writes:

"Three girls in a aluminum canoe ran him down?"

Not only that, but "when a gaggle of scouts came up the river" - they
apparently did so while paddling upriver.

Those must have been some menacing Girl Scouts, able to attain upriver
so fast that the collision was unavoidable.

They were probably trying to sell him some cookies

--
James jamesk[at]homeric[dot]co[dot]uk

We demand rigidly defined areas of doubt and uncertainty - DNA (HHGTTG)

They could have "settled" the dispute then and there........4 boxes of
choco-mint!
"Kegs" wrote in message
...
writes:

"Three girls in a aluminum canoe ran him down?"

Not only that, but "when a gaggle of scouts came up the river" - they
apparently did so while paddling upriver.

Those must have been some menacing Girl Scouts, able to attain upriver
so fast that the collision was unavoidable.

They were probably trying to sell him some cookies

--
James jamesk[at]homeric[dot]co[dot]uk

We demand rigidly defined areas of doubt and uncertainty - DNA (HHGTTG)