You guys laugh, but my first Law Enforcement job was with the Penobscot County S.O. as a part time deputy/transport officer. I was sent down to Newport district court to pick up a prisoner and take him to Bangor. I was 23 at the time and was really shocked to find out that the guy I was putting the shackles on and taking north was a good friend of mine from high school.Originally Posted by dubord207
Actually, turkeys are rather smart, have the keenest eyesight of just about any other game birds and are a serious challenge to get them close enough to you to shoot one, assuming you're not one of those that blasts them out the window of your truck.
I represented a young fellow a couple of years ago that tried to intentionally run over a mess of them with his truck. Unfortunately for him, a neighbor was filming the birds at the exact moment he came by.
Turkeys are smart, they never spend a day in jail, let alone the week my client received.
He had just gotten a week for night hunting (I wasn't surprised at that) and on the ride up I asked him why in the heck did he do it. I'll never forget his reply. He said that he was driving to deer camp at around 4 a.m. when he looked into a field and saw "The biggest f'in buck I've ever seen in my life". He said he stopped his truck and backed up and the deer was still there. It stood still as he got out of his truck and grabbed his rifle, that's when he got suspicious. He told me that he started to think that it was one of those fake one's until he saw the ears twitch and some steam come out of the deers nose. He then took his shot, saw powder come out of the deer, set his gun on the ground and got down beside it. Said it was the most realistic thing he'd ever seen and he fell for it.
I digested this info for a while and sort of struggled with the fact that I was driving a buddy to jail. He finally said to me "you know what the damnedest thing is about this?" I said no and he replied "just before I pulled the trigger, I heard giggling"
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