Wednesday, May 8, 2013

OUTDOOR CITIZEN BRIAN JOB - OLYMPIC SWIMMING MEDALIST 1968 HOMELESS

From Olympics to the streets: Medalist homeless in California - SAN JOSE MERCURY NEWS - Bruce Newman reports

..."Job, who pronounces his name like the Bible's long-suffering character, had become the first high school swimmer to break the one-minute barrier in the 100-yard breaststroke on March 29, 1968. Forty-five years later to the day, Job was released from the Santa Clara County main jail after his arrest for interfering with firefighters, who, according to a Palo Alto Police Department spokesman, were attempting to extinguish a fire Job had built in a restaurant parking lot. Job insists he and some of his fellow "outdoor citizens" were merely having a late-night barbecue..."




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