possibly the one true story about san juan hotsprings

Found your site on the San Juan Hotsprings. I was stationed at the San Juan Fire Station (Forest Service Fire Station) from 1972-1975. I believe it was in 1975 July or August when I was awaken by two persons trying to break the stations door down. I jumped up and they were shouting '" redneck just shot a hippie at the hotsprings!" I called dispatch and then went to the springs, there was a vehicle (mustang) that loaded up the shot boy and tried to make a u-yurn and had slid off the road and was stuck. In the back seat was a dead boy shot in the stomach. The caretaker of Star Ranch (the springs were star ranch property), his name was Whip Slaton had got in a hassle with the kids at the spring (private property) and shot the kid with a twenty-two pistol. Whip took off, they found his rolled over jeep later on Star Ranch and him shortly after (he has been drinking quite a bit). The Springs then were posted fenced and off limits to all. I heard Whip was sent up the river for life. BG

Well, it's not the One True Story — that place has dozens of stories, and the amazing thing is that the people involved actually write to me with the stories — but this one is perhaps particularly compelling. I guess it's the idea of a Star Ranch, a dead boy in a truck, a guy named Whip Slaton.. it sounds like the wild-west ranching days of an Orange County long departed.

highway of the beast

• WHEREAS, people living near the road already live under the cloud of opprobrium created by having a road that many believe is cursed running near their homes and through their homeland; and

• WHEREAS, the number "666" carries the stigma of being the mark of the beast, the mark of the devil, which was described in the book of revelations in the Bible; and

• WHEREAS, there are people who refuse to travel the road, not because of the issue of safety, but because of the fear that the devil controls events along United States route 666; and

• WHEREAS, the economy in the area is greatly depressed when compared with many parts of the United States, and the infamy brought by the inopportune naming of the road will only make development in the area more difficult.

How did I miss this?? They got rid of U.S. 666!