never before nor since has he ever met anyone like that.

For some reason I think the Big Buffoon was telling me the truth.