Posted on 08/15/2008 9:48:02 AM PDT by AuntB
doubt that is the reason. i wonder if this is a continuation of the lawlessness from a group of people that enter the country illegally?
i have wished that someone would do a study and see if overall numbers for various types of crimes (and who commits them) have increased.
my physician said his practice is being robbed blind by cleaning people who are illegals who grab up everything that isn’t nailed down.
Is it still illegal to go cat-fishing with explosives?
This is the kind of thing that Guiliani used to clean up NYC.
You're joking right? There is no lower standard than those of a lawyer.
Which reminds me, what is the difference between a dead lawyer in the middle of the road and a dead skunk in the middle of the road?
. . . . You swerve to avoid the skunk.
My apologies to all the good FReeper lawyers out there, I'm sure there are some.
I’m pro-anything that does something about all the illegals here in Alamance County. I wish this officer had some kind of authority to bust illegals in the Graham Wal-Mart.
“what’s all this chatter about net fishing?”
Just me. I dont’ think they’re talking about a little bait net here. You catch more with a net than a rod and bait. I’m sure you would agree. Net fishing is illegal just about anywhere in the US unless you are a privledged native American tribe....and that is just more PC nonsense.
how many fish in the ice chest? get a bigger net.
Crime rates for all types including murder, rape, etc. were at 40 year lows in 2005 and have slightly upticked the last 2 years. Immigration, illegal or otherwise has a positive correlation with reducing crime rates WHICH DOES NOT MEAN CAUSE AND EFFECT. Unemployment also has been at historically low levels for the last 5 years. Housing prices and stock prices, until the last 2 years, have been at all time highs.
By every measure you can think of, immigration (legal or illegal) has had a positive correlation with improving statistics in the US WHICH ABSOLUTELY MEANS NOTHING WITHOUT SHOWING DIRECT CAUSE AND EFFECT.
But if you want to play the correlation game, one would conclude that illegal immigration has lowered unemployment, increase stock prices, lowered interest rates, lowered crime rates, lowered teenage pregnancy rates, increased lifespan, increase cancer survival rates, etc.
BOTTOMLINE, Statistics can be BS.
A game warden caught me last year fishing with an out of state license. I live in Ky and was fishing in Indiana. My wife and kids thought he was going to lock me up but he turned out to be a pretty nice guy and let me off with a warning. One of my teenage boys was running his mouth to the guy as he was walking me up to his car so I had to tell him to shut his mouth. After it was over I had a nice long talk with the boy about showing respect (especially when someone can confiscate all your stuff and fine you $300.00 bucks.
Yup.
Never lie to law enforcement.
You can refuse to answer questions, but if you answer, tell the truth.
Cause if you’re fibbing, all you have to do is look at him sorta sideways, and you’re looking at at least a few hours of concrete floors and steel bars.
Well we didn’t treat them like Mexico treats illegals from their southern border. ;)
Only on the Rio Grande.
I just got back from vacation. Paid $53 for a family license so I could take the kids out fishing. Lines were wet for a total of perhaps 4 hours (and six fish). Expensive fish (catch a release anyway) - but cheaper than a movie (4 fishermen x 4 hours). And a whole lot of fun. I figure the $53 is going to a good cause too.
Years ago I got caught fishing on the wrong (Canadian side) of a lake. The mountie/warden gave me a ticket - on the low side as I was young and pleaded ignorance as I had a valid U.S. fishing license and thought that was good for the whole lake (well, that’s what I told him anyway although I had my doubts!).
Caught up to him at the next portage and he invited me over for a snack!
People have been killed for a lot less than this..... In Mexico......
The officer was also casting a wide net; bully for him.
Yes, but I really don’t mind buying hunting and fishing licenses because the money goes to improve hunting and fishing.
New York and Connecticut, also, particularly in the NYC Watershed areas and the Housatonic River. I recently saw a DEC officer handcuff and arrest three people for illegally fishing, without a license, using handlines with organic bait in a no kill area that is reserved for fly fishing.
A couple of years ago, a bunch of friends of mine were at a UKC Retriever Hunt Test in NC. This is of course an organized hunting test of retrievers (Labs, Goldens, and so forth) with the dogs running an artifical test, not an actual hunting situation. Farm-raised mallards (already dead, some of them for far too long!) are fired into the air via catapults, the handler or judge pretends to shoot them with blanks in a shotgun, and the dog goes out to retrieve the dead ducks and is judged on style, nose, marking, steadiness, etc.
Anyhow, in the middle of the hunt test here come a squad of NC Game Wardens all hot and agitated. They demanded to see EVERYBODY's hunting license -- judges, handlers, dog owners, the gallery -- and started arresting people. Protests that nobody was hunting anything, receipts for the delivery of the farm raised birds, all fell on deaf ears.
A state senator or some other bigwig was present and eventually convinced the GWs to see reason . . . and as I understand it there were some later repercussions for the overzealous enforcement.
But everybody has gotten really jumpy, and most everybody I know now springs for a license and duck stamp before a hunt test!!!! (and I think a number of NC clubs cancelled their hunt tests).
As an avid fly fishing river chick in central North Carolina, I can attest to the problems we have with illegal fishing. Not only do they not have a license but they keep fish that are below legal limits and keep more than they are allowed. There is also a huge problem with fisherman cheating during bass tournaments by catching bass and hiding them before the tournament begins and then retrieving them to win big bucks. These problems are certainly not limited to illegal immigrants however. Most cheaters I’ve seen are native tar heels.
The limit is zero seems to be the reporter’s belief.
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