On Thu, Feb 03, 2005 at 09:12:49AM +1100, Peter Rattenbury wrote: >Picking up on the theme of kayakers [ outdoors people ] being kicked around > by officious folks in uniforms, [...] Let's also recall the incident in which multi-time US champion, multi-time world champion, multi-time Olympian and generally really good paddler and nice guy David Hearn was forcibly ripped out of his C-1 because some thugs with uniforms decided that the Potomac was "too high" to be safe. (Yeah, for someone like *me*, it probably was. But for someone of Davey's incredible skill and experience, it's a playground.) ---Rsk *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - Any opinions or suggestions expressed here are solely those of the writer(s). You must assume the entire responsibility for reliance upon them. All postings copyright the author. Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Thu Feb 03 2005 - 07:07:07 PST
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