Where have you found JW literature?

Funchback

So, yesterday I'm at Bally's (a fitness center) and I'm about to get on the treadmill. I decided to check out their magazine rack. Let's see...'Bicycling', 'Sports Illustrated', 'A2Z', and about 10 Watchtower and Awakes. But the kicker is that they were all in a foreign language. And, mind you, they weren't in spanish, portuguese, or any other language that I recognized.

From what my eyes gather, it's mostly american and mexican folks who go there.

Anyway, have you found WT literature turn up in some unusual places?

Oh, and I can imagine an "experience" coming from this one day:

"I was working out at Bally's when I picked up a magazine in a language that I didn't recognize. Curious, I began thumbing through the pages. Then, something told me that this must be 'The Truth'. So, I contacted Bethel to see if I could learn more......."

VM44

Wasn't there a long ago experience where someone found one of Judge Rutherford's books floating in New York Harbor?

Some ship's captain fished it out of the water and after reading it, said it was the "best thing" he had ever read!

Well no wonder! I doubt that he had read many books at all if "water delivery" was the usual way he obtained his literature!

--VM44

AuldSoul

I see crumpled up tracts or magazines littering streets every now and again. The strangest place I found JW literature was clutched in the hands of a man who had to be hosed off with water prior to being taken into the psych ward at the local hospital. He had the tract on paradise (I can't remember the name of that tract, making progress) "...Peaceful New World" dang!

He kept saying, to no one in particular, "I just need this and my cigarettes, but they took my cigarettes. You think they gone let me keep this? I'd like to keep this. I need a cigarette. Them girls was pretty. Them two little girls. They was pretty. They smiled at me. They ain't gonna let me have no cigarettes. You think they'll let me keep this?" and on and on.

The tract was obviously weeks old, but that man sure remembered those pretty girls and how they smiled at him.

AK - Jeff

One time, whilst pioneering, I came upon a fresh set of magazines on top of material in the rubbish can at the curb of the house I was approaching.

Not wanting to look foolish, before I approached the door, I kept walking up. After being told 'not interested' [DUH], I retrieved the discarded literature, looked it over for soil or damage [clean as a whistle], and put them in my bag for use later.

Looking back, I would compare that incident to digging cat shit out of a litter box for inspection. I was dubbed, no doubt!

Jeff

NewYork44M

I have found literature stuck in the back of pay telephones, behind urinals in public restrooms, and last week I found a tract stuck behind a pipe in an emergency exit at the hospital where I work.

Funchback

VM44:

That "experience" sounds like those all too many JW urban legends.

Marsupial Kong

On my last climb to the top of Mount Kilimanjaro I found a half eaten Awake magazine from December of 93.

purplesofa

They are always in the doctors clinics I go to on my courier rounds........I pick them up now!!!

purps

On my last climb to the top of Mount Kilimanjaro I found a half eaten Awake magazine from December of 93.

When was your last climb?

BizzyBee

At a small cabin-motel in Panguitch, Utah last week. At the registration counter, presided over by an (Eastern) Indian woman, was a stack of about 40 Awakes. If I could have grabbed them without her noticing, I would have binned them without a second thought.

parlay

Inside a public toilet taped to the wall. Written next to them, " Emergency toilet paper."

Where have you found JW literature?

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