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Blast-n-Cast Full Grown Flour Bluffian
Joined: 03 Dec 2007 Posts: 1142
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Posted: Mon Aug 03, 2015 9:04 am Post subject: Sunday Bird Island boat ramp carnage |
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Anybody else see the truck at the Bird Island boat ramp sitting on blocks with a busted out window? Not sure if it had a trailer that was taken as well or if someone was just really upset about a truck without a trailer parking in a boat & trailer spot. Also noticed it looked like somebody crashed into the cameras on the way out the gate and they either caught on fire or may have been set on fire.
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Tyler Site Admin

Joined: 06 Mar 2006 Posts: 12865
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Central Scrutinizer Full Grown Flour Bluffian

Joined: 14 Jul 2009 Posts: 3582 Location: Flour Bluff
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Posted: Mon Aug 03, 2015 9:54 am Post subject: |
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As busy of a ramp Bird Island is on any given weekend, SOMEBODY had to see something. You don't just jack up a truck on blocks and take all the tires in a few minutes, in relative solitude.....  |
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BayFly Full Grown Flour Bluffian
Joined: 02 Sep 2014 Posts: 1728 Location: Austin/Flour Bluff
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Posted: Mon Aug 03, 2015 10:22 am Post subject: |
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| Wow! That looks like a friend's truck! I've heard for years about those kind of problems at the Bird Island ramp, but never seen the result of it. Every time we have parked there over a few days time to visit a cabin I was always concerned about returning to something like that. Got to be an absolute nightmare, especially if the owner does not live locally! In this case, the trailer was probably moved to another truck while the owner of this one is getting new wheels, etc. |
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rodandroll Full Grown Flour Bluffian
Joined: 17 Jan 2007 Posts: 1814 Location: Kerrville, Tx
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Posted: Mon Aug 03, 2015 12:44 pm Post subject: |
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My guess in that some stole the truck, took it down there, and stripped the wheels. No telling what else is gone. _________________ Now that food has replaced my sex life I can't even get into my own pants!!!!!!!!
Even duct tape can't fix stupid ... but it can muffle the sound!!! |
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Dirtylove Horse Mullet
Joined: 22 Apr 2013 Posts: 114 Location: Portland
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Posted: Mon Aug 03, 2015 4:06 pm Post subject: |
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| I thought those rangers were super active down there. How could this happen? And, if anyone does get caught participating in theft/burglary on a federal preserve, they get to go to federal court, face federal minimum sentencing, and a completely different process than at state level. The feds should put a bait truck on the ramp and fix this problem. |
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gut bucket Horse Mullet
Joined: 11 Mar 2015 Posts: 102 Location: san antonio
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Posted: Mon Aug 03, 2015 6:37 pm Post subject: |
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| that sucks!! poor guy |
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4theReels Member White Shrimper Boot Club

Joined: 30 Jun 2011 Posts: 663 Location: Beach Bum, Flour Bluff-USA
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Posted: Mon Aug 03, 2015 7:35 pm Post subject: |
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Yep....I was out there on Sunday and saw it.....it was still there at 1pm. And I agree that it was stolen and stripped there sometime during the night. I am sure they do not patrol as often at night. What a bummer.... _________________ (( Living the life I was born to live.....
Givin' it all I got to give....)) |
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Dubdee Finger Mullet
Joined: 28 Jul 2015 Posts: 49
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Posted: Mon Aug 03, 2015 8:47 pm Post subject: |
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| Last Wednesday night a friend and I went down pins to fish for a couple days. On the way down we came across a 5-ton pickup that was down with a flat. We stop to see if we can help. He was towing a dodge pickup. He told us he was towing company. The owner of the dodge was down there fishing solo past the 50 when someone stopped and grabbed all his rigs while he was out on the yak. Apparently he yakked back and jumped in the pickup to chase them down. Hit a wash out around the 40 going who knows how fast and blew out his front end. |
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jeff89 Horse Mullet

Joined: 27 Apr 2010 Posts: 183
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Posted: Tue Aug 04, 2015 6:47 am Post subject: |
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| Dubdee wrote: | | fishing solo past the 50 when someone stopped and grabbed all his rigs while he was out on the yak. |
My nightmare. Even down the beach, you can't escape the suburban trash. Thanks, Obama. _________________ Fool me once, shame on - shame on you. Fool me - you can't get fooled again.
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ironmanstan Exalted Ruler of Flour Bluff

Joined: 04 Oct 2006 Posts: 12256
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Posted: Tue Aug 04, 2015 7:05 am Post subject: |
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it's getting to or already past the point where you have to carry a gun everywhere. _________________ I LIKE MINE FRIED. |
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topdog15 Full Grown Flour Bluffian

Joined: 14 Jun 2006 Posts: 4566 Location: Flour Bluff
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Posted: Tue Aug 04, 2015 8:43 am Post subject: |
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Wonder if the cameras were still working at the time. If so, they should have gotten pictures of the truck coming into the park as well as the driver. _________________ "Ya'll must eat a lot of fish" |
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BayFly Full Grown Flour Bluffian
Joined: 02 Sep 2014 Posts: 1728 Location: Austin/Flour Bluff
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Posted: Tue Aug 04, 2015 10:09 am Post subject: |
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| With the information in these posts it looks like the criminal element is taking advantage of the poor surveillance of the park. |
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hickroots07 Full Grown Flour Bluffian
Joined: 01 Nov 2011 Posts: 1714 Location: cc, TEXAS!
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Posted: Tue Aug 04, 2015 5:26 pm Post subject: |
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| BayFly wrote: | | With the information in these posts it looks like the criminal element is taking advantage of the poor surveillance of the park. |
Well it's a lot of area to patrol, but poor surveillance? Nah those fools got their pictures took going through the only way in or out. Those cameras always work. I know, I make stupid faces at them every time I go through  _________________ Great captains, the stuff of legend, are made not by what they have caught, but by what they have given back. |
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DaninTexas
Joined: 26 Sep 2013 Posts: 6 Location: San Antonio
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Posted: Tue Aug 04, 2015 6:36 pm Post subject: |
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I was there on Monday around 11am and was able to see the gentleman putting tires back on his car. I didn't get a chance to talk to him. To add insult to injury, i love how the park service put that orange sticker on his car. _________________ I fish therefore I am |
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