Close to Home by John McPherson for September 24, 2015

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    KA7DRE Premium Member about 9 years ago

    Sure beats the heck out of that fake vomit we used to buy and have fun with in those days gone by . . . .

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    joe piglet Premium Member about 9 years ago

    Looking at the hands, it looks like the kid bought the mobster size.

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    whiteheron  about 9 years ago

    I did something similar long ago and far away. I had acquired a postcard while in Williamsburg, Va. on a school field trip. I sent it to my older sister who had moved out of state when she got married. One line written on it: " Am doing better. Doctors say I’ll be home soon."I had forgotten about it until I came home from school a few days later with my mother standing at the door, hands on hips with that special “mother” look on her face. She was not amused.My dad, however, laughed the whole time he was giving me the obligatory whippin’ .

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    angelfiredragon  about 9 years ago

    Sure its all funny until you really slip and nobody believes you.

    Last time I was at the grand canyon, bought the book about the deaths and near deaths in the park…there has been a lot.

    One of them was about a boy scout who kept joking around acting like he was falling, the edge had a little ledge down below and he kept joking around. After awhile nobody believed him, but he eventually did fall to the lower ledge and broke some bones…he was screaming for hours but the rest of the troop thought it was a joke and just left him. Finally someone went to check on him and he was almost dead, search and rescue was called and he was saved.

    Then there was the story about the report who fell down to a lower ledge, when they were pulling her back up, her dress got yanked up around her head, so the whole rescue team got an eye full.

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    Peam Premium Member about 9 years ago

    I think that’s a recording of my screaming any time I got within 15 feet of the edge..

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    Dewed  about 9 years ago

    Quite the cliff-hanger

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    nosirrom  about 9 years ago

    And after Mom, Dad, and little Billy all had a good laugh over his prank, they had Billy pose for a picture in front of the canyon and kept telling him to back up.

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    dgmiller  about 9 years ago

    Years ago, a family friend, who had been a tail gunner in WW2, came to the North Rim, looked over, and had a panic attack! You can still see the hand prints in the steel railing (well, almost).

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    spaced man spliff  about 9 years ago

    Remember the boy who cried “wolf”

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    spaced man spliff  about 9 years ago

    Remember the boy who cried “wolf”

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    jamiwersentall  about 9 years ago

    It is so boring.

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    Mariposamia  about 9 years ago

    Zero!

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    lcdrlar  about 9 years ago

    If they didn’t have them before, I bet someone is thinking about it now.

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