[ExI] lock-and-load

[BillK]

On 5/15/09, spike wrote:
>  These entries do not express actual the size of these beasts, which is
>  larger than a very well fed house cat.  They have a bad habit of gnawing
>  trees, similar to the way of the beaver, which eventually slays the trees
>  and causes them to fall into the stream, causing the water to back up, which
>  creates an opportunity for a nice den, again much like a beaver, which tends
>  to flood one's newly built expensive pump house, dammit.
>


That reminds me of the TRUE story about how the state of Michigan
threatened local beavers with a $10,000 per day fine for failing to
remove their dam.
The funny part is the letter that the landowner sent back to the council.

<http://www.snopes.com/humor/letters/dammed.asp>


BillK