Posted on 09/30/2017 8:33:30 PM PDT by nickcarraway
A man caught on camera shooting a young buck with a bow and arrow in Monrovia has sparked outrage among residents.
A video taken Thursday afternoon shows Mike Rodriguez taking aim at a young buck. The deer runs down the street, leaving a trail of blood. Moments later, the animal died.
“I couldn’t believe it. I’m like, ‘You’ve got to be kidding me.’ Somebody took a shot at a deer right in front of our house in a residential neighborhood?” neighbor Chuck Tapert said.
Rodriguez came forward to identify himself as the man in the video. He defends his actions, saying the video lacks context.
Rodriguez said he shot the deer earlier that day in deer hunting Zone D-11 above Monrovia but failed to kill the animal.
“I didn’t want it to suffer any more than it had to because of my bad shot,” he said. “It moved at the exact time I fired my arrow so I didn’t hit in the kill zone. I hit it high in the back of the spine area.”
Rodriguez said the wounded deer ran off and he was able to track it to the neighborhood in Monrovia Hills.
“I wasn’t up there to shoot an animal in a residential area,” Rodriguez insisted. “I was following up a wounded animal and trying to take him out so he wasn’t suffering any more.”
Some residents aren’t believing it.
“I think he’s got a little fib going here covering his tracks,” resident Robyn Tapert said. “So don’t come back and do that in our neighborhood because we actually care for the wildlife up here.”
California Department of Fish and Wildlife officials are investigating the incident and are still trying to determine if they will seek charges against Rodriguez.
Where I live in a somewhat exurban neighborhood in E. TN about 20 miles west of downtown Knoxville, there’s no culling of the deer. They’re as common as rabbits and are present nearly all the time. Indeed, it hilariously reminds me of a trip my mother andI took to northern WI when I was about 12 yeas old to visit her sister at the sister’s place on a lake in a national forest. Deer were rumored to b there so we went out early one morning to try to see one. All that happened was we may have heard one crossing and and snorting in the brush. Nothing more for two whole weeks. Now all I need to do to see one is drive down the road in front of my house.
Maybe we should import a breeding pair of cougars. It wold also help keep the small children down, a job my Great Dane and Pit Bull cross have woefully failed at.
Hunter Ambushes...
That’s how deer are usually hunted, crybabies.
They run through our neighborhood like rabbits. If we had a suppressor Mr. GG2 could get our annual venison supply sitting on the deck. :-)
Might as well just buy another SUV.
Last year, my Dad hit a deer. It basically jumped right into his SUV, and as it hit the car, it reflexively shat on it. So Dad spent a good hour or so with some sort of detergent and elbow grease getting the deer shit off of the SUV.
He passed away this past July, so he doesn’t have to worry about the friggin’ deer no more. I suppose in Heaven, the deer merely frolic, rather than pester people frightfully.
Feeding deer is like feeding rats, bats and pigeons. It must not be done. But liberals will be liberals . . .
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