Posted on 08/29/2006 4:12:57 PM PDT by kellynla
The owls gathered in the trees around the silos because of the mice, which came because of the loose grain scattered on the ground. There were five silos, each 30 feet tall, standing together in the valley next to the Snowbird Mountain range. Nestled halfway between Murphy and Andrews in the very western corner of North Carolina, the area around the silos is a rich floodplain, thanks to the creeks and streams that feed into the Valley River, and the farmers there grow corn, soybeans and wheat.
Like the owls and the mice, a gaunt and weary man emerged from the woods in the fall of 1999 and went to the silos on a quest for food. In the months leading up to the harvest, he’d methodically scavenged 170 trash bags from the Dumpster behind the McDonald’s in Andrews and cleaned each one of them in the Valley River. He figured if he double-bagged them, he could haul five gallons of grain, about 50 pounds, in each one.
The issue of how to protect his stash of grain from vermin was more problematic, but once he discovered the solution it seemed laughably simple. Where do trash bags go? Into wheeled trash bins. Why? Because they have lids. Once the harvest was finished and the silos were bulging with grain and beans, he stole four trash bins and carried them across the Valley River — one at a time on his back as he trudged through the cold, groin-high water. He cleaned them out in the river, using leaves to scrub out the gunk, and rolled them a mile and a half at night, past the little airport and down to his staging area. He stashed them in the bramble next to Oak Grove Baptist Church,
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I always wanted to know why his brother cut his hand off on camera. I never heard a reason.
interesting article.
I would have had him executed for killing that innocent girl in the park bombing.
Interesting how the president is accused of letting Bin Laden escape but gets no credit for capturing the man Clintoon couldn't catch. (in this country)
Good point -- but then maybe it served Clintoon's manipulating purposes to have this person on the run.
Give me 5 minutes with this religeous nutjob.
And any of his supporters.
Taliban.
What would you do with the 5 minutes, support more leftists like Charlie Crist? :)
Nutz?
Unless and until there is a clear majority of citizens who agree with Roe, and seek a legal remedy that is more harmonious with the Constitution in Exile, there will from time to time always be a person who decides that he is free to violently protest.
I always thought it was strange that in 33 years of legal abortion, the number of abortionists killed can be counted on your fingers.
I like the way Ann Coulter put it: "This brings the total to: seven abortion providers to 30 million fetuses dead, which is also a pretty good estimate of how the political battle is going."
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