Dangerous Implications
Posted on June 10, 2008 | By Denny Tyler | 2 Comments
I went to Kayford Mountain today with Mountainsaver to document a very dangerous booby trap.
Larry Gibson was walking on a four wheeler trail with his dog when he discovered a wire hanging from a tree in the middle of the path with a large rusty three prong hook attached to the end of the wire. This was hanging on the path near the mountaintop removal site where Larry takes visitors to view the site.
The hook would have been about chest high on someone riding a four wheeler. If someone were to ride into this hook and it didn’t catch them in the chest it would have most likely caught them in the neck. I can say this, thank God Larry found the trap because if someone had run into it they would have been in big trouble being at least an hour, probably longer, from the nearest hospital. And that is if they were somehow able to drive their self to the hospital otherwise you can double or triple the time taken to receive medical care.
I would have given anything to catch the worker that placed this trap. I can guarantee it would be a long time before they could tie their shoes let alone a hook.
This is the kind of bullshit we have to deal with from the very few workers on a mountaintop removal site. Most of them blinded by the coal industry. An industry that will leave those same workers scratching their ass when the coal is gone. Who is the extremist here?
Let me tell you something mountaintop removal workers, if you set a trap for me you better damn sure catch me in it because there will be no end to the hell I pay back. My patience has run out with you morons. What you are doing is wrong times ten and you know it. If I have to take my last breath denouncing mountaintop removal coal mining I will do it gladly. Your job means absolutely squat to me.
The mountaintop removal site on Kayford Mountain is operated by Catenary Coal Company, a subsidiary of Massey Energy.
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While I was on Kayford today I decided to try out the video capturing ability of my little digital camera and had I known the sound was so sensitive I would have definitely had something to say. I’ll know next time.
Our remnants of wilderness will yield bigger values to the nation’s character and health than they will to its pocketbook, and to destroy them will be to admit that the latter are the only values that interest us. – Aldo Leopold
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June 17th, 2008 @ 9:26 am
Who do you reckon was the intended target? Snoopers? Larry? Kids on 4 wheelers? Seems like a big chance to take with such a trap, might catch the wrong person. Looks like they did.
June 17th, 2008 @ 2:31 pm
I’m not sure who the intended target was. People that do things like this don’t think before they act. Motivated by ignorance of the highest order.