Game Warden Field Notes

[Txjourneyman]

I haven't posted one of these in a while...

https://tpwd.texas.gov/newsmedia/releases/?req=20180920a

I had no idea you needed a license for snakes. just never thought about it I guess.

[UltraMax]

Wow, I feel safe and can now sleep at night knowing those two reptile hunters have been brought to justice.

[bullets13]

Some people are dumb.

[Snowflake Killa]

The ol rubber snake trick they fall for it every time next week the purse on a string trick

[tps7742]

Wow and this is how “some” of the GW’s get their infamous reputations.

[WItoTX]

"The snake hunters had a hunting license with a reptile and amphibian endorsement but were told they had violated several laws including: hunting with artificial light from a motor vehicle, hunting from a public roadway, no reflective safety vest, and stopping on a public roadway. Appropriate charges were filed and are pending."

Is a gray banded king snake endangered or something? The charge better be guys c'mon now, don't do that on a public road because it's dangerous to other drivers.

No wonder people get so down on GW's.

[UltraMax]

"The snake hunters had a hunting license with a reptile and amphibian endorsement but were told they had violated several laws including: hunting with artificial light from a motor vehicle, hunting from a public roadway, no reflective safety vest, and stopping on a public roadway. Appropriate charges were filed and are pending."

Is a gray banded king snake endangered or something? The charge better be guys c'mon now, don't do that on a public road because it's dangerous to other drivers.

No wonder people get so down on GW's.

Hope no daddy stops and let’s his kid pick up a turtle off the road in that county.

[nursejenn]

There's a reptile and amphibian endorsement?

[basschump]

What if they were being responsible herpetologists and were trying to move it off the road....


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[Vap]

What if they were being responsible herpetologists and were trying to move it off the road....


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Straight to jail

[stickbowcoop]

What if they were being responsible herpetologists and were trying to move it off the road....


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Seems if you do anything with a snake near a road they want you to have the license and endorsement because they consider it a capture. I am sure that is open to interpretation by the officer, I know a LOT of people on the "What Snake is this, North Texas" FB group move snakes off the road all the time. I honestly didn't even know this stamp existed.

https://tpwd.texas.gov/faq/huntwild/amphibian_reptile_stamp.phtml

[60 Deluxe]

Some game laws don't make much sense. Like, let's all wear our hunter orange after dark. Wow.

[Fishndude]

Those snake guys had it coming.

[toledo]

Funny how they always leave their hero stories for last.

[Dale Moser]

I would imagine they were catching snakes to sell as pets, and had probably been doing it for some time if they went to the trouble of setting up a decoy.


Interesting how people will pick and choose what laws should and should't be enforced.