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Subject: [OM] Re: [OT] Speaking of Glocks,
From: Chuck Norcutt <chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2005 07:54:40 -0500
I said:
 >> I know a guy who is a law enforcement type for the US Fish & Wildlife
 >> Service and these folks carry Glocks

and John Hudson asked:
are fish dangerous and need a Glock to bring them to heal [or tow the line]?

Just curious !
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Nope, no Glocks required to control the fish or the ducks.  However, at 
the particular refuge in question (Loxahatchee National Wildlife Refuge 
in Palm Beach County, Florida, last bit of the northern Everglades) 
<http://loxahatchee.fws.gov/home/default.asp> there are dangers of the 
human kind.

The most common is poachers, mostly after alligators for skin and meat 
but some after birds.  Less common but much more dangerous are drug 
runners.  It's very easy to fly a small plane at low altitude from the 
Bahamas and drop a drug package into the Everglades.  A GPS will record 
exactly where it is in order for the pickup gang to find it.  You would 
not want to encounter these folks without some form of armament.  A 
Glock would be the absolute minimum.  Although I live outside Boston 
these days I used to work at the LNWR for six years as a volunteer.

Many other refuges have poaching problems of their own sorts.

Chuck Norcutt


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