Billingsley Spotted Catching Bus From HP to UP
Marx Dale Billingsley, who just may be the most-arrested man in the Park Cities after being locked up 27 times, might be trying to hit an even 30 arrests.
Highland Park DPS spokesperson Detective Marty Nevil notified me that Billingsley was spotted soliciting without a permit within the town limits today. Unfortunately, he evaded officers and was spotted catching a bus toward University Park.
If Billingsley knocks on your door, residents are advised to not answer or acknowledge him. Instead, call Highland Park police at 214-521-5000 or University Park Police at 214-363-3000.
I saw him today in front of the Dallas Country Club walking up mockingbird toward preston….maybe he could get a construction job…nah, thats real work.
Is everyone sure he didn’t just finish up a round and was walking home?
“Unfortunately, he evaded officers and was spotted catching a bus toward University Park.”
Uhh, couldn’t the cops stop the bus and get him? Or follow the bus til he gets out? Or is it like the Dukes of Hazzard and once the Duke Boys got past the county line, Roscoe couldn’t do anything about it?
I think we should all chip in a get him a bus ticket to Houston. Let River Oaks deal with him.
At Tetco last Friday filling his bucket with water.
Are you sure that’s not Mickey Rourke?
@Kersten: According to his Twitter feed, Mickey Rourke was busy crashing a train into a movie theater last night. https://twitter.com/Mickey__Rourke
He was standing on Preston yesterday a.m. near Greenbrier talking to himself….
A relative of mine owned a business on Oaklawn in Dallas. It had a back parking lot where a group of homeless men decided to take up residence. They were a motly lot, but weren’t threatening. But not having “facilities” they were creating an unspeakable smelly mess. Dallas police wouldn’t do anything about it, so the property owner put a port a potty back there for them. The City of Dallas gave them a ticket for having the port o potty there when they didn’t have permitted construction work going on. So my relative bought the 4 men bus tickets to Florida and gave them a ride to the bus station – it was winter so it seemed it would be a better place to be homeless. Only one returned after a few weeks.
We saw him at Caruth Park a couple weeks ago – he stopped and asked if we wanted our windows washed. I had seen him on this blog so I knew immediately who it was but I wasn’t sure what I was supposed to do. If you see him or if he solicits you is the response to ignore or contact the authorities?
Y’all have to be kidding me…. This guy hanging around our neighborhood is the least of our safety concerns.
Imagine if U.P. had an idea to build a huge, high-profile, amusement park-type playground right next to the busiest thoroughfare serving the high crime areas of east and west Dallas…and how many criminals, pedophiles and undesirables would be attracted to our neighborhood to spend time around our children (like throwing out chum in the water)? Gosh, can you imagine?
Oh, sorry, this just in: U.P. has actually done this already. Watch your children closely at our new Coffee Park (serving all of Dallas County), because other people are watching them too.
Spooky.
S
The University Park Police Department has no reports of pedophiles at or near Coffee Park. If you have knowledge of criminal activity at the park or nearby, please inform the Police Department.
Given your last few blog posts, it is clear that you are angry with the City’s recent expenditures for various park improvements. Candidly, you are not the first resident to voice displeasure over the re-do of Hitzelberger Park. Regarding recent enhancements at Coffe Park and the Holmes Aquatic Center, City Hall has received nothing but postive remarks from residents young and old concerning the improvements made.
Concerning your tax dollars and property tax revenue: Of the three taxing jurisdictions within the City’s boundaries — The City, Dallas County, and HPISD — the City portion comprises 14% of a resident’s total tax bill. That 14% funds services and amenities (public safety, public works, parks)that are the envy of most communities in North Texas.
I live very close to Coffee Park and I think it’s a fabulous use of city funds. My son’s best friend is wheelchair bound, a park where kids like him can have access and play? Priceless. And saying it’s location makes it “dangerous”? Absurd, sheer lunacy.
Is this the same guy who panhandles wearing a hat, and fakes severe leg disabilities? My wife saw him walking around quite normally in the Macaroni Grill parking lot yesterday after she twice saw him earlier in the day “barely able to walk” at the NW Hwy/Preston intersection.
I agree with the comments by ‘S’. There is no doubt that Coffee Park is too much of an advertisement to passersby on Northwest Hwy, and because of that it is used extensively by hundreds from outside the Park Cities area – way outside, just as our U.P. pool is. I would never be able to leave my kids there, at Coffee Park, by themselves and not be wracked by worry.
Saw Billingsley at Thackery and NW HWY tonight.
Didn’t look like a pedophile. Looked hot and sweaty. Maybe running from the lynch mob looking for pedophiles at Coffee Park.
Relax people. As I tell my children: Be aware, not afraid.
Man, I’ve completely overlooked that. U.P.’s own ‘grump’ must be the only person confirmed as having the ability to distinguish pedophiles from other seemingly normal people – just by looking. Wow No wonder your children shouldn’t be afraid. And thanks for the tip on that Billingsley guy you’re so fixated on. Apparently he’s ok.
S-Thanks for taking out of context. How deep of you.
Steve Mace: Thank you for that information. I do appreciate the clarity on that. For the record I am not angry by the expenditures, but simply disappointed by the character of the improvements. I just feel that many of them do not fit the old character of U.P. Instead of understated, simple and natural, we’ve had projects that are ostentatious, suburban and artificial. I do, however, admit to being ticked off that so much time and money was spent to rip up the trees and vegetation at the NE corner of Lovers / Hillcrest for such a terrible design that was put in place, only to have to scrape it a year later to make it look like it did originally.
More careful planning and preserving the character of this unique place we have. That’s all I’m trying to say.