Man and his young son harass deer hunter in a tearful, profanity-laced, and utterly bizarre video

The Blaze ^ | October 26, 2019 | Sarah Taylor

[gattaca]

There are no words to accurately describe this video

A Long Island, New York, man and his young son were caught on video harassing a deer hunter who was minding his own business in the woods and looking for deer.

Ditch the fake news ==> Click here to get news you can trust sent right to your inbox. It's free! What are the details? Dominick Lobifaro, a 30-year-old hunter from Brooklyn, New York, caught the incident on camera.

While Lobifaro was seeking for a place to hunt, he was approached by a man and his son as well as a throng of neighborhood youngsters.

"Hey!" the unnamed man can be heard shouting to get the attention of Lobifaro, who was sitting in his truck at the time. "The kids wanna know — why you wanna kill deer?"

The man's son follows closely behind and adds, "What did the f***ing deer do to you?"

Clearly taken aback, Lobifaro calmly explains that he hunts deer because he eats them, and points out that there's hardly a difference between hunting and buying meat at the supermarket.

"Do you buy meat from the supermarket?" he asks. The young boy answers that he does, but refuses to listen to reason.

The boy's father, apparently uninterested in explaining that some people hunt animals for food, continues berating and badgering Lobifaro, mockingly calling him a "hero." He also goes on to blame the kids' tears on Lobifaro "because you wanna kill a deer."

"I'm sorry that they're crying," Lobifaro responds, and suggests that the father tell the kids that hunting for food is a "part of life."

"I'm not trying to do anything bad," he adds, but the child becomes further enraged, insisting that the hunter is doing wrong simply by "using a weapon to kill a live animal."

"Leave!" the boy shouts. "Now! You're an a**hole! F*** you!"

According to the New York Post, Lobifaro ended up calling authorities on the man who confronted him and continued to harass him. Authorities reportedly told the unnamed man that Lobifaro had every right to be where he was and that he was doing nothing wrong.

(Content warning: Rough language):

[Inspectorette]

I have deer strolling across my back deck on a regular basis. Had one a couple of weeks ago that spent a lazy afternoon lounging in my back yard.

[Tax-chick]

I hope it didn’t eat all your landscape plants.

[Impala64ssa]

If this beta dad had the couliones to take his son down to Little Havana or Ybor City and tried to bust up a cock fight with a profanity laced rant, then I’ll be slightly impressed. Or maybe not. Notice how the bunny huggers, like progressive types in general think they’re slick when it comes to picking and choosing their battles.

[bankwalker]

Walt Disney’s fault ... created the illusion that animals talk etc ...

[Hot Tabasco]

Did the aforementioned moonbat bus the "throng" out to public lands for which Mr. Lobifaro had a hunting permit?

He was parked on the side of a freshly paved street in what appeared to be an upscale neighborhood with kids playing down the street........I asked before, why was he in that location?

[Tax-chick]

I asked before, why was he in that location?

It seems to be a mystery to all. I didn't go to the source site, so I don't know whether it even occurred to the journalist to ask such a basic question.

[guyfromjrz]

He was on the fringe of a NY Department of Environmental Conservation land.

He was scouting from his truck. Perfectly legal and reasonable.

I know in New Jersey, if you have permission of the property owner its game. Right up to property line for bow hunting.

In NJ rifles are not permitted for hunting; shotgun and bow only.

I believe in NY outside of city limits rifle use is permitted.

One time in Woodatock, GA were hunting water fowl on a private pasture. Some jerk 100 yards away in a McMansiom neighborhood and his kid shot fireworks at us. The game warden who was probably called by someone in that neighborhood saw them harassing us.

The father got cited for harassment.

He had the attitude as this jerk in LI.

[Hot Tabasco]

As a side note, in the sub where I live, there's a wooded area about 1/10 x 1/10 square mile with an 8 lane divided highway one the south side of it. In the woods there is a small herd of deer that one by one will ultimately get nailed by a car on the highway doing about 50 - 60 MPH. Happens about twice a year........

Here in S.E. Michigan north of Detroit, it's heavily populated and these small wooded areas all harbor deer and the only thing controlling their populations are automobiles.

And another thing, I grew up in northern Michigan in the 50's thru the 60's and I never saw a turkey in my life. Now they're everywhere down here and you see them in the darndest places.

[Tax-chick]

Thank you for clearing this up.

[Tax-chick]

Turkeys have made a resurgence all over the country. Here in NC, the Forest Service and state parks actively manage habitat to benefit turkeys, quail, and other game birds. I’m sure it’s the same in other states.

You don’t have coyotes to help cars kill the deer?

[tbw2]

Hatred of the infidel, the unbeliever, the blasphemer.

This is religiously induced hatred of the hunter, justifying cruel words and, eventually, violence.

Because environmentalism is a religion. It is Mother Earth worship. Extinction Rebellion is but one of their death cults.

[tbw2]

Hatred of the infidel, the unbeliever, the blasphemer.

This is religiously induced hatred of the hunter, justifying cruel words and, eventually, violence.

Because environmentalism is a religion. It is Mother Earth worship. Extinction Rebellion is but one of their death cults.

[tbw2]

Thank you.

[tbw2]

Hatred of the infidel, the unbeliever, the blasphemer.

This is religiously induced hatred of the hunter, justifying cruel words and, eventually, violence.

Because environmentalism is a religion. It is Mother Earth worship. Extinction Rebellion is but one of their death cults.

[Mears]

Coyotes and turkeys all over the place here in MA,and in densely populated areas.Never saw them years ago.

[Hot Tabasco]

In NJ rifles are not permitted for hunting; shotgun and bow only.

Same here in the bottom half of Michigan, Zone 3. Last year a friend who lives about 45 miles north of me in a rural area shot a nice 8 pt. buck from a blind literally 100 yds. from the back of his house with a crossbow. Went back to garage, got his ATV, drove out and hauled it back to his garage and hoisted it up with a trolly and dressed it.

Then last week, another friend who lives in an upscale small wooded are in Troy showed me a photo he took with his phone of two bucks in his back yard the prior week.. One was a 10 pointer and the other was an 8. He was on his back deck and they were about 30 ft. from him just looking at him.........LOL!

[NorthMountain]

Man???

No.

[dayglored]

> They [opossums] hang out in the trees and scream at one another as mating behavior, unless your convenient cop neighbor shoots them. They nest in the woodpile next to your back door and threaten you with giant teeth if you try to sit on your stoop. (Personal experience.) If you put pet food out, they congregate on your doorstep on your doorstep and fight over the food. (Personal observation.) They stink. (Literally)

Many years ago I was a wildlife rehabilitator, specializing in critters like skunks and raccoons, and often any other small mammal or bird that got injured. Loved the work, although getting skunk-sprayed at close range was pretty awful.

One night I saw a mother opossum who had been hit by a car, so I stopped to pull her off the road, and realized immediately:
1. She was dead.
2. She had a pouch full of baby possums.

The babies were the size of a peanut shell, hairless, blind, totally helpless. What to do?

I took them home, set them up in a tissue box, got an eyedropper and some warm milk, and tried raising them.

After a few weeks, and transfers to successively larger boxes, they looked and acted exactly like this:

I released them to the wild with a prayer.

Everything you wrote about them above is true. I would only add, it's the adults that act like that. The young'uns can be pretty cute. Teeth are sharp as hell, though. Ouch!

[Tallguy]

So the ‘authorities’ didn’t arrest the adult who harassed the hunter? It’s illegal to do that, y’know.

[Hot Tabasco]

You don’t have coyotes to help cars kill the deer?

Lots of coyotes living in the suburbs but you don't hear of them killing deer. Plenty of other food sources such as possums, feral cats, muskrats and an occasional pet dog.

You don't hear any accounts of them roaming in packs but rather just solitary sightings. A couple weeks ago a friend who lives in Warren said he saw a female with two pups behind his house on the other side of his fence that borders a wooded area.