Drug Busts On CA

[jdmidwest]

Trust me this girl was far from 15. She just told the Agent this to get out of a Ticket.

oneshot

I think the agent should have been concerned about a 15 yo rubbing around on an older man just as much as all of the other violations. You must have some pretty gullible agents over yander. If he had been gung ho like some I have met, he would have found something to write them up for.

[oneshot]

I think the agent should have been concerned about a 15 yo rubbing around on an older man just as much as all of the other violations. You must have some pretty gullible agents over yander. If he had been gung ho like some I have met, he would have found something to write them up for.

She wasn't all over the guy when the Agent drove up. He did make them pick up trash.

Like I told them when he left I couldn't believe they didn't get a Ticket.

oneshot

[LarrySTL]

How can any of you guys PASS, for crying out loud ?

After all that money we just paid Gurley and they are only here one more year anyway, and you are gonna throw the ball ?

That's as crazy as the guns,gun nuts, anti-gun nuts, etc thread.

[Amery]

As a former Chief Deputy who patrolled parks, lakes and rivers in Southern Missouri, I can tell you that the ones smoking dope, getting drunk and fighting are the same ones violating the game laws, littering, breaking glass on the rocks, spraying graffiti, etc. We covered 755 Square Miles with six deputies and two water patrol officers (now troopers) and two game wardens. Considering we had two lakes, and two major rivers, corps parks and campgrounds, along with other assorted crimes, any enforcement action you can take ultimately makes our natural resource areas safer and more enjoyable for everyone. We sure did not do it for the money.....

I know of one instance, for a fact, that this does not apply.

[ozark trout fisher]

I'm not going to read this thread, but I will just say that the MDC is doing their job. A conservation agent's main job is to insure that conservation areas are kept safe, clean, and as nice as possible. Illegal drug use and littering has zero place in any of that. I see far too much trash, junk, and other more jarring evidence of illegal activity on public land. And in far too many cases, it create a setting where many (especially families) would rightfully feel uncomfortable. I don't see how we can do anything but applaud efforts to curtail that.

[ozark trout fisher]

Also not sure why this Brandon Ellingson story (while tragic) has anything to do with the purpose of this thread. That did not involve the MDC in any capacity, and has nothing to do with litter/drug arrests in a different corner of the state by a different agency-and this story has no evidence of mistreatment/poor performance whatsoever. If you vilify any law enforcement action because of an example of the worst possible outcome that could possibly occur (instead of looking at any of the good that is done) then you are seeing less than the whole picture.

[fishinwrench]

I thought you "were not going to read this thread".

[ozark trout fisher]

A couple of posts on the first page were enough to get the idea. 6 pages are a little much, as worthy or not the content may be.

I only mention that based on the strong possibility that at least 9 other posters have said exactly what I've said already.

[MOPanfisher]

What? a topic on OA went off topic and ran for more pages off topic than on, strange.

[jtram]

How else is one to get through the work day?