Why Crazy Carl Is Called Crazy

RECEIVED Mon., Oct. 6, 2003

Contrary to what you may have heard, I did not swim nude with a bowie knife in my teeth to cut the lights during the boat races.
   The least of the reasons for breaking those three lights was that they kept me from sleeping late every Saturday and Sunday at New de Ville up on Manor Road.
   I'm sure your readers understand that it's not safe to swim in Town Lake because it's not crowded with outboard motors. It's probably not clean enough with all that Barton Creek water mixed with it.
   They call me crazy because I think Green Shores is a better place for boat races and MoPac would make a great double as a fuel drag strip and Hippie Hollow would bring more people to Town Lake.
Crazy Carl Hickerson
Record holder, Town Lake two-mile lake swim, 1962,
40 minutes flat (there was a current on the first mile)
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