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California Alert

1 messages in this thread | Started on 2003-03-11

California Alert

From: Gwen & Don Jackson (foxsecurity@earthlink.net) | Date: 2003-03-11 14:59:25 UTC-08:00
During our last letterboxing outing in SoCal we came upon a herd of sheep grazing in the fields of Orange Co. When we approached the herd, a couple of Basque sheep herders came up to us  waving their arms, and yelling something like" YOU BE GONE". We tried to back out of the area but they kept following us and repeating"YOU BE GONE", "YOU BE GONE".Finally we stopped and tried to communicate in our poor Spanish,horrible French and any other language we felt they might speak, but to no avail. They just kept scratching their heads and (not now yelling at least) saying "you be gone". Well communication was a success, intelligence finally came to the fore, the light went on and we joined their search party. Unfortunately the search was unsuccessful, so when you are letterboxing in SoCal keep your eye out for the missing sheep"Ewe Be Gone". 
Gwen & Don