Posted on 08/20/2013 11:43:06 AM PDT by Nachum
Browns Mills, New Jersey (MY9NJ) -
Meg follows up on a viewer tip about “the people of the woods”. This is a community of people in Browns Mills, New Jersey where some have lived deep in the woods for as long as 20 years. Meg had to first gain the people’s trust before they would take her on a tour of their community among the trees.
She first heard about this group of people from volunteers at the Christian Caring Center which often helps with food and services for the homeless. One volunteer tells Meg that on average, the cost of a single homeless person to taxpayers is about $14,480 per year.
The people in this community don’t have many other options. Most of them are unemployed and Burlington County doesn’t offer homeless shelters to help get them out of the woods.
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And amazingly they still vote for him. Overwhelmingly.
My working theory is that it is because the entire state is a Superfund Site.
Some have been there for 20 years? Just down on their luck? What a poorly investigated article.
I remember a story from a decade-or-so ago about a guy who had been camped-out long term in the forest near Flagstaff,AZ.
A forest ranger found him and forcibly took him into town; apparently it’s illegal to be homeless in the national forest, but legal to be homeless in Flagstaff.
The Sheriff of Nottingham told Robin Hood that it was illegal to hunt on the King's land.
Central Park used to have "people of the woods" but on 1/21/089 they were all given apartments in the Trump Towers at Columbus Circle.
There’s one of those close to my workplace.
Here in the S.W. (Arkansas, Oklahoma & Texas) There are lots of “People of the Woods” usually small encampments down in wooded river bottoms slightly away from the from the actual river. They usually have some sort of cash crop going or are engaged in small scale chemical production. Every ounce in a while there is some so ignorant as to not pay off the local LEOs and there is a big splash in the media about a raid. They are normally out before you know it and back in their trade but they also know who to partner with by then.
Well, I think the nation would benefit with more pictures of Meg Baker being posted .
Zero’s fault!
Wait until winter.
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