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mooch
Big Wall climber
The Immaculate Conception
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Topic Author's Original Post - Aug 11, 2009 - 07:02pm PT
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So were getting in a ride from Towne's Pass to Father Crowley Pass in The Dead Zone. All is fine and dandy, if you enjoy furnace conditions and your wheel sets are melting out from under you. About 20 miles into the ride, the only tool in the park, slows his rig along side of us and asks where we're headed. We politely discuss our itinerary with him and give an approximate finish time/return time to Panamint Springs. With a condesending tone he sez, "You really don't look prepared for such endevour." Living in Ridgecrest for the past 18 months and cycling through parts only Charlie Manson knows of and having been cycling for more than 16 years, we respectfully tell him we got all our bases covered and have cached water at various spots and have well prepared road kits for each bike. Dood starts talking about how leaving staged gear and/or equipment is not allowed in the park. Holy frickin' Toldeo!!!! ?????? When since was this regulation within a park? First, we have rangers yankin' fixed lines in the Ditch....now this?? He asked where we staged our "gear" (coolers, btw). No joy toolio! Dood starts muttering a regulation number.....mumble, mumble, mumble....time to tune this jerk out. Gives us a warning and off he goes.
Hmmmmm......thanks Dad, now back to a rerun of Sanford and Son.
IDiot!
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noshoesnoshirt
climber
Arkansas, I suppose
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Aug 11, 2009 - 07:08pm PT
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Can't see even a tool being dense enough to yank your caches. In a desert. At around 120deg. When such an action would probably kill you.
Hope you enjoyed the ride otherwise.
Keep spinning
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Captain...or Skully
Social climber
Boise....
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Aug 11, 2009 - 07:11pm PT
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When dealing with the Tool, No Information is your first line of Defense.
Tell 'em nothing. Ever.
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Mighty Hiker
Social climber
Vancouver, B.C.
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Aug 11, 2009 - 07:15pm PT
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A good UDEA - Universal Dingus Equation Access.
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Indianclimber
Trad climber
Lost Wages
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Aug 11, 2009 - 07:21pm PT
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I got hassled by the ranger at Panamint springs,I drove from the gas station to the restaurant ,which is in the same parking lot without my seat-belt,he tells me to get out of the car and starts yelling at me about seat-belts,single car rollovers,made me take my cell phone out to show that I had no signal to call for help if I wrecked, all in front of my petrified daughter and the customers eating on the patio,at one point I tried to explain that I always wear a seat-belt and was only driving from the gas pump,he told me to be quite and don't interrupt and then went on an interruption tirade
The guy was a complete tool,the only good thing is he is stuck in the heat of death valley with a bullet proof jacket on
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hooblie
climber
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Aug 11, 2009 - 07:30pm PT
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remember gary larson drew a far side cartoon with a maleficent crop top plumpkin hunkered down, weilding a magnifying glass?
the focal point highlights a couple of none the wiser ants wiping their brows.
lifted from the pages of the LEO handbook?
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Peter Haan
Trad climber
San Francisco, CA
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Aug 11, 2009 - 07:30pm PT
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As disgusting and maddening as these kind of interactions are, none of us could possibly be surprised when they happen.
That some of these LEO's are so far off the mark so often and so generally irritated---officious too--- reminds us all that their sort of work attracts people with so many emotional difficulties and for whom such work somehow allows them to stay stuck in those syndromes, spinning in place. Flies to honey, so to speak.
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John Moosie
climber
Beautiful California
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Aug 11, 2009 - 07:36pm PT
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A friend of mine parties regularly with some of the rangers in Death Valley. He says they admit that there are some serious tools working there. The way he explained it was that there were three types of rangers in the park.
Rangers who came because they love the desert.
Rangers who came because they were pushed out of their last park for being overzealous.
Rangers who came because they were pushed out of their last park for not being zealous enough..
Guess who my friend parties with... :-)
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pimp daddy wayne
climber
Manchester, VT
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Aug 11, 2009 - 07:38pm PT
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That is so true Peter.
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dee ee
Mountain climber
citizen of planet Earth
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Aug 11, 2009 - 08:47pm PT
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Stick it to "The Man."
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mooch
Big Wall climber
The Immaculate Conception
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Topic Author's Reply - Aug 11, 2009 - 09:32pm PT
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Can you please explain why road cyclists insist on riding 3 wide at 20 mph on (e.g.) HWY 50 where the speed limit is 70 mph?
Yep.....on a suicide mission fo sho! Can't explain the actions of the irresponsible for ya.
Dingus, its been my fault since my Dad ripped through his condom. ;D
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FrankZappa
Trad climber
80' from the Hankster
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Aug 11, 2009 - 09:42pm PT
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Read what captain kirk said two or three times, and then think about it anytime you talk to the tool.
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Lynne Leichtfuss
Social climber
valley center, ca
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Aug 11, 2009 - 09:48pm PT
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Yeah, Skully yo right....works for more than the tool. Kids, tell the folks nada...workers, the boss has no need to know either.
Jaybro and Skully taught me this when I had to miss a great slideshow tonight cause the tool said 7 hours was too far to drive.
Say nothing....know nothing....nada.
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Bad Climber
climber
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Aug 11, 2009 - 10:55pm PT
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Don't ask, don't tell--yo! We've bivi'd in a great place on the big climb out of Furnace Creek when bike touring through there--quiet, no hassles, but if we asked? Stay in the campgrounds! Once, when my wife, our dog Django, and I were hanging out with our tandem in the grass near the visitors' center, a ranger chick asks us about our tour, where we've come, and, after hearing about our route (from Shoshone over Salsburry Pass) where we camped. We said we camped off of West Side road--and she immediately starts to go into a spiel about park regs, where to camp, blah, blah, blah. But then she shut up because the deed was done and there was really nothing she could do about it.
Silence, deny, say nothing. Let them stew in blissful ignorance. We always leave a spotless camp, never have a fire, and enjoy the hell out of life.
Screw the rule-enforcing bastards! What did Abbey say? "Resist much. Obey little." Fo' shiz.
Re. the "types" that get into these jobs: I've always wondered about people who take jobs with the primary responsibility is telling other people what to do. I admire and respect the incredibly tough job the real cops do, but these petty, little Ceasar types who get off on enforcing little "rules"--argh, I don't get it. Well, maybe I do. I just don't like it. Better to avoid them.
The best revenge is living well, eh? I'm slurping on a fine Hefeweizen right now. Screw the tools!
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