February 24, 2010 2:33 AM PST
Years ago I parked my 305 Scrambler on the front porch everynight with side stand down against the house and rolled it up onto the center stand thinking if anyone snuck up to steal it, would bounce off the side stand and fall over making a hell of a ruckus. Wasn't many homes around back then, none across the street it was a solid wall of Saw Palmetto bushes. I kept a 16 guage loaded with bird shot by the door just for giggles, never knew when you would find a six foot diamond back curled up on the porch. One night it happened, c r u n c h, pitter patter of footsteps running away. I grabbed the shotgun and ran out the door to see someone running away, fired a round of birdshot right behind them thinking maybe they would run into the palmetto's, THEY DID, listened to them making a hell of a noise running through them things for ten minutes, poor bastard, I never did go look for a body. If you knew what a Saw Palmetto looked like you would understand............. Observe below ...................... OUCH!!!