Re: [Paddlewise] Drag Net

          In Portland, you would need a precarious parking place permit, or
else
get pulled to the pound. Portland (and Oregon) has a permit for everything,
including spitting and belching, and now kayaking.

Brad

  ----- Original Message -----
  From: Craig Jungers
  To: Gordin Warner
  Cc: Bradford R. Crain ; James Farrelly ; Paddlewise Paddlewise
  Sent: Tuesday, March 09, 2010 7:41 AM
  Subject: Re: [Paddlewise] Drag Net


  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/doc4b8da4eca50b16
12056940.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
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