Posted on 03/13/2014 10:34:07 AM PDT by rarestia
Three men are facing charges in Pasco County for poaching deer on private property and hunting out of season.
Officials with the Florida Fish and Wildlife Commission say they caught the men on February 27 on private land near Bellamy Brothers Boulevard in Dade City.
Officers said they noticed spotlights in operation and heard multiple gunshots coming from private property nearby. Around 1 a.m., officers said they found Jason Payne, Eric Ohmdahl and Marc Laird cleaning six deer on Payne's property.
Officers took three rifles with lights attached and six bags of deer meat.
All three men were charged with first-degree misdemeanors, including taking deer during closed season.
I’ve never hit one and have prevented friends from hitting them when I was a passenger. Most people don’t see the deer in the dark because they are looking for the wrong thing. They do not reflect light except with their eyes. So you have to look for a dullness in your headlights. I see them in the road, off the road, moving and standing still. It is like their hide absorbs the light or diffuses it. State Troopers alway collect the deer. An adult white tail can knock an 18 wheeler out of commission.
I was in a new (5 months old) ‘74 Ford Pinto. It completely demolished the front of the car, spun it around backwards and it landed on the side of a steep embankment ready to roll down the side into a ditch. Other cars stopped to help and even a 18 wheeler from the opposite side of the Interstate stopped. He said he was watching my headlights when I hit and suddenly they just went out for no apparent reason that he could see, so he stopped and called for the HP on his CB.
The HP called a tow truck and they took the car to a nearby Ford dealership.
I was stuck in Kansas City for ten days while my car was repaired...................
As a note to those who are thinking about picking up “road kill” it might not be fit to eat and I don't mean rotten.
My husband used to raise beef cattle,he had his young animals in the pens for vaccination. One of the heifers got down and the rest of the herd trampled her to death.
He took the heifer to be dressed, cut and wrapped for our freezer. We ended up throwing all the meat out because the bruising kept the blood from draining out of the meat and it was uneatable.
Bummer.
I figured either you were being sarcastic, or continental....
I believe, we as a nation, need to forego the euphemisms of the old kingly ways and stick hard to the natural rights and providential expressions of the founders. That way we don’t confuse the idiots who take things literally since they have little reading or historical understanding....
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