Luck Runs Out...
I am a retired game warden from central PA. The funniest thing in my career happened back in 1994. We received a deer poaching complaint from a farmer in the middle of summer. He came across a deer stand in his woods and there was bait (salt lick) in the area also. I took the
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Funny Story #8
Funny Cop Police Story. Deer Poachers finally lose out
report and the Captain decided to stake it out intermittently. After two weeks of that, we went with motion sensor cameras. We got nothing. The farmer complained about us not doing enough and threatened to just take the stand and keep it. We pulled the cameras and went back to assigning 1 officer to stake it out for a while. This went on for 2 months. Again… nothing. There was evidence that someone was still going to the stand but we never were there at the right time. It was decided that we end the investigation due to manpower. I worked my last night of stakeout and went to my jeep to drive home. Is stopped in for a coffee at a
convenience store on way home and went up the road. As I drove, I saw a deer run out from the edge of the road and I couldn't stop. I plowed into it and killed it instantly. It damaged my car severely. No headlights, no grille and the radiator was shot. I went to look at the carcass and get what I could off of the roadway when I noticed bright spotlights coming my way from the woods that the deer came from. Here were two poachers tracking the deer that they shot. I recognized one right away, the complainant's son. He was actually the one that put the stand on his dads' property and told him about it. He knew that his father was an avid LEGAL hunter and would be furious. He also knew that we would be in the area of his house and he figured that he was safe four miles away in another field. We gave that tree stand to his dad too.
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