There you did it... I gotta drag out the chupacabra story... I should save this on the hard disk so I don’t have to type it every time, but it sometimes it gets better....
I was running a crew cutting pines for firewood at about 7K ft in northern New Mexico mountains, and we started early. Frijoles y kava was way before sunup. By military tactical twilight and before sunrise, we were on the mountain, cutting down trees, bucking logs, singing Monty Python songs...
A mist filled the hollow that we were working in, as it was early fall.
The elks were.... sexually frustrated....
Did I mention that my crew didn’t speak a word of english?
We took a break to sharpen blades, gas up, etc... and in the distance... an elk, a lonely, horny elk, bugled...
I cocked my head to one side as if to listen better, nodded my head sagely, and said “Chupacabra”.
We were scheduled to be off the mountain by 1500. We had all the wood cut and loaded by 1100.
Those guys never worked for me again.
/johnny
Haha, way to motivate a crew. That’s some funny stuff. Of course you need to use caution or word would get out that weird and strange things happen when you’re present.
We have hunted elk on the Mescelero Apache Reservation in NM, we heard plenty of elks bugling but didn't see a single chupacabra. No coyotes but did see a couple of wolves.
We have seen the hairless coyotes with mange in south Texas, that is what was on the news tonight. How embarrassing that this man didn't know what he had seen and filmed and that no one told him.