Monday, January 20, 2014

Sneaker attack

In the old days the gate used to be locked every night at our resort. Our resort is actually two very large parking lots. During the summer everyone and their grandmother does raft trips on the Salt River. The parking lots are used for the 40,000 people that use the raft service on some weekends. It is actually tubing not rafting. The masses are hauled up the river by bus and then float by tube back to the huge parking lots. On the way down the river they throw as many beer cans and pop cans in the river as they can. This means thousands have to be spent at the end of the season to clean up the mess, but they actually do. Also it means rings, watches, and other metal things get lost. So the winter is the time the metal detector guys come to find the diamonds and gold.

With dwindling resources and complaining fishermen the gates at our resort are no longer locked at night. The net result is the sneakers can come in at night. The sneakers like to steal Honda generators. Two have been stolen so far. To thwart the sneakers I have put a special alarm on my geneator that squeals if the sneaker moves it. Last hight at two in the morning someone roared out of our camp ground at high speed. It woke Kadizzle up and sounded like it may have been a failed sneaker attack. Since we are in Arizona and anyone can shoot at anyone for any reason it would be fun to shoot at a fleeing sneaker, but the Kadizzles don't have a gun. This morning we await the campground gossip to see if indeed the sneaker was foiled. 

No reports on sneaker problems, but someone did provide the day's entertainment.  A car was parked on the road to our camping area and set on fire.  No one knows why.   More than likely someone stole the car and needed to get rid of it. 

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