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Post by susanlance on Nov 16, 2010 23:48:48 GMT -5
Hi everyone- I got this email from Eric Stanley, a fellow runner from the Peachtree City area- you may have met him at Sweetwater 50K or other races in the last few years. I hope this was an isolated incident, but please be careful. See below
Eric Stanley November 16 at 8:15pm Report Susan, I need you to send out a warning to all of your running contacts. I have a friend who works for Georgia Power and he spends a lot of time on the power line easements and fire roads throughout central and north Georgia. Like the "Power Lines" at Sweetwater. On Monday he and his co-worker came across an intricate set of trip wires that were connected to 8 guns arranged in a crossfire pattern with electronically wired triggers. Best case scenario someone was illegally poaching deer with a very dangerous very illegal booby-trap. Regardless, I know a lot of runners use fire roads for trail running. We need to get a warning to as many people as possible and warn them of this dangerous scenario. My friend says he was lucky he was on foot and moving slowly. If he had been in his truck he would have never seen the setup and possibly would have been shot and killed.
Please pass this on to as many runners as possible.
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jasonb
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Post by jasonb on Nov 17, 2010 12:53:19 GMT -5
where was this located in GA?
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Post by GUTS Admin on Nov 17, 2010 15:28:20 GMT -5
Hopefully this was reported to the police?
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Post by jasonb on Nov 18, 2010 7:24:09 GMT -5
this sounds more like boobie traps set around pot fields or meth labs than anything, especially with high tech gear like that
saw a news piece the other day that they are finding a lot of pot farms in the woods in central and south georgia.
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Post by amandat on Nov 18, 2010 10:27:14 GMT -5
Scary stuff! Agree that it could be meth/pot related...
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Post by susanlance on Nov 20, 2010 11:07:47 GMT -5
They (GA Power employees) did report it to the police, but there was apparently a webcam set up so the people who set it up saw the discovery. By the time the police arrived it was gone.
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Post by jasonb on Jan 17, 2011 8:57:44 GMT -5
ajc linkthere was a brief story about this in today's ajc
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Post by Deleted on Jul 20, 2011 8:34:39 GMT -5
yeah I know you should be really careful got into a pretty much similar situation once.
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Post by JeffG on Jul 20, 2011 15:22:14 GMT -5
I hope they got the idiot's 8 guns. What an awful scenario that would have been for a runner. My guess is that this was an isolated incident. I hope that is the last we hear of this sort of thing.
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Post by JeffG on Jul 20, 2011 15:24:48 GMT -5
Just read the article. South GA. Probably for hunting nuisance hogs. Culprits got away with it.
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Post by kawasang on May 4, 2013 1:47:39 GMT -5
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