This reminds me of an experience a buddy of mine had a couple of years back.
Every Thanksgiving week he, his dad, his uncle, and some other kin go hunting
for a week. They have a cabin back in the mountains in SW VA. Anyway, some of
the trees around the cabin had grown a little too tall and too close for
comfort, so they decided they needed to cur or at least top them. One of the
trees was a bit to big to reach the top, so one of the guys suggested getting
their guns and shooting the top out. Now they're all pretty good shots so sure
enough, they manage to shoot the top out of the tree.
Right on top of his uncle's almost-new Ford pickup!
Eddie
1971 Midget "Bebop"
---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
From "Phil Vanner" <phil at outtech.com>
Date: Thu, 15 Aug 2002 11:34:40 -0500
>My friend Brian is building a new house on some property he just bought, up
>the street from his old house. He's putting up a pole barn for his Spridgets
>and shop. He has his priorities straight. In fact, he might just be the next
>generation Spritenut, at 24 years old he's on his 12th Spridget, has 8 or 9
>parts cars and even has an A40.
>
>Anyway, he had to move most of his "junk" off the old property in order to
>sell it. So there are a few cars/carcasses on the lot where the house is
>getting built. One of which is a rather nice butterscotch-colored round-arch
>Midget that "someday would make a nice track car."
>
>Right now they are felling trees to make room for the house. All the cars
>are way over on the side of the property where the barn in going to be, and
>so should be well out of the way of the chainsaw wielding neanderthal who is
>cutting down the trees.
>
>You see where this is going, right?
>
>Yup, crunched flat. Dead center. It is an ex-spridget.
>
>He is "disappointed." I guess he's mellower than I am: since they guy was
>over a hundred feet from where he should have been cutting, I'd be well past
>disapponted.
>
>Not much recourse, except that he won't be paying for tree removal, which is
>basically a wash for the value of a non-running Spridget. It's a shame
>though.
>
>Phil Vanner
>Minneapolis
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