Coyote Crossing has been discovered by a couple of off-roader sites, and I’ve had to throw comments into moderation to keep the worst and most badly misspelled comments from sullying our comment threads. I’ve been approving the ones that are merely completely wrong. And even though it didn’t make the cut, I had to admit I enjoyed the one from “4X4Life” that started off:
Congratulations your a moron.
The down side of this is that comments from non-yahoos will be sent into moderation as well. I apologize for this and will approve your comments as fast as I can.
The up side is that every visit to this site boosts its rank on the Nature Blog Network’s toplist, and so by linking to Coyote Crossing, the off-roaders are making this site more prominent, thus bringing a realistic viewpoint on this insanely destructive, utterly indefensible pastime of sociopaths to far more people. Funny, that.
Ya gotta love the Pyrrhic victories of nutballs… at least some good is coming from their insanity this time.
Least the guy spelled “moron” right.
Just got back from a trip to Anza and had to deal with the yahoos going the wrong way up one the washes and trying to climb a shear canyon wall. A bunch of idiots leaving a trail of destruction and PBR beer cans behind them. Lovely.
Oh please oh please oh please, Chris, do share the goodies! I’d love to read the bestest, mostest entertainingest, undeniabliest patriotic gibberish and gobbledygook that real Americans share. Do offer a few snippets if you can.
Otherwise, my sympathies for having to put up with the yahoos.
I’m sorry you have to deal with these off-roaders. We suffer from the same people here. You may have read about the Victorian bushfires, and off-roaders are part of a vocal lobby group who oppose national parks because they supposedly are a fire hazard. Meanwhile, their tracks, with their SUVs, trail bikes and cigarette-smoking, chainsawing, camping humans, increase the fire hazard exponentially, of course.
A couple have just been rescued from the Lerderderg gorge with their grandson, where they’d slid down a gully; probably driving where they shouldn’t. If a fire had come through there they would have been dead.
at first glance, i assumed you were using “off-roaders” in a metaphoric sense, as an alternative designation for trolls. it works that way, too.
I’m sorry you have to deal with nasty comments. But since it does boost traffic—hey—they’re doing a good deed in spite of themselves.
you have to be careful with these guys. they’re the militant wing of the wise-use movement and more than happy to use violence to intimidate people. i have first-hand experience.