Thought I would share a theft story that occurred here in Missouri this Spring, on the Osage River, a slow moving shallow river with many small towns along it. Two local kayakers had pulled their boats on shore and went off looking for arrowheads. When they returned, their boats were missing. So they decided to swim across the river to get to the same side where they had parked their car. Should have been an easy swim, but only one of them made it across. It took over a week to find the body. The boats reappeared at the nearest boat ramp, and a few days later some fisherman came forward and said that they thought the boats had "drifted" and thought they were doing someone a favor by moving them. (I don't believe this!) No charges were filed. My fiancee and I left our sea kayaks near the ramp yesterday during a shuttle - I don't think anyone from this area will be stealing boats with this story fresh in their minds. Tim *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - All postings copyright the author and not to be reproduced outside PaddleWise without author's permission Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Mon Jun 19 2000 - 07:30:16 PDT
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