A call to The Drumheller Mail/ Inside Drumheller newsroom around 11:30 a.m. Saturday from a concerned reader prompted our Roving Reporter to check out their concern that the Emergency Response Team was back in town.
The reader said they were in South Drumheller in exactly the same area as the July incident where the RCMP ERT had done the staging for the 7 hour standoff resulting in three arrests.
When found near the South Drumheller water tower, six members of an "Air Soft" group, in full camouflage gear, carrying automatic air rifles, air handguns, bulletproof vests etc. approached the Reporter and explained their presence.
They are from Calgary, and were looking for someplace in the valley to shoot the plastic pellets at each other.
According to one gentleman, he said "It's like paintball."
The Roving Reporter told the group their timing couldn't be worse because of the previous incident, and maybe they should have their fun in some other town. At least, they should put up some signs to let people know they are present in the area.
