Saturday, July 28, 2012

HIGH NOON! (Let's make that 6PM)

    For the past two days we've been living in a hole!
    It's Jackson Hole, Wyoming! It's a little confusing.
    You see the area is Jackson Hole while the town is
just Jackson.
    The area is great! It's literally at the base of the
beautiful Teton Mountains.
    We actually got to take a cruise on Lake Jenny.
    Formed by glaciers its waters are over 400 feet
deep!
    The town seemed quite nice too.
    There are red flags at the major cross walks to
Broadway, the main street, so pedestrians have an
extra measure of protection as they go from one
side of the street to the other.
     But I guess there's "politics" here too.
     At precisely 6 o'clock the Mayor, or at least
a guy claiming to be the Mayor, came out on a
balcony, fired a shot in the air, cursed the
drunken sheriff, and.....before you knew it a
gunfight had broken out! There were bodies
all over the place!
    I figured I'd better save the day!
    So I decided to run for help.
    Then somebody explained the same
characters "shoot" each other every night just
off the town square as part of some kind of
tourist attraction.
    Darn! I already had the Eyewitness News
Hotline half dialed!!!!!
    But you know this daily event brings a lot
of tourists to town. And tourists bring money!!
    I wonder if Scranton ever thought of a
daily shoot out between the mayor and council?
    I'll bet a lot of people would like to watch!
    Even, maybe especially, "locals!"
    Anyway it was kind of neat to see how
things might have happened in the old west.
     Hope your mayor isn't armed and that all
your NEWS is good.


















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