BMH3 Run report

Run no:- 1445

Date:- 29 Nov 2010
Location:- Yok Krok Restaurant
Hare:- Spank Me

Hank "spank me" altered the bar of haremanship by his endeavours this past Monday. He was awarded multiple drinks by the GM and multiple drinks each by 3 ensuing RA's culminating in his anointment of "POTW". It should be noted, Hank took all the down downs in good spirits despite the wrath and insults hurled his way. Hank's good natured acceptance of the fact he set a shit run continued when he paid for the ononon.

A description of the run is short. From Yok Krok restaurant (the one in front of huge swaths of verdant green), we toiled down Ratchapreuk Rd for 1.5KM or so before a check on the highway was solved by Boobalube. We crossed the highway and continued solving multiple forward checks on busy roads, ran around looking for paper that generally was hard to find and then finally ran back about 2KM along a straight road back to Ratchapreuk and then 2.5KM back along the highway to the friendliness and warmth of cold beer.

It's not fair to give Hank too hard a time, after all, his run wasn't too much worse than multiple other runs we've had of late... although it was a little worse. Why now that you mention it, on Wednesday just passed, we traveled across the Pra Nang Klao bridge to the restaurant with the cowboy sign. We know this area has good running because Narest has set some fantastic and creative hashes through the area. This run was not to be fantastic or creative, it was in fact set mostly by vehicle. Amazingly we had 29 hashers on Wednesday night to regale/bash this attempt at haring. It was the 2nd well attended Wednesday hash in row with 24 runners the week before. Come to think of it, that run was a -you guessed it- city run too, with lots of sections along busy 4 lane roads and 100% on concrete of course.

Sandwiched in between these Wednesday debacles was the Bangkok Hash, which according to lore was a straight out and a straight back all on a busy road. Nice!! Let's see, the Full Moon as in there too and was also a concrete city run but they deserve some slack because city runs are the nature of Full Moon Hashes so they get a pass. Plus an American runner was actually pistol whipped by an irate Thai Military guy. The guy put his gun away after bashing "Pistol Whipped" (new hash name) but started pulling it out again. KC in his militaristic manner said in fluent English "DON'T DO THAT, DON'T DO THAT, PUT THAT AWAY". The Thai Military man understanding KC's physical language followed his instructions. Later over beers, KC was heard to say "I was ready to disarm that guy". Thank god for the American military I and the rest of humanity thought.

The question however is begged, "Why are people setting such shit runs?". I understand not all runs should be 100% on shiggy but is it really necessary to take us across the river or deep into Bangkok to just run us on busy roads where clearly no reccie or maybe one half assed one has been done.

It wouldn't be too surprising if these runs were set by newbies but, some of these runs are set by experienced hares. There really isn't a good excuse for this, even paying for the ononon which 3 hares did in penance over the past week in attempt to atone for their sins. If the hare is inexperienced, there are many people to call that set great runs and would be willing help out. Guys like Lem, The Bug, Cenghiz, Ambrose, Tickler, PV, Bullet, Todd, Joost just to name a few are willing to help out with a reccie. These guys know so many areas well, they can put a great run together with just 1 or 2 reccies. If the hare is experienced and has set multiple runs of this stature, then uh, I'm not sure who to call.

A lot of people seem to have a "well if you expect me to set a run it's going to be a city run" attitude. Why is that? If you have a car, it's a piece of cake to drive out to Ratchapreuk, if you don't have a car, it's 150 baht by taxi, that's not going to kill anybody on the hash. The GM's and the Trail Masters might want to get together and attempt to come up with an active plan to improve the level of hash sets. That might be a good start.

With the wonders of modern technology we also have these things called GPS receivers. With these, you can track exactly where you are and it makes setting a trail amazingly easy. Lots of hasher have them and I'll bet if you asked your friend really nicely, he'd let you borrow his. You're not technology savvy you say? Well then, get your friend to set the device up and then show you the "start tracking button" and then you'll see exactly where you are at all times on your reccie. Upon return get him to plug it into his computer and he'll then send you the google earth screen shot. Hey that sounds easy.

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