KOOKAMUNGA!!!

While picking up some beer at a gas station (to proudly support the American Hockey Team during the Olympics) I passed this man, who was waiting for a bus. I laughed to myself and took a picture with my phone but realized he was too amazing not to document properly. I usually avoid asking people like this for their photo, for fear of offending them, but finally gathered the courage to go back to the bus station with my G10 (with the support of a friend of course). I walked back to the bus station and he was happy to let me take pictures and immediately stood up and blew on his bugle when I got my camera out. He was a very happy man and introduced himself as Conde Teargon and promptly mentioned that he was on the front page of the Deseret Newspaper in 2001. While waiting for a bus to visit his father he was playing music loudly on his radio and intermittently blasting on his bugle (at what seemed to be no set interval).

My friend who accompanied me, who also happens to be a photographer, asked him if he might set up a time to do a proper photo shoot with Conde. He agreed and gave him his number. He said that he answers the phone, ‘KOOKAMUNGA! Thats how you’ll know it’s me!” with a slight laugh. We thanked him for his time and went back to watch the USA kick the living piss out of Canada. Overall, not a bad Sunday.