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...Anybody who stays at the Slabs in summer's got to have a loose screw," insists Mike Aleksick, the fire marshal in nearby Niland (pop. 1,042). He's made friends among the 5,000 snowbirds who come in each winter, but there are outlaws among them too. "I've been shot at twice and been in fistfights...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: So Who's Crazy, Them Or Us? | 8/17/1998 | See Source »

Kamikaze Slabbers scurry onto the gunnery at night, hunting bomb remnants to sell as scrap, and a few have blown off limbs with live ammo. Aleksick resents that people sit up there tax free and then run him ragged with service calls, but he says 80% of the Slabbers are decent folk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: So Who's Crazy, Them Or Us? | 8/17/1998 | See Source »

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