Thread: Missouri Department of Conservation & Heritage Cards.

It sure can be frustrating trying to fix someone else's mistake.
A few years back I invited a couple of guys from Kansas to go fishing at Pomme so they stopped at vendor down there to get permits. They also purchased some fishing pole and other stuff. One of them said to put everything on his credit card. They both showed him there Kansas Drivers Lic. The vendor printed out the two licenses and rang up the total. They paid him and met me at the dock and we started fishing.
Everything was good for the first hour or so. Then we were visited by Warden Vader. We all showed him our permits,mine was okay then he asked for their drivers licenses which they did. He then pulled out his ticket book and began writing. I asked him what he was doing. He informed me that they were trying to fish on Missouri permits and were both getting $100.00 tickets. They told him where they bought them and that they had showed the vendor both drivers licenses and felt they should not get tickets.
His response was he was issuing the tickets and that it was their fault for not checking that they had the proper permits...

Originally Posted by dfar

It sure can be frustrating trying to fix someone else's mistake.
A few years back I invited a couple of guys from Kansas to go fishing at Pomme so they stopped at vendor down there to get permits. They also purchased some fishing pole and other stuff. One of them said to put everything on his credit card. They both showed him there Kansas Drivers Lic. The vendor printed out the two licenses and rang up the total. They paid him and met me at the dock and we started fishing.
Everything was good for the first hour or so. Then we were visited by Warden Vader. We all showed him our permits,mine was okay then he asked for their drivers licenses which they did. He then pulled out his ticket book and began writing. I asked him what he was doing. He informed me that they were trying to fish on Missouri permits and were both getting $100.00 tickets. They told him where they bought them and that they had showed the vendor both drivers licenses and felt they should not get tickets.
His response was he was issuing the tickets and that it was their fault for not checking that they had the proper permits...

I am surprised that Vadar didn't give you a ticket for just being with them!!! And from what I am understanding is Vadar's wife is just as big of a jerk as he is. His wife is the top dog at the Hickory County Health Department. She decided that the health department needed a new location, so she went and purchased a new location, without taking it to the Board of Directors or the County Commissioners. Then after she did that the new location needed some buildings taken down and some dirt work. Well all of that should have been put out for bids, well she didn't do that either!

Some of these agents need to find themselves standing in the unemployment line. The job is too big for them. Hard to get your mind around the fact that we pay their salaries.............

I'm sorry you all had problems, but lets not start a MDC bashing thread here. The vast majority of Conservation agents and employees are dedicated and professional at their jobs. They have a thankless job most of the time. I know that anytime I have a question, usually one phone call to the local office gets it answered in short order. I don't know the answer to the wrong information on the license's, but a computer only knows the data entered into it.

Point well taken Speck.
I should have said that I was not trying to give the MDC a bad rap as I think that overall they do an outstanding job.

Maybe the marriage is not valid?