[lit-ideas] Re: The Gold Panning Prank

  • From: "Julie Krueger" <juliereneb@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Sun, 11 Jan 2009 19:37:18 -0600

Damn, why don't I think of things like this?

Julie Krueger
perpetually broke



On Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 5:30 AM, Simon Ward <sedward@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>  We have running through our village a watercourse known as Black Brook.
> It runs down the hillside into the valley along a natural bed before making
> an abrupt ninety degree turn to take a new course along the valley floor. At
> this point, having been prone to flooding, it splits off into two routes,
> one taking it through a grill and down into a storm drain and the other
> under a bridge alongside an old mill which it used to power. By the nature
> of the route to the storm drain - operational when the brook runs high -
> there is a significant deposit of gravel that sits above the usual course of
> the river.
>
> So, an idea materialised to create a new sign for the village.
>
> "No Gold Panning Without a Licence"
>
> On the assumption that we get the correct spelling of licence, we'll put
> this up before April Fool's Day.
>
> More creative thought has suggested the production of a press release to be
> issued to the local rags prattling on about the recent exposure of a gold
> seam somewhere on the moor and how the wet weather has washed despoits down
> into the valley. The release would be accompanied by a staged photo
> featuring a bearded, craggy prospetor. Naturally there'll be the production
> of phony licenses.
>
> What more can be had I wonder ...
>
> Simon
>

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