Obviously, this woman has hit the end of her rope and I feel sorry for her. I can't condone shooting at people under these circumstances, but if I was a criminal law attorney I'd be down there right now, offering my services, pro bono.

Put yourselves in her shoes for a minute and try to imagine the quality of her environment 50 years ago. The Wynoochie river was and still is, a beautiful small river, less the impact fishing has resulted in. The quaility of her environment likely eroded for her and others living around the river at a slow and perhaps unrecongizable pace until about ten years ago with the increased popularity of sleds. Over the last five years, sled traffic has at least doubled. Now, people are crawling all over the river including sleds racing up and down emitting sound levels pushng 90 decibles. All perfectly "legal" activities. Hey, she dosen't own the river does she? Why is she giving me a hard time? I was going slow.

For those of you having a hard time appreciating my words, imagine if your next door neighbor just loved to cut wood with his chainsaw. Every weekend morning for the last ten years, at one minute after it was legal to do so (seven o'clock on Saturdays, nine o'clock on Sundays), on his own property, he fired up his Stihl saw and cut wood all day long. You probably talked to him several times and he responded by saying that he was not breaking any laws, had a perfect right to cut his wood and suggested that you could go pound sand. You probably called the police a couple dozen times and received a similar, but more appropriate response. Maybe you even attended a few City Council meetings to complain about the effect his legal activities were having on your and your neighbors environment with no affect. You obtain a home equity loan and install triple pane windows in your house. Things are a better now as long as you don't go outside but you love to garden and go outside anyways. So now, your thinking that the only solution is to move, but you and your children were raised in your house and you couldn't bear removng yourself from all of the memories connected to your house and property.

I wonder how many of us would resort to the same tactics this lady has turned to? I don't think she's crazy she's just at the end of her rope and hooray for her if the attention her actions will bring to the problem on the Nooch result in a effective sollution to the problem.