Boat ramp follies better than TV comedies
24.06.11
I've long contended that you should always bring a video camera when heading out boating.
Some of the antics of boaters trying to launch or retrieve their watercraft at boat ramps all over this province will surely win someone some big money one of these days on that TV show: America's Funniest Home Accidents, or whatever it's called.
Men being men, we will typically overestimate the power of our trucks and underestimate the slope of the ramp, as one sorry individual found out at the Cambridge-Narrows ramp one day when his little two-wheel-drive quarter-ton couldn't manage to pull his boat up the ramp.
Other boaters on the scene who owned bigger, 4x4 trucks, offered to get the boat and trailer up the ramp for him but he insisted his little pick-up could do it, notwithstanding the wheels spinning and tires squealing as the truck sat immobile, blocking the ramp.
Source: Times and Transcript
LeBlanc: Fuel saving tips for towing your boat
28.06.11
I am finding it hard to believe we actually had some rain last
week.
I had been laying up in bed reading and had gone to sleep, but
sometime during the night the thunder started and woke me up, then
I heard a strange, but vaguely familiar, pitter patter sound on the
roof. I arose and went to the back door and looked out back and
sure enough there was rain coming down from the heavens. I was so
excited I did not get back to sleep for a couple hours. I know it
wasn’t enough to break the back of the drought but friends I will
take anything I can get in the way of rain.
While I was awake I checked my emails and there was an email
from BoatUS reminding me that I can save money on gasoline for my
truck while pulling a boat trailer, so I printed it out so I would
not forget. Then a few days later I saw my son, who is an ASC
Master Auto Technician and teaching an automotive course so I
picked his brain on the subject of gas saving tips while pulling a
trailer. I put all of that information together and sure enough
there were a lot of suggestions to help save gasoline.
Source: Your Houston News
Miracle man
08.07.11
By his own admission, Rick Phillips’ dream of being an active
patrolman again will take a miracle to come true.
Miracles, however, are something the 41-year-old Gettysburg
resident knows a great deal about experiencing.
Phillips, while working for Eastern Adams Regional Police
Department, was involved in a violent crash with a tractor-trailer
while pursuing a speeding vehicle at the intersection of routes 30
and 94 in Cross Keys on March 11, 2010.
Many who witnessed the result of Phillips’ collision first hand,
including close friend and colleague Bendersville Borough Police
Chief Mike Trostel, said it would take a miracle for him to live,
much less walk again.
Source: Gettysburg Times
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