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In a message dated 8/6/2007 11:38:38 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time,
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But...why would they end up in the dump tho...and not under the
porch...or decorating around the yard, garden...etc. I guess since I'm
not compulsively neat...I don't easily see why such things as spikes or
cartridge casings, would be gathered up and discarded in to a
dump
Perhaps as punishment. Many years back, I had the fun of working with toy
marbles and delivered papers at various conferences on hand made and machine
made marbles. I received lots of comments back from people who played marbles
as kids, as adults, in the military, and then got their kids and grandchildren
started. Several people reported their stern mothers punished them by
dropping their cherished marble bags down the privy (where they were sure not going
to dig to recover them). The late Paul Schumacher loaned me a collection he
reported recovered from a privy in Half Moon Bay, California. And, Gary
Breschini and Trudy Haverstat loaned me a collection to photograph they also found
clustered together in a privy. So, based on these known examples, I would
suggest that a parent could have punished the kid by dumping his railroad spike
and train-flattened bullet shell collection in the dump. Heck, I could easily
imagine a parent horrified to learn the kid was out flattening bullet shells
with trains running past at high speed; fear of lost eyes or worse.
Ron May
Legacy 106, Inc.
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