Scooby - Jessop Goes First

38 years-old, 5'9, 338 pounds. He is black, prematurely gray, and looks
like he should be a crime-lord. In truth he is poor, with an almost
manic phobia of the police. Eating is the only thing that comforts him.
His diet consists mostly of Krispy Kreme donuts, beer and warm
supermarket-brand cola.

Money has had his phobia of the police since his mother, Daphne
Crooking, was dragged out of the house by them after she had murdered
his father. That night Gordon Money had been asleep during the fight
between Walter Money and his common-law wife, and woke up when a police
officer fired a shot into his headboard after thinking that the
sleeping child was reaching under his pillow for a firearm. His mother
had been already hysterical and grew moreso after thinking that Gilvert
Sheriff's officers were murdering her child. She was beaten into
submission in the back of the police car. Money was taken outside and
saw the blood-spattered rear windows.

Scooby makes his money by selling weed from his apartment and from the
trunk of his car. His terror of the police makes him extremely cautious
about who he sells to and the precautions he takes. For instance, he
sells weed one day a week. He is careful to buy only one other day, and
rents a car for the trip to Craw County. His customers schedule
appointments a month in advance, and if they miss one, they have to
skip a month before coming back. They leave the money in a flower pot
on his porch and he calls them back with a location at which he has
hidden the weed (for instance, the toilet tank at the Denny's on 34th
Street). His unorthodox sales-methods have made him popular with a
certain segment of the University of Central Florida population. Among
other security measures Scooby occasionally hires his neighbor, Lance
Bonner, to kill troublesome customers or other pot-dealers who infringe
on his territory or threaten to harm him.

He buys his weed from Eagle Jessop, who grows it in a barn on his Craw
County farm. Eagle is the younger brother of Borden Jessop.

Scooby has a dream of becoming a record producer and has dedicated the
second bedroom in his apartment to this. He has also purchased a brand
new personal computer and taught himself to use it. In this endeavor he
has recruited Wayne Albertson, who he has come to think of as a little
brother, and who is a talented lyricist. The two have recorded several
tracks together and have almost completed their first album.

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