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DNR looking for snowmobiler who ran over, killed 57 ducks
Journal Sentinel ^
| Jan. 14, 2009
| Ryan Haggerty
Posted on 01/14/2009 5:26:56 PM PST by SJackson
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To: r9etb
Lol, true. Didn’t think about that.
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posted on
01/14/2009 6:18:27 PM PST
by
randomhero97
("First you want to kill me, now you want to kiss me. Blow!" - Ash)
To: SJackson
How the hell does a snowmobile “skip” over open water, turn around, “skip” over open water again and surprise 57 ducks, killing them?
Maybe the SM had a vacuum on front that sucked the ducks in and passed them through a Willy Coyote ACME Duck Shredder mounted on the back.
Big pile of BS. Anyone that falls for this garbage is watching too many cartoons.
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posted on
01/14/2009 6:20:23 PM PST
by
sergeantdave
(Michigan is a bigger mistake than your state.)
To: Diana in Wisconsin
WTH is going on around here these days?Things fall apart; the center cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.
Happy Obamanauguration Day
To: wgflyer
Thanks for the most intelligent post on this thread.
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posted on
01/14/2009 6:21:35 PM PST
by
truthkeeper
(It's the borders, stupid.)
To: BobbyT
45
posted on
01/14/2009 6:23:16 PM PST
by
Hot Tabasco
(Today is just a little more special than yesterday.)
To: dennisw
Don’t know, 57 is a lot of ducks. But it’s cold, they congregate and they get used to the sound of machinery. I don’t know, if it’s 17, or 27 or 37 ducks, the guy is still a jerk, and hopefully gets caught.
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posted on
01/14/2009 6:25:59 PM PST
by
SJackson
(The American people are wise in wanting change, 2 terms is plenty, Condi Rice)
To: skimbell
Thank you ... I'm just sitting here asking my husband if you make one pass through a group of ducks, the others are going to sit there and wait for you to come back??? This story makes no sense at all. Now I'm trying to imagine skipping a snowmobile over an opening in the ice.
Makes you wonder if the guy writing this article has ever even been outside.
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posted on
01/14/2009 6:26:48 PM PST
by
JustaDumbBlonde
(America: Home of the Free Because of the Brave)
To: Hot Tabasco
Thanks, thay clearly puts the toll in the dozens
48
posted on
01/14/2009 6:28:11 PM PST
by
SJackson
(The American people are wise in wanting change, 2 terms is plenty, Condi Rice)
To: wgflyer
The solution is to get rid of those who prey on us, which requires a higher standard,I think you may be misunderstanding the outrage on this thread.
You say we need to fight cruelty. I agree. But we need to fight it where we find it. This thread was about a sadistic killing of a freezing raft of ducks. I'll be honest -- had I been there to witness this, this snowmobiler would have been unable to get on his snowmobile after I got through with him.
Now as for crimes against people? What in the world makes you think that I would go easier on someone trying to burglarize my home or rape my daughter? Maybe others yawn (as you suggest) at criminal enterprise, but I don't. And I doubt other FReepers on this thread do either.
Yes, let's fight cruelty. But let's fight cruelty in all its forms.
49
posted on
01/14/2009 6:29:50 PM PST
by
Flycatcher
(Strong copy for a strong America)
To: hinckley buzzard
I just made my 'Countdown Ticker.' Like it?
50
posted on
01/14/2009 6:30:59 PM PST
by
Diana in Wisconsin
(Save The Earth. It's The Only Planet With Chocolate.)
To: Diana in Wisconsin
A few years ago the most popular Wisconsin threads were about throwing out Perrier and getting rid of a local swinger club.
Now it's snowmobilers killing deer and ducks.
I haven't a clue what that means, but someone at Obama's party next week could make a movie about it.
51
posted on
01/14/2009 6:31:06 PM PST
by
SJackson
(The American people are wise in wanting change, 2 terms is plenty, Condi Rice)
To: SkyDancer
Years ago when my uncle was a forester up in the Nicolet National Forest, in northern Wisconsin, they were asked about commercializing snowmobiles. The men weren't real thrilled about it.
They knew there would be careless drivers who would take liberties.
To: Northern Yankee
That’s the problem - when I was on AMTRAK last month going through ND - we saw snowmobile tracks all over the place ... I asked myself why did they do that?
53
posted on
01/14/2009 6:35:31 PM PST
by
SkyDancer
("Talent Without Ambition Is Sad, Ambition Without Talent Is Worse")
To: SkyDancer
Yep... usually there are designated trails that snowmobiles should be on. Not always the case though.
Most snowmobilers are respectful of the laws, but like anything else you have your idiots out there who should be removed from the gene pool.
To: Northern Yankee
Sometimes they do it to themselves ... well off to watch The Godfather ... original ...or first in the series ...
55
posted on
01/14/2009 6:40:09 PM PST
by
SkyDancer
("Talent Without Ambition Is Sad, Ambition Without Talent Is Worse")
To: SJackson
Dont know, 57 is a lot of ducks. But its cold, they congregate and they get used to the sound of machinery. I dont know, if its 17, or 27 or 37 ducks, the guy is still a jerk, and hopefully gets caught.
Could be that even ducks slow down with the cold....
That they did nor react as quick as the would in the spring or summer
I was takling with a guy yesterday who uses a radio controlled boat to drive the ducks away
The ducks are in the pond bordering his backyard and like to climb up and raid his vegetable garden
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posted on
01/14/2009 6:42:42 PM PST
by
dennisw
(On the thirty first floor a gold plated door won't keep out the Lord's burning rage ---FBB)
To: SJackson
boat owner???
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posted on
01/14/2009 6:45:48 PM PST
by
Chode
(American Hedonist -)
To: randomhero97
Let’s not carried away with: “they killed only what they needed” idea. The “Buffalo Jumps” killed thousands and only a couple of hundred were used for food and hides.
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posted on
01/14/2009 6:59:11 PM PST
by
TaMoDee
To: JustaDumbBlonde
Believe me, a fast moving snow mobile can spin across open water, as long as the open water isn’t too wide. Momentum, combined with a spinning rubber track at 40 or 50 mph will do it. I have done it.
To: Flycatcher
“I think you may be misunderstanding the outrage on this thread.”
I don't think so. The outrage expressed here may be reasonable, in context, and Freeperville is generally populated with a higher standard of people. But in my lifetime I have encountered so many “animal lovers” whose outrage over cruelty to animals is emotion driven, rather than thought driven, and it often dominates the individual, no matter the political or social creed .
No offense intended. But I think the rage is misdirected.
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posted on
01/14/2009 7:16:00 PM PST
by
wgflyer
(Liberalism is to society what HIV is to the immune system.)
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