And who says nothing exciting ever happend in Great Falls, MT. !?

[Ed Caffrey]

Usually the bustling metropolis of Great Falls, MT. is an outdoorsman's dream, but on occasion we also have our "big city" problems....... it's nice to know that our local paper is on top of EVERY potential story!

http://www.greatfallstribune.com/new...ws/116003.html

I like living in a place where newspapers don't have to report on murders and rapes every day!

[rhrocker]

I was on the edge of my seat reading that thriller!

[Robert Washburn]

#### Ed ,Can`t them cowboys up there tell the diffrence in a cow and llama.

[Tom Militano]

Can the bones be used for anything? How long is it safe to eat dead llamas? Think I'll go make myself a hamburger.

[Gene Chapman]

Wonder if it tastes like chicken.

[Bwitty]

Flame Broiled to order!!:cool:

[Maker of Ugly]

Mr. Caffrey, thank you for the article. Like the guy said, I guess Frank's job is worse than mine.

[Tim B]

ED,
I spent the summer of "76" when I was 14, at my Grandparents in Craig, Montana. Half way b/w Helena and Greatfalls. I would have been grateful for the "Bob" excitement/diversion.

Tim

[Don Halter]

I'm suddenly having flashbacks of the recent news footage of the bloated, dead, sperm whale that exploded while being transported down a busy Thailand road!

How about a pellet gun from a decent upwind position. One shot...kaboom... and all the catfish bait you can handle!

[Gene Chapman]

Years ago the best crabbing ever was to put cleaned salmon and other fish parts in a old pillow case and sew it shut, rig the crab pots, throw them in the bay. yikes had more crab than we could eat because of the stink bait after a weeek or two and the crab couldn't get at the bait till the cotton pillow cast rotted out.

Now I use crab rings once in a while with chicken parts. Crab like chicken cause it tastes like chicken.

[Alden Sherrodd]

Jon did ya see this? I'll bet Ed would get a leg bone for you to use for handles!

[Bruce Bump]

I enjoyed the story Ed. It reminded me of a time when a whale washed upon the beach on the Oregon coast a few years back. They were faced with the same problem and finally decided to just put dynamite inside the carcass and touch er off. It exploded and threw whale guts and parts all over town! Splattered every onlooker and their cars parked nearby. I dont envy Frank.

[C L Wilkins]

I just saw this, sorry for the late post on it but I just can't resist.

About 5 or 6 years ago, some friends and I were on a duck hunting trip just outside Malta, Montana at Lake Bowdoin. (Don't ask how we ended up there, that's another story.)

We picked up the local paper one morning at breakfast and read where a young fella, around 17 or so was hurt while trying to rope a deer out of the back of a moving pickup truck at 2 in the morning. The article stated that it was unsure whether alcohol was involved.

Montana is pretty nice for both days of summer I understand.
Actually, I really enjoyed it while I was there. Some of the friendliest people I have met were in Malta.

Craig

[Buddy Thomason]

I guess in Montana dead is dead and nobody cares how this poor critter got that way! A list of possibilities would have to include Mad Llama Disease, West Nile (Llama variant) Virus, ligntning strike, stray bullit from hunter's rifle, contact with Alien Being (did anybody bother to check its rectum?-it could be missing!), homicide (is there a motive?) or, what about suicide? I hear depression is common in Lammas - slave pack animal and all that.
Ed, hope you'll alert us as answers are found!
Thanks,
BT

[Fsawyer]

When I was a teenager in Texas, I dated this girl that had a brother which worked for the local rendering plant. You know the place they render dead animals into glue.

One day I went over to get my girlfriend and she said she needed to take her brother his lunch.

We drove out in the country a bit and there was his rendering plant truck parked on the side of the road. It looked exactly like an old trash truck.
I pulled over and she got out with a brown paper bag. Her brother came from the back of the truck.
She handed him the bag. No big deal.

Then!!! he politely walked off the road to where a dead bloated cow was laying and sat on top of the thing and started eating his lunch.
I was sick.
Soon later I broke up with her.