I was in the Dawson Forest doing some geocaching yesterday, and had also been there earlier in the weekend. I ran into the same game warden yesterday as I did earlier and he greeted me with "doing more geocaching today?"

As we got to talking I noticed he had a Garmin securely mounted to the dash of his truck. I asked him about it and he said he has no batteries in it, and only plugs it in when he has to. I asked when that was, and he replied that he's required to record the coordinates when he writes someone a ticket. Kinda made me glad he had it unplugged right then.

~erik~

Related to my post on February 23, 2005.
http://ggaonline.org/eve/forums/a/tpc/f/9426060551/...601048031#8601048031

So if they write you a ticket, they can later put a cache at the location with your drivers license in it to come find them.

reepicheep

When I saw this, I thought it was about speeding tickets. I got a ticket in a speedtrap called Ferriday, Louisiana about a year ago. The officer (not a gentleman by any interpretation) said I was going 49 in a 35 zone ... I was doing 42 at the very most. So now everytime I go through Ferriday I have my GPS on the dash recording my speed, just in case. BTW, there are some nice places in Louisana, but IMHO Ferriday is NOT one of them.

That's Jerry Lee Lewis' hometown, isn't it?

I am sadden by the fact that this warden only plugs in his gpsr when he writes a ticket. Think of the huge number of applications that the DNR could use gpsr's for IF their employees knew how to use them.

My law firm represents timber companies. I deal with foresters all of the time. I can divide them into two groups. The old and stubborn guys who do everything on a scribble pad and their memory. The guys who embrace technology like gpsr's, pocket pc's and GIS mapping software and surveying equipment. Unfortunately your warden falls into the previous catagory. Too bad for all of us.

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Originally posted by CharlieP:
When I saw this, I thought it was about speeding tickets. I got a ticket in a speedtrap called Ferriday, Louisiana about a year ago. The officer (not a gentleman by any interpretation) said I was going 49 in a 35 zone ... I was doing 42 at the very most. So now everytime I go through Ferriday I have my GPS on the dash recording my speed, just in case. BTW, there are some nice places in Louisana, but IMHO Ferriday is NOT one of them.

Ask Dougs94 & Linda sometime about using the GPS in traffic court. Not sure it worked out too well in their case. Probably has to do with the same thing LostNfound is talking about.

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Originally posted by CharlieP:
BTW, there are some nice places in Louisana, but IMHO Ferriday is NOT one of them.

Heck no ... I wouldn't step foot in Ferriday. We consider that place to be in 'North' La, and a 'burb of Natchez.
I always stay around the Lake, and if I do have to venture out of the 'toe' of La - it will be south of I-10/I-12.

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I always stay around the Lake, and if I do have to venture out of the 'toe' of La - it will be south of I-10/I-12.

There are some nice towns north of I-10 too, e.g. Alexandria and Pineville (CenLa they call it) where I spend some time on business. I also try to keep the state's oyster and crawfish population under control while I am there. Tough job, but somebody's got to do it.