did bill quimby get busted?

[.270]

i thought for sure this was gonna be bill when i first read it. i like the name of the town. happy easter. Lark.

 

http://www.azcentral.com/offbeat/articles/...-bust02-ON.html

 

 

[bonecollector]

What do they expect when living in a town with that kind of name?

[billrquimby]

Not funny, Mr. Lark.

 

I don't know Tom Stienstra, but I have read some of his stuff. I guess living in California, especially in a town with a name like Weed, can contaminate the best of us. Reading between the lines, it makes me wonder if he may have started growing marijuana for his wife's medicinal use and got carried away.

 

At any rate, his source of livelihood probably is gone. He's fortunate that the newspaper will let him continue his columns for now because he'll need the money for lawyers, but it will be only until his trial is over. If he's found guilty, they'll fire him. His magazine contacts probably are already returning his manuscripts.

 

Bill Quimby

[.270]

now he can write for high times or rolling stone. i see a 94 year old woman got busted in nogy for being a mule this week, everbody is punkin' dope. Lark.

[Coach]

Obviously meant as a joke, but it's a bit of a fine line to call out a member by name like that. I know your intentions were not malicious, .270 and you preface most of your posts as humor, but I can see how Bill might have percieved that as a little below the belt.

[billrquimby]

Wouldn't have minded if my name had been used in jest inside the thread, and I probably would have laughed with you, Lark. But to be named in the title of a thread about a law-breaker -- a thread that some people may not open and read -- is a sure way to send rumors around the hunting community.

 

So please let it be known far and wide that I'm a hunter/gatherer, and not a farmer who scratches in the dirt.

 

We have cool-decking and desert around our Tucson home and pine needles at the cabin instead of lawns. What farming occurs at our homes is done entirely by my wife. I save my strength and keep my head clear for wars, shipwrecks, garbage-hauling, grandkid-hugging, and other more important stuff.

 

I have never in my life grown even a petunia. I did dig some holes in which my wife buried some little palm trees when we both were younger. I wouldn't do that today. The darned things are thirty feet tall now and their dead fronds constantly need to be cut off and hauled away.

 

Bill Quimby