Court upholds warrants for F&W officers

[BFR]

Been subjected to both ends, good and bad. Sitting in camp, dressed in regular clothing talking with friends, California GW drives his pickup into camp, slams on his brakes raising a lot of dust and jumps out. Practically runs over to us asking for our hunting licenses and demanding to check our guns. Problem was there was no guns in sight, they were all lock up in my camper. We showed him our licenses and said go ahead, check any guns you see. He then poked one guy in the chest and said to get all the guns or we would get tickets for loaded firearms, idiot evidently didn’t see the tape recorder sitting on a table . His supervisor wasn’t real happy when his brother played it, yep that’s who the GW poked. The other was in Montana. I had a deer hanging in my daughter’s driveway skinning it when a GW drove up and parked. He came over, introduced himself and said he had a call about someone from California poaching a deer on private property. I gave him the name of the owner and the permission slip he gave me. Never asked for license or checked the tag although the tag was on the ground in plain sight. He then spent the next 45 minutes boning it out and bagging it.

 

[KenLee]

That’s the thing, if you’ve nothing to hide you can have a perfectly pleasant interaction with a warden and go on about your day, if you get defensive and start trying to hide things, your day is probably going to be ruined.

In your examples:
1) you offered to let him look in the cooler and at that point he declined
2) his simple questions and your responses gave him no reason to be suspicious so he moved on about his day

I guess the real question, as to the original question about sitting on the side of the road glassing, doing nothing illegal and the warden asks to look in your cooler there are 2 options

1)you say yes, maybe he takes a quick peek and you both go on about your day
2)you say no, now he has reason to be suspicious that you may be hiding something, so he starts making calls to try and get a warrant, in the meantime he likely isn’t going to leave your side so your day is pretty well ruined until he does get that warrant

I would pick option 1 every time


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F that. I'm driving off and he can't stop me.