A question of ethics (what would you do?)
11-29-2011, 09:25 AM
#21
Fork Horn
Join Date: Nov 2008
Location: Warren MI
Posts: 450
I would turn in the coordinates so the authorities can watch that particular area for it to happen again, they may never catch the person or people who did it but you never know. The DNR in MI will do periodic spot checks on places like that if they receive reports and often times they not only catch the individual but they get confessions from them about doing it in prior seasons.
11-29-2011, 07:04 PM
#23
Giant Nontypical
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Darien, IL
Posts: 6,744
Exercising a citizen's arrest generally must involve a violent felony and the apprehension is necessary due to the belief that more violence or harm is likely if the subject isn't stopped.
But anyway..........
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9efgLHgsBmM
But anyway..........
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9efgLHgsBmM
11-29-2011, 07:16 PM
#24
Typical Buck
Join Date: May 2010
Location: South East Pa.
Posts: 526
I'm with VAhuntr. I have been going down to either West Virginia or Maryland before Thanksgiving Day to hunt for years. Back when Pa. had a lot of big deer it was not unusual to see a big bodied deer laying in the medial of the interstate with the head missing and caped down to the shoulders (Pa. Rifle season opened in a few days). I often thought what stories would be told about the "Big one" they got. The smaller racked deer (I assume) just had the rack cut off. There is a hefty fine for doing this in Pa. but it does not stop them. Same with a deer laying along the road with the hind quarters cut off, it may have been a car kill instead of a poacher.
11-30-2011, 05:30 PM
#25
Typical Buck
Join Date: Mar 2010
Location: Northern Michigan
Posts: 974
huh?
A worse, and possibly more dangerous scenario would be finding the perps in the act. What then? Particularly if they see you. Obviously, if you are not seen, you have the opportuntiy to back out and call the authorities.
Unfortunately, that would be a dicey situation. Even if you are sure they are the perps (and not another party who just stumbled on the same site as you), You are dealing with armed people but, would a citizen's arrest allow you to disarm them and hold them for police? What if they resist? What are you able to do under your state's laws?
Lots of questions. Any lawyers out there that actually know?
Unfortunately, that would be a dicey situation. Even if you are sure they are the perps (and not another party who just stumbled on the same site as you), You are dealing with armed people but, would a citizen's arrest allow you to disarm them and hold them for police? What if they resist? What are you able to do under your state's laws?
Lots of questions. Any lawyers out there that actually know?
