Posted on 07/29/2021 12:04:46 PM PDT by nickcarraway
A 58-year-old man was struck and killed by an arrow intended for a skunk Friday night, police in central New York said.
James Parker Jr., 58, and another man were trying to kill a skunk with a crossbow, but when the other man shot the arrow it “unintentionally” struck Parker instead, according to a news release from New York State Police.
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Oops.
Same way Kate Steinle died
I am reminded of a former Tulsa cop who murdered his EX with a crossbow.
Then another one in Europe.
https://www.euronews.com/2019/11/22/man-found-guilty-of-killing-heavily-pregnant-ex-wife-with-crossbow
Actually, he was wearing a coon skin cap and old jimmy went for it.
Why kill a skunk? I live in NY. We have LOTS of skunks. Never hunted one. Don’t know anyone that did.
Cars keep the skunk population down. Never known to be a nuisance.
I guess he just wanted to KILL something. In that case it was a success.
“Why kill a skunk? I live in NY. We have LOTS of skunks. Never hunted one. Don’t know anyone that did.
Cars keep the skunk population down. Never known to be a nuisance.”
Sounds like you’ve never had them in your backyard living under your deck.
They stink and love to dig under fences. And then there’s rabies....
I used a live trap and released the first couple i caught. Now i cover the trap with a big plastic bin and gas (gopher gassers) the damn things. The last one i caught was tough. Gassed it three times and was sure it was dead. Somehow it survived and dug it’s way under the bin and escaped. I think it either crawled off somewhere and died or was so traumatized it never came back.
City Animal Control Department was useless. They sent a teenage girl with no PPE to get it and she ended up getting sprayed in the eyes. If i lived in the country i would shoot the skunks.
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