[JKelley]

Originally Posted by fingpilot

When I first moved to Minnesota, rented a place right on the beach in Tonka Bay. It was fall, and the house came with a boat and a dock. Was beautiful. Then I discovered that I had to pull the boat out mid-october, and the dock too. Started snowing on Halloween. Lake froze over shortly after.

Loved living on the water. Sitting one evening reading the paper with my back to the picture window that looked out on the lake, when the paper was lit from behind by headlights..... Someone had planted a ice house 50 feet off of my beach, and had several cars and trucks parked there, all having a great time. Noisy, coming and going all hours, and not a thing we could do about it.

Karma intervened. During one loud, well-attended party, the entire 50 foot radius around the icehouse crashed thru and sank. The tow companies wanted to use my property to anchor and retrieve the truck to pull the cars and debris out. Thankfully, the police nixxed that, and the following spring, they came back and lifted all the cars and debris onto a barge, now floating. The water was 50 feet deep. I understand the bill for the enviornmental cleanup was $100K.

Nobody parked in front of my place for another two winters.

Hey Fingpilot.. I live in Tonka Bay, did you ever go to this place?
This is one of the marina's located on Lakeview Av. When did you live here?
John