on 3/3/05 2:06 PM, Eugene Burreson at gene@xxxxxxxx wrote:
This is all so very, very sad and just what the terrorists had in mind!
Barbara Chambers
Fairfax
Recently, as part of the Backyard Bird Count, Dave Gillett, Heidi
Geist and I birded the campus of the Virginia Institute of Marine
Science, where we work or are students. The folks at the Coleman
Bridge toll booth called the county sheriff on us because we were
"acting suspicious and had binoculars." After we convinced the
sheriff we were harmless, we walked down under the Coleman Bridge to
look for water birds. On the way back up the hill to VIMS, a state
policeman pulled up and asked us if we had been under the bridge with
binoculars and cameras. Someone had called the state police and also
reported us as suspicious. We had just convinced him that we were
harmless birders when a second state trooper pulled up. We've become
a paranoid society!
