Posted on 05/30/2008 6:08:44 AM PDT by marktwain
“Follow the money. I’d bet that somewhere in the bushes there is a developer who would LOVE to get his hands on that 340 acre site.”
My thoughts, exactly. Something smells funny about this, and it ain’t the cordite fumes in the air.
One hopes that Pierce County will rise to the same level of wisedom (but I ain't agonna hold my breath waiting). Of course, Pierce County would need two---one east of "THE BRIDGE" and one west of it.
I think you're absolutely correct on that. Greedy developers use environmentalist fruit loops to wrest property away from organization like gun clubs.
Since you mention Gig Harbor, I do have one complaint however. I often shoot in the Winter Continental Trap League, and almost every time we shoot there there's thick fog, and the claybirds used are WHITE.
I wish I would’ve watched that.
I don’t remember who it was, but a quote went something like “A golf course is a perfectly good waste of a shooting range.”
ROFLOL. Great line.
Maybe the guy is near an Air Force or Navy practice bombing range.
No way the guy could hear small arms fire from 7 miles away.
The magic word is "winter". Move the WINTER shoot to Phoenix, and have the SUMMER shoot in Gig Harbor. Voila---no fog :^)
It was actually Shotgun fire..funny thing is the guy lived less than a mile from rail lines and 2 miles from the flight line of an Air Force Base!!!!!
And he said the noise was actually causing his child to have trouble sleeping.
I need to become a bolt cutter by becoming armed.
re. your #16
Amen, FRiend
How could he hear shotgun fire when he’s so close to an Air Force flight line?
That sounds like a plan, now, about the gale force winds at Bremerton...
Only in winter. Never seen any in summer (admittedly, my residence in this part of the world is only ten years, so my "experience baseline" is somewhat short).
What can be speculated and surmised regarding the comments of Spero Chumas, if it is the same person believed he is? He seems to basically be an actor wannabe that has had some very minor and unrecognized roles and an association with a mediocre, at best, improvisational acting group. It might be helpful to look at the matter from the view point of an unsuccessful individual in terms of his own life goals. It may be that at best such as he can only rationalize minor successes in the acting and theater community, and is seeking some degree of notoriety and recognition due to a failing self image. Perhaps unable to succeed in legitimate stage drama, he seeks and creates a dramatic scenario to play out in a public forum. There he seems to be expressing some views beyond his experience, and a rather weak BA in acting. For his own benefit, it might be prudent to question if Mr. Chamus has had any counseling, for what may appear to be problems related more to self esteem and image, than any authentic or well founded grievances with the gun club.
Perhaps it would be best for all involved if Mr. Chumas would restrict these feelings of frustration and impotence to expressions acted out in interpretive dance.
For your benefit a Playback Theater group (actually two) is across the river from you Spero. Maybe brushing up on the Moreno perspective of acting as therapy would be helpful in sorting out your real issues. No, seriously. I feel your pain.
With regard to established noise: should the issue Mr. Chamus brings up be expanded to ridding neighborhoods of other intermittent nose makers, such as firehouses and churches that sound bells and chimes? What about that damned rooster at the many generations old family farm way down the road? Heaven forbid neighbors mow their lawn, or tend to landscaping with any frequency. By the way, I can hear the New York State Thruway traffic from my yard. Can we possibly look at having the south bound lane reoriented?
The Freeman article seems a little vague. Is this a landowner in the region or a renter? Some other facts are debatable. How did that get by editorial staff at the Freeman? Never mind. What was I thinking? After all it’s the Freeman editorial staff we are talking about. Even their own writers have voiced problems.
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