"Inger Skramstad Jørstad" wrote in message
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Just seems to be the essence of so many of the threads in this particular
newsgroup. It makes funny and entertaining reading, but it surely makes me
wonder, if there really is a future in any of this here. It certainly
confirms and strenghtens a lot of European prejudice against
short-tempered,
trigger-happy Murricans, a lot of loose cannons with extremely short
fuses,
filled with road rage, trail rage, track rage, slope rage, race rage,
muslim
rage, and any other imaginable kind of rage. Maybe you should just
introduce
mandatory doping control on your slopes? There seems to be too much
anabolic
steroids, strange substances and handguns floating around in your ski
areas,
particularly dangerous in combination with each other. "Where have all the
flowers gone?" Any ski-by shooting in your slopes lately?

Here is an interesting post from rec.skiing.nordic:

----- Original Message -----
From: "Inger Skramstad Jørstad"
Newsgroups: rec.skiing.nordic
Sent: Thursday, November 13, 2003 8:05 PM
Subject: Trail rage


Tomas Bystrom" skrev i melding
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Tord Heggdal was training at a provisional trail on a small road near
Lillehammer when a SUV came driving along and thus ruining the trail.
Tord stopped the vehicle and asked if it really was necessary to drive
here. The driver didn't like that at all and pulled out a shotgun,

That would not have been a problem for Tord if he had been a biathlon
skier,
and could shoot back.

Apparently they have SUV driving, gun toting rednecks in Norway, as well.
And "trigger-happy"
biathlon skiers ready to retaliate. Eh, Inger?

It's the whole world that's nuts. USA has no monopoly, just a huge
percentage.