[fightinJAG]

The glamour activity in camp is tree climbing. Meredith Jefferson, a recent graduate of the University of California at Berkeley, practiced coiling the end of a rope to form a weighted bullet that she then tossed over the branch of a tree.

But doesn't this cause the tree to recoil in pain?

[nathanbedford]

Maybe a RICO action was cause them to recoil in pain.

[yankeedame]

The glamour activity in camp is tree climbing. Meredith Jefferson, a recent graduate of the University of California at Berkeley, practiced coiling the end of a rope to form a weighted bullet that she then tossed over the branch of a tree.

But doesn't this cause the tree to recoil in pain?
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No, but I'll bet it caused her parents a lot of pain.

-"Now, mama, don't cry. It'll be all right..." (pat,pat,pat)

-(sobbing) "Oh, papa, I can't believe this! We scrimped and saved to send Meredith through all those years of collage and this is how she thanks us? Going and sitting in a tree?? Oh, papa!" (sobbing anew)

-"There, there, mama...it'll be all right..."