West Ridge Fire Dept

I  decided to take a walk way up on Walnut cCreek on Saturday and when walking along the creek along comes an 8 wheeled ATV with a man driving, a young man in the passenger seat and a bunch of kids in the back. They came right up the middle of the creek twd. me and when he got to me he went behind me and apologized for disturbing my fishing but he was testing the ATV out for fire rescue and had permission from DEP and the Fish Commission to be in the creek. Now at this time I was a little disturbed but didn't say a lot, As I was walking up to a hole looking to see if any fish were in it he came around in front of me and drove right through the hole.

Now at that point I got a little ****ed off. I walked back to my car and on the way up I ran into them again and confronted him coming to the thought that they were just out for a joy ride. After coming out I decided to go to the Walnut Marina and ask them about it. On the way there I saw a Walnut Ridge Fire truck with a tailor parked down the road so I know he was a fireman with them. The Fish Warden was really ****ed that someone used them by saying they gave permission for this. They also had three other people complain to them about this. 

I think the thing that bothers me the most is this man  ( that is questionable he probably has a tiny **** and is trying to make up for it  ) sat there and lied to me in front of all of the kids in the ATV.  He showed that he was a big man and he could do anything he wanted.  How do we expect the kids to be respectable people when the adults do what they want to , lie about it and show no respect for other people let alone did he kill any Steel Head by driving over them in the creek.

OK I just wanted to blow off a little steam.

Yer a second rate citizen, didnt you know? When you wear a badge and or work for a govt entity, you can do whatever you want.............

I would have asked for a ride, my back hurts after walking on the stream all day.

And dont forget the stickers on there cars. WE FIGHT WHAT YOU FEAR! and The 1 ( Hell want have us because we'll put it out!). You gotta love those hose heads!

ORIGINAL: PONDBEARSHWILLY

Most Firemen are idiots.I would expect nothing less from them.They think because they are a fireman they can do whatever they want and get away with it.

wow....
You're an idiot.

ORIGINAL: PONDBEARSHWILLY

Most Firemen are idiots.I would expect nothing less from them.They think because they are a fireman they can do whatever they want and get away with it.

The sad thing about this comment is that even though you called my fellow firefighting brothers idiots, they would still strap on a mask and risk their lives to save yours

ORIGINAL: Loomis

I would have asked for a ride, my back hurts after walking on the stream all day.

LMAO!

What does any of this have to do with the jackass that was driving the atv? Very curious incident and the topic, as usual, gets highjacked.

ORIGINAL: PONDBEARSHWILLY

Most Firemen are idiots.I would expect nothing less from them.They think because they are a fireman they can do whatever they want and get away with it.

i wonder if this generalization would hold true when your car is crushed like a pop can and these "idiots" are pulling you out of your car. something to think about huh?

ORIGINAL: Riverbum

What does any of this have to do with the jackass that was driving the atv? Very curious incident and the topic, as usual, gets highjacked.

Just what I was thinking.

Please this was not to show disrespect for our firemen or other public safety workers.  Keep it where it should and don't be a%shol#s

I was referring to the idiot firemen that think that they can break the law and get away with things just because they are a fireman.I didn't say all fireman were idiots.I have nothing but respect for people who would volunteer to risk their lives to save another.I knew this would get hijacked.Sorry if I offended anyone but if I did you clearly took it the wrong way.

I gotz a question...

if the section of creek is on private property, and the duud in the 6-willer had permission from the land owner to ride ...
wouldn't he have just as much right to the creek as anyone else??

lack of courtesy or consideration on the duud's part notwithstanding,   you do know that just cause we buy a fishin' license , it doesn't mean we're the only peeps in the world , right??



..L.T.A.
 

ORIGINAL: genieman77

I gotz a question...

if the section of creek is on private property, and the duud in the 6-willer had permission from the land owner to ride ...
wouldn't he have just as much right to the creek as anyone else??

lack of courtesy or consideration on the duud's part notwithstanding,   you do know that just cause we buy a fishin' license , it doesn't mean we're the only peeps in the world , right??



..L.T.A.

 
Possibly not if it is designated as a trout stream.  The farmer across the street has two places to ford the trout stream that are both on his property.  When he started to cross in another location, due to some Penn Dot work that made one of his crossings too deep, the PFBC stopped him from doing so.  They also would not permit him to re-arrange the stream bottom to put his other fording back ot the condition before it was changed.
 
I also seem to recall a rather strict fording regulation that a couple of forester friends told me about, but am unsure about the specifics other than they had to adhere to some type of established fordings map.  Perhaps Bings can shed some light on that since he is in the biz.
 
I was on a section of a trib about 10 years ago and a group of yunguns were riding their ATV's in the creek, even offering to "chase some steelhead out of the riffles into the hole" we were fishing.  The local that I was fishing with said that their mother had purchased the ground a few years before and that while it was illegal for them to ride in the stream, folks, including the PFBC, looked the other way as long as she kept it open for public fishing.  How much of that is true or not, i can't verify.

This area is part of
Asbury Woods Nature Center
I am sure they would not be happy either.