Posted on 09/22/2020 12:09:12 PM PDT by SJackson
A young deer hunter was killed on Saturday, Sept. 12 after being run over by a corn harvester. The boy, Jeffrey Powell from Elkton, Michigan, fell asleep shortly after arriving at the corn field to hunt deer, investigators believe. The machine operator, a 25-year-old from Pigeon, was harvesting the field with a large Krone corn chopper.
Emergency responders were called to the field, located in Chandler Township, just before 9 a.m. The machine operator discovered the teenager after driving over him, a news release by the Huron County Sheriff’s Office said.
Combines cut the crop and separate the grain from the plant while processing and spreading the remaining material over the field.
“Unaware anyone was in it [the field], the hunter was accidentally driven over and found by the chopper operator a very short while later,” the Huron Daily Tribune reported. The boy was pronounced dead at the scene.
You can learn more about Jeffrey Powell and his life here.
“We would NEVER allow a 14 year old hunt unsupervised.”
My father put me on a stand with .410 slugs when I was 9.
Met a whole lot of people in that job who were missing limbs. The story generally involved the PTO on a tractor. Often times it could be deadly.
“Unfortunately it was a John Deere.”
Krone.
You wouldn’t hear that coming at you?
No, but I’ve never hunted in a standing corn field. Edges, overlooking, approaches, but never in the midst of standing corn.
“The boy, Jeffrey Powell from Elkton, Michigan, fell asleep shortly after arriving at the corn field “
In an effort to ‘massage’ the. original story, the ‘author’. misspeaks.
Yes, sitting on edge just inside a corn field is a common thing when hunting in corn growing country.
Typically when people hear “asleep” they think of someone lying down, but you can fall asleep sitting up in the right position. I’ve fallen asleep a few times when sitting watching for deer.
14 is not too young to be out by themselves hunting. It’s a modern idea that someone must be an “adult” to hunt or handle firearms unsupervised, and it fact, it was very common for most of our country’s history
I can’t imagine the pain this family is going through, and the driver as well. So sad.
I notice that he put you on stand.
He didn’t send you out alone in a cornfield.
There’s a marked difference.
Well, good for you and your peers.
This kid is dead and this could have been easily avoided.
MI has 4-5 yr old’s hunting deer now, I’m not joking. On private land I don’t think there is a age limit.
I suppose that makes sense. I don't hunt large corn fields often. I would if I had one.
That’s corny. But, seriously, payers for the boy, his family, and the farmer.
“No, but I’ve never hunted in a standing corn field. Edges, overlooking, approaches, but never in the midst of standing corn.”
It was 9 AM. You won’t find deer in the open edges.
Why? Such hunting occurs all across this country during deer season...... They were granted permission to hunt so what more does it take?
An unfortunate accident so let it go at that......Sheesh!
The harvester scatters some small amounts of shelled corn in its wake. The deer come into the harvested part of the field to partake of this largess. The kid was probably sitting on the very edge of the uncut corn watching for deer that might venture into the cut-over stubble. Unfortunately he fell asleep at the wrong time and in the wrong place. Perhaps his family subscribed to the practice of “take your son hunting while he is young and you won’t have to hunt for him when he is older.”
Man, what a terrible way to go.
I am not familiar with this machinery. Would it just have run him over, like a car, or would it have chopped the poor kid like cornstalks?
True.
But he was just a kid.
If I had to pay with my life for every stupid mistake I made (especially as a kid, because I made a lot of them) my life would be a long series of a lot of very short lives.
I would hope that if any of that young boy’s family or friends ever made it to our website here, we could show them what real compassion is.
I fall prey all too often to reading accounts of tragic events online, and being so detached from it, make sport of it. Heck, we all do it. When we read about some guy over in Thailand who gets whacked in an unusual, and from a distance, humorous way, it is easy to find the dark humor in a bungling death.
I have always tried to remember that, though an untimely death may have been directly avoidable by a victim and which, through the power of the Internet, becomes that human being’s fifteen minutes of fame, there are people around them who cared for them and they may find a seat in our theater.
Not admonishing anyone...jus thinking aloud here, TexasGator.
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