Armed suspect had 2 guns in white van
The man who handed beers to Chago was later apprehended by police; he had two loaded guns in his van and had threatened to kill everyone in the area.
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Tale 1 — Don't Drink Those Murder Beers: Oregon Camping Terror
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Sarah and her partner Chago, both tattoo artists who travel frequently, set up at a primitive BLM campsite near Phil's Trailhead in Bend, Oregon. After a tense first night with an eerie forest silence and Sarah's irrational Bigfoot fears, a white Ford cargo van begins circling their isolated site. The driver — described as having a greasy long black beard, a straw sun hat, and truck-stop sunglasses, singing erratically to AC/DC — rolls to a stop at their campsite and hands Chago two beers after their French bulldog charges at him and then projectile vomits in distraction. [1] — Alaina Urquhart "A greasy man in a white Ford cargo van approached Sarah and her partner Chago at their isolated Oregon campsite and handed them beers. What…" 07:52 The man's bizarre comment that Sarah looks like his sister and Chago's flat 'thanks, have a nice day' send him on his way. Later that day they discover via news reports that police had evacuated the entire campground because the same man — apprehended in his white van — had called in threats to kill everyone and had two loaded guns. The beers, the reaching into the back of the van, the weird eye contact: all of it recontextualizes into a near-massacre. Chago drinks the murder beers anyway, gets violently ill, and ultimately quits drinking entirely.
The Murder Beer Guy: How a Vomiting French Bulldog Saved Two Campers
A greasy man in a white Ford cargo van approached Sarah and her partner Chago at their isolated Oregon campsite and handed them beers. What looked like a weird but harmless encounter was revealed when police later arrested the same man — who had two firearms in his van and had threatened to kill everyone in the area. The French bulldog's perfectly-timed projectile vomit may have been the only thing that kept the guns in the bag.
The Most Important Camping Lessons from Sarah's Oregon Trip
Sarah's camping tale near Bend, Oregon delivers three unforgettable lessons: the woods can conceal armed and dangerous people, a gut feeling at the wrong moment is worth listening to, and sometimes a projectile-vomiting French bulldog is the most valuable safety device you own. The armed man's decision to spare them — possibly because Sarah looked like his sister — is something Sarah and Chago will never fully understand.
Chago quit drinking after the murder beer incident
After drinking the beers handed to them by the armed Oregon man (the 'murder beers'), Chago projectile vomited and subsequently quit drinking entirely, achieving sobriety.
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