So I rode into the last month of the Ride For Freedom most fittingly by stopping very briefly in the town of Chilhowie, Virginia. A man stopped me and he asked me if I needed a place for the horse? I said yes and wondered if the park near the river would be OK? He said his brother in law was the city manager and he didn't see a problem with it. He'd call and let the city manager know.
So I tied up the horse, headed back for the bus and drove the bus back to Chilhowie. As I drove into the park a police officer named Rick (or "Rick the Prick" as the teens call him) started beaming his flashlight in my face before I even had the bus stopped.
He continued to shine his light in my face once I had gotten out of the bus.
I told him I could move the horse if he was any problem. He called the city manager who came down. The city manager began demanding the name of the person who called him brother in law and said that was impossible. Turned out it was Tommy, his brother in law, after someone sent me his pic.
I asked The city manager Bill Boswell if there was another place in town I could put the horse?
"No, and you can't park your bus here. "
I told him we'd saddle up and ride to the next town Marion. (even though it was already dark.)
I moved the bus and horse. Michu and the kids were quite frightened by their behavior, shining the light in the bus.
That night I made a video about rude Bill Boswell and the cop Rick the Prick. It's day 324 on http://www.YouTube.com/...
DON'T watch it if profanity! Offends you, if you have virgin ears.
Well the event and the video caused an uproar in chilhowie with people sending me stories of every scandal in town, like the rape and sodomy of a 17 year old girl at the city fundraiser holloween party by the police chief and deputy of chilhowie.
City officials were furious. An article went in the county paper, things got worse, hits on the video 324 and other videos about the incident went well over 10,000.
So today the city said they had gotten the State Police of Virginia to start an investigation into having me arrested for using profanity against a city official. No, chilhowie is not in America, it is very much in Alexandr Solzhenitsyn's USSR.
State Police ARE investigating. No wonder we called this the "Ride for Freedom"
http://www.swvatoday.com/...
Somewhere in America.