good places to visit in Kansas City?

From: Richard Erlacher <edick_at_idcomm.com>
Date: Thu May 23 18:38:50 2002

I got a taste of the rock-salt treatment when I was in my early teens. We (a
few of my friends from school and I) decided to go watermelon stealing at one
of the truck farms north of town. Just to make it "sporty," or maybe because
we were REALLY stupid, we wore shorts when we did that. I found I was pretty
good at getting through a barbed-wire fence on the run. IIRC, watermelon was
sold for 3-cents per pound back then, so I don't know what the attraction was.
It cost more than $0.60, even at the $0.25 per gallon that gasoline cost back
then, just to get there.

Having, since then, been bludgeoned, stabbed, shot, twice with .45-cal. ammo,
btw, among others, and otherwise abused, I have to say that, while the rock
salt was painful, I'd much sooner be confronted with a 10-guage of that rather
than a comparable load of #2-shot. Back when I was given to such pursuits, we
used #2 for ducks, #5 for jump-shooting pheasant in the cornfield, and #9 for
quail over pointing dogs. We used lead shot back then. I am told it's no
longer allowed.

Dick

----- Original Message -----
From: "Joe" <rigdonj_at_cfl.rr.com>
To: <cctalk_at_classiccmp.org>
Sent: Thursday, May 23, 2002 5:42 PM
Subject: RE: good places to visit in Kansas City?


> At 12:16 PM 5/23/02 -0500, you wrote:
> >On Thu, 23 May 2002, Douglas H. Quebbeman wrote:
> >
> >> Rock salt tends to scatter when used by itself... for best results,
> >> pack it in with some country bacon... better chance of striking
> >> the target.
> >
> > As the not-terribly-proud owner of some rock-salt scars, <snip>
>
>
> NOW there's got to be an interesting story behind that line! Sounds like
you must have scrounged for something more then old computers at one time.
>
> Joe
>
>
Received on Thu May 23 2002 - 18:38:50 BST