Geez, I'd like to visit the training facility for that team! Yes, the blade
bearer would be me (perfectly legal in GA as long as it's in full view).
After an eye-to-eye encounter with a copperhead (snake, not law officer) on
a high bank near Augusta once, I made it a practice to keep it slung over
my shoulder in heavy snake (or gator) country. I did generate a few
concerned stares when I forgot to take it off before a group of us wandered
into a McDonald's over in SC last January. The local gendarmes didn't even
give it a second glance during the Chattooga interrogation. Remember, we
were in "Deliverance" country. (-: I guess it's probably some kind of
security blanket leftover from my time in 'Nam. Lower in the state (like
the Altamaha system), wild hogs are a concern. For them, I may opt for a
crossbow!
Steven A. Ellis
Kennesaw, GA
At 03:19 PM 7/24/02 -0400, you wrote:
>I was thinking about coming down later in the season to collect with our
>"U.S. Olympic Fish Collecting Team" until I looked at one of the pictures
>in your latest pictorial. In the one picture with all you folks
>"worshiping" your catch, someone is carrying a machette! Did the law
>officer really let you go or did an "accident" happen?
>
>Nick Zarlinga
>Aquarium Biologist
>Cleveland Metroparks Zoo
>216-661-6500 ex 4485
>
>"Fish worship... is it wrong??" (Ray Troll)
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