From the time she was a teenager, Betsy Reed was enamored with a park she would visit whenever she could find the time and the means to get there. She had seen a few park rangers on rare occasion. She imagined how nice it would be to be working for a living where you spend time in the park. She aspired to become a park ranger, especially since her family was poor and they could not afford to send her to college. After graduating high school, she got a job with the North Country Parks & Recreation Department, starting at the bottom and working her way up in various roles. Not long after she turned 20, she had officially become a park ranger
Though Betsy's social life was alright, she did not possess the particular appeal for a man's romantic interest. She was not exactly eager to have children and procreate, and this may have contributed to her lack of desire to possess any glamour to attract men. Throughout her life, she maintained being self sufficient. She just never took any steps to meet a potential romantic interest, and men seemed to have no interest in her as well.
But there was one object which seemed to always stay with her as she wore her gray park ranger uniform and tan flat hat. It began to play on her mind more and more, being part of her daily uniform.
Black handcuffs.
During her training, she had a brief session involving proper procedures for arresting someone, if they were to be discovered break a law. The was never any emphasis on having to make any arrests, because the parks in the area had been basically crime free. But there was basically an awareness of "what to do if..."., made by having to carrying handcuffs with her while on duty.
As the years went on and Betsy grew older, she hadn't thought much about the handcuffs she was carrying. It was 2nd nature to have them along with her daily. But as she progressed through her 40's approaching 50, she began to think about them, and what they would represent. The most likely offender breaking a law in the park would be a male. She thought about the power she would feel over him by having him handcuffed. And would they be alone, or would others be around. She wondered, would there be a 2nd perpetrator, where she would be outnumbered.
From time to time as she progressed to her late 40's, she wondered what she might catch a perpetrator in the act of doing. The thought of male indecent exposure - basically nudity - came to her mind. She wondered if she would handcuff him nude, or order him to put clothing on first, assuming he had any with him. She thought about this more and more over time, until it developed into a fantasy. She was almost hoping to catch a nude man in the park one day. Though still there would be something too awkward about it. And what kind of man would be doing that.
And now Betsy was turning 70, about to celebrate a half century as a park ranger.
It was a beautiful fall day in the middle of October. I had won a jockstrap on an ebay auction, and it had just arrived in the mail. I wanted to model it amidst a fall foliage backdrop, and this park offered beautiful fall foliage. I brought my camcorder and a tripod along. I would set up the cam to record video, and I would make the stills from it later. I found lots of nice foliage spots, and when the coast was clear and no one else was around, I would drop my sweatpants, exposing my jockstrap, and make the poses.
Park Ranger Betsy was working that day.
She was on her horse, and saw me modeling in the distance. She had stopped and dismounted from it, and took cover behind something. I had been trying to keep a vigilant watch, but I never saw her. I continued to model my jockstrap, exposed in the park. When I finished, I proceeded to move on until I would find the next spot where I would want to model.. I continued onward, and she followed me.
At my next spot, I set the cam up at the edge of a trail, and went to pose not far off the trail. I yanked my sweatpants down and began posing. Turning in different directions to capture front, back, and the sides.
It seemed like an "all of a sudden". While my back was turned and i was posing my rear side, she came up on me on her horse. My immediate reflex was to yanked up my sweatpants, but it was too late. She had seen my exposed strapped buttocks, and wanted to arrest me for indecent exposure. As she hopped off her horse, se declared that was what she was doing, and before I really knew what was happening, she had taken her black handcuffs and my hands were behind my back, locked in them. I had protested that my genitals were not exposed, but she seemed to have ignored me.
I was wearing loose fitting sweatpants, and was wondering if they were going to slide down, now that I couldn't control them. I pressed my cuffed arm into my backside to try to hold them up in back and prevent them from slipping.
She began interrogating me, asking me what I was doing. I told her I was modeling my jockstrap with the fall foliage. She removed the cam from my tripod. "Well then. Let me." and then mumbled, "Maybe make some evidence"