Stopped By The Police Last Night

[johnharris 177]

Coming home from lamping last night and got pulled by the police in Monmouth, checked the truck all ok then asked what guns I had ( I am SGC and FAC holder), when I explained I only had 2 dogs and that we had been rabbiting on permission, showed him the text I sent to the farmer telling him I was on his land and the reply saying that it was ok

He then went on to tell me I had broken the law and he could arrest me !!

 

When I asked why he said " you have told me you do not have a firearm with you and in the hunting act it says that if you pursue any animal with a dog you must humanely dispatch it with a firearm once it has been caught"

At this I burst out laughing which seemed to annoy him even more, he then went to his car and got a lap top to show me the part of the act relating to bolting foxes and humanely dispatching them, when I pointed out that a rabbit was not a fox he had a bit of a strop and kept us there for another 20 minutes while he sat in his car, then coming back to the truck and advising me to go home and read up on the law because if he ""CATCHES"" me again I will be arrested.

 

I total we were there for over 40 minutes, nice to see our taxes going to waste

[Wales1234 5,682]

Few boys getting stopped that way mate Monmouth is a hot area !!

[Fen fever 114]

What a tosser think he need to learn the law lol how funny would that be in court lol

[philstory 83]

It's the copper that wants to do some reading up on the law. Also try and catch some of the theives out there going around the farms robbing !!

[johnharris 177]

It's the copper that wants to do some reading up on the law. Also try and catch some of the theives out there going around the farms robbing !!

Very true

[Bosun11 537]

You may as well see the funny side John, because it probably won't be the last time you'll ever get a tug but at least with this one you can safely say that your Police friend drove away, after checking, with egg all over his face and feeling a bit of a dick.

 

Just shows thats what we are up against, ignorance on the hunting act, both with the law and sadly ourselves, in a lot of cases...

[spiderfly 111]

Send a letter of complaint, might save you hassle in the further if they learn the law

[Rustypippa 18]

Next time take his name and number, then let his station know he could do with a refresher certain parts of his job

[neil cooney 10,416]

Seems to be a common occurrence over your side of the Irish sea lads.

Just an idea but if that risk was always hanging over me i'd have a copy of the Hunting Act in my glove compartment with some sections highlighted.

Might get you home for your tea a bit earlier and it would show the police that your aware of your rights.

[the goat 642]

A lot of boys poach that are mate, been caught there poaching myself and had a lamp took off us. But after all that happened when I spoke to 2 of the 3 farmers that caught us it was all because it was tossers ripping their fields up in 4x4s lamping.

[sikastag_1 689]

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Edited August 27, 2019 by grant_c

[forest of dean redneck 12,023]

Police are cagey as hell at the moment with burglaries going on around monmouth. So expect some poor sod that's convient will get the back lash.

[s.e.s.k.u 1,893]

Might be worth informing the local plod when you are going out in that area?...I would just to save the hassle. .

[Wales1234 5,682]

Me and a friend have done that mate wrong the police told them what we are doing and in what farms they gave us a crime reference number if we got pulled give them that and bobs your uncle !!

[forest of dean redneck 12,023]

Out of interest ,how are you lot finding the rabbit population around here,when the wife had the bulldog,I walked it at back of rockfield estate and no sign of rabbits,yet there was rabbits on the allotments and the nature pond at bottom of town,and few pockets of them on Hereford road area.but otherwise thin on the ground,more deer than rabbits round here.