wild justice !!!!

i read this on another forum just thought i would share

Last nights episode on the "pig stalkers" really got me mad. This is my home turf where I live and hunt. All us hog doggers know eachother. We have either sold dogs to eachother or bought them from eachother. Its a small group of peple who hunt with dogs for hogs and because of the dog culture we all know one another.

I know Mike Smith aka smitty. Did he poach at one time in his life? Absolutely. Does he know poachers? Absolutely. What he said is absolutely true. The thing is, is he has more permition on private property to hunt than I could ever hoped for. I doubt he has jumped a fence in many years. The wardens chased him for years and failed yet they still come to his house and harass him for their unresolved grudge. This is a very very common occurance to be perpetually harassed in monterey county by wardens. Especially for hog doggers.

There are many things in this episode that make me angry. #1 finding a hog head in a ditch makes the warden assume that a crime was commited. #2 Seeing Smitty at a donut shop a 100 miles away makes him a suspect. #3 Its too dangerous to ask him any questions when he is spotted there eating a donut so they need to roll on him at his house with 4 wardens and a service dog. #4 harassing him for 3 hours (it was 3 hours) about a hog head in a ditch and a some other people who the wardens stopped a month earlier (the head was found almost a month before they went to his house).

To sum it up there are a pile of hog carcasses in and around the back roads of monterey county. Im sure poachers drop unwanted hog parts on the side of the road as well as many other leagally taken hogs. Should you dump your hog hides on the road? No. But its a common occurance nun the less. Since when does being seen in front of a donut shop make you a suspect of a crime?? Why cant the warden make a contact with him in front of the coffie shop? Why did the DFG need to pull 3 other wardens from what was probabally 100's of miles away just to talk to him?

Bottom line, Smitty, a poacher by his own admition, had no connection to the wardens investigation. There was no reason to contact him. The warden had no cause to suspect that a hog head in a ditch a 100 miles away was connected to him in any way. The people who the warden pulled over that had the hog blood and crap in their truck were completely unrelated to smitty in any way.

Put the pieces together and you will see the pattern of harassment that takes place in monterey county by wardens and mabye other counties. This harassment is quite common. The only shame is the fact that they showed an episode where they contacted smitty. He has a poor reputation and its pretty much well deserved. The thing is that this harassment is common for most of us down here. If you have a dog in the back of your truck in south county and get pulled over by a warden dont plan on being home for dinner cause your gonna be there for a while..........