June 03, 2008

Boundary Waters Rampage!

I'm not much of a camping type, but I really enjoyed my one visit to the Boundary Waters Canoe Area, up on the border of Minnesota and Canada, when I was in high school. And I'm really glad this didn't happen when I was up there:

Facing a possible prison term for terrorizing as many as 80 campers last August in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness, a 20-year-old Ely man tearfully admitted his guilt in court Monday, saying the drunken shooting spree he and five friends went on was "stupid, ignorant and thoughtless."

"It was the worst night of my life, and I can't take it back," said Jay Andrew Olson, who drove one of the two motorboats from which the group shot off guns and fireworks and yelled profanity at campers from Basswood Lake on the night of Aug. 7.

A "possible" prison sentence? The Strib adds that there was "evidence that [the rampage] was fueled by lingering resentment in Ely of the environmental activism that led to creation of the BWCA." Last time something this unfortunate happened on one of Minnesota's lakes, Fred Smoot was involved.

Posted by Stephen Silver at June 3, 2008 04:36 PM
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