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nutjob
Sport climber
Almost to Hollywood, Baby!
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Apr 25, 2013 - 11:53am PT
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The Investigative Unit’s Elyce Kirchner uncovers citations and arrests for drug-related issues in Yosemite climbing over the past five years and compares those numbers to other popular national parks.
So does this mean there are drug-related issues amongst Yosemite climbers? Or does this mean the frequency of drug-related issues is increasing?
Hard to say from the nebulous writing; but there is more climbing in Yosemite than the average national park, so be careful before making statistical inferences.
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10b4me
Ice climber
Happy Boulders
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Apr 25, 2013 - 11:53am PT
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Does this mean I have to leave my Viagra at home?
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Wade Icey
Trad climber
www.alohashirtrescue.com
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Apr 25, 2013 - 11:54am PT
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anybody remember Journalism...this is not it.
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Snowmassguy
Trad climber
Calirado
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Topic Author's Reply - Apr 25, 2013 - 11:57am PT
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No it is not good journalism by any means. It appears with the proliferation of legal and medicinal weed on the state level, the Feds are still enforcing their stance on the issue. Has to be a good money maker for the gov't with the fines paid.
Sequester budget cuts....naggh just search the hippies.
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mechrist
Gym climber
South of Heaven
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Apr 25, 2013 - 12:06pm PT
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Pot laws in CA and CO have made traveling in the parks or in NV and UT horrible if you have plates from either state. Friends have been pulled over for turning their blinker on 3 seconds before turning, which is apparently not long enough... or going 10 UNDER the speed limit... or simply fitting the profile of a drug dealer (which is apparently anyone under 40 in an SUV, van, or lezbaru wagon with CA or CO plates)... always looking for the marijuanas.
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Bschmitz
Ice climber
pdx
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Apr 25, 2013 - 12:08pm PT
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229 arrest for suspicious persons? wtf......
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10b4me
Ice climber
Happy Boulders
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Apr 25, 2013 - 12:11pm PT
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Wes, your description of a profile of a drug dealer is wrong. I was stopped in Arizona in 2006,
I am over forty, and at the time was driving a Honda Civic
So, be careful in Utah, and Arizona
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mechrist
Gym climber
South of Heaven
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Apr 25, 2013 - 12:22pm PT
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Apparently they have expanded the profile...
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donini
Trad climber
Ouray, Colorado
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Apr 25, 2013 - 12:24pm PT
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You do have to fog a mirror to qualify.
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survival
Big Wall climber
Terrapin Station
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Apr 25, 2013 - 12:27pm PT
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The Investigative Unit discovered that national park rangers have detected a rising use of narcotics in the typically family-friendly park over the past five years.
Umm, yeah.....NOT!
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nah000
Mountain climber
canuckistan
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Apr 25, 2013 - 12:31pm PT
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that is one fine piece of vintage-like hysteria. my favorite line, spoken with importance near the end:
"malcolm morgan doesn't really care why there are more drug issues here, he just wants the narcotics to stay away from young campers, ... [pause for effect and lower voice] ... like his eleven year old daughter."
hahaha.
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Snowmassguy
Trad climber
Calirado
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Topic Author's Reply - Apr 25, 2013 - 12:36pm PT
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Bet that dude in the video really likes 3-5 glasses of his nightly Franzia.
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little Z
Trad climber
un cafetal en Naranjo
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Apr 25, 2013 - 01:28pm PT
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sounds like a lost script from Dragnet
"this is the city, Yosemite, California..."
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kaholatingtong
Trad climber
Nevada City
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Apr 25, 2013 - 01:29pm PT
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i wonder if yosemites unique federal status, compared to most parks, has anything to do with this. i know this subject came up in another thread.
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Don Paul
Big Wall climber
Colombia, South America
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Apr 25, 2013 - 01:32pm PT
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It figures that the cops in Yosemite primarily bust people for pot. The NPS budget should be cut as much as possible, to eliminate these as#@&%es. I hope the environmentalists are successful, too, in rolling back the development and returning Yosemite to a more natural state.
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patrick compton
Trad climber
van
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Apr 25, 2013 - 01:46pm PT
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I like the irony that your average climber who smokes weed has 10% body fat, while the typical RV touron is a pasty fat-ass from the midwest who will cost the health care system a lot more.
If I were a LEO, I would bust people for drinking sodas and fast food.
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patrick compton
Trad climber
van
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Apr 25, 2013 - 01:55pm PT
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Lol... i can't see that trying to sodomizing a bear would go very well.
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Snowmassguy
Trad climber
Calirado
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Topic Author's Reply - Apr 25, 2013 - 01:57pm PT
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Drug sniffing BEARS....coming to a NP near you!
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Big Mike
Trad climber
BC
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Apr 25, 2013 - 02:40pm PT
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So funny. Alcohol does way more damage but it's freely available anywhere....
Try and buy papers in the park and they send the leo's after u!
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