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Conference moira::naturism

Title:	Naturism
Notice:	Site report index is in topic 7
Moderator:	GENRAL::KILGORE

Created:	Tue Jan 26 1988
Last Modified:	Wed May 07 1997
Last Successful Update:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:	457
Total number of notes:	3687

333.0. "Reported drowning at the Ledges, 17 August" by MARX::CARTER () Tue Aug 20 1991 17:56

    I was talking to a man (Bob) at the Ledges on Sunday.  He told me that a man
    had drowned there on Saturday, the 17th.  He was apparently swimming
    toward the island off to the left of the ledges, and just went down
    and nobody noticed until it was too late.
    
    Saturday night he was in a bar or restaurant in the area.  A couple of
    locals were talking about the incident, mentioned the guy was not wearing
    a suit when he was brought to the hospital.  Then the locals went on to
    say something to the effect that it had been inevitable that something
    like this would hapeen at that place "where those gays hang around."  At
    this point, Bob interjected himself into the conversation.  He asked if 
    they had ever been to the Ledges.   They said, "No."  He told them that was
    fairly evident, since their perception was not correct, that there are more
    families there than they might expect.
    
    It's interesting what people can imagine when they put their narrow
    minds to it.
    
    djc

T.R	Title	User	Personal Name	Date	Lines
333.1	"Death to Gay Naturists!"	STEPS1::WILSON		`Wed Aug 21 1991 13:03`	12
	djc, I was at the Ledges Sunday afternoon (both before and after the rain :-( and didn't hear anything about this. I thought that you could walk to the island. It's unfortunate, but in my opinion (and probably statistics will back me up), neither gays nor naturists are any more prone to drowning than the general populace. But I guess anyone who would make that kind of statement (that something like this being bound to happen where "those gays hang around") would never let facts get in the way of their opinions! Has anybody heard any more on this? Jack
333.2	That's too bad . . .	HPSRAD::JWILLIAMS	John Williams Cirrus 297-6141	`Thu Aug 29 1991 13:40`	6
	I see people swim acroos that lake all the time. It's not that far. I think maybe something happened, like a heart attack. It's difficult for me to imagine someone swimming out and drowning in that lake without some sort of intervening circumstance. Remember, Vt. has it's share of rednecks. John.
333.3	An unfortunate ACCIDENT.	STEPS1::WILSON		`Thu Sep 05 1991 12:09`	9
	RE: .2 (John), rednecks, etc. ??? Do you think foul play might have been involved?? It wasn't. I was there over this past weekend, and spoke to someone who was there when it happened. It was unfortunate, but the person had (a stroke? a heart attach?) which caused the drowning. He was in his early 40s. Bummer. :-( But there was no foul play. Jack