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What year Ed? I'd only heard of one guy to do that, Airboat Frank Stagnowski, and I didn't think he had UMHW on his boat back then as it was a long time ago. Frank passed last year, he was a neighbor of mine. Still liked his drink. He was a helluva snowmachine mechanic at Persingers in the day.

That would have been the summer of '89. I was up there TDY for the trial for the guy that did the execution style murder of the produce manager of Carr's on Muldoon.

It wasn't the only time it's been done up there. The one Mike mentioned was a bet that the original story wasn't a fluke. The guy who did that one actually got a visit from a knucklehead rookie Trooper who was going to give him a ticket for operating an unlicensed vehicle on a roadway, but since it was after-the-fact, he couldn't find a witness.

That Trooper, BTW, had just been cut loose from FTO and was still on Probation. 1st Sgt Waggoner had a word of prayer with him but it didn't seem to have much effect. The knucklehead got himself fired a couple months later for excessive use of force.

IIRC, Stagnowski did his in the late 70's - early 80's, when that area was still outside of Fairbanks city limits. I met him once at the Sportsman's show in Anchorage in the mid-80's ('84-'85?) when the show was still on Fireweed Lane at the corner of Fireweed and "C" Street. He was talking with a friend of mine, a retired Trooper, who worked Fairbanks during Pipeline construction days, about "the good old days".

Ed

Makes sense when frank did the orig no umhw on his boat. Sparks flying everywhere! Lol

Was 1st sgt waggoner fpd or ast? Knew a fpd Waggoner through his mom Terry Wiese?

And the murder trial? Was that victor stern's trial? I recall he offed some poor store manager that was begging for his life around that time

Alaska big place with few people = small world