Posted on 03/27/2019 8:44:13 AM PDT by SMGFan
Would a hover craft qualify as a flying vehicle? I don't know if Alaska has this but several states have restrictions on using flying vehicles while hunting including cooling off periods which restrict hunting if the hunter has been on an aircraft within a certain period of time.
When my kids were little, I built one by cutting out a big circle of plywood, taping a shower curtain all around the circumference and inserting a leaf blower in a hole in the middle. We actually hovered our way around the garage and driveway for a few minutes.
If people are looking for Moose and Hovercraft jokes, FR is the place to go. For those people looking for legal issues associated with Supreme Court decisions, the SCOTUS Blog is where to go.
This hunter was not hunting Moose from his hovercraft. He was using his hovercraft to go on the Nation River to get to his hunting ground. Part of the river crosses within the boundary of a National Park. The Park Rangers told him that he couldn’t use his hovercraft to transit the Park. They said that the Park “owned” the river.
The Supreme Court disagreed. As a navigable river, the Nation River is not owned by anyone, except the United States, so Park Regulations did not apply. Moose hunters can use the river to get to their hunting grounds and since hovercraft are allowed in the State of Alaska, hovercraft can use the Nation River, including that part that sits in the National Park.
This all started back in 2007.......so much for swift justice.
I suppose so.
But my mind flashed to someone using the hovercraft to hunt the moose instead of a rifle.
That’d be a hella sport.
I think the moose would win that one. LoL
A Møøse once bit my sister... mynd you, møøse bites Kan be pretti nasti...
Kind of hard to use a conventional watercraft when the rivers are frozen. A hovercraft is ideal for both water or ice, and particularly during that time of year near "spring thaw" when the ice is "dicy", when a snowmobile might be dangerous to use.
LOL all it takes around here is the mention of a Moose, and we are off and running!!!
BTW, how’s things? Hope all is okay..:)
How am I? Horrible. Mueller’s report shows no collusion. How depressing.
No.
SNORT...hehehehe!
Ahh..the sun is out, the thermometer is rising, the robins are back, and leftist heads are exploding everywhere!
Love it!
Not opposed to the court’s decision but .... I am thinking that a hovercraft would be very noisy and tend to scare away any game / fish.
Gosh, that only happened the last time I had a bag full of eels in my pants going through the TSA line!
I’d do that all the time in Far Cry 4.
Wouldn’t exactly call it, “Hunting,” though. Just randomly plowing into wild animals and bad guys.
Hasbro executive: Quick, get me the best acronym guys in the company! What, we fired them? Send an English dictionary to the Japanese unit.
We didn’t have access to that level of technology when I was a kid.
But those refrigerator boxes made some excellent time machines.
But, riffing on the title is the best part of FR.
So, the scarier question is why the appeals court got it wrong on a simple jurisdiction case. Genuflecting to the Fed is hardwired in their circuitry, apparently.
On the plus side, this case will basically stand for our lifetimes in circumscribing fed power. On the negative side, the only guys that can get justice in America now are the ones that can afford pushing a case from 2007 through to the SC.
“Luvvy, have the majordomo break out the hovercraft”.
Of course, as it should be.
So, the scarier question is why the appeals court got it wrong on a simple jurisdiction case.
The 9th Circuit at its best. Decided by the SCOTUS 9-0.
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