Sep '07, Chelsea, MA, App Trailhead parking lot
On the spur of the moment I decided to drive out to the Appalachian Trail from my upstate NY address for a one or two day hike. I told only one person that I had decided to go and not until two hours before I left.
I had exactly $50 left in my pocket after gassing up. I chose a trail head parking lot AT RANDOM once I arrived in the Berkshires. Finally decided upon Chelsea. It was getting dark and rainy so I decided to sleep in the back of my van until morning. Mine was the only vehicle in the parking lot of at least 20 spaces.
Half an hour later a car pulls up, while I'm trying to sleep, right next to my van and an adult male in its front seat rolls down his window and announces loudly, ostensibly into his cell phone, that he wants to rent out his teenage daughter for exactly - you guessed it - $50! Says he really needs the money for some more ‘stuff’. It's apparently his supplier that he's talking to.
“C'mon just $50 bucks more. I don't have the cash but I do have my 14 year old daughter you can have.”
I looked out my back window to see if I was hearing this right and sure enough there he was with an adult woman next to him and there was some teenage girl in the back seat half looking up at me with a stupid looking grin on her face. I'd say the grin was sheepish - a shit eating grin!
I didn’t know that wanting to get away from it all for a few days on the Appalachian Trail would garner you a gov’t sponsored pedophile entrapment test! If they weren’t gov’t they sure had similar technology. Unless of course they just happened to know:
- that I had decided just a few hours earlier to even drive out there
- that I had finally decided upon the Chelsea trailhead parking lot
- that I had exactly $50 bucks to my name!
I NEED TO KNOW - AND SO DOES EVERYBODY ELSE - THE NAMES OF EVERYBODY INVOLVED AND HOW IT WAS DONE !!!
John Dalton
(518) 982-8114