re: Which one of you Baws had your 200# Tuna taken by Mr Green Jeans?

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I don’t carecwhy or who but if any state or federal employee asks to come in my house I’m asking if they have a warrant. If they don’t I’m politely telling them no and shutting the door.

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Not arguing - and not agreeing. Just have a question that maybe someone can answer with certainty.

I have always been told that a game warden can come into your home or business without a warrant and can conduct a search. Is this true or just an internet fable ?

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I have always been told that a game warden can come into your home or business without a warrant and can conduct a search. Is this true or just an internet fable ?

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False

LINK

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They can't come into your home without a warrant.

They don't need a warrant to search you, your boat or car if you are in the process of or just finished hunting/fishing.

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Nice and succinct.

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How were they gonna prove this? If he knew or expected he was hunting another state, shame on him.. But if he honestly didn't, how the frick are they gonna prove that?

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They lied. And they're good liars. Which is the point of this tangent. When these authority figures say something, people tend to go along with it, even if in the back of your mind you understand it's probably not true. It's basically being gaslit

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Example-

Guy has a grow house out in the N GA hills on his property. Cops know it, but can't get enough cause to get search warrant. Bring in the DNR to walk the land without a warrant supposedly looking for poachers. DNR finds grow house. Instead of making the bust, DNR signs affi "we found weed while searching for poachers" to get the sheriff the warrant. Sheriff comes in and makes the bust.

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'Murica!!

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What's the replacement cost of having the meat off of a 200lbs tuna?

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where do you see that I said anything about selling the fish?

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Then why are you worried about the replacement cost for the fish if they aren’t selling it? They didn’t buy the fish. They caught it. They weren’t guaranteed to catch anything.

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Again, they had a 200lbs fish and all of the meat from that fish. Tuna is what, $20/lbs?

let's say that they had 80 lbs of fillets off that fish.

That's $1600 worth of fish because the captain was an a-hole.
I don't care if the they get their money back from the captain. That's $1600 worth of goods that is gone.

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Again, they never owned the fish and so they didn’t lose out on the cost of Tuna. They will be okay with a refund. They can plan another trip some other time and hopefully catch plenty of fish. Look, I agree that it sucks for them. At the same time, the game wardens didn’t charge them with anything or “essentially fine” them either. If it’s their policy to seize fish taken by illegal means then they did what they were supposed to do. Think about all the people who will get to benefit from the donation of it and can’t afford $20/lb.

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As far as they were concerned they owned the fish when they caught it and heading back to the dock.

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Yeah, but in reality they didn’t own it.

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This dude (the captain) is going to jail.
They most likely will never see a refund.

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Well that’s unfortunate for them if it doesn’t happen. Still not the game wardens’ fault.

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they never owned the fish

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And why is this?

You right

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When does that status change?

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When it’s determined that the fish wasn’t legally taken by the captain?