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Great story!
Well done....
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Great story and how legends are made. I remember when I was in high school Pete the python escaped from the Ft Worth zoo. Somebody started the rumor he was headed this way eating chickens as he came. In those days everybody had yard birds. Every time a coon or possum would take a chicken out of somebody's yard flock it was the python than done it. Every harmless chicken snake seen turned into that python.
At this late date I don't remeber if the actual python was ever found or not but it took months for people to quit seeing pythons crawling around.
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Way cool....gonna be damn tuff to top that tale.....
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Some years later, in the early 80's, I was at a "poultry shoot" at the local sportsman's club. I had totally forgotten about that picture which was still tacked to the bragging board behind the bar. After the shoot and a couple of beers, somebody pointed out that I was the guy in the picture with the tiger. Word spread like wildfire around the clubhouse. Guys were buying me drinks and treating me like a rock star!  WN
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Nice story! Would make a great Rem 870 ad!
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What an awesome story. I want to party with these guys! 
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Guys were buying me drinks and treating me like a rock star! WN You are! How've you been?
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'Tis far better to walk alone than to follow a crowd going the wrong way.
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That is awesome!! I know of a few social circles around here where that'd still be considered true.
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A couple of old farts who lived about a mile away said they had seen the big cat a couple of days before and it was attacking their dogs!
TFF. Vaguely recall but I'll travel a very short limb and assume the "two old farts" you're referring to are/were brothers?
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A couple of old farts who lived about a mile away said they had seen the big cat a couple of days before and it was attacking their dogs!
TFF. Vaguely recall but I'll travel a very short limb and assume the "two old farts" you're referring to are/were brothers? BINGO! They saw lots of strange things and had lots of interesting stories.
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Great story Scott. Too bad a lot of stories like this never got written down. They'd make for a great book.
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Oh gawd.
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TFF. 
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'Tis far better to walk alone than to follow a crowd going the wrong way.
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Forgive me guys, but that begs to be posted to Facebook. I won't without permission tho
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I say it all the time,
The World is just a grand illusion.........
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