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FarkScouts are known for their honesty, and apparently some drivers in the area could learn a lesson or two from them.
A Piedmont Cub Scout unit lost boxes of popcorn and candy off the back of a vehicle Friday on Interstate 90 near Exit 60, said Jim Bethel, executive of the Boy Scouts of the Black Hills Area Council.
When the driver, Pete Jerzak, went back to recover the goodies, he found something he didn't expect.
"A lot of people were pulling over and putting it in their vehicles," Jerzak said. He said 30 boxes were taken, some right in front of him as he tried to recover the load.
Jerzak, a father of four boys, three of them old enough for scouting, started his trip at Ellsworth Air Force Base Friday afternoon, where he loaded his pickup and trailer with the boxes and headed west on the interstate.
When he got near the Rushmore Mall, another driver motioned to him that he was losing part of his load, and by the time he could exit, go back east, loop around and get back on the highway going west, people were pulling over and making off with the treats.
"I was pretty disgusted with people," Jerzak said. "It's not my personal things. It's stuff that these kids have raised money for."
Diane Forsyth, product chairwoman for the scouting district, said the goods were worth more than $1,500, once the loss had been tallied.
Since the popcorn and candy are due for delivery to customers who already paid their bills, the scouts will have to replace the food with money from their own pockets, because the council doesn't have the money to reimburse them, Forsyth said.
"It's a hard lesson" for the boys, Bethel said. "To have their fundraising project kind of go south on them is disappointing. Life lesson learned maybe too soon."
Motorists who picked up the boxes can return them at the council office at 144 North St.
"No questions asked," Bethel said.
People can contact the office at 342-2824.
Contact Jeremy Fugleberg at 394-8421 or jeremy.fugleberg@rapidcityjournal.com
Nathan Alspaw, left, a seventh-grader at North Middle School, J.T. Evans, a sixth-grader at West Middle School, and Jason Keoke, a sixth grader at NMS, paint over graffiti in an alleyway located near the intersection of Jackson and Milwaukee streets on Saturday. (Ryan Soderlin/Journal staff)
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