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gratefuldead
at Mon Jul 19 18:27:20 2010 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by gratefuldead ]
I'm the one at the root of many of the rumors going around which probably started with Roy and a few other herpers who were around to hear me complain about getting stopped in Sanderson.
If anyone is interested in hearing the full story feel free to email me.
I would like to say that the experience was not hostile nor was it intimidating. I consented to search by the game warden and I believe his name was Aguilar. He searched very hard and found a snake bag, my awesome mighty midget tongs and my dbl shafted kick ass furmont stump ripper. He asked if I had animals in my hotel room to which I replied no. He was courteous and he leveled with me in the end and said that he understands that we herpers are passionate and harmless but that he has to do his job. He did seem eager to find a snake on me and he obviously believed there was one hidden in my car given the zeal that he searched with.
I've never been stopped more times than I did on my second trip to the Bend. I spent most of my time in Brewster and Presidio counties. The sherrifs deputies down in southern Brewster county have been giving snake hunters a hard time and I could tell that they were being polite to me in spite of deeper feelings...but the fact is that they were all polite and cordial with me. I was in contact with three deputies and at one point I was technically on private property taking a piss but the deputy still didn't hastle me or waste my time.
I have to be honest and report that none of my encounters with LE were frustrating and in fact all of the above seemed to have decent attitudes in spite of my own frustrated attitude. That being said, I agree with Tanks that we have a lot to be pissed off about and in times of intimidation and misbehavior by LE we shouldn't just submit and sit still, we should raise our voices, cuss and start writing a lot of letters.
It seems like there's at least a substantial enough economy of the avg grayband hunter to allow for trips to the area with hotel expenses, gas, car rentals etc- it's time to start spending out money for lawyers to defend against these citations. What's this "HCU" that I keep hearing about but seeing nothing from?
What needs to happen is money, simple as that. We need to organize money to pay for lawyers to drive out and defend us against these citations and this will give us our day and court and a forum in which to argue. Money needs to be pooled together for the defense of herpers and it needs to be spent on lawyers.
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 A few points... - gratefuldead, Mon Jul 19 18:27:20 2010
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