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County worker (Psychiatrist) charged with trail sabotage
Medford Mail Tribune ^ | Sept. 29, 2012 | By Teresa Ristow

Posted on 10/02/2012 2:50:49 PM PDT by AuntB

A Jackson County-employed psychiatrist who the Forest Service says admitted to sabotaging mountain-biking trails in the Ashland watershed will head to court in late October after his actions allegedly injured three bikers and put others in danger.

Jackson Tyler Dempsey, 57, of Ashland, was arrested July 22 after he admitted to laying nylon cord, nails and vegetation along trails on multiple occasions because he "did not like downhill mountain bikers," according to a report from the U.S. Forest Service officer who arrested Dempsey.

Ashland mountain biker Bill Roussel said that on July 22 he spotted a man walking on the mountain biking trails and reported him to a Forest Service officer.

The arresting officer reported that he found Dempsey near milepost 11 on Forest Service Road 2080 near Mount Ashland later that morning. He said Dempsey admitted to sabotaging trails on at least five different days in June and July.

Dempsey is employed as a psychiatrist at Jackson County Mental Health in Medford. When contacted by phone, Anne Larson, director of the Mental Health Department, said she could not comment on the case. On previous phone calls, Mental Health Department employees answering the phone said Dempsey was with patients and not available. Dempsey did not return multiple calls in July or on Friday seeking comment.

(Excerpt) Read more at mailtribune.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Government; US: Oregon
KEYWORDS: environment; extremist; oregon; psychiatrist
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To: AuntB

This guy is also a folk singer in Oregon......

“This land is my land!
This land is my land!
And if you are on it
I’ll stick a nail up your.....”


21 posted on 10/02/2012 4:26:11 PM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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To: Fiji Hill

Three of the four psychology majors I’ve been acquainted with were nuts.


22 posted on 10/02/2012 4:50:04 PM PDT by Jacquerie (Exterminate rats.)
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To: AuntB

What’s that old collgege joke, “I was a Psych major until I figured out what was wrong with me?”

Those who make it to graduation never figured it out.


23 posted on 10/02/2012 4:53:19 PM PDT by RegulatorCountry
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To: AuntB

What’s that old college joke, “I was a Psych major until I figured out what was wrong with me?”

Those who make it to graduation never figured it out.


24 posted on 10/02/2012 4:53:39 PM PDT by RegulatorCountry
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To: Dr. Bogus Pachysandra
"Nuttier than squirrel poop!"

I've never seen or heard that expression. Quite a visual you just provided.

The Kenyan must go.

25 posted on 10/02/2012 5:01:53 PM PDT by ex91B10 (We've tried the Soap Box,the Ballot Box and the Jury Box; ONE BOX LEFT!)
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To: AuntB

I love lefty blue-on-blue incidents.

I think we’ll see more in the future.


26 posted on 10/02/2012 7:11:15 PM PDT by x1stcav (Breathe deep the gathering gloom.)
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To: AuntB
So what color is his Prius with Obama 2012 sticker on it?
27 posted on 10/02/2012 7:14:28 PM PDT by HereInTheHeartland (Encourage all of your Democrat friends to get out and vote on November 7th, the stakes are high.)
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To: RegulatorCountry; AuntB; Fiji Hill; Jacquerie
What’s that old college joke, “I was a Psych major until I figured out what was wrong with me?”

Those who make it to graduation never figured it out.

When I was an undergrad, word was that Psych was what you majored in (rather, ENDED UP majoring in) if you were lazy and confused. Lazy, because the grades were easy. Confused, because there was no real academic path associated with the major.

Experience has shown me than those who majored in Psych as undergrads have personal issues on a deep scale.

28 posted on 10/02/2012 7:18:51 PM PDT by thecodont
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To: AuntB

It’s funny. The mountain bikers sabotage the dirt bike trails and the hikers sabotage the mountain bike trails. Not sure who sabotages the hiking trails. All the fun ends, though, when it escalates to neck-high razor wire across the trail. Obviously can be fatal.

In other news, here in Washington State we have lost many,many hiking, bike and motorized trails in the past month due to fire.


29 posted on 10/02/2012 7:30:30 PM PDT by steve86 (Acerbic by nature not nurture TM)
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To: steve86

Go back to those trails in the Spring. The green will be so vivid as to take away your breath. It’s what fire does. It cleans out the trash wood, second growth and deadfall.


30 posted on 10/02/2012 8:36:24 PM PDT by jonascord (Democrats are the people on the Left Side of the IQ Bell Curve.)
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To: jonascord

In some areas early greening will occur. Other places will still be a moonscape 20 years from now. Just came back from an area like that in the Blue Mountains of Oregon. Most of these areas on the east side of the Cascades don’t get all that much precipitation.


31 posted on 10/02/2012 8:51:27 PM PDT by steve86 (Acerbic by nature not nurture TM)
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To: HereInTheHeartland

“So what color is his Prius with Obama 2012 sticker on it?”

The stunning thing is this guy is still on the county payroll!


32 posted on 10/03/2012 8:22:33 AM PDT by AuntB (Illegal immigration is simply more "share the wealth" socialism and a CRIME not a race!)
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To: tired&retired

“Pretty sure he is a neurologist, not a psychiatrist. In any event, he’s a few short of a load!”

He’s listed as a psychiatrist on everything I can find.


33 posted on 10/03/2012 8:28:27 AM PDT by AuntB (Illegal immigration is simply more "share the wealth" socialism and a CRIME not a race!)
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To: AuntB

State Licensing That’s what counts. Not what the reporters put in their stories... does’t really matter either way. While their is a difference, most don’t understand it anyway as much of the work can be done by both. They are both MD’s. I was just checking to see if they mixed up psychologist and psychiatrist when I found he was a neurologist.


34 posted on 10/03/2012 10:22:42 AM PDT by tired&retired
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To: steve86
It's been so dry, anyhow. I haven't seen rain since June and I'm on the West side of the Wilamette. It's still green(ish) but even the Columbia is down.

One of those record breaking years that send all the enviro-retards into convulsions. (No ones mentions that they've only been keeping accurate statewide records since 1940...)

35 posted on 10/03/2012 10:41:08 AM PDT by jonascord (Democrats are the people on the Left Side of the IQ Bell Curve.)
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To: jonascord

I was just looking at one of the Mt. Hood webcams five minutes ago and it looks like a desert.

Also what you said about the Columbia — the level is about normal here (controlled by the dams) but the current is really slow so little flow. You look at boats drifting out there and they barely make any progress downstream.


36 posted on 10/03/2012 12:03:15 PM PDT by steve86 (Acerbic by nature not nurture TM)
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