Posted on 05/20/2004 6:08:07 PM PDT by chance33_98
Damn that is a cool story, movie material.
I don't trust the media. They are constantly giving the NEA a cat bath. They will probably spin this as an attack on Republican economic policies.
It can also be taken as a symptom of mental illness by the father.<- Why do you say that? Just because they are in the woods, I have always said, if I were to fall on hard times..I would not be a city dwelling bum. I would head for the woods and live out there.
Maybe the mainstream networks will. But until then, I will enjoy this story.
I couldn't have said it better myself!
bump to read later
bttt
They are devout Christians. So much for the movie!
As a child of the 50s/60s, our family would regularly take off every summer and live in a camp on a lake or river. Dad would do the 9 till 5 and come on weekends. The rest of us would survive with fishing, swimming, etc to fill the days.
No electricity, running water, etc.
It's amazing how some people think that a/c is a necessity. Yes, it's nice, but as long as there is air movement (like fans or an evap cooler) things can be tolerable. My landlord last year accused my husband of turning on the a/c last summer (he didn't) because he could not believe that we could have possibly survived record breaking heat in Arizona without it. First, the summer before was the first time since before I was ten years old that I had a real a/c in a place I lived and second we just kept the evap cooler (it's a dry heat, after all) and fans running all the time. There were times we wouldn't want to move from in front of the fans, but otherwise no biggie. We saved about $200 on our electric bill doing that.
You sound like my husband. He said if he ever really needed to he could easily live out of a tent.
FINALLY SOME HORSE SENSE IN OFFICIALDOM!
THANKS, LORD!
Wow, a great story. And thank God the Sergeant had sense to deal well with those two.
The only problem is when the well brought up girl goes to college. Dad better pick a good one so she doesn't go down the tubes.
And now they're on a horse farm out in the country! There are good people in the world.
"The amazing part of this was the fact that Sergeant Barkley really evaluated what was best for these people," North Precinct Cmdr. Scott Anderson said. "Sometimes police would be a little quicker to hand things off to state workers. But instead ... he saw this through to the end."
Agreed. Now, if it would only appear more often in government agencies.
Like, for instance if the Navy has a plane crash in a swamp and LEAVES it there for 40+ years, they shouldn't get all upset when someone retrieves the planes and starts fixing it up (like they did with the only known surviving Corsair built by Brewster).
Sounds like a great idea. My first thought was that he ought to go to the Portland police academy, if not for his age.
And enjoy every minute of it, a tent , a fishing pole and I would of course would have to find a way to go into civilization for cold beer and would obviously need a place to keep my beer cold. That's all I need a tent , a fishing pole , cold beer and a web connect so I can get on Free Republic, can't do without Freepin! Maybe I better stay home and pay my mortgage?
Well said. Wonderful story. Made my day.
The fact that they were found with a Bible, an encyclopedia, and that she tested at a twelth grade level should ease your concerns.
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