Families With Children Stay Away

[Quillback]

hey no problem....do it up. I was once cornered by a couple of cougars down there on the Black.....scary dung. What was actually stupidity on my part once back in 1994 while floating with my wife now but, back then was my girlfriend....we came across three freaks beating the piss out of an older dude while his wife stood by in horror. Me being much younger and very stupid thought I should help and it became a true brawl.....these guys were beating a guy who was basically unconscious and long story short I was taken to the Jefferson county memorial hospital by ambulance, which I wouldn't take my dog to and the fella was air lifted from HWY K back to St.Louis..... there can be danger out there with the drunks.

MoSmallies saw a brawl on the Black River with me once where they were hitting each other with softball sized rocks in the head....he was very young at the time and I had to get him and his now wife and a few others out of there as dung got nuts in a hurry.....when we were high tailing it out of there two girls were ripping hair out of each others scalps like it was snowing.....people were knocked out all over the place......ah memories....chiggerville is no place to pick a fight with locals.

Man that is ugly - glad to hear you survived.

[Lancer09]

Ok, lemme get this straight.

I have a chance to get laid with some young strange that weekend?

God Bless America !

You fishermen wring your hands and stay outta my way!

I laughed.

[Bird Watcher]

I laughed.

X 2. Life is short. This is 7 or 8 hours one Saturday of the year. If you don't want to be around it, do something else that day, pretend it didn't happen, and let JoeD see if he can get lucky.

[Chief Grey Bear]

X 2. Life is short. This is 7 or 8 hours one Saturday of the year. If you don't want to be around it, do something else that day, pretend it didn't happen, and let JoeD see if he can get lucky.

Exactly!!

Just how many of you self righteous caretakers of all flowing waters were planning on taking the family floating on this stretch on this day in the first place?

None.

Just another 5+page rant on the OAF Bitch and Complain Board.

[fishinwrench]

Wonder if Camp Zoe could have avoided prosecution & seizure via the posting of a simple warning sign such as this ?

Anyone who else see the parallel here ?

[cart7]

Real simple common sense in this case.... The Police Already and with very good advanced notice, know about this event and its potential. Doesn't take much to super saturate the area with LEO's from Local Sheriff, State Police, Marshalls, Fish and Game. Bring the prison busses and fill them up and haul them off. Just that sight alone should make people think twice and behave and those that don't, hit them with the book for being Darwin contestants.

You might be surprised how much self policing will go on with that presence worked in Palm Springs, works in Daytona and Lauderdale its simple logic to the rednecks also even a mathematical formula their brains calculate ( Bail money takes away from Beer money ).

The police forces are already stretched too thin in many areas. Pulling officers away to haul off some drunks, pot smokers and gals showing their boobs seems like a waste not too mention the lack of enforcement in the areas they'll be pulled from.

And for what?

Look, I've probably only floated a dozen times in my life. Mostly on the Meramec but the Current as well. This Bull float looks like a pretty typical weekend on that river in that area... just more people. I seem to recall on my floats in that area the same type of behavior going on on those gravel bars, I think it's time to realize that while that may or may not be your cup of tea, those folks are taxpayers just like you and have a right to enjoy the river too. If you don't like it, don't go to the river that weekend.

I'm also getting a sense of self righteous snobbery from some on here. These rivers aren't museums, look but don't touch. They're meant to be used. How they're used is obviously up to those that are in charge of their care and management. Is anyone here in that position?

[Feathers and Fins]

You know what your getting on the Elk and no way to prevent it unless they call in the National Guard and then make sure its only members who are Puritans. My issue is this is in a STATE PARK who's very mission statement contradicts this event. Those parks should be family friendly at all times and any event that would detract from it and the mission statement should be squashed like a bug. My problem from the first post I made is about that, not what happens on other rivers, or streams but what is happening in the Park.

[GloryDaze]

The police forces are already stretched too thin in many areas. Pulling officers away to haul off some drunks, pot smokers and gals showing their boobs seems like a waste not too mention the lack of enforcement in the areas they'll be pulled from.

And for what?

Look, I've probably only floated a dozen times in my life. Mostly on the Meramec but the Current as well. This Bull float looks like a pretty typical weekend on that river in that area... just more people. I seem to recall on my floats in that area the same type of behavior going on on those gravel bars, I think it's time to realize that while that may or may not be your cup of tea, those folks are taxpayers just like you and have a right to enjoy the river too. If you don't like it, don't go to the river that weekend.

I'm also getting a sense of self righteous snobbery from some on here. These rivers aren't museums, look but don't touch. They're meant to be used. How they're used is obviously up to those that are in charge of their care and management. Is anyone here in that position?

Couldn't agree more...

[Bird Watcher]

You know what your getting on the Elk and no way to prevent it unless they call in the National Guard and then make sure its only members who are Puritans. My issue is this is in a STATE PARK who's very mission statement contradicts this event. Those parks should be family friendly at all times and any event that would detract from it and the mission statement should be squashed like a bug. My problem from the first post I made is about that, not what happens on other rivers, or streams but what is happening in the Park.

You sound like a hall monitor with the whole "mission statement" thing over and over. You are a resident of AR. Fins, it's not even your tax money. relax, go sell some brooder minnows and sight your bow in for Monday.

[Feathers and Fins]

Bows sited, Geese are located, and im ready and off work today.

And don't want to keep seeing this crap spilling out because of lack of enforcement, they do it there next is here... hell its already here to a lesser degree.