Father's Day in the mountains
From daughter Caitlin, who lives in Bozeman, MT

However you all spent your Father's Day, I'll bet it was nothing like 
what happened here!  Welcome to Bozeman's first annual Father's Day Gopher 
Hunt!  Sponsored by the Gallatin Valley Baptist Fellowship, the rules were 
simple:  Collect as many gopher tails as possible in four hours.  Promoted as 
"part of our sportsman ministry program", the Reverend William Johnson 
offered as the grand prize a new .22-caliber rifle to the family collecting the 
most tails.

And what a family affair!  Landowners adjacent to the church gladly 
permitted their lands to be used as the "killing fields" since gophers 
are quite the nuisance--they chew down grass meant for cattle and horses 
and dig enough holes and tunnels to damage ranch machinery.

The results are in:  The most gophers were bagged by Wayne Langel and 
his son, Jessie, 12.  Unfortunately, the dynamic duo didn't return to the 
meeting point on time (neither of them had worn a watch), so they were 
disqualified.  Therefore, the grand prize was awarded to Chuck Rasnick 
who brought 8 gopher tails to the awards table though he thinks "we killed 
14 but couldn't find 'em."  His children, Elizabeth (4) and Charlie (7) 
aided their father with their own BB guns.

A picnic lunch followed, and everyone was in great spirits! 

Can you imagine this going down in your town?  Where I live all these
 people would now be in jail.