Fish Thieves? FISH Thieves?!

Yesterday was a really bad bottom feeding scum sucking day. You know it’s bad when the state park’s game warden stopping our car and interrogating us to see if we’re illegally fishing is the BEST part of the day. “Well, officer, unless one of your fish decide to jump 40 ft out of the lake, through the passenger window and into my lap, it’s unlikely that I’m fishing as I’m DISABLED and the shoreline is INACCESSIBLE.” Gahh!

He actually turned out to be a really nice guy and a lot of fun to talk to once he realized that little clues — like the well-worn crutches tucked by my seat in the car and no fishing gear and maybe, just maybe, our total lack of guile and dumbfounded astonishment– backed up our answers… but still, that’s the highlight of my day??

*sigh*

This, btw, is the fourth time in two years that Michael and I have been interrogated by state park rangers or a game warden just for sitting in a designated park area in our car to watch the scenery or wildlife. It is, unfortunately, apparently “suspicious” nowadays to remain in your car and look at things, or take photographs of plants and wildlife from your car.

*double sigh*

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  By Dan, July 27, 2009 @ 12:42 pm

  Little do they know those crutches make good fish clubs.

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