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Monday's rain washed out a deep cut that made it difficult for Don Hoodenpyle to cross Aspen Bayou between his house and the intersection of South Duncan Avenue and 11th Street. So Hoodenpyle went out about 7:30 a.m. Tuesday and began shoveling some of the waste gravel left on the site more than a year ago by workers who dug out the old street that led to his driveway. He finally got the small gulley leveled enough to make driving safer.
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Back when you were at one of the Little Rock papers, you showed a photo and wrote about a couple of guys apparently shooting at geese in a field with deer rifles. Someone asked why you didn't call a game warden or stop them from their violation of wildlife regulations instead of taking pictures and writing about the crime you appear to have documented.
So why didn't you take the shovel and help the gentleman. You know the developer or the city won't be there working on his problem anytime soon.
I did help Don after I took a few photos of him in action. He had done 90 percent of the work before the noise drew me outside.
I believe I explained back in the day (whatever year you are talking about) that Connie Meskimen and I were across a wide flooded portion of the bean field or corn or whatever, I can't remember now. It would have required driving fast on dirt to cut the shooters off at the gate on their side, which would have been down the road from where we left the black top. And we didn't have cell phones in the late 80s and early 90s. In fact, I don't have one now.
Meskimen had binoculars and watched while I tried to zoom in enough to get a decent photo; however, I probably was carrying only the short lens on my Pentax K-1000 that day because we were actually hunting. Possibly I had a long lens in my camera bag or would have if we had been in my vehicle.
If we could have gotten into position to photograph the license plate, I wouldn't have had to call Game and Fish. Meskimen, the Central Arkansas lawyer who earlier this year got a lot of attention over a sarcastic letter to the editor of the Demozette that a lot of readers took as serious, would have driven to the nearest pay phone (probably miles from the isolated delta grain or bean field) and called it in. He and I both were "get-involved" people at that time. I did the job I was paid to do, which was report news. Someone who generally didn't agree with my conservation messages in general must have written in about it. Was that you?
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