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Roadie
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moab UT
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Topic Author's Reply - May 4, 2018 - 02:18pm PT
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Well, I'm glad everyone liked this one so much. I wasn't sure when I was writing it but I did catch myself laughing once or twice which is usually a good sign.
Anyhow, to answer a few questions: Yeah, all of this really happened, more or less. Life is weird and takes some odd and surprising turns if you let it.
Someone asked the name of the judge, I am sorry but I can't recall.
Anonymous Jailer, why didn't include him in the epilog? The answer is, I don't really know how things turned out for him. While watching the Tigers/Yankees game we did discover we shared deep Motor City roots. I like to think he spends summer afternoons watching the Tigers, in the bleachers. With a beer in one hand and a glove on the other. And maybe a grand kid or two at his side.
Special Ed makes another cameo in Beggars Buttress tr on this site. I would encourage those who haven't read it to check it out. It might actually be the funniest thing I ever wrote, maybe.
Last night I was thinking about Maynard and how we met, which coincidentally, or maybe not, was in jail. It is a story worth telling, especially in these tumultuous times. Give me a few days to figure out the best was to tell it....
Again thanks, Steve Seats...
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HeschMonster
Trad climber
Morro Bay
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Steve, as another said so well, five minutes of my life that I'll happily never get back- thanks for making my occasional visit here worthwhile.
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Sierra Ledge Rat
Mountain climber
Old and Broken Down in Appalachia
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I always thought that the Yosemite jail was a place that I would end up.
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Roadie
Trad climber
moab UT
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Topic Author's Reply - May 18, 2018 - 06:30pm PT
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Yes, I think it was Pitts. Thanks for hitting the refresh button for me....
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Scrubber
climber
Straight outta Squampton
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May 19, 2018 - 11:03am PT
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Thanks for that thoroughly enjoyable slice of wordsmithing.
K
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le_bruce
climber
Oakland, CA
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May 19, 2018 - 04:44pm PT
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10/10, tale and delivery, dialogue brought me right in. Would read more of that happily!
I spent 8 hrs in the holding cell at the Calabasas police station once. Wasn't awful. Got to head home and do my chores and homework when my mom came to pick me up, lol, age 13.
Cops plucked me from a game of pickup basketball at the park, cuffs and all, an effort to scare straight a kid with weed. Didn't have the intended effect but did give me a decent story at school the next day.
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Fossil climber
Trad climber
Atlin, B. C.
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May 20, 2018 - 03:19pm PT
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Again, great story!
I can add a bit about the Yosemite jail history. When I came on as a ranger in '59, there were two damp musty cells which almost never got used. On the rare occasion that someone was to be locked up, we had to dig through the files to find the procedure. That was a different age. You could leave your gear in Camp 4 for days without losing any. Worst problems were fights between campers.
One of the cells was used to store the beer confiscated from wild, underaged campground partiers. Rumor has it that the rangers had a helluva party at the end of the season. I hesitate to confirm that. But it got destroyed, one way or another.
(Up in Olympic I confiscated a keg from an underaged party and was told to dump it in the lake. I did, but it left scars on my soul.)
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Roadie
Trad climber
moab UT
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Topic Author's Reply - May 31, 2019 - 02:14pm PT
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bump and good by....
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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May 31, 2019 - 02:21pm PT
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hey there, say, roadie... oh my... good bye--as to your needing a reply...
but, say, we hope to see you on other forums?
thanks for the bump... :)
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