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Food found on ground:
One small wheel brie cheese
One half milk chocolate bar
One jar salsa
Animals in road:
4 bears
5 moose
13 bison (buffalo?)
1 coyote
2 humans
Coming into this town, midnight and not dark yet, the hitchikers and I consulted a map and decided they probably wanted to sleep in the park. At the park I pulled up to a grassy corner near some woods and they started unloading their packs and stuff that was all spread out.
“Hey,” he said, “I think those are cops.”
I looked up the hill. There was a man in blue pants with bright yellow stripes staring at my van. He didn’t look like a cop, he looked silly. Apparently there were more behind the van, were I couldn’t see.
“I dunno if you should sleep here, guys. What if they fuck with you? I can take you someplace else.”
The cop walked downhill towards us, squatted, and stared. We waved. He didn’t respond. The hitchikers shrugged and kept pulling their stuff out of the van. The cop (and I’m not kidding) scurried down the hill a little more and squatted again. It was like he thought we couldn’t see him, but he was right out in the open. We waved again.
“Do you think he’s okay?”
“I dunno, the other cops are all acting the same way.”
“This is creepy.”
“Yeah, they have vans here.”
“Get back in, I’ll take you somewhere else.”
I drove them over to WalMart and dropped them off in RV-land. They’ll set up their tent on a grassy spot next to a fancy RV, and pretend they’re the rich people’s kids out in the tent or something.
“Do you think the cops will fuck with us?”
“No. Over here you’re a legitimate tourist. Over there you were transients sleeping in the park.”
“For real.”
Ew…trickster/clown cops. That image gave me the creeps, too.
And by food found on the ground; do you mean the floor of your van?? Because if not, I think there seems to be a trail someone wishes you to follow. Brie, chocolate and salsa, oh my.
No, I mean on the ground! In the dirt! Rich people drop it out of their RV’s when they stop at the pull offs, I think. And one grocery store I pulled around behind where the dumpster should be, and all there was was a jar of salsa sitting on the ground.
Anyone that is different than “normal” may be terrorists!
My Kid lived in Philly for a while, with the squatters. 😎 Never had to worry about food , some of the stores, like WholePaycheck used to leave the barely out of date stuff right beside the dumpster… Looks like you got scooped by someone who needed a dumster as well as some stuff !!!
Cops are predators.
Maybe the cops were rabid? LOL That’s what I’d think if it were a wild animal acting like that.
They’re bison, yes. Not buffalo. Buffalo don’t exist on this continent w/o being imported in, and they definitely don’t roam around our plains (or woods, depending on how far north you are). North Americans just get confused and call them buffalo, even though they’re not.