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- Subject: GRASS-GUZZLING CRICKETS HANDICAP GOLFERS
- Date: 12 Jul 1995 13:34:52 GMT
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- GRASS-GUZZLING CRICKETS HANDICAP GOLFERS
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- (From the Sunday, July 9 issue of the Raleigh News and Observer)
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- Yes, folks, that's a real headline. I snipped the story and replaced it
- with a slighty revised version which is much more accurate and fitting to
- the headline.
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- Raleigh
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- A recent wave of upwardly-mobile crickets has stormed the Raleigh area as
- economic growth is at an all-time high. These crickets are just like
- anyone else, looking for a decent job, a place to raise the kids, and a
- comfortable living atmosphere.
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- Most of the crickets have moved into a large neighborhood next to the
- golf course on Tryon Road. The neighborhood, known as "Cricket Pines,"
- has seen a huge influx in population due to a recent pet-food factory
- opening in southern Raleigh. The average house in Cricket Pines is quite
- large, and the going price ranges from $150,000 to $400,000.
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- There's just one problem.
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- The crickets are leading advocates in the fight to legalize marijuana,
- and have taken it upon themselves to organize a large militia to keep
- watch over their community crop of marijuana plants.
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- Local authorities have tried continuously to break into the field area to
- arrest the offenders and dispose of the illegal plants, but, as police
- chief Harlin Johnson says, "Them [sic] crickets is [sic] just too
- well-armed."
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- The main difficulty has arisen from the daily bonfires which the
- crickets hold on the edge of the neighborhood. The crickets use large
- piles of dried and cut leaves from the marijuana plants and sing songs as
- they inhale the smoke.
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- The smoke has been drifting over to the golf course and to the Delta
- Sigma Phi fraternity house, and this so-called secondhand smoke has begun
- affecting the golfers and the fraternity brothers.
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- Many golfers complain about the smoke, saying that it "smells bad" or
- that it makes them "feel dizzy," but other golfers and a large number of
- visitors to the fraternity house (none would allow their names to appear
- in print) have said that they "really enjoy" their newest neighbors, and
- that, if not for the wall around the neighborhood, they'd "love to join
- in the singing."
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- Most of the negatively affected golfers have seen a significant reduction
- in their golfing skills, but a few have seen a positive change in their
- game. "I am much more relaxed," says Eddie van Coch. "I can putt now
- like you wouldn't believe."
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- The BOB(c)
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- Andrew S. Damick ------------------------------------------------------
- "The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a --
- proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths, and -----
- oneself for an oracle, is inborn in us." -- Paul Vale'ry, 1895 -------
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