Bamboo almost got me arrested. Not really

I have put out 2 truck loads so far. I cut another load Wed. and Thur.took in to the river bank within a hundred or so yards of where i plan to place it. There was a storm coming thursday night so i piled it between two trees and drug two logs on top of it to hold it from blowing away. The water was very low so i would need to use a small flatbottom with no trailer and this would also give me more room in the truck. Two hours later i noticed a deputy on my porch. My mom is very close to retiring after 32years of Law Enforcement so i try my best to respect LE officers, but this arsehole pushed me to my limit. A nearby resident saw me with the huge load of cane and came down the field rd. got my tag # while i was unloading this stuff. I waved at him and would have gladly explained what i was doing had he rolled his window down. The cop told me that a game warden had me on video illegal dumping. I called BS, i said "a game warden would have known what i was doing or stopped me himself". I told him i was going back in a day or two to put the bamboo in the river. His reply to that was that it was illegal to dump stuff in the river. I finally told this guy to have the "game warden" call me and i would tell him what i was doing because i was not getting anywhere with him. He would not give me the game warden's name(because there was no game warden.) Anyway, Mom talked to the chief, who i fish with some and the patrol captian who i have given several buckets of crappie. The report was thrown away and laughed about it and appologized for the idiot. I am not in jail.

Easier to catch slabs without cuffs.......he needs a clue!!

peepaw, the funniest part was what he said after he asked me to step outside. In a smartass, condescending, shirlock holmes kind of way, he said i want to talk to you about your muddy truck with the bamboo leaves in the back of it.LOL whoa dude, im thinking, excellent detective work. you got me, busted! I couldn't get him to comprehend what happened at all. I even told him i had to go seek permission to cut the stuff load it and drive 10 or 12 miles to illegally dump it? WTH

Several decades ago a man killed a lady, cut her up, put the pieces in black trash bags, and was for some reason throwing the parts into various Marinas and boat ramp areas of various State Parks in SW Ohio in mid January. The LEOs in SW Ohio were under tremendous pressure to CATCH this guy. So, along comes myself, at 3:30ish AM, backing up at the CJ Brown Marina concession, snowing REALLY hard, with a load of 8 "C" trees to quietly and quickly deposit, then roar away from...just as the LAST 1 goes "Ka-BOOSH !" with the stealth of a WW2 600 pd Mk 34 Mod 2 depth charge on comes a very bright light and I hear: This is the Sherriff`s Dept; put your hands in the air OR I WILL SHOOT YOU !" The Park Ranger whom did NOT look favorably upon my nocturnal `efforts` soon showed up and was laughing so had he actually peed his pants, he was laughing hysterically and slumped against the wall of the baitshop...meanwhile the Deputy seemed to conclude I was NOT in fact the "Kill um Cut um up KILLER person" and he became VERY UPSET, which seemed to strike the Park Ranger as even MORE hilarious...the moral of the story I guess, is just get permission, if possible.

What we need is some inflatable bamboo or structure, stash it in the livewell of boat so it cannot be seen at ramp, then get to our favorite spot inflate the structure & slide overboard---but I do not know how you would make it sink. :dono

Great story

The best part is the Deputy has his weapon drawn, has me laydown in a puddle of water, cuffs me, pats me down, then searches my flatbed Ranger covered with "C" tree needles, and when the Park Ranger shows up and gets out and recognizes my renta wreck just busts out laughing, the Deputy just LOST it, yelling and screaming, waving his gun around; this guy was P-I-S-S-E-D O-F-F !!! And the more the Ranger lost it the madder he got. After listening to a full 5 minute verbal barrage about "What kind of low life (deleted deleted DELETED ) sorry (deleted) ect ect sneaks into a State Park at 330 in the morning in a snow storm to throw some (deleted) "C" trees into the water ?" I proudly told him "I DO !" The Deputy then got this really very mentally disturbed look on his face as the Park Ranger just completely fell apart and preceeded to laugh so hard that he literally peed his pants. The Deputy slowly walked back to his cruiser and roared off, leaving me still wearing his handcuffs. I asked the Park Ranger if he had a key for them, which he felt was far funnier than any thing that had previously occured upto that point. Suddenly, here comes the Deputy, back, to get his handcuffs and write me a ticket for trespassing and littering, and to tell me again in NO uncertain terms that he just wanted to beat me within an inch of my life and I was banished forever from the Park...strangely, when I the next day called the Clerk of Courts, they said all charges were dropped except for being banished from the Park forever...oh well. It strikes me SOME persons just have NO sense of humor...btw, the "Kill um Cut um up Killer" was caught 2 days later.

dang lowell, you were in pretty deep. i was not tresspassing. this is a national wildlife refuge where i put the bamboo. within 50 ft of my bamboo pile there was a flatscreen tv, dozens of beer bottles, cans, boxes, tires, and a pile of roofing shingles. and this ahole is concerned about bamboo and thinks i drove 10+ miles to dump in there. i own 1/2 acre lot with no bamboo on it. the deputy would not consider any of this.

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Originally Posted by Lowellhturner

Several decades ago a man killed a lady, cut her up, put the pieces in black trash bags, and was for some reason throwing the parts into various Marinas and boat ramp areas of various State Parks in SW Ohio in mid January. The LEOs in SW Ohio were under tremendous pressure to CATCH this guy. So, along comes myself, at 3:30ish AM, backing up at the CJ Brown Marina concession, snowing REALLY hard, with a load of 8 "C" trees to quietly and quickly deposit, then roar away from...just as the LAST 1 goes "Ka-BOOSH !" with the stealth of a WW2 600 pd Mk 34 Mod 2 depth charge on comes a very bright light and I hear: This is the Sherriff`s Dept; put your hands in the air OR I WILL SHOOT YOU !" The Park Ranger whom did NOT look favorably upon my nocturnal `efforts` soon showed up and was laughing so had he actually peed his pants, he was laughing hysterically and slumped against the wall of the baitshop...meanwhile the Deputy seemed to conclude I was NOT in fact the "Kill um Cut um up KILLER person" and he became VERY UPSET, which seemed to strike the Park Ranger as even MORE hilarious...the moral of the story I guess, is just get permission, if possible.

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I remember this same story you told awhile back. Enjoyed it just as much this time. Poor ole Barney Fife, another one got away. ha There went his promotion. (in reality, it probably scared him to death, my guess he went home and figured he wasn't cut out for this line of work)