Rescue Near the Coke Ovens (Arizona) needed

[articulate]

If anyone is able to help, I received this email this morning:


Dear Mark,

We are writing to see if you have any information on rescuing our truck in the coke oven trail near Florence. It has two blown tires and we have no other way to get up there and bring it down. We would need to bring all four new tires with us or at least two. Its curent tires are firestone all terrain but obviously not good enough.

If you can, would you gives us some direction as to who we could contact for help?

My husband's name is Matt *** and he can be reached at 602-***.

Thanks,

Claudia

I'm not in a position to go handle this myself today (and it obviously needs to happen today), so if you are able I'll put you in contact with Matt and Claudia. I have no affiliation with them, as they located me through my website just today.

Cheers,
Mark

[James86004]

It is 1 o'clock now. Have you got any responses?

[Hltoppr]

Kindof an odd request...some red flags going up for me....

-H-

[devinsixtyseven]

I'm nowhere near Coke Ovens...but has this been cross-posted to TTORA or anywhere else? Pirate?

Same here, on the red flags...but ya never know. Best not to speculate if someone's potentially in trouble.

[articulate]

Yes, I thought this was an odd way to get some help, but I find it difficult to simply ignore it too. I sent these folks links to TTORA and the Virtual Jeep Club.

[absolute]

Definitely some red flags on that one!! Especially if you don’t know them!
If they were serious they would have called a local wrecker, not randomly shooting emails to people on the internet!


Very Skeptical that this is for real.

[Westy]

It was posted on a couple of the local Jeep boards yesterday and it looks like help is already setup.

[Purple People Eater]

Hey Mark, have you called the number?

Sketchy, yes. Ignorable... ?

[articulate]

Ah... let me share a little more. I have this rebellious little website-without-a-cause (http://www.markdstephens.com/), and one page is dedicated to a day trip I made to the Coke Ovens with an old friend. Naturally, I get many emails from folk looking for information about the trail. These poor dupes seemed to think that, because I have a webpage about a trail that they happened to blow two tires on, I could help them in some manner . . . you know, being the local village guru about the place and all :rolleyes:

Such is the consequence of having promotional material on the web.

This was one of those situations in which

I didn't want to really get involved
Had some kind of remote responsibility to do "something," if nothing else because I have some knowledge about a truck that's just waiting to be vandalized, shot, or burned in an already volatile place on the brink of public closure


And here we are. Did it keep my karma palette clean?

[Willman]

I think you did the right thing!

Getting an email like that is pretty weird!

Reading this made me wondering if they had guns ready to hijack ya when you got there.....


Makes a guy think!

:smilies27

[FlyingWen]

I hope whoever goes or went out there did not go alone.

I am sure that nothing would happen, but better to be cautious

[Hltoppr]

Wait until you get an email from me...

"Dear Mark,

I read about your off-tarmac exploits on your web site. I have currently run out of fuel just South of Bahia de La Gonzaga in Baja Norte, Mexico...and the fridge broke. Please bring gasoline, burgers and cold beer."



-H- :sombrero: :safari-rig:

[HanzoSteel]

It was posted on a couple of the local Jeep boards yesterday and it looks like help is already setup.

Got the links to the forums, I'd like to see how they put themself in this position.

[tdesanto]

Wait until you get an email from me...

"Dear Mark,

I read about your off-tarmac exploits on your web site. I have currently run out of fuel just South of Bahia de La Gonzaga in Baja Norte, Mexico...and the fridge broke. Please bring gasoline, burgers and cold beer."



-H- :sombrero: :safari-rig:

:xxrotflma

[Westy]

Got the links to the forums, I'd like to see how they put themself in this position.

www.azvirtualjeepclub.com

http://www.azvirtualjeepclub.com/showthread.php?t=2074

www.virtualjeepclub.com

[articulate]

I have currently run out of fuel just South of Bahia de La Gonzaga in Baja Norte, Mexico...and the fridge broke.
Somebody help the man! For God's sake, his fridge broke.

[tdesanto]

Somebody help the man! For God's sake, his fridge broke.

No kidding. I was thinking that if I were in a similar situation, I'd reverse the priority of the items:

1. Beer
2. Hamburgers
3. Fuel

[Willman]

Wait until you get an email from me...

"Dear Mark,

I read about your off-tarmac exploits on your web site. I have currently run out of fuel just South of Bahia de La Gonzaga in Baja Norte, Mexico...and the fridge broke. Please bring gasoline, burgers and cold beer."



-H- :sombrero: :safari-rig:

Taking notes!!!

:bowdown:

[Scenic WonderRunner]

............oops!


Somebody forgot the Chips~N~Salsa!

Could you go back and get some please!.......:sombrero:




.

[edgear]

Wait until you get an email from me...

"Dear Mark,

I read about your off-tarmac exploits on your web site. I have currently run out of fuel just South of Bahia de La Gonzaga in Baja Norte, Mexico...and the fridge broke. Please bring gasoline, burgers and cold beer."



-H-

Isn't that what the 'Help' button on the SPOT is for??

[Hltoppr]

I'll remember to add ya'll to the list! :sombrero:

-H-

[TheRoadie]

The original stuck guy took four spares, had some help after he got to the rendezvous point late, and is out safely with no vandalism. Happy ending.

http://www.azvirtualjeepclub.com/showpost.php?p=20931&postcount=57

[articulate]

The original stuck guy took four spares, had some help after he got to the rendezvous point late, and is out safely with no vandalism. Happy ending.

While the email was odd, the pair was in great need. I've had to leave my Jeep behind twice and walk to get help. And it got vandalized one of those times. Not fun.

I got this update via email this morning as well. I'm glad someone helped out:


thanks Mark. we got it today!! and it was just fine. my husband got together with the az land cruiser club and they helped him out. wonderful guys to say the least!!!

thanks for getting back to me; it was really helpful, especially the az virtual jeep club.

it's refreshing to see that there are still great people in this world that will lend a helping hand (or truck!) to assist a man in need that they don't even know. my husband made some great friends in the process.

here is a pic of our rig on a rock, my hubby's little baby!

thanks again,
Claudia & Matt

[tdesanto]

Glad everything worked out for the guy and that the request was legitimate.

I read several pages on the that azjeep forum. Wow, that’s a different tone over there. :o

[HanzoSteel]

Glad everything worked out for the guy and that the request was legitimate.

I read several pages on the that azjeep forum. Wow, that’s a different tone over there. :o


I can't blame them, Matt shoulda had better communication with them to let them know he was going to be late for what ever reason.

[TheRoadie]

Agreed. If you can't have real-time comms, you need a backup plan and timetable. And a third-party everyone can access to serve as a message relay.

Or else, as in this case, you risk having groups of people able to wait varying lengths of time who can overlap by unknown amounts of time and who may miss each other altogether.

[James86004]

So, what is the difference between these two Arizona Virtual Jeep Clubs:

http://virtualjeepclub.com/index.php
http://www.azvirtualjeepclub.com/

[HanzoSteel]

Ya doesn't make sense.

[TheRoadie]

If it was anything like a science fiction club I used to be in, somebody must have slipped into the wrong tent at night, tempers flared, dogs hid under the Jeeps, and viola, next thing you know it the club enters mitosis and you're left with two (almost) identical clubs fighting over the domain name. Maybe not in this case, but there sure must be a story.

In this case, azvirtualjeepclub.com was registered last March, while virtualjeepclub.com is five years older than that. Five years is long enough for in-fighting and club politics to bubble up, or maybe the "other" club was insufficiently locally-focused? Any members?

[Hltoppr]

I guess I feel really fortunate to have any number of folks who, at the drop of a hat, would jump in the truck and bring whatever I needed to the most remote places just 'cuz....

...heck...the line up just waiting for me to break down in Copper Canyon is about ten rigs long...."Um, honey...I gotta go to Mexico to help Andrew out....see ya' in a few days...." :bowdown:

:safari-rig:

-H-

[MoGas]

I guess I feel really fortunate to have any number of folks who, at the drop of a hat, would jump in the truck and bring whatever I needed to the most remote places just 'cuz....

...heck...the line up just waiting for me to break down in Copper Canyon is about ten rigs long...."Um, honey...I gotta go to Mexico to help Andrew out....see ya' in a few days...." :bowdown:

:safari-rig:

-H-


Yup, I'd say that C.C. is within "Dave, come get me" distance.