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ccowden

This has got to be the coolest sign ever!

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One winter about ten years ago I was hanging out with a friend at a cabin that was part if a fly-in fishing/hunting operation 20 minutes north of Pickle Lake. Dan would work on the owner's aircraft in exchange for occasional use of his facilities.

Now Pickle Lake is as far north as you can drive on paved road (and I use the term "paved" rather loosely) in Ontario. (Canada) There was no power or plumbing but we had tons of snow for snow-mobiling and lots of booze. Occasionally we'd zoom into town to re-stock, eat a warm meal and to actually work on the plane (it ended up taking us three weeks to do about 18 hours of work) Just as you are about to enter "civilization" (and I use that term very loosely) there is a bridge that goes over a small but growing dip in the ground beneath which an old mine tunnel is slowly collapsing.

During one drunken moment of brilliance we came up with an idea. Over the next couple of days we managed to scrounge up some plywood and both black and white paint to make a sign. It read:

NO
FISHING
FROM
BRIDGE!

I was at Dan's wedding just three weeks ago and the couple who owned the fishing/hunting outfit were there. They told us that the sign had finally bitten the dust last year. It had been standing there all this time! Boy I bet it had a more than a few of those hunters (mostly Americans) wondering what kind of nut-cases lived in that tiny, remote town in the middle of the nowhere!

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