It must have been about fifteen years ago that I went out to inspect a
proposed real estate subdivision site along Alpine Creek in San Diego County, when I
heard a distant boom down by the owner's house and then a shower of shotgun
pellets in the oak leaves above my head. I was so outraged that I stopped the
field check, drove back to my office and telephoned the owner, engineer and
planner on the subdivision to tell them they could expect a letter from my office
directing full biology, archaeology, and flood water studies and that I might
also file a criminal complaint for attempted murder. They all knew I was
inspecting that land, as I had made careful arrangments prior to the field trip.
Such are my memories of weapons fired in the air on an archaeology field trip.
I think about that experience every time some idiot fires a gun instead of a
fire cracker on New Year's.

Ron May
Legacy 106, Inc.