El Cap Followup

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From the NPS Morning Report:

http://www.nps.gov/htdocs1/mrnrpt/msg00432.html

99-617 - Yosemite NP (CA) - Follow-up: BASE Jumping Demonstration

On Friday, October 22nd, professional stuntwoman Jan Davis, 60, was killed
when her parachute failed to open while attempting a BASE jump from El
Capitan in Yosemite Valley. Davis' jump was part of an organized act of
civil disobedience protesting the NPS air delivery regulations (36 CFR
2.17(a)), which make BASE jumping illegal in national park areas without a
permit. On December 13th, jumpers Henry Boger, Mick Knutson and Joseph
Weber pled no contents to charges of illegal air delivery in magistrate's
court in the park. Jumper Avery Badenhop pled no contest to aiding and
abetting the air delivery of others. Under separate plea offers, each
defendant agreed to a sentence of one year's probation, a $2,000 fine, and
payment of one-fourth of the $6,155 restitution for the cost of recovering
Davis' body. All parachute equipment used to make the illegal jumps was
permanently forfeited. [Dan Horner, SA, YOSE, 12/13]

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What is that deal, "permanently forfeited"? What about the rule of keeping the gear for a disclosed length of time and then releasing it to the owner?

I know they play their games... "They can't find it"... "They lost it"...

Does anyone know if confiscated gear is ever auctioned, or is it just stored in some warehouse and then eventually trashed?

They are the THIEVES!

It's a pretty screwed up world when I can go purchase handguns from a police auction, but we can't get back our own gear.

C-ya at the exit, Timmm