WESLEY GRIMM “NATURE BOY”

BOOKING 95-12-0039PONDER CO. · SAT 12-02-1995FICTION

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Booking photograph of Wesley Grimm, Ponder County Sheriff's Dept., 12-02-1995. Fiction.

NAME: WESLEY GRIMM
AKA: "NATURE BOY"
BOOKED: 12-02-1995
CHARGE: UNLAWFUL RELEASE OF WILDLIFE (PARADE); POSSESSION OF ELEVEN RACCOONS
PLACE: MAIN STREET STAGING AREA
OFFICER: DEPUTY HARGROVE
PRIORS: NONE
TAGS: LIVESTOCK-ADJACENT, PARADE, RACCOONS, WILDLIFE

Ponder County Sheriff's Dept. — Incident Report Records inquiry · Terminal 03 · Booking 95-12-0039

Subject: WESLEY GRIMM
AKA: “Nature Boy”
Charge: Unlawful release of wildlife (parade); possession of eleven raccoons
Location: Main Street staging area
Officer: Deputy Hargrove
Date: 12-02-1995

Narrative

Wesley Grimm called his float “Missouri's Bounty.” Flatbed, hay bales, eleven raccoons in a wire pen. He'd been live-trapping since Halloween. Most folks would've stopped at one raccoon and asked what the hell they were doing.

The Jaycees told him no Thursday. Wesley showed up anyway in a T-shirt with eagles and a canyon, smiling that little smile of a man who figures permission is mostly for indoor things. God love him, he'd brought the whole damn outdoors.

At 7:55 the Shriners' go-karts fired up behind him in the staging lot. Raccoons don't care for go-karts. Turns out they didn't care for his pen, either.

By the time Deputy Hargrove got the cuffs on, there were raccoons in the Baptist float's manger, in the Sonic Drive-In float's fake tater tots, and on the Jaycees' truck roof. One was inside the tuba Tyler Nance had just been arrested for. That son of a bitch had found the only parade seat with a bell on it.

“They're bounty,” Wesley said. “They'll come back.”

Nine did. Pretty fair return on a wildlife investment, considering the shit he'd put them through.

The calendar behind him in the Polaroid says September 1994. Nothing in this building is current.

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