So im sitting here looking at my $220 trespassing fine from Pots falls. Im wondering if it was all worth it, and i guess it wasnt but damn that was some cool climbing. i am also thinking about how much i HATE cops. they truly are the lowest pieces of shit on the planet. instead of busting meth labs or breaking up drug rings they would rather bust me and buddies for swimming in a damn creek. Final verdict, awesome climbing but very high risk. o and fuck all cops.

So im sitting here looking at my $220 trespassing fine from Pots falls. Im wondering if it was all worth it, and i guess it wasnt but damn that was some cool climbing. i am also thinking about how much i HATE cops. they truly are the lowest pieces of shit on the planet. instead of busting meth labs or breaking up drug rings they would rather bust me and buddies for swimming in a damn creek. Final verdict, awesome climbing but very high risk. o and fuck all cops.

just use your head and you should be able to stay out of trouble.

what a fag!
and yeah
FUCK COPS!!!
I say keep going just fucking run next time of swim away you think a fat fucking cop is going to chase you
i doubt it

I have been swimming in that hole for years and never had any troubles. Were you drinking?

I feel for you Rossyy007. And damn if there aren't some hateful bastards on this site. you'd figure you'd get a little more solidarity from the climbing community.

Used to be a beuatiful swimming hole just outside of DC, old sycamore grew out over the water, great rope swing. Park Police shut it down cause they didn't want kids swimming in the potamac.

Summersville is going bust. What next.

Park Police and over zealous traffic cops are turning me into a libretarian.

So im sitting here looking at my $220 trespassing fine from Pots falls. Im wondering if it was all worth it, and i guess it wasnt but damn that was some cool climbing. i am also thinking about how much i HATE cops. they truly are the lowest pieces of shit on the planet. instead of busting meth labs or breaking up drug rings they would rather bust me and buddies for swimming in a damn creek. Final verdict, awesome climbing but very high risk. o and fuck all cops.

So im sitting here looking at my $220 trespassing fine from Pots falls. Im wondering if it was all worth it, and i guess it wasnt but damn that was some cool climbing. i am also thinking about how much i HATE cops. they truly are the lowest pieces of shit on the planet. instead of busting meth labs or breaking up drug rings they would rather bust me and buddies for swimming in a damn creek. Final verdict, awesome climbing but very high risk. o and fuck all cops.

This thread is SO east coast!

DMT

This thread is SO east coast!

DMT

The nice thing about democracy is that if you get enough people together, you can change the rules. Go to your local city council meeting (or whoever controls access). Be a PITA.

Jobs with authority attract both good and bad people. But if everybody followed the rules, there would be no need for law enforcement.

I have my rack stolen, $1,000 felony and the cop tells you to get used to it we can't do anything about it, they break into my car last winter and stole our money, cops could care less.

with all due respect - that's a "pie in the sky" belief. "if your vote really counted, they wouldn't let you do it".

Yes i do expect them to work on crimes against people VS BS hasseling of people/ taxation through LAW. it would be pretty FCN easy to catch the aholes who do smash and grabbs at trail heads if you put your mind to it. decoy climber van and a video camera. follow the fckers right back to their meth house and get a doubble play out of it. instead they sit in their car all day getting fat hasseling mororists. park one of those flashing speed indicators at your speed trap for a few days and go catch some actual thiefs!! and yes printing the car is not a bad idea. you might pull up a repete offender and put the scumbag back in jail. I got robbed in NH, they have like 15 murders a year so its not like they have a huge caseload of major crimes, why not solve some of the crimes that afect the people. think of the polotics of it. You get good headlines for catching real scumbags and protecting the public VS lingering animostity and scorn for hasseling and taxing the public through tickiting. I got pulled over a few years ago by some TOOL who screamed and yelled at us, frothing at the mouth and FCKING DROOLING LIKE a RABID DOG. the FCKN Moron yells at me D YOU KNOW WHAT THE SPEEDLIMIT IS HERE?? I am like No Sir, TOOL- SPEED LIMIT IS 35MPH then looks down at hand held radar gun, YOU WRE DOING 40MPH IN A35 !!! The Pscyo frothed off at the mouth and yelled at us for another 5 min before letting me go with a warning. I was about ready to say just give me the fcking tickit so i can see you in court WTF these guys want respect lay off the micky mouse BS and catch real criminals.

Cops love to bust people with their shirts off. (ever watch 'Cops'?)

Trafic stops do catch criminals but you need to have class. Loseing your cool and yelling at a clean polite person doing 5mph over the speedlimit is not class. its fcn scarey when the guy with the badge and gun is not in control of a really simple situation. there are good cops and there are aholes. too bad the aholes ruin the social situation for the good cops. We had a tool here in VT bust a guy on the interstate for DWI. the guy was NOT intoxicated he was haveing a stroke and trying to ask for help. Tools response was to assume he was drunk and buckle him up. total lack of class and people skills. I picked up a deaf guy hitch hikeing a few years ago . he had just got out of jail for trying to communicate with a Tool who assumed he was intoxicated. WTF. I knew within 2 or 3 seconds of the encounter that the kid was deaf and dumb. I pulled out my note pad and we passed notes back and forth for 100miles. Cops need a class in how not to be stuck in the cop culture.

Trespassing in particular is never initiated by cops on their own. First of all, trespassing is never an offense until somebody says to. I repeat, trespassing is never an offense by itself. What you did might have been "offensive" or maybe not.

I believe what Dan2see meant was that cops don't go out looking for trespassers on their own. Cops respond to calls from civilians requesting that they go find the trespassers. No one can argue that it was against the law, or he'd never have gotten a ticket in the first place

I repeat, trespassing is never an offense by itself.

2. who-ever told those cops what to do is a mean, selfish, slacker who won't take the responsibility of managing his own property.

We all have stories of when a cop goes bad, but if there is a sign that says no trespassing, and you trespass, you earned the ticket.

Other then that, I agree with most of these posts. Allow me to suggest that when this happens again, tell them of all the drug dealers, bank robbers, kidnappers, and rapist you know and he'll most likely let you off with a warning ...

So im sitting here looking at my $220 trespassing fine from Pots falls. Im wondering if it was all worth it, and i guess it wasnt but damn that was some cool climbing. i am also thinking about how much i HATE cops. they truly are the lowest pieces of shit on the planet. instead of busting meth labs or breaking up drug rings they would rather bust me and buddies for swimming in a damn creek. Final verdict, awesome climbing but very high risk. o and fuck all cops.

So im sitting here looking at my $220 trespassing fine from Pots falls. Im wondering if it was all worth it, and i guess it wasnt but damn that was some cool climbing. i am also thinking about how much i HATE cops. they truly are the lowest pieces of shit on the planet. instead of busting meth labs or breaking up drug rings they would rather bust me and buddies for swimming in a damn creek. Final verdict, awesome climbing but very high risk. o and fuck all cops.

Once on the dirt road the falls are on your left. Parking is VERY sensative. I would not park anywhere near the falls. see below:
the water itself is public property however as you will see the access to it is posted hardcore. your best bet is to park somewhere on else other than Pots Falls road and walk in. people have been fined here however if there are no cars near the area its very hard to tell anyone is down there. just use your head and you should be able to stay out of trouble.