Posted on 11/19/2013 9:40:20 AM PST by wbill
Odd things happen to Nathan Baron. One of his teachers at Madawaska High School says it’s true. Nathan himself admits it.
Like the time he bought a new riding mower … put in a battery … cranked it up … and watched, alarmed, as the battery exploded and his mower burst into flames.
“I thought I was going to die,” he said with a chuckle. “I wasn’t burnt or anything, but I was afraid I was going to light some trees on fire.”
That teacher, Maine hoop legend Matt Rossignol, said that every time he sees Nathan, the teen has another story to tell. The one he told on Monday was particularly memorable, and Rossignol had what you’ll shortly agree was an understandable reaction.
“I told him, ‘We’ve got to get this in print,’” Rossignol said.
I agreed (although I expected at first that the story was part of some school project titled “See What Kind of Crazy Story You Can Get a Newspaper to Print.’)
So here’s Nathan Baron’s tale:
Nathan said Saturday didn’t start off as an extraordinary day. In fact, it was pretty low-key: He was sitting in a chair in the woods, hunting, watching as a doe crossed in front of him.
After the doe left, he ate his lunch. Then nature called.
“I had to go to the bathroom but I had no toilet paper,” he explained.
Luckily, he was hunting right across the road from his family’s St. David home.
“I walked out of the woods and got on my four-wheeler and I went home,” he said.
Another thing he did (which, for the record, we’ve got to advise everyone to avoid): He leaned his Remington .30-06 rifle against the tree, next to the chair he had been sitting in.
“And when I got back, I couldn’t find the gun,” he said.
Nathan said he stood up from his chair and began looking around in the woods. Then things got interesting in a hurry.
Nature had called again … in a different way.
“There was a stream that was running about 100 feet away from me. I look, and there’s a beaver hauling that gun into the water,” he said.
Let’s take a moment to let that sink in.
A beaver.
Stole.
His gun.
Nathan said he really didn’t know what to do at that point.
“I was mad, but I started laughing because it was funny,” he said. “I couldn’t believe it was happening, that I was seeing him take my gun into the water.”
So here’s what Nathan did: Absolutely nothing.
“There was nothing I could do,” he said. “The gun was in the water and the beaver went under. That was it.”
The water was deep, and pursuing the beaver was out of the question. The gun was gone.
Besides that, the beaver was armed. OK. That was my concern. Nathan didn’t mention it in our interview.
Nathan said he figures the beaver’s intentions were more innocent. (So much for my image of a lone rogue beaver arming himself against trappers). Instead, Nathan just thinks the gun was made of some good-looking wood, and Mr. Beaver decided to haul it home.
“He was probably going to go and use it as part of his shelter,” he said. “Maybe I go there and there’s a gun sticking up out of the beaver dam.”
Nathan swears his story is true. Rossignol believes him. So do others.
Things just seem to happen to Nathan Baron, after all.
Some do have doubts, though.
“My close friends don’t believe me, but all the other kids in school believe me,” he said.
But Nathan has a plan that he figures will convince everyone that his far-fetched tale is true.
“I’m trying to get my gun back,” he said. “If there are beaver marks on it, I’m going to hang it on the wall of my garage [so others can come and see it].”
He was looking for a buck I think.
Next idea: Beer Deer
I’m gonna find a new thread before I get banned.
Dude.. Have you hacked my truck?
Guess where I’m at right now.
Grabbing some brew.
And now have the idea to grab some for the deer.
For science.
Not rabid ones. Or ones who see a pretty piece of wood.
Gunner is on a deer hunt with his dad.
Watch for typos. He’s posting from his phone.
I saw a very bad movie about armed beavers. I believe it ran on Cinemax around 3AM....
Hope Pops doesn't maintain a blog.
UH oh.
Dude got rifled by a beaver...
not the first time it ever happened!
None of us drink and shoot at the same time, Darks.
Perhaps the beaver slipped some exlax into his lunch??
MAN Si Robertson was right those beaver are little gangsters
I’d be too busy getting the deer blitzed to do any drinking myself.
Probably laughing too hard to keep myself from getting stomped by deer as well.
Coffee + beer deer = Massively BAD idea.
As a lad I had to get over my fear of beavers
There is nothing to do but dive in
I see it as a new one for the list.
Yeah. And one year when winter hit Oregon the freeze came so fast that the salmon swimming up stream fell back upon solid ice. We just went out and took all as they flopped around on the top of the ice. This story courtesy of Hathaway Jones (1870-1937) the greatest liar Oregon ever saw and a pretty good mule skinner too.
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