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86129squids
| | Posted on Monday, October 21, 2019 - 03:59 pm: | 
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Buddy had a Yamaha 3 wheeler, let me try it. First thing I do is run over both my legs, being used to a regular MC- about split myself like a pulleybone.
Not much later I flipped it of course.
It's always fun to hear Vern talk about racing the big bore 2 smoke ATC's- what, weren't there 250's AND 500's?? Devil's death traps. |
Zac4mac
| | Posted on Monday, October 21, 2019 - 11:02 pm: |
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Had a 45 Servicar "bobber" for a few months.
Was a hoot in the snow... donut machine.
Couldn't go in a straight line but you could do donuts in a bathtub. |
Mnscrounger
| | Posted on Thursday, October 24, 2019 - 01:18 am: |
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Minneapolis airport in the 70s and early 80s had a concrete half pipe from the runway collection down to the Minnesota river. It's all enclosed underground now but was only a ten foot fence then. The day after a summer evening rainstorm, the runoff was about 85 degrees,(and probably full of benzine. (Sorry, Des Moines, St. Louis, and all points south to NOLA)). For a couple summers we would park our bicycles at the fence, climb over and ride the half pipe into the runoff "lagoon" holding pond at the bottom. Wearing work gloves, you could get 2 or 3 runs before the seat of your jeans wore through.
The very last time I did this "ride" was with three other neighborhood kids. After splashdown, we looked to the shore and saw an airport cop standing there. "Are you boys OK?" he asked. "Yeah", we replied sheepishly, hoping he would say "OK" and be on his way. "Can you all swim?" he asked. "yeah.." was our still sheepish answer. "Then keep on swimming boys, out the pond, downriver, until you get to the state park property." (not a mile, maybe not even half, but definitely measured in hundreds of yards)"But our bikes are..", we tried to explain, but he interrupted us."I know exactly where your bikes are. If you come ashore on airport property, I'm taking you all in and calling your parents to come and get you." (at that threat, drowning sounded like it might be the better option.) "You stay close to shore and I'm going to follow you just to make sure you become the state parks problem, not mine."
I to this day am not a strong swimmer, and I swallowed a lot of river water that day. I was the last to get to shore and more than once during the swim he called out to me to get in closer to the riverbank. Once he told us it was far enough and we could come in we all were about spent. and I was almost ready to tun myself in anyway. "Now you boys walk back to get your bikes. Follow the roads, no cutting through the woods. You go out the gate entrance of the park, because I radioed the park security you were coming. You march up the hill on the road out get your bikes, go home, and I don't EVER want to catch you on airport property again."
I realized as an adult, he was using this as teachable moment, by making us work so hard to get let go, we wouldn't want to ever do it again. ( and he was right). I also doubt he contacted the park, he wasn't making sure we left the airport property by following us, he was making sure we didn't drown as a result of his orders to us.
Today thanks to the world we live in our kids don't get the opportunity for stupidity accredited to "youthful exuberance", because their stupidity is preserved on the network in an easily searchable public record. |
Ratbuell
| | Posted on Thursday, October 24, 2019 - 07:57 am: |
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That's a great story.
Today...he'd be arrested for child endangerment (regardless of the fact that he's preventing ADULT endangerment, by teaching some kids a lesson). |
Ourdee
| | Posted on Thursday, October 24, 2019 - 10:21 am: |
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He would never see me again, but would have been my student for a long time. I was a messed up little piss ant back then. Something about being the runt and thinking I was the boss. I was a major trespasser. I just wanted to know what was there and why they fenced or locked me out. So, anytime I saw/see a restricted area sign...... |
Sifo
| | Posted on Thursday, October 24, 2019 - 12:06 pm: |
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That is a great story! |
Court
| | Posted on Thursday, October 24, 2019 - 12:27 pm: |
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Love that story |
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