![]() Thank you Wes, SC and the members for another great week September 27th, 2015 Log in to Reply I don’t know you but I can tell you have very strong and admirable character. I’m not sure how you manage to pick up the pace every week but I’m truely impressed and grateful with your resilience, dedication and determination to bring SC and the members amazing and enjoyable content every week. You keep knocking them out of the park week after week and at the same time taking SC to newer and higher plateaus. Wes, your guests are phenomenal and your abilities as a host are second to none and simply off the charts. I believe everyone will be vindicated in their bravery soon enough. ![]() There’s a level of difficulty with coming forward with this that I believe most will never understand. That’s just my opinion but that doesn’t necessarily make it true. Not sayin this stuff doesn’t apply to every other person that has an encounter, I just think it’s a bit more difficult for someone in a law enforcement position. Because they’re putting their social lives and careers in jeopardy as well as possible ridicule from co-workers as well as other, people questioning their competence as a person in law enforcement, as well as many other factors that come into play when these people come forward with these experiences. But to be honest I think it takes a bit more bravery for a police office or a person in law enforcement to come forward with their experiences than it does for others. People are people no matter how you look at it or what occupation they hold. It’s a little unfortunate that the rest of society will more than likely take the word of a man of the law or a person with a position of authority over an average joe who have encounters with these creatures sometimes on a regular basis. They’re definitely a genuine, honest bunch of men and women. I really enjoy encounters from police officers. I think you definitely deserve a vacation my man. Wow, another amazing week locked down boss. If you have had an encounter email me New Player Window Anyway if you’d like to hear some of the details I’d be willing to talk to you about it ” When they asked me why I had gone off the trail I told them I was chased off by a bear to which I think a park ranger told my parents that that didn’t make sense. My folks were pretty pissed and of course worried. It was raining by this time and I was a total mess completely terrified and exhausted. I was finally able to walk back onto the trail after 3 hours but only after I heard it farther and farther away and above me. I feel like it was attempting to “herd” me away from safety. I did not have a “visual” of it most of the time and only actually saw it from the shoulders up 1 time after my initial sighting. The whole time I walked along a ridge line above the trail occasionally hiding from this thing. ![]() I felt like if I stayed were I was I’d be killed! So began about a 3 hour ordeal in which I effectively was lost. In an attempt to get away my instinct and I don’t really know why was to go uphill and around to where I could yell down at my friends. When it observed me observing it it immediately bounded up hill and onto the trail ahead of me cutting me off. We were hiking a trail (a rather remote difficult one as I recall) I was temporarily separated from the group to tie my shoes and as they rounded a bend in the trail I looked to my right (down hill) and observed what in my mind at the time was a HUGE gorilla standing only about 50 ft from me. I was on a camping trip with my family and a group of friends consisting of 5 other boys and my younger sister and brother. “I am a police officer and I had an encounter (an aggressive one ) as an 11 year old in 1994 inside the border of the smokey mountain national park. Sep 27 SC EP:150 A Police Officer’s Encounter ![]()
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