"warned hunters to stay out of the woods where the fugitive may be hiding"
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Why, are they afraid the hunters may accidentally shoot him?
Yeah right they put a reward on the guy of 250,000 grand and then tell the very group, who will hunt him down to stay home.
LOL
B) "folk hero" - like the olympic bomber hiding in the carolina mountains for a couple of years..
I still say I don't much care who or how, somebody needs to terminate this scumbag with extreme malice. I believe he is also responsible by proxy for the death of the kid on the ATV that dragged the state trooper 100 yards down the road "because he was drunk and skeert" whereupon the trooper ended it with 2 9mm attention-getters.
"Why, are they afraid the hunters may accidentally shoot him?"
No I think the real gist of it is that they are saying that if if moves then we may shoot it. Kind of creepy in itself.
No, they are afraid that the hunters will claim the reward. They want it for themselves.