Moose poacher sentenced

Daily Interlake ^ | 3/24/2004 | Jim Mann

[PeteFromMontana]

I was told smoked moose was tastier than poached moose but I could never get the dang thing lit.

[Tijeras_Slim]

Boil him is cheese!

Give him the death of a thousand sister bites!

I'm series!

[dirtboy]

It would take a big-assed pot to poach a moose. I think I'll stick with poached salmon.

[dirtboy]

I could never get the dang thing lit.

Tommy Chong sold a bong big enough to smoke a moose but the feds seized it when they raided his company.

[Constitution Day]

[GungaLaGunga]

BREAKING! BREAKING!

[verity]

The real crime was baiting the moose with a 'cheese lick'. :~)

[Tijeras_Slim]

INFAMY!

[Elvis Archibald Shaka Zulu]

Technically, he is not a poacher, but a violator.

I live in a very rural area where there are many 'violators', or people who hunt out of season, take more than their license permits, fail to get a license, hunt at night with a light, hunt with a rifle during bow season, etc. These are violators.

A poacher is technically someone who hunts on anothers private property without permission.

[governsleastgovernsbest]

In these kind of cases, I generally recommend that the accused present a case of mistaken identity, claiming that that instead of a moose, he thought it was an unborn child.

In most cases this will result in immediate dismissal of the charges, and not infrequently in a parade through town, adulatory appearance on The Today Show and other fringe benefits.

[mtbopfuyn]

Will he be sentenced further for grammar and spelling mistakes on his two book reports?

[spetznaz]

Violators should be fined (and as you said Elvis this guy seems like a poacher). Hunting is great but rules need to be followed.

Poachers on the other hand should be shot. Some guys trudging through your ranch with rifles shooting at anything that moves basically deserve what they get. Especially if you have family in the ranch.

[spetznaz]

seems like a poacher should be seems like a violator.

[from occupied ga]

In most cases this will result in immediate dismissal of the charges

This would work in NY, NJ, MA, CT, RI, CA, DE and MD EXCEPT the perpetrator used a (horrors) gun. Then they let him go on the poaching charge, but charge him with the most evil thing a person can do (in those jurisdictions anyway) a gun crime.

[Elvis Archibald Shaka Zulu]

Yes...

I refered to a violator as a poacher. Those are fightin' words. He was truly offended. This is when I learned the difference.

[CholeraJoe]

At last! A normal crime in Montana. I was beginning to think that all we had up here was polygamy and cannibalism.

[governsleastgovernsbest]

Hmm, good point, the use of a gun is a problem. Guess he'll have to go for the full psychotic-episode defense and claim he thought the gun was a vacuum nozzle.

PS: "occupied GA" - intriguing screen name. Could it be . . . Athens?

[PeteFromMontana]

At last! A normal crime in Montana. I was beginning to think that all we had up here was polygamy and cannibalism.

And of course, the "normal" sentence of a book report LOL

[Revelation 911]

sounds like you were the only resident not involved in the case LOL

[from occupied ga]

Not athens - Denise Majette's (the old Jihad Cindy) district