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Uncle Ricky- Crimes committed at Vortex by Mr. Ben
Jury-rigging is also known as Destruction of property.. doesn't matter if it is accidental or intentional.
Going beyond the gate where there is a sign that says Stop is trespassing.
Leaving the stage tanks on the ground is Littering.
The first two are punishable, in the State of Virginia, by a max of 12 months in jail and/or a 1000.00 $ fine.
Littering is a max of 1000.00$ fine also.
Sound far fetched? Nah..... not really, it's up to the prosecuting attorney as to what and how many charges apply and how much work s/he wants to put into making a case against that person.
Big Ken, I and hopefully a lot of other people agree with you, those services that have been provided of the last couple months are costing the State of Fla. and the county which Vortex Springs sits in alot of money. That is taxpayers money!!
Vortex Springs is also suffered a lose from this incident.
Those expert cave divers that were in the cave had to travel, be lodged and fed. Who paid for that?
The S&R people had to travel, be lodged and fed.
Yes, a civil suit should follow if and when Ben emerges from somewhere other than from the interior of the cave.
I've been reading about this incident since it first started and I have to say that I was having doubts after the second week as to weither or not Ben was still in the cave. I personally believe that this was a well thought out and very well planned incident by an intelligent person that is escaping something in his life.
In today's world of computer and fraudlent documents he could have very easily "created" another idenity for himself and obtained credit cards, ATM card, personal I.D. and even a drivers license. Many an undocumented citizen have such documents. Ben, being an intelligent person, would also have been able to obtain a birth certificate that belongs to a person that died about the same time in the state which Ben was born. Using this birth cert. he wouldn't have to seek out the fraudulent document maker and obtained the real things from the various government agencies in his home state.
By using either of the above unproperly obtained docs. he would be guilty of several other crimes.
We live in a throw away world now days and it sounds to me, from what I've read, that Ben might have chose to throw away the life he has so that he can sit back somewhere else and enjoy a fantasy life which he may one day have to throw away and come back to the real world and face what ever he might be escaping from at the moment. I only hope that he decides to do right thing and return home to his family and admit his wrong doing and apoloygize for his behavior and face the "music" like a man, that is if he isn't somewhere in that cave.
My heart goes out to the family, they are enduring a lot of stress and uncertainy and they need closure and/or questions answered.
As to weither or not he is in the cave or off in Cancun, we may never know but my money is on Cancun.
Thank you for letting me put in my 2 psi.
Tim
Jury-rigging is also known as Destruction of property.. doesn't matter if it is accidental or intentional.
Going beyond the gate where there is a sign that says Stop is trespassing.
Leaving the stage tanks on the ground is Littering.
The first two are punishable, in the State of Virginia, by a max of 12 months in jail and/or a 1000.00 $ fine.
Littering is a max of 1000.00$ fine also.
Sound far fetched? Nah..... not really, it's up to the prosecuting attorney as to what and how many charges apply and how much work s/he wants to put into making a case against that person.
Big Ken, I and hopefully a lot of other people agree with you, those services that have been provided of the last couple months are costing the State of Fla. and the county which Vortex Springs sits in alot of money. That is taxpayers money!!
Vortex Springs is also suffered a lose from this incident.
Those expert cave divers that were in the cave had to travel, be lodged and fed. Who paid for that?
The S&R people had to travel, be lodged and fed.
Yes, a civil suit should follow if and when Ben emerges from somewhere other than from the interior of the cave.
I've been reading about this incident since it first started and I have to say that I was having doubts after the second week as to weither or not Ben was still in the cave. I personally believe that this was a well thought out and very well planned incident by an intelligent person that is escaping something in his life.
In today's world of computer and fraudlent documents he could have very easily "created" another idenity for himself and obtained credit cards, ATM card, personal I.D. and even a drivers license. Many an undocumented citizen have such documents. Ben, being an intelligent person, would also have been able to obtain a birth certificate that belongs to a person that died about the same time in the state which Ben was born. Using this birth cert. he wouldn't have to seek out the fraudulent document maker and obtained the real things from the various government agencies in his home state.
By using either of the above unproperly obtained docs. he would be guilty of several other crimes.
We live in a throw away world now days and it sounds to me, from what I've read, that Ben might have chose to throw away the life he has so that he can sit back somewhere else and enjoy a fantasy life which he may one day have to throw away and come back to the real world and face what ever he might be escaping from at the moment. I only hope that he decides to do right thing and return home to his family and admit his wrong doing and apoloygize for his behavior and face the "music" like a man, that is if he isn't somewhere in that cave.
My heart goes out to the family, they are enduring a lot of stress and uncertainy and they need closure and/or questions answered.
As to weither or not he is in the cave or off in Cancun, we may never know but my money is on Cancun.
Thank you for letting me put in my 2 psi.
Tim
(I think all the cool kid cave divers are using those now.....)
