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Location: Essexville, MI./Saginaw Bay. | Just got back from having my taxes done. Happy to say those 4 new tires I have to have put on my trailer, aren't going to be as big a burdon as I expected. I took the long route to the tax mans office to check the rivers and as many of their landings as I could. One of my observations included the Tittabawassee Rivers Gordonville Ramp, where I launch and fish probably 30 to 40 times a year.
The river was wide open at the ramp area with good size ice flo's moving along in the current at 3 to 5 MPH. The water was at the top of the ramp and was running surprisingly clear. But with the ice flo's as they were, I personally (for safety sake) would not have launched and tried to fish the river. But of course spring weather brings out people, who lets say, can't wait to be safe to go fishing.
At the ramp when I got there was a young man, his younger son and their small collie getting ready to go out into the current. They were in a 12 foot aluminum boat they brough in the back of their pickup truck. The young man was intently trying to get the 7 horse (Sears) Ted Williams model, to start and stay running. It would spit and sputter for a few seconds and then die. Finally it started to run, but the choke had to be feathered to keep it doing so.
The boat was not far enough out in the water to float freely, so the motors skag/keel was dug in on the cement ramp, making it impossible for the little guy to push the boat off and away. So like a good guy I get out of my truck and walk over to the ramp to help. I seen then that there are no life preservers in the boat and about that time the motor quits again. Oh ya, theirs was the only vehicle and the only boat that would be on the river as well.
At that point I decide I don't want to be an accomplice to murder, so without touching anything I simple ask how the fishing has been and comment about the river conditions and the life preservers. He gives me the (who cares) wave, and off they go upriver. Nice to know nothing has changed over the winter hey?
Edited by walleye express 3/3/2004 6:22 PM
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Location: Milw, WI | My theory is that Laws are made to keep stupid alive.
Nature likes to weed out the weak, and febile minded ones.
Bad bad thing is the stupid people always have the luck and are not the ones that get hurt.
They hurt others, when they do they say wonder how that happened? |
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Location: Essexville, MI./Saginaw Bay. | Originally written by Richfish on 2004-03-03 5:45 PM
My theory is that Laws are made to keep stupid alive.
Nature likes to weed out the weak, and febile minded ones.
Bad bad thing is the stupid people always have the luck and are not the ones that get hurt.
They hurt others, when they do they say wonder how that happened?
Your right Rich.
Kinda like that hillbilly joke. What did one Hillbilly say to the other before he was killed? Hey Merle!!....Watch This!!!!
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Location: Mt Prospect, IL | In this situation, I feel bad for the Collie (and the kid). There's an idiot born every second. He's not the first and too bad for all of us he won't be the last. |
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Location: Westland, Mich. | the stupid person syndrom hit home a few weeks ago. my oldest who plays senior hockey, but on a team that does'nt get much practice ice, went to play drop-in. one of the other "men" who shows up to play is sh!t faced. after a shift on the ice with him my son goes back to the bench where he remarks to no one in particular that this guy is going to hurt himself or someone else. he then ends up on the ice with this clown again and during a routine play along the boards, falls on my sons leg breaking his ankle in 2 places. the only consolation was, on the way down the boy cliped him in the face and helped his looks. |
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Location: Rhinelander | I have seen very intelligent folks do not so bright things. I submit it is not intelligence but common sense and education that causes one to act within acceptable limits. I know some 'rat smart' folks I would trust with my life and fortune, and some well educated geniuses I wouldn't ask to mail a letter for me. Everyone has his or her place, creating extremes to both ends of the spectrum. That is why we are able to compare!
It is sometimes amusing to hang around the landing on opening day to see the 'I want to launch or load my boat show', though.
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Location: Milw, WI | If you want to bust a gut laughing set up a lawn chair at the upper Launch at Nekossa on good friday.
I hope to get there one day with the video cam in hand.
That way in one day of filming I can get enough footage to win AFV for the rest of my life.
High water.
Launch is in the current.
People with there first boats.
You will wonder why we do not need to take a test to get a boating permit.
Its is just unreal. |
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| I look at it this way...being a police officer, as long as people like this continue to breed...I will always have a job!! |
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