Barbie Boy was back on Mt. Peak today. This is the guy with the "Barbie" backpack who blocks the trail when people are trying to get uphill doing their workouts.
Today, he didn't get far up the trail, when a bee came buzzing out of the shrubbery and stung him in the lower back -- ZAP. He stopped, fiddling with his shirt and lower back, trying to get the stinger out. This time, he pulled over to the side of the trail, more worried about getting zapped by the bee than blocking other hikers doing their workouts.
Buzz buzz ZAP . . .
Tuesday, July 27, 2010
Wednesday, July 14, 2010
Beware Flying Rocks
Near the top of Mt. Peak today, at the last switchback of the road, near the top, I saw a rock come flying from the upper section of the road, over the wooded and ferny section, over the lower section of the road, and just miss a downhill hiker's head by two feet or less.
He yelled "Hey!" but kept going. He and a woman with two or three youngish-teenish kids had just passed on the upper section of the road, with them going uphill, him going downhill. I couldn't see who threw the rock, but there was no one else but the woman and kids, and I didn't see anyone hiding in the wooded section.
It was surely one of the kids.
This rock was palm sized to a large man. It could have knocked the hiker out. If he'd fallen and hit his head on one of the big rocks on the road, it could have killed him.
There were no consequences for the rock-thrower. I thought the kid couldn't have thrown a rock that big and hit someone in the head before, or he/she would have known the seriousness of it -- that it could kill a person. So, I'm guessing the kid is going to keep throwing man-palm-sized rocks until he/she hits someone, and finds out the seriousness of it. Or, the kid is a sadist, and has hit people, and is going to keep doing it.
In years hiking Mt. Peak, this is the first dangerous act or attack I've seen. What do we have to do, wear helmets on the hill so we don't get killed while we exercise?
Think about it: Some kid threw a good-sized rock at a hiker's head today near the top of Mt. Peak. The kid got away with it, and will probably keep doing it.
He yelled "Hey!" but kept going. He and a woman with two or three youngish-teenish kids had just passed on the upper section of the road, with them going uphill, him going downhill. I couldn't see who threw the rock, but there was no one else but the woman and kids, and I didn't see anyone hiding in the wooded section.
It was surely one of the kids.
This rock was palm sized to a large man. It could have knocked the hiker out. If he'd fallen and hit his head on one of the big rocks on the road, it could have killed him.
There were no consequences for the rock-thrower. I thought the kid couldn't have thrown a rock that big and hit someone in the head before, or he/she would have known the seriousness of it -- that it could kill a person. So, I'm guessing the kid is going to keep throwing man-palm-sized rocks until he/she hits someone, and finds out the seriousness of it. Or, the kid is a sadist, and has hit people, and is going to keep doing it.
In years hiking Mt. Peak, this is the first dangerous act or attack I've seen. What do we have to do, wear helmets on the hill so we don't get killed while we exercise?
Think about it: Some kid threw a good-sized rock at a hiker's head today near the top of Mt. Peak. The kid got away with it, and will probably keep doing it.
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