Posted on 11/27/2006 2:02:45 PM PST by ButThreeLeftsDo
Country singer Troy Lee Gentry pleaded guilty this morning in U.S. District Court in Duluth to a misdemeanor charge of falsely registering a trophy bear he killed as wild, when in fact it was a captive bear named "Cubby," which he shot near Sandstone, Minn., in 2004.
As part of a plea agreement that avoided a trial that was to start today, Gentry, 39, agreed to pay a $15,000 fine, forfeit the bear's hide and the bow he used to shoot the animal and give up hunting, fishing and trapping in Minnesota for five years.
At the same hearing, Gentry's local hunting guide, Lee Marvin Greenly, owner of the Minnesota Wildlife Connection near Sandstone, pleaded guilty to two felony counts of aiding other hunters to kill bears at baiting stations he maintained illegally inside the Sandstone National Wildlife Refuge.
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I've been stunned by this since I heard it.
I agree. That ISN'T hunting......
Why would they stick him in a trophy bear case just to plead guilty? how would he breathe? how would the judge hear him?
Put thm at a baiting station and I'll be happy to "hunt" these 2 SOBs!
;-)
And, yes......Prayers for Tonk!!
Me too! how crazy is that?!
Why would they stick him in a trophy bear case just to plead guilty? how would he breathe? how would the judge hear him?
Trophy bear cases contain assho, er, airholes.
That took me awhile, but it was worth it.
Who is he? I've don't think I have heard of him?
"Troy Lee Gentry — the brooding half of country music duo Montgomery Gentry — admitted in court today the tame bear he killed on a Minnesota farm in 2004 wasn't wild."
http://www.twincities.com/mld/twincities/16109537.htm
Montgomery Gentry---
The irony being that one of their most recent hits is called "That's Something to Be Proud Of"
MMMMMMMM
Oh no, not Cubby!
P.S. Not a very original name.
If, for no other reason, I just couldn't hunt something with a cuddly name.
From the culture of "Fake Bewbies" comes "Fake Hunting".
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