A couple finds and why we carry

[GopherDaGold]

Pistol ball and a tiny button shank that was 8" deep.



Ran across this print while detecting. This is about 75 yards from my neighborhood.



A resident claims he set up a trail cam and captured this:

 

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[sjvalleyhunter]

Dangit. I wish I would have known that before it had gone this long. I knew I should have gotten it when I had the chance to when I worked there.

At least you are retired. I have nearly 21 years down and 10 more to go.

 

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[sylvia40]

Especially if they’re hibernating.

 

[SanMan]

Careful with those brass knuckles. Those are still illegal in California.

They are,..... "For Display and Costume use only"

How about, they are a "Paper weight"

Lens flare?



Truth is that's a belt buckle.

But cops would take it away, it never leaves my desk drawer.

 

[A2coins]

Careful with those brass knuckles. Those are still illegal in California.

And in MI

 

[civil_war22]

I am familiar with the laws in Louisiana, California, and a good bit of Georgia.

In those three states a retired or former officer, clean record, has the right to concealed carry.

In Louisiana former officers that are able bodied can be recalled to duty in an emergency.

Same three states, a law officer is considered on duty 24 hours a day, even off the clock.

It’s the same way in Arkansas minus the recalled portion. I am still FEMA certified is National Incident Management Response, and Emergency Operations, as well as Certified through the National Weather Service, and Storm Prediction Center to actively run the Emergency Management in our state. I’ll be damned if I do it in our redneck county. If I did there would be a lot more done about things that go on here after natural disasters. I’ve been medically retired for close to 2 years now, and still teach others how to observe storm development, and verifying a thunderstorm, from a severe warned storm with the possibility of tornadoes, by showing them how to read long range models, from across the Rockies, through the plains, and over to here. I’ve personally worked 4 tornadoes, Altus/Denning EF-4, Mountainburg EF-1, Jay, Oklahoma EF-1 that landed right behind me, and the more recent Linwood, Lawrence, KS EF-4 that touched down right next to me. I was the only person to see, and film the massive over a mile wide tornado touch down next to me in a soybean field, and they’ve got my video using it for future studies on how tornadoes form. Oh, and I’ve worked one Hurricane. Katrina was a biotch when I had to go to Louisiana, and help with rescue efforts, and then was sent back home to over-see operations management at Chaffee when all of them were shipped here, to stay in the old military barracks. We had to go through every single day, and check each individuals belongings, and their mattresses for contraband. On a daily basis, we had a mound of contraband almost a 2 feet high, of on the first day, guns, knives, needles, drugs, and even guns made out of nerf guns that one man had put a sawed off shotgun inside a large nerf gun. Then the second day, and following weeks we found more stuff they had hidden inside the barrack walls, baseplates, heating, and air ducts, they made shanks out of the coiled up wire on the old windows, they’d use pieces of metal bed frames that go in the center of a bed, to make several knives with. It was a never ending battle, then when they were able to go back home some of them went home, and a large number stayed, out of the large number that stayed, 6 of them ended up committing murder less than a year after Katrina happened in the town they moved to, which was the same town I worked in.
I miss law enforcement sometimes, but things have changed dramatically since the early days of my career till now, to see the new rookies, to even folks that’s been at it for 3 years how they have such attitudes, and want to find a reason to tack on charges for a guy they caught with less than an ounce of weed. I remember the days when I worked I’d pull someone over, they’d been drinking, and driving. It was your discretion whether to arrest them or take them home, I wouldn’t send them to jail if it was their first offense, I would have their car towed, and they would have to come up with the tow/storage fee to get it out as punishment, if someone had less than an ounce of weed on them, I’d make them pour it out right in front of me, all paraphernalia I found, they’d hand it to me, and I would put it in a ziplock baggie, and smash it on the side of the road. That’s why I never ever received any death threats, even if I did arrest someone that went to the pen, not once have I ever met a subject that I arrested who’s given me any grief, they’re always very polite, thank me for my service, some of them thank me for doing what I did to them because it opened their eyes to what they were doing was wrong, and I’ll admit not only do I suffer from a broken back, and replaced knee, but also PTSD, that I manage by speaking to others like on here, I made the mistake as a rookie to take the calls of homicides, welfare checks, suspicious deaths, suicides, and even car accidents. It’s all left a mark on me, a scar in my memory that has kept me from being able to hold a regular job without getting overwhelmed, because I’m not back in my norm, I’m not back doing my routine, so now I am medically retired, I occasionally do remodeling, which was a full time business before I got hurt at my regular job where I was a certified ASE diesel, gasoline, and LP. I always tell police officers when they are young that I see to take it slow, there’ll be calls you’ll get that you may go home at night, and be scared to sleep, and that’s ok, that’s normal to be afraid of death, I’ve also sat with someone who was trapped in a car, and dying, and sat, beside them holding their hand so they didn’t feel alone, and prayed with them, and I’ve had to go to several teens parents homes to tell them that their babies aren’t going to come home because they were killed in a car accident or a shooting. So at times I do miss it, but then I think of all the memories I’ve collected through the years and sometimes it’s a curse to have a photographic memory.

 

[civil_war22]

And in MI

I think they’re illegal in most states now, as they’re seen as a brutal, tool that can be used to commit either an assault or if they have proof of intent then they can charge you with attempted capital murder if they can prove you premeditated it, and planned to use them. I still have my ASP, my very first Smith & Wesson handcuffs, and even my first slapstick,which if most don’t know what that is it’s a leather bound piece of equipment with a round leather loop, that’s got either sand, or padded lead used as a less than deadly force, but it’s like anything else, you hit someone in the right spot it’ll kill them.

 

[sjvalleyhunter]

Working for the fifth largest city in California and having nearly all of my 21 years on the street (all on night shift), I completely understand where you are coming from, Civil_war 22.

 

[civil_war22]

Working for the fifth largest city in California and having nearly all of my 21 years on the street (all on night shift), I completely understand where you are coming from.

That’s all I ever wanted was night shift. Sad part is it’s more fun at night. There’s more action, and 90% of the time the admin is at home asleep. So unless you’ve got a officer involved shooting, or a officer injured then they don’t get notified. Of course there’s always a patrol sergeant, or patrol captain on duty, usually sitting somewhere playing on their laptops, or at the office doing paperwork waiting on a call. Some will go out, and actually patrol, but at that late in their season they don’t want to get in to too much because they are of course the highest ranking officer on the street, and would have to wake up their supervisor or have the state police oversee their doings.

 

[GopherDaGold]

The prevailing attitude around here is that black bears aren't out to cause us trouble but I will be more aware of my surroundings from now on.
The brown ones are trouble, I hear.

 

[SanMan]

Hurricane Katrina was a biotch when I had to go to Louisiana, and help with rescue efforts, and then was sent back home to over-see operations management at Chaffee when all of them were shipped here, to stay in the old military barracks. We had to go through every single day, and check each individuals belongings, and their mattresses for contraband. On a daily basis, we had a mound of contraband almost a 2 feet high, of on the first day, guns, knives, needles, drugs, and even guns made out of nerf guns that one man had put a sawed off shotgun inside a large nerf gun. Then the second day, and following weeks we found more stuff they had hidden inside the barrack walls, baseplates, heating, and air ducts, they made shanks out of the coiled up wire on the old windows, they’d use pieces of metal bed frames that go in the center of a bed, to make several knives with. It was a never ending battle, then when they were able to go back home some of them went home, and a large number stayed, out of the large number that stayed, 6 of them ended up committing murder less than a year after Katrina happened in the town they moved to, which was the same town I worked in.

CW, excuse me for saying so,.....but that sounds just like Angola, (LSP).

 

[civil_war22]

The prevailing attitude around here is that black bears aren't out to cause us trouble but I will be more aware of my surroundings from now on.
The brown ones are trouble, I hear.

I’ve used rocks to scare them off. You take two semi flat rocks, and smack them together making a slapping sound, and almost 90% of the time they take off, I’ve also done it to a pack of coyotes that circled around me when it was muzzle loading season. I knew I didn’t have enough for all six of them, so I found two rocks, and started beating them together like I was Rick Allen playing the drums, and they took off.

 

[Al D]

The prevailing attitude around here is that black bears aren't out to cause us trouble but I will be more aware of my surroundings from now on.
The brown ones are trouble, I hear.

Such a racist remark, just kidding, someone was bound to say it.

 

[SanMan]

Quote Originally Posted by GopherDaGold View Post
The prevailing attitude around here is that black bears aren't out to cause us trouble but I will be more aware of my surroundings from now on.
The brown ones are trouble, I hear.

Such a racist remark, just kidding, someone was bound to say it.

Alan! you're terrible!

That bear could have been an aspiring rap artist.

 

[civil_war22]

CW, excuse me for saying so,.....but that sounds just like Angola, (LSP).

They sent them over to camp Chaffee, and numerous other places throughout the state of Arkansas, and several other states. We had to sit night, and day with them, as #1 they were on a active military base, #2 we weren’t sure who we had, because most of them didn’t take the time to bring their ID’s. #3 by day one we already had a fight going on among rival members of a close knit group from New Orleans, so that’s why we had to search their belongings. There were good folks there, women, children, and men, and after what happened at the Superdome, we weren’t taking any precautions because a majority of them had come from there. I personally flew back with a group of them on the way to the Fort.

 

[civil_war22]

Alan! you're terrible!

That bear could have been an aspiring rap artist.

Black bears don’t want trouble they yell “ hands up, don’t shoot”, the brown bears are like the crips of bears, they don’t care if you’re a member of the Black Panthers or Black Bears, they’ll still tear you up.

 

[SanMan]

Ok bear, move along, nothing to see here.



LOL

 

[civil_war22]

Ok bear, move along, nothing to see here.



LOL

Love it.

 

[DizzyDigger]

CW-22, love reading your posts, but on those long ones could
you help a fellow out and add in a couple paragraph breaks?
I'm always getting lost about mid-paragraph and have to keep
starting over...

One of the most dangerous critters in the woods would be a Mama
bear (black, brown or grizzly) with two or tree cubs. If she even perceives
you as a threat, she'll send those cubs up a tree, chase you down, and then
proceed to shred your body while pounding your carcass into the ground.

If a mama bear comes after you, it is most assuredly with ill intent. Unless
you can hit her dead on with bear spray, or give her a reason to stop her
charge, then you best be ready for a fight.

Yet again another reason to make plenty of noise while you travel, giving
a bear time to move on before you get there. Bears hate surprises.

 

[Bodkin]

Yup.., daaa bears!

 

[civil_war22]

CW-22, love reading your posts, but on those long ones could
you help a fellow out and add in a couple paragraph breaks?
I'm always getting lost about mid-paragraph and have to keep
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One of the most dangerous critters in the woods would be a Mama
bear (black, brown or grizzly) with two or tree cubs. If she even perceives
you as a threat, she'll send those cubs up a tree, chase you down, and then
proceed to shred your body while pounding your carcass into the ground.

If a mama bear comes after you, it is most assuredly with ill intent. Unless
you can hit her dead on with bear spray, or give her a reason to stop her
charge, then you best be ready for a fight.

Yet again another reason to make plenty of noise while you travel, giving
a bear time to move on before you get there. Bears hate surprises.

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Hence why I said clapping two rocks together simultaneously has worked for me. On black bears anyways.