Charlie LeDuff / The Detroit News
CLINTON TOWNSHIP — The Macomb County moon man stood next to his forlorn flying saucer, which sat perched on milk crates in a weedy patch along Interstate 94. He railed against corporate conspirators and misinformed scientists.
According to the moon man, a nefarious cabal has blocked him from laying his hands on the necessary money to complete his perpetual flying machine — a machine he says, that could reach Mars in a mere two weeks.
“Bankers promise calls they never return,” said Alfie Carrington, who when not working in his laboratory makes ends meet as a part-time construction worker. “The governor’s office told my mother no. And these so called scientific experts who have never seen it, say it won’t work.”