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JIMNLIN
Aug 30, 2017Explorer III
I've fished/camped since the mid '40s with folks and their friends. Married in '61 and the wife and I continued fish camping mostly on one of the many big COE lakes here in eastern OK.
So all those years lots of excitement from weather events to the usual trouble makers.
The scariest was in the early '70s the local KKK group showed up with their banners .....two pickups bed full of beer........two 8' long stock tanks full of ice for the beer. They dug two fire pits and roasted two whole hogs.
Then the idiots broke out their guns including two AK's and blasted away out across the lake and tracer rounds up into the air.....even over the campground.
Thanks to CB radios several state troopers and several car loads of deputies showed up later. Everyone of those idiots (men and women) went to jail......vehicles and weapons were confiscated.
Back then COE campground in this district had no locked gates or anyone to monitored campgrounds so drunks and guns were the norm. Thankfully it all changed.
So all those years lots of excitement from weather events to the usual trouble makers.
The scariest was in the early '70s the local KKK group showed up with their banners .....two pickups bed full of beer........two 8' long stock tanks full of ice for the beer. They dug two fire pits and roasted two whole hogs.
Then the idiots broke out their guns including two AK's and blasted away out across the lake and tracer rounds up into the air.....even over the campground.
Thanks to CB radios several state troopers and several car loads of deputies showed up later. Everyone of those idiots (men and women) went to jail......vehicles and weapons were confiscated.
Back then COE campground in this district had no locked gates or anyone to monitored campgrounds so drunks and guns were the norm. Thankfully it all changed.
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