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honga,

It is nice to see another guy from Maryland on the board. I never had any run ins with game wardens until I started law school. Since then, which is about 10 hunting seasons, I have run into game wardens about 8 times out in the field and would say that half of those incidents were pleasant and the other half were not, and not because I was given citations or not. There were two incidents where I was given a citation, and both were dropped (i.e., I was found not guilty) when I went to Court. There was another citation, which I got my first week of law school, that I flat out paid because I was ignorant of the law back then except for being able to figure out that I was guilty. Should have gone to Court and asked for a PBJ. However, I digress. That incident was just fine with me because the game wardens were doing their job and they were polite. They even decided not to confiscate our guns, which was nice of them since I was shooting a brand new, out of the box, Beretta o/u.

I believe that the majority of game wardens are pretty good people. It is just the couple bad ones that we hear about all the time.

Petey,

If enough people were to complain about this guy to the legislature and the Governor, I think you guys might make some headway. Remember, you elect your representatives and can always decide to vote for somebody else. I truly believe that the squeky wheel gets the grease. If you guys don't complain about this guy, nobody will ever know what the problem is. Nowadays, I try to write my State representatives an e-mail on every issue that irks me, especially the recently proposed "assualt weapon" ban. If you don't complain to the proper people, there is nobody to blame but yourself.

As far as detaining those girls swimming in their underwear, I think that is terrible, and I think it is even worse to award LEO's and game wardens with a honor for giving out the most citations. Any LEO, and I mean any, could write out a book or two of citations a day if he/she chose to, and I have seen those types of LEO's and haven't been really impressed with them.

Skyline,

I completely agree with you.