Low-life steals salt!!!

[pianoman9701]

Public land? Like someone said, he may have thought that 1. you were bear baiting, or 2. He should impose his personal set of ethics on everyone else.

[billythekidrock]

I had to do a double take....almost looked like he was carrying num chucks in his left hand.


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Lopper/pruner.

[jackelope]

Yet another good reason for using bags of loose salt. Would have been awesome to see him try and pick a pile of salt up off the ground.

Side note...
I found a 50# salt block about 75-100 yards behind one of my farm cameras yesterday. Surely no ill intent as it was set out for cattle, but I can't help but wonder who's hitting the block behind my camera. Wish I brought an extra camera with me to set up on it. The cattle are gone for the year.

[bobcat]

Yet another good reason for using bags of loose salt. Would have been awesome to see him try and pick a pile of salt up off the ground.

   

[headshot5]

Yet another good reason for using bags of loose salt. Would have been awesome to see him try and pick a pile of salt up off the ground.

You call that prison soap.  Harder to pick up. 

[HUNTINCOUPLE]

The battle of baiters....

[billythekidrock]

It would be funny if you could find your salt with his cam over it. Blow up the pic of him stealing and hold the pic if front of his cam.

[Machias]

It would be funny if you could find your salt with his cam over it. Blow up the pic of him stealing and hold the pic if front of his cam.

    

[ctwiggs1]

For you legal types on here, doesn't this seem like a bigger deal than we're making it?  I mean in Washington aren't there additional penalties for theft while carrying a firearm? 

Curtis

[CP]

For you legal types on here, doesn't this seem like a bigger deal than we're making it?  I mean in Washington aren't there additional penalties for theft while carrying a firearm? 

Curtis

I’m not a legal type but this looks like simple theft to me, not robbery.  Theft of a $10 block of salt isn’t exactly a felony.

[Dhoey07]

For you legal types on here, doesn't this seem like a bigger deal than we're making it?  I mean in Washington aren't there additional penalties for theft while carrying a firearm? 

Curtis

Maybe he thought it was abandoned?  If he picked up a 5$ bill in the woods, would that be theft with a firearm?  I'm sure it was someone elses money

[Curly]

If he thought a salt block sitting in the woods was abandoned,  he's an idiot.  A $5 bill laying on the ground is obviously lost.

[KFhunter]

If he thought a salt block sitting in the woods was abandoned,  he's an idiot.  A $5 bill laying on the ground is obviously lost.

legally, he can pick up trash in the woods. 



Another angle I haven't seen mentioned is perhaps this is open range area and one way they get cattle off range is pull the salt.  Now there's so many bait piles and salt licks around that it's much harder to pull cattle off range....

then we see threads about cattle not being off range by hunting season   

[Fl0und3rz]

What is legal and what can be gotten away with contrary to written law are entirely different animals.  I am sure that nobody is going to prosecute and nobody is going to sue over a block of salt, due at least in part to the myriad of possible defenses to a charge of theft or allegations of conversion of personal property.

If that's on public property, it is the price you pay for sharing the land with your fellow citizens and "sportsmen."  Public shaming is the only arguably legal remedy (not condoning libel).

I don't bait or leave stands on public land, in part, because I don't trust people to keep their greasy ****-skinners to themselves.  And there are some desperate and despicable types out there.  See, the news story about two brave souls who stole a tablet device from a wheelchair-bound epileptic in public, in broad daylight, under camera surveillance.

[Curly]

If he thought a salt block sitting in the woods was abandoned,  he's an idiot.  A $5 bill laying on the ground is obviously lost.

legally, he can pick up trash in the woods. 



Another angle I haven't seen mentioned is perhaps this is open range area and one way they get cattle off range is pull the salt.  Now there's so many bait piles and salt licks around that it's much harder to pull cattle off range....

then we see threads about cattle not being off range by hunting season

What if it was a trail camera that he took? Could he claim it was okay to take because he thought it was trash?