How I Was Cleaning Planet Live but Was Then Surrounded by Cops Suspecting Me of Drug Trafficking

Last spring I decided to do my very first planet cleaning session. More than that, I was planning to live stream it on the video.

First of all, I will tell you a little bit about the place cleaned.

It is a branch of the Volga river which is called Sukhaya Samarka. A very popular spot visited by the locals who—like pigs—leave tons of garbage.

People make bbq, drink vodka and beer sitting on stumps and wood logs, then throw everything left in the water or drop it right on the shoreline.

No need to say that during the high-water season, the stuff is washed away and travels down the stream of the huge river.

So I took my smartphone, set it up for the video stream, then tapped "Go Live". I have to admit shooting a video with a phone in one hand and collecting garbage by another is a quite challenging and slow process.

After I picked up all the litter I could fit in two plastic packets, I started to move towards a trash bin.

On the way there I noticed two cars coming in my way. That was very strange due to the road condition—it was full of dirt. Also, it is a dead-end of the road. And the garages were recently removed from the area.

Upon approaching one car stopped behind me, and the other in front. Young guys in civilian clothes popped out of the cars, one quickly flashed me his "police identity document". I did not have time either to read or recognize the paper.

What happened next you can watch on the recording of the video stream:

The date I actually cleaned the area shown is the same as the video recording on YT: Apr 7, 2021.

I was too busy to write a story immediately after. And now the time has come! First-ever published. You can watch the whole process from observing the ground, to collecting and throwing the litter in the bin.

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This video, photographs, and text are my own. Copyright (C) 2022 Valerian Kadyshev.

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