jamesp
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Post by jamesp on May 13, 2017 7:53:01 GMT -5
Me and a buddy were up to no good when in high school when the police stopped and called us to him. We decided it would be fun to make him chase us, so we ran. He chased us, and was way faster than he looked. We ran into a flat weedy field. Unbeknownst to us a dried lake bottom full of 6 foot deep crevices where the deep clay silt dried. Crevices totally camoflouged by weeds. Needless to say we made it about 100 feet before we about broke our little legs in those crevices. The officer was amused, caught up with us in seconds. Took us home to our Mommies. He was mad as hell, red mud on those shiny black shoes lol. Imagine running across this terrain covered in weeds, crevices 6 feet deep. No chance.
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Post by youp50 on May 13, 2017 19:22:33 GMT -5
1978 or so found me part of a group of sailors visiting Port Sudan, Sudan. A couple of tours were offered. A serious language barrier got us on a pair of 2 1/2 ton single axle meat wagon heading for some remote seaside resort, not the remote native village requested. The resort was a new place that did nothing to inspire a revisit. The group that went to the village loved it. We got the trucks seriously mired in some stuff like that in the desert. All out and push. We got mired in and did get the trucks moving. Mud slowly turning into casts on our legs, sand blasting our ears and eyes. Thirsty, nothing to drink. We all returned with the same sand colored hair. Someplace I have some genuine kodak pictures of that fiasco.
Not too enthused by deserts.
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Post by Deleted on May 13, 2017 21:24:02 GMT -5
Sounds like good times. There was mud flats like that down in the oil fields of Long Beach, CA. We would dig out those blocks of mud and stack them up like bricks to make forts. Then we would have rock fights. Those mud flats are full, I mean FULL of the finest California king snakes imaginable!!
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Post by Deleted on May 14, 2017 14:58:39 GMT -5
Those mud flats are full, I mean FULL of the finest California king snakes imaginable!! Interesting. I spent a lot of time playing around in the bushes at the edge of suburbia and never saw any snakes. They probably hid from us dumb kids. It's all timing really. Spring afternoons would be the only overlap for kids play
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