Meramec River Shooting

[fishinwrench]

So that guy truly is the owner/deed holder for that piece of land ?

[Wayne SW/MO]

Sure Jack and I'll bet you got all your information from the trial, as opposed to the media.

I hope this guys gets the book thrown at him, if he doesn't I might have to think twice about floating a river with and open season on floaters.

[hank franklin]

http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/metro/the-party-doesn-t-end-for-floaters-after-shooting-on/article_8f31b580-885d-5333-ae42-849f07da13c7.html

More grist for this mill.

Reminds me of a song I wrote....

https://soundcloud.com/famous-p-jones/drunk-on-the-river?in=famous-p-jones/sets/more-songs-about-heaven-pain-1

[Quillback]

Interesting read, bet that cop wrote a lot of tickets. I'm surprised there aren't more drowning's, getting falling down drunk and being on the water is a recipe for dying.

[Fishslayer88]

If people didn't float with friends there would be. While fishing a few years back i had to pull a drunk woman out of a log jam in front of the Y bridge in galena, she was so drunk she could not function floating on a cushion, she floated right past her take out point.

She was lucky someone was fishing there that day her friends were not close enough to get her and didn't seem to be in much of a hurry.

[remi74]

I know this has been posted a few times. But what I see in it is the definition of stream law simplified in the initial definition. I've seen this a few other places including a report from MDC I cannot locate. I have bookmarked many reports and pages of missouri stream law. Page 1 says it all.

. http://liv2flyfish.com/HTMLobj-430/PublicRightsInMissouri001.pdf

[remi74]

http://www.dnr.mo.gov/pubs/WR51.pdf A Summary of Missouri Water Laws.

[hank franklin]

The latest...

http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/suspect-in-meramec-river-shooting-case-says-he-was-defending/article_21f2e227-51c4-54de-b568-a30bd510a1c6.html

Sounds like Crocker just went nuts. Why the floating party didn't just completely scatter out of there remains unanswered.

[Quillback]

Looks like the charge is 2nd degree murder.

[remi74]

He was careless. It seems to me he was ready for a fight. He shoulda let them go on. Defending his property?? From pee.