Randall Carlson Was Stopped and Questioned

We're all sitting there ready to turn in and and you know we've got our sleeping bags or sleep on the ground or whatever and I start hearing this like this something pinging through the leaves and uh what it was was we found out was late afterwards we found out that they were it was just a group of the locals as you'd say rednecks I think they were half drunk they came out and they were shooting at us with pellet guns. So me and one of the guys that I was with, we got some found some big heavy clubs and we're crawling through the brush. We're going to go there and Okay. You think we're a bunch of peaceful hippies, right? Well, >> I'll show you that cuz I was a scrapper back in those >> Yeah. You got I came up more fights than I could count. Right. Well then, but before we could get there, lights come from the other way. these big headlight spotlights and there was like a whole like five or six cop cars all coming down there, right? So these guys over here, they fled. The the locals, they fled and they get their guns out. They've got us at gunpoint. They march us up, you know, cops. >> The cops >> have you at gunpoint. >> They have us at gunpoint. Yeah. >> Whoa. >> And I was thinking, uhoh, this is it. Because I knew we had a bag of wheat with us. Actually, actually this time. Yeah. >> Yeah. So, uh Yeah. Actually this time he did. Um so, uh one of the cops, he looked like he might have been a rookie. The older cop sends him down. So, let's go down there and search the truck. So, he's down there and we're up maybe half an hour waiting and I'm just kind of sweating. Ah, going to go back to get to go to the the Annie War demonstration. and he comes back up and he got a book. Somebody had brought this book called the Anarchist Cookbook. >> I don't if you've ever heard of that, but that would be a book that you could get arrested for now. Oh, you're a terrorist. Somebody had brought that book and >> he says, "Oh, look what I found." He shows it to the older cop there. And the older cop is looking at it and you know, he says, "Well," he said something about, "Well, yeah, this is just a book. You know, this is first amendment, right?" Right. And I'm thinking, well, he didn't say the weed, right? Well, so we didn't say anything. The guy who owned the pickup truck, he was a avid fisherman. It turned out that the head cop was also an avid fisherman. So they start talking fishing, you know. So everything kind of just chilled, relaxed a little bit, >> deescalated. >> Deescalated. Yeah. And when this young cop comes back, he didn't find anything. Oh, no. Oh, okay. So they let us, you know, they left.