re: Any weird experiences with game wardens?

I’ve described a curious case that lasted for over a year with a friend of mine out of Galax Va.

It involved me for just a moment but everyone is pissed at this game warden.

Will search for it.




ETA


I cannot find it but I will try to summarize it like this;


In 2013, we went to my friend’s cabin in Galax. We paddle down the new river without lifejackets, and we’re fishing without licenses. At the end of our float trip, we saw a Chevy Tahoe, unmarked skid, right beside the trucks that we had staged at the end of our takeout. it was a game warden and he was very very cool at the beginning. Said he would have to write tickets.

He said hey guys, I’d like to see your fishing licenses and your lifejackets. We said we didn’t have any of that. We admitted it. He looked at my friend, who was the land owner of the spot we launched from, and said hey, you’re my neighbor Jon.

Jon answered yes that’s right I am. He said I remember you because you would not let my son play paintball war with you and your friends back in college. Jon said yes your son was really young and we didn’t want to hurt them plus we did not have an extra gun or facemask.

He said “yeah remember that I also remember shooting some great bucks on your land at one time. “

Jon said yes I remember all that as well.

Game warden says man my boss is going to be so happy with me after I write these eight tickets. Guys remember this will affect your out-of-state driver license if you don’t pay these Virginia wildlife tickets off.


A year later, Jon tells me that he has a man that watches his land and allows him to hunt on it.

He only lets him hunt if he is doing things by the book. The game warden often drops in on John’s land to see this new hunter and says that he is not allowed to Bait for corn. The land caretaker says it’s not. Hannah is dropping the corn in for six more months. Every time the caretaker is stopped on the property and the game board says I’m gonna get you for putting corn on the ground. The caretaker says do whatever you have to do, but it’s not me and leave me the frick alone.

The game warden sits in his truck for 20 minutes and comes out with a book full of tickets for 20 different violations. It goes to court and Jon is asked to appear as a witness as well since he is the landowner. The judge looks at Jon and says Jon, this is an awful lot of tickets for what started out as the game warden seeing that your caretaker was baiting. Jon agrees that it has a longer history than just would’ve appears to be alleged baiting. The judge then asks the story of why this happens. Jon states that the game warden is angry because his son was not allowed to play paintball war and subsequently wrote eight tickets which he was allowed to do but it’s still a fact. The judge then looks at the game warden and asks, is this all true? The game warden says yes it is. The judge then tells the land caretaker he is allowed to go to Jon, thank you for your time. All charges dropped for caretaker.


Because the game warden overzealous and possibly jealous and tells him and the DA to please join him for a chat after court. I personally loved hearing about this, and I’m glad that he was reprimanded for his childish behavior because his son could not play paintball war with us.