Hunter's Internet bragging leads to fines for bagging illegal deer

The Daily Athenaeum ^ | 2/9/07 | AP

[the_devils_advocate_666]

FARMINGTON (AP) --A hunter and his father are paying the price for violating hunting laws and boasting about it on an Internet message board, the state Division of Natural Resources said Thursday.

Robert Daniel ''Murphy'' Kane II, 26, and his father were fined after the DNR was tipped off Jan. 23 to the posting, which included photos, on an outdoors-related message board. In the posting, Kane bragged of killing two bucks on the first day of the 2006 buck season, said Sgt. Roy Cool of the DNR's Law Enforcement Section District 1 office in Farmington.

The legal limit is one buck a day.

''I guess you can say that Kane's boasting of his deer kills on the Web drew plenty of attention, but not the kind he wanted,'' Cool said in a news release.

Kane, a Bridgeport resident, was charged on Jan. 27 with five wildlife violations: conspiring to violate wildlife laws, failure to field tag a deer, illegal possession of a buck deer, hunting after killing a legally killed deer, and exceeding the daily bag limit of buck deer, the DNR said.

Kane pleaded no contest before Harrison County Magistrate Gizzy Davis on Jan. 29 and paid a total of $861.50 in fines and costs, including a $200 replacement fee for the illegally killed buck. Investigators also confiscated Kane's 10-point rack, which was waiting to be mounted at the taxidermist, the DNR said.

[the_devils_advocate_666]

Okay, raise your hand if your first thought was "[Duncan] Hunter's Internet bragging leads to fines for bagging illegal deer"

[EagleUSA]

Cute spin in the title. Typical.

[Bigh4u2]

[Alter Kaker]

What a nimrod!

[Frank_2001]

"And THE NEXT DAY, we shot a fine 10-point buck"
Those three words would have saved him a lot of money;)

[Southside_Chicago_Republican]

Yep.

[dfwgator]

Moe (reading): "Oh, see the deer. Has the deer a little doe?"
Curly: "Why soitenly! Two bucks!"

[antiRepublicrat]

and paid a total of $861.50 in fines and costs

Somebody got off light. I really have no sympathy for poachers.

[tiger-one]

My hand is raised.

[texas_mrs]

Investigators also confiscated Kane's 10-point rack, which was waiting to be mounted at the taxidermist,

He will remember that long after he's forgotten the fine he paid.

[freeplancer]

The idiot was a POACHER not a hunter. Typical AP Bias.

[quikdrw]

And he could have kept the 10-point rack.

[SmoothTalker]

How else should the title have been written? Looks fine to me.

[FreedomPoster]

See #11.