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Bluffer Full Grown Flour Bluffian

Joined: 06 Mar 2006 Posts: 4858 Location: The Bluff...Bring back the Porch!
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Posted: Wed Mar 02, 2011 8:02 pm Post subject: |
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Drone spy aircraft next.  _________________ -STAY THIRSTY MY FRIENDS!- |
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larry meinert Member White Shrimper Boot Club
Joined: 29 Jul 2006 Posts: 886 Location: Dallas Texas
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Posted: Wed Mar 02, 2011 8:39 pm Post subject: |
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That's what I was thinking. PINS doesn't border Mexico.[/quote]
Last time I camped at Mansfield pass, there was a strange large group of people just across the pass. I have seen people walking down the island many times with their gallon jugs of water. L |
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kweber Full Grown Flour Bluffian

Joined: 08 Mar 2006 Posts: 2396 Location: Hondo
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Posted: Wed Mar 02, 2011 10:12 pm Post subject: |
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I get my picher took alla time in SWTX.
caint wizz offa side of the road w/o someone watchin'.
 _________________ the creepy uncle that scares the kids.... |
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troutless Member White Shrimper Boot Club
Joined: 08 Mar 2006 Posts: 813 Location: Conroe, Texas
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Posted: Wed Mar 02, 2011 11:23 pm Post subject: |
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What they need to do see set up those blimps with camera's that can watch about twenty five miles area 24hrs a day. Then send me the Marines from the Navy Base in and slove the problems, and give them some combat pay.  |
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JerryB Horse Mullet

Joined: 06 Mar 2006 Posts: 222 Location: Corpus Christi, TX
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Posted: Wed Mar 02, 2011 11:32 pm Post subject: |
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| The drone spy aircraft is already here. |
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topdog15 Full Grown Flour Bluffian

Joined: 14 Jun 2006 Posts: 4566 Location: Flour Bluff
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Posted: Thu Mar 03, 2011 7:36 am Post subject: |
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Anyone ever hear more on the FOIA request made by the caller times to obtain the park's numbers involving smuggling? _________________ "Ya'll must eat a lot of fish" |
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cuzn dave Flour Bluffian in training

Joined: 06 Mar 2006 Posts: 465
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Posted: Thu Mar 03, 2011 7:57 am Post subject: |
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| riofrio wrote: | | According to a friend of mine who works for the local US Customs, there is a large amount of drug smuggling and illegal trafficking that goes thru the park. |
Seen any turtles w/ backpacks? |
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Jellyfish Member White Shrimper Boot Club
Joined: 26 Aug 2010 Posts: 520 Location: The Island
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Posted: Thu Mar 03, 2011 8:15 am Post subject: Beefed Up Security Cams on PINS |
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| topdog15 wrote: | | Anyone ever hear more on the FOIA request made by the caller times to obtain the park's numbers involving smuggling? |
I doubt that the FOIA request regarding smuggling and accidents will be released until after the appropriation has been made to increase the size of the ranger staff and build the new ranger building. At some point, entry and exit at PINS will be just like a border patrol checkpoint. _________________ E Pluribus Unum |
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Huffster Finger Mullet

Joined: 14 Jun 2010 Posts: 47 Location: Fort Worth,Texas
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Posted: Thu Mar 03, 2011 9:10 am Post subject: |
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| I know of numerous bails of contraband that has been found in daylight on PINS...That just means more is being found overnight. The Latino gangs don't care, if you are in the way, you might as well be dead to them. |
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Bighead Member White Shrimper Boot Club

Joined: 08 May 2010 Posts: 669
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Posted: Thu Mar 03, 2011 3:46 pm Post subject: |
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| troutless wrote: | What they need to do see set up those blimps with camera's that can watch about twenty five miles area 24hrs a day. Then send me the Marines from the Navy Base in and slove the problems, and give them some combat pay.  |
That sounds like some great 'training exercises'
Bighead _________________ Slow and steady wins the race...unless of course, it's an actual race. |
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Rudy Member White Shrimper Boot Club
Joined: 07 Mar 2006 Posts: 596 Location: San Antonio
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Posted: Thu Mar 03, 2011 8:48 pm Post subject: |
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| FINS wrote: | | dumb questions but what are the cameras for? for drug smugglers? Seems like a pretty big expense when probably 95% of the people are going onto the park to fish or camp |
They want to make sure the Tent Cot Bandit does not get out. Endangered species, only one of its kind. |
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bigshell Pony Mullet
Joined: 19 Mar 2006 Posts: 60 Location: Beeville Tx.
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Posted: Fri Mar 04, 2011 4:41 pm Post subject: cameras |
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| I don't care if they take a picture because I obey the laws. If they are worried about drugs or illeagle people they should run the beach more. Most of the action would be at night. I have never seen a ranger or boder patrol down the beach. I usully fish from the 20 to 30 miles down the beach and I'm down there just about every weekend. We can't even get the park rangers to make people move there campers off the main road. I just wonder if they know the rules. I use to see alot of aliens come up the beach. Maybe they travel in the dunes now. There were bicycles all up and down the beach that they left there. Maybe they got a ride or picked up by the boder patrol. I'v had them stop by my camp and all they wanted was water. Maybe I'v been lucky. But I have dogs and they let me know when someone is around and I'm ready for them real quick. When they see mister pistol they are real nice. |
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TXGypsy Finger Mullet
Joined: 18 Jan 2011 Posts: 28 Location: San Antonio
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Posted: Sun Mar 06, 2011 8:20 pm Post subject: |
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Yep, the border patrol is very active right now in southwest TX. I had a border patrol boat run us down as my cousin and I were heading to a near shore rig out of Port A in my zodiac inflatable. Asked a bunch of questions that my cousin answered, then told me to speak English to them, lol. I am from TX and only speak English.
Then they said it was outrageous that we were in a 12.5 foot boot offshore and let us go. As we were motoring away, they started to take pictures of us. Man, what a boring job. Having to chase down and question fishermen.
Also, coming into TX from New Mexico on I 10, they are searching people left and right at the border patrol stop east of El Paso. I have driven 400,000 miles in the last 10 years throughout the US and have never been searched till the last year when I have been given the dog treatment about 5 times.
Of course the dogs are a lot better than actually having them go through all your stuff. |
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justletmefish Pony Mullet
Joined: 18 Dec 2006 Posts: 82 Location: POTEET, TEXAS
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Posted: Tue Mar 08, 2011 12:29 pm Post subject: |
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Didn't the last cameras get taken out with a front end loader or something like that?? _________________ Common sense is not COMMON |
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