 A young boy came by during the initial stand-off, asking Gjems-Onstad what was happening.Gjems-Onstad responded that the others were traitors, and "Hird" members thus captured him and beat him up.Later, due to an outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease in December, Gjems-Onstad took part in digging mass graves for slaughtered cows in Dikemark and in Nesøya.