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11 years ago
Sooo... I got in trouble today with the game warden. He caught me basically drifting in the snow in front of the house. Well actually he found me with a wheel stuck in the ditch and skid marks all around in the snow.
My argument was, I live in the middle of nowhere and my closest neighbors are literally a full mile away, and I could see perfectly fine for a good quarter mile up the road in either direction. Not like I'm gonna hit anybody a quarter mile up the road when I'm doing fifteen. He was the only vehicle down the road all day, as was apparent by the lack of tire tracks. (Excluding the mess of loopies I made.)
I will state, it never occurred to me that what I did was illegal. I figured, snow day. No one's around.
His argument is that we're in a 'state of emergency' over the snowstorm and that I was performing illegal maneuvers on a public road way.
Anyway, he was pissed and I got a good chewing out, luckily he didn't call me in or cite me a ticket or anything like that.
In hindsight, yes it was stupid. But no one got hurt, and if there had been a risked of endangering other motorists I definitely wouldn't have done it.
But thing that gets me most is this. That fucker shows up when I'm in goofing off on a day when no one is going to be on our road and gets pissed off at me and yet, we have these damn trappers showing up regularly who are shooting from inside their trucks, trespassing, shooting in the direction of my house, speeding, poaching... the list goes on and on. Why the hell can't he come around when those bastards are here?
Anyway, yeah. I'm done ranting. I'm also done goofing off in my car on the snow. At least until I have a decent private surface to slide around on.
My argument was, I live in the middle of nowhere and my closest neighbors are literally a full mile away, and I could see perfectly fine for a good quarter mile up the road in either direction. Not like I'm gonna hit anybody a quarter mile up the road when I'm doing fifteen. He was the only vehicle down the road all day, as was apparent by the lack of tire tracks. (Excluding the mess of loopies I made.)
I will state, it never occurred to me that what I did was illegal. I figured, snow day. No one's around.
His argument is that we're in a 'state of emergency' over the snowstorm and that I was performing illegal maneuvers on a public road way.
Anyway, he was pissed and I got a good chewing out, luckily he didn't call me in or cite me a ticket or anything like that.
In hindsight, yes it was stupid. But no one got hurt, and if there had been a risked of endangering other motorists I definitely wouldn't have done it.
But thing that gets me most is this. That fucker shows up when I'm in goofing off on a day when no one is going to be on our road and gets pissed off at me and yet, we have these damn trappers showing up regularly who are shooting from inside their trucks, trespassing, shooting in the direction of my house, speeding, poaching... the list goes on and on. Why the hell can't he come around when those bastards are here?
Anyway, yeah. I'm done ranting. I'm also done goofing off in my car on the snow. At least until I have a decent private surface to slide around on.
Realistically, it's better for them to *think* I intend to murder them if they're on my property, than to have to worry about accidentally shooting one of them when me and my buddies are playing "sniper battle" with our ranch rifles and a bucket of green army men nailed to a 2x4.
The trappers don't give a shit though, I won't feel bad if I accidently shoot one of them or their precious hunting dogs.