Posted on 10/28/2008 11:35:51 AM PDT by JZelle
The stupidity of some people must never be underestimated, and the Virginia Department of Game and Inland Fisheries occasionally provides classic examples of it whenever none-too-bright poachers are caught red-handed.
What irks me, however, are dreadful violations of wildlife laws that eventually involve descriptions such as "hunter" or "hunting," which is the wrong application of the meaning and intent of the words.
See if you don't agree.
Shortly after midnight on a recent late-summer day, Virginia senior game officer Dewayne Sprinkle received a call from the Bedford County Sheriff's Office about a possible spotlighting incident. Apparently a county resident saw lights shining across a field, which in rural areas now and then involves the illegal shooting of deer.
Officer Sprinkle responded to the location and - are you ready? - found three individuals, one of them wearing a firefighter helmet with a .357 Magnum revolver strapped to his side. The man also had a homemade explosive device in his hand.
Wow!
Soon county sheriff's officers arrived at the scene. The subject was taken into custody and the device was confiscated. A state police bomb squad showed up to destroy a 6-inch PVC pipe filled with smokeless gunpowder. It had been attached to a small propane canister with strips of duct tape.
When I first heard about the incident, the person I spoke with said the event involved deer poaching and easily tied it into hunting.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...
“Hunting” with explosive strapped propane tanks seems like a bad idea...
I think someone was on his way to getting a Darwin Award. He’s lucky he got caught.
Poaching is to hunting as rape is to dating...
Poachers DON’T hunt.
Mark
We used to get spotlighters (my dad called ‘em “jacklighters”) that would hunt off the road onto our property when I was a kid. More than once, late at night, my dad would walk out onto our back porch and when the idiot spotlighters swept their light over our house, it’d pause...on my dad standing there with a locked-and-loaded .30-06 aimed right at them.
The light always went out, shortly followed by the sound of gravel flying from under spinning tires.
}:-)4
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