OVERKILL
$100 Site Donor 2021
So my son and I were just out for a bike ride and instead of taking the "rail trail", which is a local rail bed that spans multiple communities and is used for cycling, walking, running...etc, I thought it would be more fun, since it was just the two of us, to take an old trail/series of trails that I used to ride when I was his age. They wind through the woods and loosely follow the river that runs into and through the park.
So we are about 500M into this trail and we come across evidence of a fire, a girl's pink blanket, singed, a suitcase with a teddy bear in it along with a few random items of clothing and the remnants of what I believe was a medium-sized dog that it looked like somebody had cooked and was snacking on....
A bit weirded out by this I inspected it, didn't see any signs of recent human presence and so we carried on further. Another 500M or so, back in the woods, maybe 50M from the trail was a very shifty looking tent. It was quite weathered in appearance but intact. It was closed. I did not investigate.
Concerned by the presence of both sites I called the local police after we returned home. When I described the scene of the dog the officer was like "come again?". Yeah, it was a bit off. He indicated that they may be squatters and that they would send somebody out to investigate.
So we are about 500M into this trail and we come across evidence of a fire, a girl's pink blanket, singed, a suitcase with a teddy bear in it along with a few random items of clothing and the remnants of what I believe was a medium-sized dog that it looked like somebody had cooked and was snacking on....
A bit weirded out by this I inspected it, didn't see any signs of recent human presence and so we carried on further. Another 500M or so, back in the woods, maybe 50M from the trail was a very shifty looking tent. It was quite weathered in appearance but intact. It was closed. I did not investigate.
Concerned by the presence of both sites I called the local police after we returned home. When I described the scene of the dog the officer was like "come again?". Yeah, it was a bit off. He indicated that they may be squatters and that they would send somebody out to investigate.