NYCkayaker Great Hudson River Paddle coming to Yonkers this weekend - (or they'd prefer to be left alone?)

[bonnie13 at earthlink.net]

Arrr, 'tis some fine bloodcurdlin' tales I've heard told of the carnage at Cold Springs, the widows and orphans, alas...

-----Original Message-----
>From: Steve McAllister <stevie at brooklynkayak.com>
>Sent: Jul 11, 2008 8:35 AM
>To: haawill at yahoo.com
>Cc: nyckayaker at rockandwater.net
>Subject: Re: NYCkayaker Great Hudson River Paddle coming to Yonkers this	weekend - (or they'd prefer to be left alone?)
>
>Don't joke. They are all armed and have been known to get into disputes 
>with local paddlers, repeated battles with the Cold Spring area paddlers 
>  is well known.
>
>
>> Aye ... Shiver me timbers matey Arrrrrrrrrrrrrggg
>> I'll be firinin me one o' their port bow .........  
>> 
>> --- On Thu, 7/10/08, Steve Blumling <islesteve7 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> From: Steve Blumling <islesteve7 at yahoo.com>
>>> Subject: Re: NYCkayaker Great Hudson River Paddle coming to Yonkers this weekend - (or they'd prefer to be left alone?)
>>> To: "April Tam" <at_nyc at hotmail.com>
>>> Cc: "nyckayaker" <nyckayaker at rockandwater.net>
>>> Date: Thursday, July 10, 2008, 11:29 PM
>>> The people that paddle in the GHRP are mostly loners and
>>> vagrant river drifters that really just keep to  themselves
>>> and don't even like other people. They wouldn't
>>> really want anyone coming out to meet them after a ten day
>>> paddle along a hundred and fifty miles of river. I
>>> wouldn't really bother them at all if I were you. They
>>> might even be dangerous, bi-polar, homicidal or even 
>>> suicidal.  They might all poison themselves and be dead
>>> before we even get there to meet them just knowing we were
>>> coming.
>>>
>-- 
>I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence or insanity to anyone, but 
>they've always worked for me
>     -- H. S. Thompson
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