A little busy Saturday around here. I mean, don't think that in the winter time this is just a dead piece of 'out in the country' where nothing happens. One little happening Saturday raised the hackles on the back of my neck.
I was comfortably reared back in the old recliner when our outside motion detector rang our chimes in the house. Looking over at the TV where our garage mounted camera displays the road, we notice an older Chevy Blazer turn around and go back out the road. No big deal!
Back to focusing on the book when a movement on the TV caught my attention. A person in a dark jacket was walking down the road in the direction of our house carrying what looked like a funny rifle. As I watched, the person crossed the ditch and climbed a high bank into the woods. That climb would not have been an easy task.
As he mounted the top he turned revealing to my view some huge white letters across the back of his jacket. I wasn't able to make out how it read but the word 'police' came quickly to mind.
I'm certain there are no meth cookers on this road but what about in the woods? Did that old Blazer have anything to do with anything? Were they trying to rout a crook from the woods?
After the person disappeared into the woods I decided to drive around the area and check things out. When I got down to Ryan's I noticed a near new SUV that looked like Ryan's parked in his drive. I got out of the pickup to get a closer look when the person in the woods suddenly became visiable and hollered at me. That sound could have killed me right there if the first word in the holler hadn't been my name.
It turns out it was Ryan and he was on the hunt for his young son and his young son's friend. He was trying to find them so he could shoot them before getting shot. A paint gun battle was in the making.
It wasn't too much later that the sounds from the woods said the opposing forces had all come together and a fiery battle was in progress. Never did learn which side won but there must have been hundreds of misses.
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"Fear paralyzes; curiosity empowers. Be more interested than afraid." -Patricia Alexander
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