Happy ending. Well. As happy as hecatombs get.

[mrissa]

So they got the Boy Scout hecatomb erected along 55 months and months ago. It's right before you merge with airport traffic to go over the Mendota Bridge (or right after, if you're going out from my house instead of coming home). We go past it constantly--this is our route into South Minneapolis, where approximately everything is. And I have been complaining and shaking my fist at it, because why, why, why even build a Boy Scout hecatomb if you're not going to let Boy Scouts fling themselves off it?

Today there were Boy Scouts on the hecatomb. And there was much rejoicing.

They seemed to like it, too.

ETA: While it is a Boy Scout owned and run hecatomb, I have now found out that you can rent it for other groups, such as Hmong Break Dancing (actual listed group). It is very nice of them not to hog their hecatomb. I am doubly pleased.

Comments

[txanne.livejournal.com]

When you say "Boy Scout hecatomb," you're not really talking about one hundred dead ones, are you?

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Not yet.

(It's a high-ropes structure that looks like it is made for killing Boy Scouts. One hopes there will be minimal actual Boy Scout killing. But it looks like.)

[txanne.livejournal.com]

Oh! That sounds like much more fun.

[akirlu.livejournal.com]

As far as I can suss, she's talking about this thing (http://www.adventurepartners.org/AP/Exhibiting_INSTRUCTIONS.html) (photo on the right) at the Fort Snelling BSA Base Camp. Best guess, anyhow.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

This is true.

[akirlu.livejournal.com]

Well, it does look like a rather ominous sort of thing. It wouldn't be totally surprising to see cattle corpses hanging off it. Or extras from Mad Max.

[akirlu.livejournal.com]

Or Bears. Wouldn't be at all surprised to find Bears hanging off it.

[akirlu.livejournal.com]

Though if so, I am utterly mystified by its/their use for breakdancing, Hmong or otherwise.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

I expect that the Hmong Breakdancing Group takes a break from breakdancing from time to time in order to have luncheons and ice cream socials and instances of scrambling around on the Boy Scout hecatomb and like that.

[akirlu.livejournal.com]

Far too sensible an answer. Therefore, probably right.

Humph.

[greykev.livejournal.com]

that looks nothing like the M:tG card illustration. I call Shenanigans.

Re: Humph.

[alecaustin.livejournal.com]

The Ice Age card didn't have nearly enough dead cattle on it...

[minnehaha.livejournal.com]

I've seen scouts up there a couple of times. I didn't realize rejoicing was called for. Sometimes there's a tent city of boy scouts in the field north and west of there, and the equipment gets a lot of activity then.

K.

[rmnilsson.livejournal.com]

After years of driving past it 10 times per week and thinking "That's a cool building. I wish someone would do something with it," I'm also glad to see it in use. And I'm glad that they allow other groups to use it, because Nora has asked about it several times, and I hated the idea that the answer would have to be "That's not for you."