okansas.blogspot.com Occassional thoughts about orienteering
Friday, March 25, 2005
A scary story
I came across this story from last weekend's 9-hour night O' race at Bluffwoods.
...as I ran along the road north and a little west of #8 I went very close to what seemed like private property (the road might have been public though). This was about 3:20 AM.
In any event, I managed to wake the gentleman's dog, who barked for long enough to wake his owner. Just after I passed his house, he must have heard me and yelled out G....it, what's going on out there!?"....I simply continued jogging east away from his house. After a few seconds he repeated his inquiry (I was about 50 meters past him now) and then unexpectedly let fly with a gunshot. Needless, to say, my pace became considerably faster at that point. By the time I reached the pond and access gate on the north side of the trail I was far enough away that his dog had shut up, and since he wasn't about to roust out of bed at 3 AM I felt safe at that point.
That is a scary story.
I'm going up to Bluffwoods tomorrow to pick up controls. I've marked my map so that I don't get too close to the guy with the gun.
posted by Michael |
9:25 PM
