Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for June 19, 2023

Devil’s Night (known as Mischief Night in other areas) started as a Detroit tradition in the 40s, with pranks and minor acts of vandalism, but after certain parts of the city started rapidly depopulating in the 70s and 80s, arson (usually of abandoned buildings) became a lot more common.

In the 90s, the city government put together an “Angels’ Night” (note the plural possessive, vs the singular Devil’s Night) which was mostly about volunteers patrolling to prevent crime, and the tradition of arson quickly disappeared by the 2000s.

Word is Jimi preferred to have the controls on top.

Yeah well they need to come and subbotnik my house now that the brats have moved out and I have no child labor to …er, kids to help me. ~ Shirley the Mom and cooking wine aficionado

May Jimi’s chords be with you as they are with Maryyyyyyy. And gesundheit.

Jimi Hendrix produced wonderful music, no matter what guitar he played.

Hendrix’s guitars were strung in the normal fashion for a rightie — the lowest pitch string (E) was in the normal location — their string order was not “reversed”.

You should have added that he played thst right handed guitar with hus LEFT hand, upside down, with strings reversed, like it shows in the picture.

Pranksters?

Pranksters? Call those who set fires what they really are – arsonists!

When did criminal arsonists become pranksters?

Volunteers for cleanup? As in “I need 3 volunteers for this mission. You, you, and you are volunteering.”

“Subbotnik”—in English that means “sweep or we make your life miserable”

Now the Russians have a day where they sacrifice their first born sons by pledging them to Putin’s genocide army. It’s called conscription day.

Russians? Volunteer? You mean they were “voluntold”…or else!!!

“Pranksters”… or “insurance fraudsters”?

A long time ago, in the days of the USSR, the sentence for public intoxication in Moscow was to spend 365 days cleaning the public park. There were 365 parks in Moscow at the time, so the convicted would get the “opportunity” to spend a day at each park cleaning up. Moscow had very clean parks.

Darn pranksters.

Knew a guy that played the same way.

I bought a 1969 Custom Telecaster from him.

Sure miss that Guitar.

They clean the streets once a year? Ugh…

Those weren’t pranksters, those were vandals. Arson is not a prank.