Tom_in_CA
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There is a National Forest (NFS land) area in CA, not far from me. "Los Padres National Forest". And within a certain portion of it is Camp Hunter Liggett Army base. Hence a military base within the larger boundaries of the NFS land. On the NFS land, is hundreds of square miles of hunting land, fishing land, hiking, camping, etc..... And hunters come from all around CA, during season, to quail hunt, deer hunt, etc....
One day a deer hunter was miles into the back country boondocks. In a dry creek wash, he spotted a cool indian mortar bowl thing. He thought: "That'll look cool as a yard ornament back home", so he picked it up, and carried it miles back out to his campsite. He put it on the picnic table , and he and his hunting buddies all went to sleep in their tents/RV's.
The next morning, a ranger was "doing the rounds" collecting the over-night camper fees or whatever. She spotted the indian rock thing on the picnic table, and went ninja ballistic ! Called in for backup reinforcements, and ... soon .... several other rangers and an archie were there drilling the men. The hunter simply had no idea this wasn't allowed, and was very apologetic. To no avail. The men were all handed tickets, their hunting rifles and vehicles were confiscated. They had to call their wives, from 200+ miles away, to come pick them up. Doh! The "rock" was taken as "evidence" and put in a storage locker at the nearby military base public work's headquarters building in a footlocker closet.
The day came when the men were to appear to answer the ticket. They had to take time off work, and travel all the way back to this part of the state, had to get lawyers, etc... Quite expensive. The "rock" was retrieved from the storage locker, and shown as "evidence". This went on for several re-appearances and appeals. Each time the rock retrieved from the locker, in the PW building where it was kept, and brought to the courtroom.
The man who found it had to lead indian nation rep's and archies back .... miles into the wilderness. To show them where he'd picked it up at. Because the idea was: That once all the trials were over with, the rock would be "repatriated" to it's original location (after an Indian seance ceremony or whatever). FINALLY the men got their vehicles, hunting rifles, etc... back. And had a fine to pay.
The man telling me this story was a worker at the public work's dept. building where the rock had been stored , as evidence, awaiting the end of the trial. And he was telling this story 5+ yrs. after the "incident" had occurred. So I asked him: "What ever happened to the 'rock' ?"
He said that months turned into years, after the end of the trial. No one ever came to get the "rock". So eventually the P.W. workers got tired of it taking up space in this foot-locker closet. So they'd been using it as a door-stop ever since then. Where it remained to-that-day. I guess the archies and Indian people simply forgot about it, and no one ever came to hike it back out for the repatriation ?
TRUE STORY!
One day a deer hunter was miles into the back country boondocks. In a dry creek wash, he spotted a cool indian mortar bowl thing. He thought: "That'll look cool as a yard ornament back home", so he picked it up, and carried it miles back out to his campsite. He put it on the picnic table , and he and his hunting buddies all went to sleep in their tents/RV's.
The next morning, a ranger was "doing the rounds" collecting the over-night camper fees or whatever. She spotted the indian rock thing on the picnic table, and went ninja ballistic ! Called in for backup reinforcements, and ... soon .... several other rangers and an archie were there drilling the men. The hunter simply had no idea this wasn't allowed, and was very apologetic. To no avail. The men were all handed tickets, their hunting rifles and vehicles were confiscated. They had to call their wives, from 200+ miles away, to come pick them up. Doh! The "rock" was taken as "evidence" and put in a storage locker at the nearby military base public work's headquarters building in a footlocker closet.
The day came when the men were to appear to answer the ticket. They had to take time off work, and travel all the way back to this part of the state, had to get lawyers, etc... Quite expensive. The "rock" was retrieved from the storage locker, and shown as "evidence". This went on for several re-appearances and appeals. Each time the rock retrieved from the locker, in the PW building where it was kept, and brought to the courtroom.
The man who found it had to lead indian nation rep's and archies back .... miles into the wilderness. To show them where he'd picked it up at. Because the idea was: That once all the trials were over with, the rock would be "repatriated" to it's original location (after an Indian seance ceremony or whatever). FINALLY the men got their vehicles, hunting rifles, etc... back. And had a fine to pay.
The man telling me this story was a worker at the public work's dept. building where the rock had been stored , as evidence, awaiting the end of the trial. And he was telling this story 5+ yrs. after the "incident" had occurred. So I asked him: "What ever happened to the 'rock' ?"
He said that months turned into years, after the end of the trial. No one ever came to get the "rock". So eventually the P.W. workers got tired of it taking up space in this foot-locker closet. So they'd been using it as a door-stop ever since then. Where it remained to-that-day. I guess the archies and Indian people simply forgot about it, and no one ever came to hike it back out for the repatriation ?
TRUE STORY!
