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To: Crocodile who wrote (38228)	9/19/1999 2:40:00 PM
From: Gauguin	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 71178

Yep. We had places to play too. There still are, some, around this little place, but anywhere closer (50 miles) to The City, and forget it. We built forts above Colorado Boulevard in Pasadena, in "vacant lots." In SLC, we had whole acreages in the scrub oaks. Til I burned it down, anyway. (Jus kidding.) But I remember how Roger got poked with a berry thorn and the blood shot out in a pin leak. Like 18 inches long, it was just shooting out of there. Could barely see it, but it would sort of soak your hand down. And of course, we eventually went off in there to take drugs, but they never did us any harm. These kids today, you can't trust them with drugs.

To: Crocodile who wrote (38228)	9/20/1999 1:36:00 AM
From: ZinMaster	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71178

> When I was a kid, there were lots of forests around the > neighbourhood. Nobody seemed to own them and you could > just grab a hammer and a few nails and go into the bush > to make fort. One of my first acts as a bona fide juvenile delinquent was vandalism of a construction site. Of course I didn't see it that way then, and I don't see it that way now. It was a noble act of civil disobediance. I came home from school one day and saw that the woods where we had our bike race track and our tree houses were about to become another housing development. In just one day, several acres had been scraped and surveyed. Well, this just couldn't be tolerated. I got a couple of my friends together, and late that night we hotwired a Caterpiller D7 bulldozer. Sure it made a little noise, but we knew we could run away through the woods. They'd never catch us. Well, they had piled up the dirt in some spots, and levelled patches for foundations. There were survey stakes all over the place. After a few minutes of trial and error with the 'dozer, I figured out how to drive it around. Then we got the blade into position and mowed down every survey stake. The piles of dirt were relocated back to where we figured they belonged. We took turns driving the dozer for the next hour or two. When we were done, we drove it as far as could without waking up any neighbors, then hid it under some brush. Then we removed a bunch of parts that looked important. Never did get caught, but we probably only set the developers back by a day or two. Save the trees...