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   Don Homuth to lobby.dosser.mapson@verizon.net   
   Re: Let's go hiking!   
   11 Dec 06 23:03:08   
   
   XPost: or.politics   
   From: dhomuth1@comcast.net   
      
   On Tue, 12 Dec 2006 06:19:26 GMT, Lobby Dosser   
    wrote:   
      
   >In the 50s quite a bit of Lake Michigan used to freeze and folks thought   
   >it fun to drive on the lake - cars in those days. Some thought it real   
   >neat to drive near the edge of the ice. Sometimes floes would break off   
   >with an automobile on board. It was great fun for Everyone Else   
   >speculating whether or not the floe would melt or tip over before the   
   >Coasties got to it.   
      
   In the spring, the crayfish tend to muckle on rather hard, when they   
   are retrieved.   
      
   Pretty gruesome sight, though.   
      
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