OK- it's my turn to add my true story from years ago about river access back when I had a splittie..
I met the Deliverance local!

�I launched a canoe in a slough and when I returned a day later, my 1964 VW bus was chained to a high voltage utility pole. 
There was a note on my windshield telling me to go to the farmhouse up the road to get the vehicle unchained. I unchained it myself seeing it was just bolted together .
I left the chain on the ground, drove up under the one car railroad bridge and stopped in front of the farmhouse. A farmer was in the front yard mowing his lawn. I never should have stopped. He was wearing a gun holster. 
He looked over at me, drew his gun, and demanded to know what I was doing on his property. My map showed the area is a wildlife refuge, so I stood my ground and told him I was canoeing and never sit foot on his land. 
He demanded his chain , and aiming his pistol at me, he demanded I get his chain. 
So� sped down the hill, got the chain , and when I got back to the bridge, he was blocking it with a pick-up truck. 
he was standing next to it, and pacing back and forth across the entrance, he said "Were going to do this my way" .after I asked him to call the police. At this point I think I heard banjos..
Next, I said , I'm leaving! and I turned the bus around, and drove it to the dead end where the freeway is. I ran up the bank and there just happened to be a State Patrol parked nearby, who gave me a ride to town. He said he could do anything about it, the it was out of jurisdiction. 
By midnite the county sheriff arrived , 5 hours after I called, and found that there was a tractor blocking the road under the bridge instead of the truck. They arrested the farmer and made him move the tractor. 

I drove out of there and never went back to that slough don't know what they did, if anything, to the farmer. 

Robert
1982 Westfalia. 

I hear dualing banjo's somewhere in the background.....

Thanks, Tom Hargrave

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