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'I'll make it so you can't get out!': Hooligans drive up closed road, hunter traps them in

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    Font - Posted by u/spinonesarethebest 5 hours ago Drive up a closed road? I'll make it so you can't get out! Many years ago, archery elk season in the Pacific Northwest. The area I hunt in always has logging going on, but it's a big area and elk don't seem to care. Loggers had pushed a road in towards my favorite ridge. Road was closed and had a big barricade/sign across it. Perfect! I had a quiet, east way to cover the couple of miles into my hunting
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    Font - area. I'm over a mile in, padding along in the dust, when I hear a vehicle. Sure enough, a pickup truck with guys in the back holding bows drives by. They didn't see me, because I had faded back I to the timber, but I saw them. They were also talking loudly. Elk might not be bothered by the vehicle, but the voices would make them leave the area. ADes had moved the barricade to drive up a closed road and make a lot of noise, chasing the elk away.
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    Font - I decided to hunt another area, so headed back to my truck. The barricade had been moved but was too heavy for me to put back. Aholes would have just moved it again anyway. BUT: there was a road grader parked nearby. And I have some experience with this stuff. Did you know, back then, the keys
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    Font - were pretty generic? I had keys in my truck, and sure enough the Caterpillar key I had worked in the Caterpillar grader. So I parked it across the road, locked it up, and left. Since this was on a three-day weekend they had to wait a while to be let out. And hopefully fined for their actions. TL/DR: some guys moved a barricade to drive up a closed road. I blocked them in with heavy equipment.
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    Font - oldbaldpissed off. 5 hr. ago I miss those days 5 keys started so many different pieces of equipment. We use to move them around to mess with the foreman.. 238 Reply Share ortusdux · 2 hr. ago · edited 47 min. ago 31 A wannabe redneck showed up to high school with a Cat lock for his locker. Kids messed with his stuff for months before he figured it out. ●●● Reply Share
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    Font - yungingr 4 hr. ago Did you know, back then, the keys were pretty generic? I had keys in my truck, and sure enough the Caterpillar key I had worked in the Caterpillar grader. Still is. The Cat key I have in my work truck will pretty much start any piece of Cat equipment out there. Likewise with John Deere, etc.
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    Font - My problem wouldn't be STARTING the grader...it'd be figuring out how to drive the damned thing. (New ones don't have steering wheels, or levers for the blade - it's all joystick control) 4 99 ↓ Reply Share
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    Font - Justcruisingthrulife 5 hr. ago Good one, I would have done that as well. 71 Reply Share
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    Font - Forsaken-Yak-7581 5 hr. ago No shortcuts here. Well played ↑ 37 . Reply Share
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    Font - Waifer2016 3 hr. ago Lmao I rould have loved to see their faces! Hopefully, this was before cellphones and they had to hike out 412 Reply Share
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    Font - Slayer133102. 4 hr. ago The real question: compound or recurve? 412 Reply Share Triforceoffarts. 3 hr. ago In the PNW we only have recurve elk. ↑ 12 Reply Share

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