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Quill · Posted: Mon Feb 08, 2010 7:11 am Post subject: Young Again

If I was I would love to work for the Border Patrol. There is a lot of back country to patrol. It is the one job that I would try. Probably not great for a family man in some areas. They get to carry guns, go off roading, track and drive some pretty cool stuff. I know it's dangerous but better than a city LEO. #smile

Wilbur · Posted: Mon Feb 08, 2010 7:18 am Post subject:

Whenever I see trailers for the show on TV and I see the SUV's on dirt trails I have the same thought as you! I am sure the drug gangs are nasty but I agree...some pretty nice country to be in and beats the heck out of Newark or some city hellhole.
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magooch · Joined: 14 Dec 2004 Posts: 2031 Location: Washington

Gee, I carry a gun and can travel more dirt roads than I have time for. I have the greatest respect for our border patrol, but they have a very serious job to do and for me, life is too short to be that serious about anything.

If I were young and starting out again.... Is there a job where you get paid for kayaking, bike riding, wondering around in the woods and just generally doing whatever you want to? That's my job now and I wouldn't change it for anything.
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Quill · Posted: Mon Feb 08, 2010 11:12 am Post subject:

There is more than one border. There's the northern border that needs patrolled to keep those rascally Canadians from slipping across. #mrgreen

They are tightening the northern border. Hard to believe but they are working this area with several officers moving here. Lake Superior is not a border of choice to cross. Just think of patrolling the Boundary Waters in northern Minnesota. #cool

Orion · Posted: Mon Feb 08, 2010 11:39 am Post subject:

You mean I'm gonna need to fly to Mexico and sneak across your southern border? #shakehead

Guess I'll need to know more Spanish than "una cerveza por favore". #lol

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Reckless Dan · Posted: Mon Feb 08, 2010 12:49 pm Post subject:

Orion, you need to drop the 'e' off that por favor, Pard.
Oh, it'll get you a beer anywhere in Mexico, no doubt of that.
But folks'll look at you funny.
#laugh

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Orion · Posted: Mon Feb 08, 2010 1:02 pm Post subject:

Oops!

Obviously my Italian is no better than my Spanish. #shakehead

Friggin' Latin based languages. #lol

Lucky I didn't spell it favoure. #mrgreen

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riverdog · Joined: 04 Sep 2004 Posts: 3469 Location: Midwest

Quill, the Boundary Waters, inside the protected areas gets very little Border Patrol time. Most of the eyes belong to NFS backcountry rangers, and that is the job I want.
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Ol Mose · Joined: 22 Mar 2006 Posts: 2574

Yeah, I thought the BP would be a fun job too if I was younger. but they have to chase the Mexicans and drug dealers all over the worst country the SW has to offer. I think it would have been alot more fun when Skeeter and Bill Jordan was doing it. It's too damn PC now.

Reckless Dan · Posted: Tue Feb 09, 2010 12:26 am Post subject:

Ol Mose is exactly right!

I wouldn't want a job where I could easily end up in the federal pen for just doing my damn job.
#shakehead

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Hank Dodge · Posted: Tue Feb 09, 2010 12:33 am Post subject:

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A lot of things were better before the infection of political correctness set in our society.
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Quill · Posted: Tue Feb 09, 2010 5:47 am Post subject:

You guys are only thinking of the US/Mexican border. The terrorist threat is high coming from Canada. Obviously not from people like Orion, but it is a stopping off point into the US. They intend to secure both and form some northern Shadow Wolf groups.

Hank Dodge · Posted: Tue Feb 09, 2010 10:54 am Post subject:

Sounds like that would be some good duty working the Canadian border. I've heard that there are a lot of drugs coming down from Canada as well.
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Orion · Posted: Tue Feb 09, 2010 11:04 am Post subject:

Wow! I didn't realize we were such a hotbed of criminal activity. #eyes

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- Andrew Coyne