10/17/08 Road rage

There was always a chance it could happen, but I never thought it would happen like this. I'm Jeff Keane stay with me through the break and I'll report on an odd road incident. I guess road rage could happen on a county gravel road, but normally anyone unfamiliar with traveling on those roads goes pretty slow and a person can get around them, also you don't find too many drivers who want to tailgate and eat dirt while watching gravel bounce off their windshield so the personality of a gravel road keeps motorists pretty well separated. But county road rage did happen and this is the story. My good friend, Clark, was hauling a load of corn home for the cattle in his finishing pen and had taken one of the county back roads to avoid some construction slow down and twenty minute traffic stops. As he rounded one of the curves on an uphill grade he encountered an instant skunk aroma. The smell didn't leave as he pulled on up the hill and he was worried a skunk had run under his truck and was wrapped up in the back dual tires. The smell got stronger and as he topped the hill right there in the middle of the road was skunk holding his tail straight up running for everything he had with a badger in hot pursuit. Now I know badgers are tough critters, but this one is zeroed in on the south end of a northbound skunk in full blossom and never missing a running step. Clark said as the pair left the road he could see the badger wasn't even wearing a gas mask. Oh, it really did happen on an uphill gravel road winding up the backside of Badger Mountain. I'm Jeff Keane.