The kid decided to go down to the trail cam and retrieve the chip. Since it has rained a lot, the gully was full to the brim, and he, being a youth and full of vim and vigor, decided he'd take a running start and vault the creek.
As he told me later, the ground had become soggy, and when he hit the far bank, instead of bouncing up and onward, he sunk in and fell back. Naturally, this activity triggered the trail cam to shoot a picture, and it was just about the exact second he hit the bank.
Heh. The older and more experienced among us would have simply slogged through. Less loss of dignity that way. :-)
Reminds me of an old episode of the Andy Griffith show, Barney was trying to catch a thief at the filling station. So he sets up a camera rigged to the door to catch a photo of the thief. When he goes to develop the film, he caught a picture of himself waving at the camera.
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I'm thinkin' the picture at 2:48 PM is even funnier!
ReplyDeleteHeh! I like the facial expression.
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Notice the dog watching from the left border. If dogs could laugh....
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