There's a path of ruts up the slope, around the windsock, then west to the area of the
township road district maintenance yard. There, the trucks plowed down through the soft
wet ground, throwing mud and rocks onto the runway.
The trucks drove back east on the runway, went off the east end and demolished one of the
runway end lights, before driving up the slope and out through the gate, leaving it open.
There are tracks of red clay all down the length of the runway, on the airport ramp and
out the gate.
Funny thing, we were standing outside talking about it this afternoon, when we heard a
pickup with loud pipes go slowly south past the airport on Bell Crossing, turn west toward
the township yard, turn around there and retrace the path back to the north on Bell
Crossing. I grabbed a picture of the truck with my telephoto, and it appears that one of
the culprits had returned to the scene, probably to see in the daylight what he'd done in
the darkness. There is red clay all over this truck, and some thrown backwards on the
driver's door, splashed there from backing up. This is a 1989 Chevy, brown with white truck box. Driver's wearing a white hat.
Police have a copy of this picture, and Lloyd filed a report. We'll find him.
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