odd occurance at Goshen Pond last night.

[mudboy dave]

Every night My girlfriend, son and myself usually cruise the western side of Wharton. This helps put my son to sleep and also I keep an eye on local dumping and trash status. Sometimes even check in at a few geocaches. Last night was a little out of the normal though. I was cruising towards the end of Atsion road (dirt) where the bridge for the Mullica is and noticed a helicopter staying in the same area looking lie it may have been out by Atsion Lake. I figured it was either a medevac getting ready to land or a news copter. I continued my way towards Goshen, and at this point the helicopter was pretty much circling us with its spot light looking in the woods. HMMMMM we were wondering if someone was on the loose or whatnot, then the light got shined right on my car. I stopped in my own tracks and figured they were gonna have the Park Police meet me on the trail or something, but then he continued spotting the woods around me. I continued my way towards the campground and once i approached it i noticed alot of lights moving around. As I got closer I noticed about 10 state police vehicles and at least 1 park police vehicle. Seconds later a trooper approached me and asked if I seen anyone running around on my travels.(i didn't). Well apparently. there was a canoe spotted in the pond with none in it and pants and shoes sitting upon shore. He allowed me to continue on my way and just told me if i saw a guy walking around without shoes and pants to notify the red lion barracks.
To top it off my Father who lives at an entrance on the western boundary of Wharton (tremont ave entrance), had the doorbell ring at 2am. he figured it was someone stuck and didn't bother answering due to the fact that he has nothing to pull out a stuck vehicle with and knew I wouldn't want to come out and do it. still curious if they found the guy or if he's underwater in goshen

 

[woodjin]

That is interesting. Last night around 7pm-ish I was driving down Jackson road and near the bridge over the mullica was some activity of some sort. I wasn't sure what was going on. I didn't see any state troopers or rangers but saw a couple 4x4 trucks and some people standing around. Could have been unrelated.

Jeff

 

[mudboy dave]

i did come across an a-hole jeeper who wouldnt turn his offroad lights off while i was driving towards him. he's lucky he ain't on the bottom of that pond

 

[Boyd]

Listening to the traffic report on my way home last night, they said there was an accident at the intersection of Atsion Rd and Rt 206 which was backing up traffic. Maybe it was really this incident instead?

 

[long-a-coming]

One of my co-workers mentioned tonight that Goshen Pond was trashed the other day. She mentioned seeing a port-a-john turned over, lots of trash around and she also mentioned the canoe out in the pond. There wasn't any police activity when she visited the area yesterday I do not know what time.

 

[mudboy dave]

odd

 

[imkms]

One of my co-workers mentioned tonight that Goshen Pond was trashed the other day. She mentioned seeing a port-a-john turned over, lots of trash around

I rarely camp at Goshen anymore due to the party atmosphere this place has become. I have seen amazing amounts of trash left by partyers and the place just looks like a dump at times. Very sad!

 

[bigoldford]

I rarely camp at Goshen anymore due to the party atmosphere this place has become. I have seen amazing amounts of trash left by partyers and the place just looks like a dump at times. Very sad!

Yup its pretty bad how trashed that place gets. A few months ago we were going through there at like 10 am and someone had left a fire still burning and trash all over the place. The fire wasnt just a small little campfire either it was huge and just screaming to start a forest fire......We did put it out and pick up all the trash which consisted of beer cans and food wrappers.

 

[mudboy dave]

people are stupid partying in state woods. I party in the woods quite frequently however its alwasy on a friends property. $100 ticket for fire in the woods $100 ticket for alcohol as well.