Archive for August, 2005

>If you’ve been following the CBS Evening News feature series ‘Gas Patrol’ then you’ve already seen this. But if you haven’t here’s a link to the text and video of the RV segment.

>A New Mexico State Parks officer fatally shot a man at the Lion’s Beach area of Elephant Butte State Park after the man became belligerent over a $14 camping fee, authorities said Wednesday.

When the volunteer camping host approached the man to collect the fee for the developed site, the man “became immediately verbally abusive and belligerent,” Simon said. The volunteer called for a park ranger who responded.

“It seems to have been an escalating confrontation with our officer, and that confrontation ended in deadly force,” he said. Full Story…

>Two letters to the editor have appered in the Billings Montana Gazette

One reason not to stay at RV parks is because they think they are motels, so we may as well stay at one. It is nice to come to Billings on a Friday evening, do a little shopping, take in a movie, finish shopping Saturday and leave around 3 p.m. and get home early.

In an RV park, it is “get out by 11 a.m. or another $40.” Read the letters