XPost: alt.forestry, misc.rural   
   From: nntpmail@epix.net   
      
   On Thu, 14 Dec 2006 00:25:02 -0500, Jim wrote:   
   > Ann wrote:   
   <...>   
   >> It's not unusual for hunters, for example, to find a body in the woods   
   >> in the fall in an area that was "thoroughly searched" in the   
   >> spring/summer.  A recent example is the couple who were killed when   
   >> their car went off I-95 in NC. Someone called in the accident and the   
   >> location, but whoever looked found nothing.  Later, according to the   
   >> news reports, a highway worker noticed a damaged sign (?), looked, and   
   >> found their car.   
   >   
   > I heard about this wreck today.  tonight on the evening news we got   
   > pictures and sound of some pissed off family members who cut just short   
   > of blasting dumb southerners for not being able to locate the scene of   
   > the wreck.    I can relate to their loss and to their feelings of anger   
   > and resentment.  after all, in the true nature of the american, it's   
   > anybody's fault other than their own.   
      
   Since the person who called 9-1-1 gave the next mile marker (141; the car   
   was eventually found near 140), it is hard to understand how the car could   
   have been missed if searchers had gotten out of their vehicles and walked   
   (or atved) the ditch line.   
      
   I didn't find any comments by the family placing blame on "southerners",   
   but did find these comments in Myrtle Beach Online"   
      
   "Next time a granpa Yankee drives 30MPH in the fast lane he should think   
   back to this. Then again if the damn Yankees would stay up north bad   
   things like this would not happen to them down here."   
      
   "To the daughter who keeps complaneing about our police I don't blame if   
   they did not want to put up with you. Maybe after this you will go back   
   above the mason-dixon line where you belong and please take all the other   
   yankes with you."   
      
   "I think that out of panick for their parents this family did what any   
   family would do, everything they could to find them. Unfortunately, I   
   think they stepped on alot of southern toes in the process. Their tone   
   which was stereotypical northern was aggressive and placed blame on   
   southern law enforcement."   
      
      
   > and in Jim's little world, today that fine John Deere tractor sure did   
   > run smooth.   
      
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