Apropos to this thread (and the linked story below) I was called to the office of one of my clients at a grain elevator in Ephrata (the County Seat... and where the jail is located) yesterday. They had lost their internet connection and since their business runs a VPN to a dozen other grain elevators across about 200 miles of territory they were pretty excited about getting it back. (Turned out to be the WAN network port that had gone south... very unusual... but I digress.) And now for the rrrrest of the storrrry..... While I was chatting with the gal who runs the office there she pointed to the newspaper article (link below) and mentioned that the truck pictured (parked in a precarious place on a hillside) was theirs and had been stolen by the guy to whom the deputy eventually threw the PFD. LOL. Craig Jungers Moses Lake, WA www.nwkayaking.net On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 2:50 PM, Craig Jungers <crjungers_at_gmail.com> wrote: > > There is another... and interesting... article about this here: > http://www.columbiabasinherald.com/articles/2010/03/04/news/doc4b8da4eca50b1612056940.txt > > Apparently the culprit kidnapped an out-of-town construction worker who was > staying at a local motel along with a female. The female was originally > thought to be another victim of the kidnapping but turned out to be an > accomplice (although did not, apparently, jump in the lake). > > They forced the construction worker to buy them some stuff at Wal-Mart and > then took him back to his motel and released him. Not quite candidates for > the Darwin Award but I'm guessing they'll make another try once they get out > of jail because they didn't think the guy would call the cops. They stopped > for a bite to eat at a Denny's next to the freeway where cops found them > with the Wal-Mart loot still in the car. > > Never a dull moment in Moses Lake. > > > Craig Jungers > Moses Lake, WA (early spring swimming is so refreshing) > www.nwkayaking.net *************************************************************************** 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 Tue Mar 09 2010 - 07:41:22 PST
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