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DAA

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Let me take you on a journey.....

*Can't get my reaction Ring video to post, so only the following for you...*











Dog 1 - Plant 0

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This takes me back in time. Big time.

I was renting a house in old Rose Park, from my still best friend Tim's mom, where I lived from 17 until I got married at 26. Had recently, finally, and at great effort, got rid of clinically-crazy-penthouse-pet-pornstar girlfriend that I had been with for about five years. She was shit, shit hot. I mean, smoking. Willing and adventurous (in all ways - she loved wheeling, camping and fishing and bed time), all that and more. But she was also literally crazy. She tried to kill me (ran me over with the car I gave her), broke into my house and stole my dog, called the cops on me for weed. Paid a guy to try and beat me up (he just came over and told me what was up and we spent the money he got paid getting drunk). You name it. Few years after I got clear of her, she succeeded in killing some poor dude, then escaped from prison. Some of the crap that she laid down while we were together was well beyond my crazy tolerance. I ain't making this stuff up.

Anyway... Had finally got shut of her. I was working swing shift. Got home at about 1-3am, depending. Still had crazy girlfriend's German shepherd and tom cat (she never even asked about either of them, but broke into my house and stole MY dog...) living with me. Along with my female Siamese cat and my Rottweiler (who hadn't been stolen yet...). Two really big dogs, two cats - who all got along famously. Always let the critters have the run of the house while I was at work and never had too, too much of an issue. Did find a brand new size 11 Nike once when I got home - dogs just looked proud, but I never found out how that happened.

So crazy girlfriend was a house plant freak. And all her literal 150 house plants were still in the house. They were everywhere. Everything from little starters on nursery racks to five gallon plants. House was a jungle. I liked it, really, so I was taking care of the plants as good or better than crazy girlfriend had.

I got home from work one night... Yeah... The above, times about 100.

Honestly, I can not adequately describe it. I really can't. Every single plant out of it's pot and the dirt on the floor. The several nursery store style racks of starters, tipped over, every little pot off the racks and the plants torn up and the dirt from the pots on the carpeted floor. Deep PILES of dirt and shredded plants from the two dozen big five gallon planters.

But wait! There's more! One of the legs of the coffee table chewed off. Chewed the eff clean off. And it was sitting upside down. The coffee table. Every cushion off every chair and the couch scattered around the front room. Tower speakers, tipped over and grills raked. Fresh roll of toilet paper from the bathroom in little bits scattered everywhere. Etc. Etc. Etc... Like I said, I really can't describe it. Imagine you tried to mess up a house like that as bad as you possibly could in 10 hours.

Pretty easy to see, that Angus, my Rottweiler, was the primary, if not lone, culprit. All the other animals were huddled as far from the front door as they could get. But he greeted me at the door, looking very concerned, and wanted me to go to the back of the house. Where he cast accusing glances at the supposed offenders between giving me his happiest most I love you attitude.

I still have two small scars on the back of my right hand where he bit me in the fight that ensued. He NEVER did that shit again, though.

But your picture @Coco, brought all that back clear as day and I hadn't thought about it in decades.

- DAA
 

ID Bronco

Registered User
Location
Idaho Falls, ID
Sad story for sure. I assume he was not part of your group. How did you come across him? Was he just fishing near by and you saw him fall in?

We were just snaking through a back channel looking for risers and first we saw a 4 wheeler, some fishing gear and a camp chair with no one around. We thought that was weird, then just around the next bend there was a guy pulling him out of the water on the opposite side of the river. He had pulled him out, called 911 and was starting cpr. A lady on the opposite bank flagged us to the other side of the river where we landed, ran to the guy and at that point two cops/ems guys came across the river on foot (chest deep at that spot) They really dug into the cpr and had me doing the breaths while they did compressions. Then other ems guys arrived with the rest of the gear and they tried shocking him, clearing his throat with suction, ect. After about 30 minutes of trying they called it and it switched to a recovery effort. We laid the front seat back (it has a seat back) so we had a flat spot where the rower sits and laid him in there on a back board sideways. We tied him to the leg locks in the back and with us outside we guided the boat down river pushing/pulling while up to our chests until we got to a spot we could lift him out and up the bank to the ambulance. The life flight chopper was there but not used since he didn't make it. We then went back and forth to get gear and my 11 year old son. We still had six more miles to where our truck was so we fished it out for a few hours, but none of our hearts were in it at that point. We said a prayer for his family and just rowed the rest of the way out.

The news reported the guy that pulled him out saw him wade into the water to fill a jug up with water and he slipped and tumbled into the current.
 

Coco

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Location
Lehi, UT
Did the guy know what happened? Seems like that would be a memorable event
Said he was on a dirt road, and the road was curving, but right before said curve, a bottle fell down at his feet. Reached down to get it, and went off the road and nailed a rock. Tore up the front end and such pretty good. Said he actually found that piece of the wheel, but wasn't sure what it was from. Better yet, said he took it to a shop where he spent $3300 on the steering rack and parts, but they never noticed that! They also claimed to have done an alignment, but it was way out as well. Absolutely amazing to me.
 
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Coco

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Location
Lehi, UT
I saw these on the way up to Idaho on Saturday. My wife got the photos for me, I didn't notice how bad the cruiser was til just now. But hopefully he thought it was cool that he was getting his picture taken lol.

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glockman

I hate Jeep trucks
Location
Pleasant Grove

Greg

Make RME Rockcrawling Again!
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That 80 is Box Rocket on here and it's a beautiful rig.

Yep! @Box Rocket aka Adam T. That 80 used to be mine, owned it for about 2 months (bought it in Orem) and it was bone stock with factory lockers. I sold it to a local guy when @Rot Box listed his 100 Series and picked that up instead of building the 80. The guy I sold it to, sold it to Adam and he has done an amazing job building up that FZJ!
 

ID Bronco

Registered User
Location
Idaho Falls, ID
Last night on the river, at the launch, I kid you not a kayak with no occupant floats past me. I'm instantly like.....no way, not another drowning. A guy there takes off in his jet boat to look upriver and I fish out the Kayak. After some tense moments a guy on a 4 wheeler comes cruising up looking for his Kayak. It got away from them at their campsite. He thought it was no big deal and a part of me wanted to punch him for freaking us all out. It was funny after that.

But, great day with lots of wildlife around. Moose, deer, eagles, osprey, and beavers. 20210707_214950.jpg20210707_215713.jpg20210707_215328.jpg20210707_214632.jpg
 

mbryson

.......a few dollars more
Supporting Member
Happened right in front of me….
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Interesting for sure. Guy lost his brakes coming off the southbound 33rd south ramp and hit the Suburban/Yukon in the eastbound 33rd S street at a pretty good clip…. No injuries that I was aware of.

I was dismissed from the scene since I wasn’t involved and didn’t actually see what happened other than the aftermath
 
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