320 miles and one drug bust later...
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From: S'mee on 9 Aug 2010 11:03 On Aug 9, 8:55 am, ernest.p.worr...(a)vernal.equinox.edu (T.J. Higgins) wrote: > In article <ddd89691-af7b-49ca-acbd-a6f0d5475...(a)q16g2000prf.googlegroups..com>, Twibil wrote: > >Interesting ride today. Went south 120 miles on the I-15 to Sandy > >Eggo and then turned left into the hills and did another 50 to the > >Pacific Southwest Railway Museum along some *great* twisties right > >next to the Mexican border. The locals know about those twisties, > >too, as I passed circa 50 sportbikes going the other way. (So does the > >Border Patrol, which had set up illegal alien checkpoints in two > >different places between S.D. and Campo.) There was also some guy in a > >white van who kept leaping out from behind a bush to take ambush > >telephoto pictures of the sportbikers dragging their knees around this > >one 80 MPH sweeper. > > >I must have dissappointed him, as he leaped out, pointed his camera at > >me, and then visibly relaxed: probably thinking, "Damn! Another old > >guy on a touring bike!" (I have no idea *why* he was taking the pics. > >Freelance moto-photog? Irate citizen gathering evidence? Early > >Halloween? Quien sabe?) > > Maybe to try to sell the pictures to the riders. There are several > such guys who set up shop on the Tail of the Dragon: killboy.com, > zeefoto.com, us129photos.com, etc. I find it difficult to understand the level of vanity that would make a person buy a picture of themselves riding. Then again I don't much care about the looks...it's road directly in front of me for the next 5sec or 5 turns that matters. All else is illusion.
From: Twibil on 9 Aug 2010 14:05 On Aug 9, 4:44 am, "?" <breoganmacbr...(a)yahoo.com> wrote: > > > > Interesting ride today. > > Yawwwwn! > > Been there, done that. Yeah, suuuuuure you have. That's why your raging jealousy invariably forces you to snipe at ride reports from actual riders. Next you'll be criticising the clothing choices of the local transvestites.
From: Twibil on 9 Aug 2010 14:10 On Aug 9, 7:55 am, ernest.p.worr...(a)vernal.equinox.edu (T.J. Higgins) wrote: > > > Maybe to try to sell the pictures to the riders. There are several > such guys who set up shop on the Tail of the Dragon: killboy.com, > zeefoto.com, us129photos.com, etc. I thunk of that, but couldn't figure out how he'd get in touch with the riders to sell the pics. Just hoping that they'll somehow hear about you and access your website doesn't sound like a very professional/successful business model.
From: S'mee on 9 Aug 2010 14:25 On Aug 9, 12:05 pm, Twibil <nowayjo...(a)gmail.com> wrote: > On Aug 9, 4:44 am, "?" <breoganmacbr...(a)yahoo.com> wrote: > > > > > > Interesting ride today. > > > Yawwwwn! > > > Been there, done that. > > Yeah, suuuuuure you have. That's why your raging jealousy invariably > forces you to snipe at ride reports from actual riders. > > Next you'll be criticising the clothing choices of the local > transvestites. are you kidding? On this one he's correct...lycra is SO 80's. Nobody wears it anymore except for THOSE sluts.
From: Datesfat Chicks on 9 Aug 2010 15:07
"Twibil" <nowayjose6(a)gmail.com> wrote in message news:ddd89691-af7b-49ca-acbd-a6f0d5475b43(a)q16g2000prf.googlegroups.com... > > Once past the checkpoint I made some good time until I came around a > curve to see five sets of flashing red and blue lights blocking the > road and a pair of shame-faced guys in handcuffs whose open car trunk > was full of brown-paper-wrapped packages of *something* interesting. > In fact, it must have been *very* interesting, as the cops also had a > light plane circling around the scene. (Probably Border Patrol again.) It seems to me that there must be a better way of running drugs than putting the stuff in your car and driving. You do SERIOUS time for that stuff. But I guess nearly everything has been tried ... light aircraft, heavier aircraft, homemade submarines, etc., and there are countermeasures to nearly every one of those. I feel that the field is ripe for the entry of inexpensive GPS-guided drones. DF |