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Those trash heaps we found close to the road to Frankenbostel. My dad always tried to find a letter with an address, in order to call the police about it, but he never did. We saw our share of house trash, savaged by raccoons and other rodents.
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These were the early 70s and people often got rid of their trash by dumping it in the forests. And on other days we found colorful bird feathers and collected them in our pockets. Sometimes we’d find a freshly dug foxhole, and my dad would cautiously approach us, waving us slowly closer, with a face that expressed awe, interest, and importance. I wanted to live by a river, be able to go on canoe trips, but the closest river was three miles away and too shallow in the summer to allow for canoe trips. “A stream,” I’d crow and imagine that I could some day catch fish. On better days we found that small ditches running through the woods – who had dug them and when? – had filled with water, which was running clear and shallow. He never got farther then looking at pictures of endless forests and the wide open desert, yet he treated every forest as though it could lead him to the Bering Strait, if only he would walk long enough. I wasn’t able to keep their peace – I was bubbly, impulsive, and irrevocably they would start to shush me and cast angry looks at me.Īs a young man my dad had wanted to emigrate to Australia or Canada. My sister was a calm girl, matching my dad’s solemnity on these occasions. I was two years younger than my sister, and sometimes given to imitating bird calls, mostly owls, whether or not that was appropriate. Still, we didn’t realize how little we knew, and felt just like our heroes Old Shatterhand and Winnetou, the Chief of the Apaches. We knew they were stories, we’d read all the Wild West novels by Karl May, and were familiar with noble and not so noble Indians reading the ground in front of them, but we could only guess. I can’t recall how long these walks really lasted, but they seemed dominated by silence and small whispers, so as not to disturb the animals and the overall atmosphere of making our way through brush and over small, secret meadows, where small prints on the ground told stories we were unable to read. Chitwood was elected Sheriff last August as the republican candidate.When my sister and I were still young, our dad would sometimes take us on a long walk through the woods that started right behind our house in a small industrial suburb in Northern Germany and seemed to stretch forever, even though forever ended at the road to Frankenbostel, a village that was important only to its farmers. What’s interesting about this how the Sheriff's office is treating these men like hard core criminals. Gay Pop Buzz will not publish the pictures or names here. That shared, it appears the information is in many of the local outlets for the area.
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It’s important that we set the tone that our parks and trails are safe for families.” Said Sherriff Chitwood in a news conference: “If you insist in going in our parks and trails and engage in this type of despicable behavior you may find yourself in handcuffs. More: Gay cruising for hot daddies in the woods “Deputies who planned the sting, named Operation Park Hopper, wrote in their operational plans, “The possibility of such (lewd) acts occurring in the presence of a child will increase, requiring immediate attention and enforcement,” reports Channel 2. One of the men arrested is listed as homeless 15 are listed from Volusia County and two are residents of other states.Īnd of course, they appear to have perpetuated the harmful myth that gay people are pedophiles. The sheriff's office said the suspects approached and in some cases fondled the deputies.” Undercover male deputies went to the parks to see what would happen.