Theres no wrong answer cause its a what would you do question, so I aint aruging of coruse but... ya can't call 911 and hang up. if you do, they send a squad car....
If i saw someone selling pot or prostituion, and I forwarded it to the proper authorities, id be in the middle of it... Now if a kid was involved, or someone is going to get hurt, I got no problem getting involved. But for the sake of a victimless crime, Id not have my time, and certainly not my name involved with it. My neighbor several years kicked the crap outta his wife... the 911 call was from my house. The cops where in my yard for 4 hours and everyone that asked got the answer domestic distubance. It was worth getting involved because she was being hurt... but had it simply been an argument Id not wanted to get involved for the sake of being drug into it. And having cops in my driveway for 4 hours answering questions with domestic distubrance is way more involved than I wanted to be. At the time they had a couple kids, I went next door and got the kids.... that was important. Next time they where fighting out front, nobody was bleeding and the kids had been gone for a month. So what. 2 adults can do what they want. Nobody is hurt and no kids involved. Turns out she was a loon and he was a crook, but I would have had no effect on either of those things. Its not that Id refuse to get involved with a crime, its that Im not going to get involved with a victimless crime that is most certainly going to involve me. I miss a day of work because Im suppeoned if it goes the distance, because a bunch of worthless pieces o crap that dont work wanted to trade out rent for sex with another worthless peice of crap that dont work... nope id not say a word. That happened, here in town less than a month ago. And the freggin news went and talked to several of the people that filed complaints... they where on the news with the words craig's list sex scandle on the screen while they where being interviewed for complaining! no thanks. Like I said, if i saw the mounts, and thought someone might buy them and accidently jam themselves, id want to warn em. But no way Im going to anyone and complaining and get my name in the loop.
I watch entire (full size deep) freezers full of crappie fillets be taken back up north every sat and sun while Im eating lunch on sardis lake ms. Sure some of those old folks might eat 500 pounds of crappie fillets a year... but the majority is being sold and we know it because every year the mdfw investiagtes people and finds out they are selling them, out of state. It happens at sardis, enid, and grenada lake, Im sure it happens at other big reserviors in the south during and after the crappie spawn as well. Heck maybe it happens up north. for the effort it takes to nab a duck mount buyer you could shut a whole camp down. 1000's of crappies that are going to be caught, cleaned, transported and sold. Something that IS hurting someone. Hurts me when i go crappie fishing. Hurts the resturant im eating at cause less fish means less vistors, the store i bought gas at, my buddies property values because more fish mean more value to lakeside property and so on... Thats the kind of blanant fish and game violations I can't imagine letting go on with nothing more a token effort to stop it. crappie fishing is a huge resource, and these people are raping it and stealing from everyone. Fix the real problems before time is spent on messing with guy wanting feathers to tie flys, or some dude who wants to buy a freggin duck mount. Resources are adviable for anything that people who pull the trigger on deem important... for example the millions of dollars of stimulus money being spent ineffectively at the same sardis lake fixing boat ramps that dont have anything wrong with them, and dreging out ramps and putting the sand where it'll blow back into the ramp... a small % of that money spent to investigate the people that come and fish till they cant store any more and go home and sell them, would do more for everyone involved.
its so easy for your name to get involved with a mess, even if your doing the right thing, and before long its your mess. Again, I'd risk it for someone being hurt. Im not advocating being the person on a crime show that walks past a victim getting stabbed or bleeding out because you dont want to get involved. Im just saying, you can REAL easy jam yourself up, especially on the net or law enforcement, for being the good samatarian when nobody really cares.
I always thought if i was in charge of fishing in mississippi, id bust every single one of them crappie sellers. And itd be all over the news, magazines, and internet forms, about how many illegal crappie where caught and sold on ms reseviors. Next year id have 3x as many out of staters coming to fish. if its good nuff for people to cheat and steal over it, must be good fishing! best marketing line ever was, for erections over 4 hours call a doctor.... if theres a CHANCE folks jumped! travis
