PHHH #974.9
Date: Sunday, February 8, 2004
Place: Lawrenceville-West Windsor
Weather: Thawt it was nice
Hare: Safe Sweats
Hounds: Kasey Clark, Cindy Margulies, Brian Injum (a rookie), Jimmy Ruckfutgers,
Stigmata (fka I've Been Bleeding), Hey YO! Paully, Safety Tits, Timothy Edmunds,
Mike Hostetler
Also Ran: Brain Injury Volunteer 
Time: Sounds longer

It was frozen when I set on it

From 133 Franklin Corner Road the surprisingly large pack wound through swamps
less frozen than they used to be and office parks until it reached the new
footbridge over Route 1.  As the pack scampered and rejoiced in the fact that no
longer would they have to wade through supercooled tunnels under the canal to
get to the other side, ex-half-miler studduck (1:57) and virgin Injum hightailed
it down a long false on the towpath, oblivious to the silent screams of HYP and
the pack.  Lots of shiggy around and about the NJN tower helped open pores, at
which point Injum charged back into the pack and launched a mighty kick for the
finish, down another false trail and the through the ice on which Safe Sweats
had practiced his pilates the day before.  As the pack's "On-on"s trailed off
into the distance through the Stepford Wives development to finish at the hare's
bacheloramapad, Injum had time to chill out up to this chest, ponder his
youthful indiscretions, and mull more icebreaking antics in the months to come.
    The story of Safe Sweats and The Bear made for almost as interesting on-in
conversation.  The hare, lithe, nimble, and easily mistaken for a whitetail or
stand of poplar, avoided a variety of traps by Lawrenceville's finest while
setting in reverse.  At the Quaker Bridge Mall he shortcut inside to dodge one
cruiser (thereby explaining the sudden absence of marks), trekked through the
shiggy and emerged on the 295 offramp in front of another cruiser before
skipping down Route 1 to the footbridge.  Four cruisers finally trapped the
armed but harmless hare in an office park some time later where, despite the
lack of ID and obvious vagrancy, Safe Sweats talked his way out of a heavy fine
for embarassing the local constabulary and a severe beating because of white
flour found on numerous trees on one officer's property some months ago.  The
fact that he wasn't strip-searched, cuffed, and taken for a ride suggests that
the police are softer south of Hopewell.  Right, Paully?