Encounter with military impostor on yesterday's ride, plus ride videos

[luv2climb]

Not to sound flip, but my guess is that his buddy was killed in Afghanistan, not because he was recorded here in the US, but because WE'RE IN THE MIDDLE OF A WAR THERE!

+1. He was trying to guilt-trip me bigtime. Too bad for him that I didn't fall for it. Whether he was telling the truth about that or not, it is just plain wrong to use someone's death to attempt to take advantage of someone else.

Your encounter with this was, indeed, creepy. On RBR's forum recently, there was a thread about a member's weird neighbors. They have camaras on their house and seem to be eavesdropping on conversations. That, along with some other things, led the RBR member to conclude that they were cooking meth. It makes me wonder if the guy you ran into was up to something on what he assumed was your route and was paranoid about whether you had videotaped it. I find it hard to believe that he was, indeed, military. What he told you just doesn't make any sense. Glad you got back to your vehicle without incident.

I was thinking along the same lines, which is why I will be climbing hills in Placer County this weekend if weather allows it. I don't plan on riding in that area again. The traffic sucked anyway. You don't see as much of it in my videos because I edit out a lot of the annoying loud motor traffic.

Every word the guy said was crap. He needs to get a life.

+1. Having delusions of power is just sad. He's no better than a wannabe cop.

I wonder if they were involved in some type of illegal activity and were afraid you had them on camera. They probably asked for your info to try to tgreaten you to hand over the video. Real military personnel would not talk to civilians like that. You can tell a real soldier from a fake just by their mannerism. This guy was a fake who was obviously nervous about being recorded. So scary!

I thought about that. There was no way in hell I was going to give up my ride footage, especially with all that beautiful scenery!

I'm glad this incident happened in the store where there was at least one witness (the clerk).