All other things equal, it’s fun to read an article that includes the phrase “controversial inner tubing and rafting service,” but in the Sun’s coverage of Gary Kloch’s embattled Tube N Taxi Service, the fun stops there.At Gunpowder River, tensions are high between residents and tubers, rafters, and kayakers. At times really high. In June, Michael Hamilton, of Monkton, actually fired a gun at “several kayakers.”
And it seems that Gary Kloch can’t help but bear the brunt of that tension. His Tube N Taxi Service, which rents out tubes and rafts to customers (but not kayaks, by the way) and shuttles them to and from the river, has been hit with over $16,000 in citations. And some of the alleged violations might strike one (okay, me) as a little disingenuous. Among them: unlawfully operating a “bus terminal” and “trucking facility,” and running a type of business his location is not zoned for.
Those hardly seem like the real issue. I mean, isn’t the whole thing that these rafters are supposedly drinking alcohol, being noisy, and peeing in the river? A more sincere citation might have been “excessive peskiness of customers.”
Of course it’s probably a lot simpler to imagine the situation as one man running an illicit business rather than to actually try to suss out who gets to use the Gunpowder and what for.
Get a grip. You don’t own the damn river. Leave the man alone. I’m going to rent a tube,just for spite.