Date: Sat, 15 Sep 2012 00:33:36 -0600
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From: OlRivrRat <OlRivrRat@COMCAST.NET>
Subject: Re: For you paddlers--a petition
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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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