Posted on 01/14/2009 5:26:56 PM PST by SJackson
Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources
Authorities are searching for a snowmobiler who ran over and killed 57 mallard ducks Tuesday.
Authorities are searching for a snowmobiler who ran over and killed 57 mallard ducks Tuesday.
Close Authorities are searching for a snowmobiler who ran over and killed 57 mallard ducks Tuesday on a river in Fond du Lac, according to the state Department of Natural Resources.
The ducks were found in an area of open water and on the ice of the Fond du Lac River near Lake Winnebago, said George Protogere, a DNR warden supervisor.
The snowmobiler apparently skipped over the open water, turned around and skipped over the water again, Protogere said.
The fact that the snowmobiler appears to have intentionally run over the ducks is disturbing, Protogere said.
"You think about wildlife and the journey that they have when they migrate and the ones that stick around with these harsh temperatures, and then all of the sudden they get killed by a senseless act," he said. "It just does not make any sense."
The ducks - 37 drake mallards and 20 mallard hens - were killed sometime between about 9 a.m. and 2 p.m. Tuesday, Protogere said.
The duck slaughter comes less than a week after snowmobilers ran down and killed four deer and fatally injured a fifth Friday night in Waupaca County. No arrests have been made in connection with that case, authorities said.
I’m with ya, Ted.
57 ducks don't just sit around while somebody runs them over with a frickin snowmobile.
No, they don't.
But, hey, that was years ago. No point taking it out on our fine feathered friends now.
I’ve done it dozens of times. Gun the sled, pull back hard on the bars and go right over open water. Not a lot of water, but 20 or 30 feet is pretty easy at 40 or 50 mph on a frozen lake.
Why didn’t the ducks fly off when the snowmobiles approached?
I don’t understand why the ducks didn’t scatter. 57 dead ducks happened for some other reason.
When it was easy to kill more than you could eat, they killed more and ate the choice parts.
This may be a hard truth, but it is the truth. A lot of people may not like it, but much of the difficulties that we find ourselves in today as a country comes from the desire not to have to face hard truths.
It matters not one bit to the deer if they were killed and eaten or just killed.
What matters, really, is that there is a sustainable population of the animals. It makes no sense to exterminate useful creatures.
Some things I just don’t get.
I was surprised by this, too, but snowmobiles can really move. Getting one going 80 mpg isn’t that difficult. When you get one going that fast and on sleds, they’ll definitely skip over water. I have good (idiotic) friends who didn’t anticipate a lake freeze and ended up nearly sinking one. They did eventually make it across but were definitely sinking.
Dangerous things, snowmobiles.
I’ve seen what some people are capable of when it comes to animal cruelty.Some of the images will haunt your dreams.
You get all sorts of variations on this answer. Some would get offended by me killing off coyotes I have no intention of eating but who have every intention of eating neighborhood cats and dogs.
Sorry, Cool & the Gang, but if a yote is menacing my dogs in the middle of the day, I’m going to take him out.
“The snowmobiler skipped over open water?
Thats news to me. Ive never heard of a snowmobile being able to ride across water. How in the world do you pull that off?”
You’ve never been to the Siren, WI. waterskip competition, I see.....
And if you don’t make it? How well do they do as a submarine?
Given the extreme temps over the past month, its quite likely the ducks were congregated on a small patch of open water with the ice surrounding it of sufficient thickness as to allow a snowmobile with sufficient speed to span the limited open water and kill the ducks floating there. Heck, I've seen that many ducks floating in a 15' x 15' spot of open water on the lake I grew up on.......
Ducks move fast.
Kind of hard to kill 57 ducks in my opinion
Democrat ducks. Not too swift.
Kind of hard to run a sub 4-minute mile too.
But people can and people do.
Sure they do if they're congregated in a small patch of open water on a small pond and the snowmobile ambushes them at say 50 miles an hour........
I've seen that many ducks in the only open water on a pond many times, I've just never seen a deviant snowmobiler try to run them over.......
Not much respect involved in driving herds of buffalo over a cliff... But it was undoubtedly effective.
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