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Days GON By November 2016
GON Staff | November 3, 2016
The one won’t float. Junior Shaddix shrugs through the gaping hole in a jonboat that was pipe-bombed in the lot of his Forest Park boat-sales business.
Each month we turn back the clock to see what was being reported in the pages of GON, both 20 and 10 years ago. Here’s a look back at what appeared in GON.
20 Years Ago: November 1996
Jonboat Pipe Bomb In Shaddix Marine Lot: A pipe bomb blasted a hole in a jonboat at Shaddix Marine in Clayton County in late September 1996. The damaged boat was discovered on Sept. 24 as Junior Shaddix, owner of the business, was closing for the day. No one heard the blast, so the exact time of the explosion is unknown.
“The 15-foot, 6-inch boat was in a fenced lot protected by guard dogs, so the bomb was thrown rather than placed into the boat,” said Junior.
“You can see scratch marks in the bottom of the boat where it bounced and went up under the bow. It blew the front left side of the boat out and threw pieces of metal all over the lot and building.”
Fragments of threaded pipe were found nearby, indicating a pipe bomb was used.
Junior didn’t know why his business was targeted.
“They must have just wanted to see how much damage it would do,” said Junior. “There were more expensive boats they might have hit.”
Travis “T-Bone” Turner entered this buck in GON’s Truck-Buck contest 10 years ago. This buck was Travis’ first buck with a recurve bow, and he killed it in Troup County.
Ten years ago, Jody Hawk, of Monroe, came across a black racer eating a rattlesnake at his hunting club in Morgan County. He photographed the event, which ended with the black racer regurgitating the rattlesnake and taking off. Amazingly, the rattler went back to rattling at Jody. A rake in the back of Jody’s truck finished off the snake.
Tilapia are good to eat, but you don’t expect to catch one from a Georgia reservoir. The tilapia, an African cichlid, pictured above was caught from Lake Seminole on Oct. 14, 2006 by Rhonda Stamps, of Thomasville. Rhonda was fishing with red wigglers off the dock at Holly Isles when she caught the unusual fish. The non-native species more than likely was illegally dumped from someone emptying out a home aquarium.
Jack Collier, of Douglasville, sent in this picture of a Clayton County doe that had a plastic toy tire on its hoof that it evidently had stepped on. Jack arrowed the deer on Sept. 30, 2006.
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