Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2012 23:54:12 -0700
Reply-To: Scott Daniel - Turbovans <scottdaniel@TURBOVANS.COM>
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From: Scott Daniel - Turbovans <scottdaniel@TURBOVANS.COM>
Subject: Re: For you paddlers--a petition
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where is 'here' ?
please.
I'm in Southern Oregon.
People run the Rogue and the John Day, for example, in Oregon.
On 9/14/2012 11:33 PM, OlRivrRat wrote:
> Seems like the vast majority of us are stuck somewhere in
> between the
> Nutsos
>
> & the RobberBarrons ~ but I guess they are really Nutsos also ~ OK
> were surrounded
>
> ~ HELP ~ Circle the Vanagons ~
>
> Whew, Friday is over so we can go back to life as usual for a
> week.
>
> ORR ~ DeanB
>
>
> On 14 Sep , 2012, at 11:16 PM, JRodgers wrote:
>
>> Boy, Robert, that had to be nerve wracking. Glad it turned out OK.
>> We/ve
>> got nutso's here too.
>>
>> John
>>
>> On 9/14/2012 11:36 PM, Robert Keezer wrote:
>>> OK- it's my turn to add my true story from years ago about river
>>> access back when I had a splittie..
>>> I met the Deliverance local!
>>>
>>> I launched a canoe in a slough and when I returned a day later, my
>>> 1964 VW bus was chained to a high voltage utility pole.
>>> There was a note on my windshield telling me to go to the farmhouse
>>> up the road to get the vehicle unchained. I unchained it myself
>>> seeing it was just bolted together .
>>> I left the chain on the ground, drove up under the one car railroad
>>> bridge and stopped in front of the farmhouse. A farmer was in the
>>> front yard mowing his lawn. I never should have stopped. He was
>>> wearing a gun holster.
>>> He looked over at me, drew his gun, and demanded to know what I was
>>> doing on his property. My map showed the area is a wildlife refuge,
>>> so I stood my ground and told him I was canoeing and never sit foot
>>> on his land.
>>> He demanded his chain , and aiming his pistol at me, he demanded I
>>> get his chain.
>>> So sped down the hill, got the chain , and when I got back to the
>>> bridge, he was blocking it with a pick-up truck.
>>> he was standing next to it, and pacing back and forth across the
>>> entrance, he said "Were going to do this my way" .after I asked him
>>> to call the police. At this point I think I heard banjos..
>>> Next, I said , I'm leaving! and I turned the bus around, and drove
>>> it to the dead end where the freeway is. I ran up the bank and
>>> there just happened to be a State Patrol parked nearby, who gave me
>>> a ride to town. He said he could do anything about it, the it was
>>> out of jurisdiction.
>>> By midnite the county sheriff arrived , 5 hours after I called, and
>>> found that there was a tractor blocking the road under the bridge
>>> instead of the truck. They arrested the farmer and made him move
>>> the tractor.
>>>
>>> I drove out of there and never went back to that slough don't know
>>> what they did, if anything, to the farmer.
>>>
>>> Robert
>>> 1982 Westfalia.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> I hear dualing banjo's somewhere in the background.....
>>>
>>> Thanks, Tom Hargrave
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> -
>>>
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