Date:         Tue, 28 Aug 2001 03:00:57 -0500
Reply-To:     Max Wellhouse <maxjoyce@IPA.NET>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Max Wellhouse <maxjoyce@IPA.NET>
Subject:      Re: Surfboards and other near disasters
Comments: To: Bill Kasper <dragonlist@IPMTS.UCSC.EDU>
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Gee:  maybe that's what was happening the night I was hauling 9 kayaks and a
canoe home on top of my Vanagon.  All those blinking lights that I thought
were fireflies behind me might've actually been turn signal lamps!!

Dimwitted Mooseand Flying Squirrel
----- Original Message -----
From: "Bill Kasper" <dragonlist@IPMTS.UCSC.EDU>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Monday, August 27, 2001 3:36 PM
Subject: Re: Surfboards and other near disasters


> on 8/27/2001 12:54 PM, Joseph Fortino at fortino1@ONEBOX.COM wrote:
>
> > speaking of nutty stuff, last Friday some smart dude was
> > carring a complete garage door ontop of his small pickup truck in the
> > fast lane.. I moved out of the way.. Lost a good friend, when a truck
> > lost some of his load.. It came threw his front window killing him, all
> > the time his 5 year was in the seat next to him.
> >
>
>
> we were driving in eugene on our way back to portland and saw a 15' dinghy
> tied upside down on an older mitsubishi short bed pickup truck.  tied
upside
> down on the bedrack, and the boat was nearly as long as the truck.  the
> bottom of the keel was four feet above the top of the cab roof.
>
> i discreetly moved onto a different freeway.
>
> bill
> '87 syncro westfalia
> http://www.scruznet.com/~kasper/pics/westy/