From: muratlanne@gmail.com   
      
   "Mike Spencer"  wrote in message   
   news:87wm6skmks.fsf@enoch.nodomain.nowhere...   
      
   "Jim Wilkins"  writes:   
   ...   
   > At a Massachusetts job I was briefly cut off from the Internet for   
   > inquiring during lunch about parts for a chainsaw, a terror weapon   
   > to them.   
      
   City people in general.  My wife was one stopped by a Mountie when   
   driving at night.  I don't know if it made any difference that the   
   Mountie was a woman but my wife waited for a prolonged time in the   
   car.  Prolonged because the Mountie had called in for backup.  Because   
   she spotted a machete on the back seat of our car.   
      
   Very rural area.  An axe, chainsaw, peavy, machete -- any woodsman's   
   tool would be unremarkable, even in a little burb beater car.  Perhaps   
   not in Toronto or Montreal but in rural Nova Scotia, yes.   
      
   Well, they move Mounties' assigments around to give them varied   
   experience.  This one had a lesson in Being In The Back Country. :-)   
      
   --   
   Mike Spencer                  Nova Scotia, Canada   
      
   ----------------------------   
   I'm in an area north of Boston MA where rural, suburban and urban cultures   
   collide. Driveways may have BMWs or a pickup, 60's restoration, Harleys and   
   a tractor loader. The different attitudes and experiences are visible at   
   town meetings where we speak and vote on our opinions on how the town should   
   be run, whether for the self-reliant or the co-dependent or some mutually   
   uncomfortable compromise.   
      
   Some friends' values and judgment (being polite here) put them nearly in the   
   homeless category, not always for low intelligence. I've put roofs over some   
   heads.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)