It's been a while since we've had an issue with CREECHERS. The Creek Creatures who show up to park on our private road beside the creek, and use it as a recreational site. As I've mentioned before, nobody owns a creek. People have the legal right to wade and swim and float on them. They do NOT have the legal right to park on private property to gain access, or beach their boat on a float trip to have a picnic.
Anyhoo... on Saturday, I saw a red JEEP parked about 50 feet into our private gravel road. There was a man and four boys walking towards the creek. The boys looked around 6th or 7th grade age. Maybe 11-12 years old. They were shirtless. Just shorts and shoes. The temperature was 83 degrees. I thought maybe they planned on swimming.
I was in town for an hour. When I returned, making a left turn onto our gravel road from the county blacktop road, those four boys jumped out of the way. They were walking on the gravel, about to get onto the blacktop. A couple were waving. Not at me. But back at the red JEEP, where the guy had the motor running, and was about to make a U-turn to come back toward the blacktop road.
What in the Not-Heaven? What business did those boys have on the blacktop road? There are no houses nearby. Were they planning to take a jog? Perhaps training for the upcoming basketball season? This blacktop road is no place for joggers. Nor tweenage boys. It's hilly and curvy. A car can come up on you in an instant. And what was the man going to do? Follow them at 5 mph?
You never can be sure what a Creecher's going to do.
Hopefully he was going to pick them up as he passed them on the blacktop. Or maybe he was just going for snacks and the boys were headed back to the creek.
ReplyDeleteHopefully he wasn't going to leave them while he went for snacks! It's five miles to town, and I wouldn't want boys that age left alone in the wilderness too long. You never know what kind of crazies might show up on that road.
DeleteMaybe they had been at your house. When people are not where they belong, I assume they are up to no good.
ReplyDeleteYIKES! That was one worry I didn't have...until now!
DeleteI saw them getting out of the JEEP as I left for town. This is a mile from our house, which is on another branched-off gravel road. So I don't think they were there while I was gone.
I also assume people are up to no good. I hope they weren't a band of mailbox robbers! Who would suspect shirtless young boys of such a crime? Well, except for you and me...
Here in Australia, those old enough to go to jail for their crimes, often "hire" younger kids to do the dirty work.
ReplyDeleteWhen food stamps were actually physical paper, like currency, I saw people doing this outside of Casey's. Adults would catch a kid parking a bicycle going in, pull him aside, and offer to buy him a certain amount of snack foods if he paid with a food stamp (perhaps worth $20) they gave him, and then gave them the change. So that way they got cash to spend wherever they wanted, rather than on approved food items. I'm guessing cigarettes and beer might have been their choice. Of legal items...
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