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Posted on 05/06/2009 4:20:49 AM PDT by marktwain
Too late.
Had this happened to me, just as related?
The LEOs hierarchy and government directly above would be given 2 choices:
1) GIVE me the name or names of the complainants
-or-
2) A massive lawsuit for violating any number of my rights forthcoming immediately, all the way to the federal level if need be.
Period.
BTW mark, perhaps you could list the state this happened. I've no idea where this place is located.
Sound like transplants. What is his point of shooting starling birds and killing them with his pellet gun? He wasn’t going to eat the starlings he just wanted to kill them? What an idiot the guy is.
It’s in the brackets at the top of the headline on this thread.
[Montana]
The guy is lucky he wasn’t shot 15 times(out of 162,799 shots fired).
Great story.
Timing's everything. :^)
I got a gun question for the Freepers... I was talking to my next door neighbor (an older woman in her 70s) yesterday... and she "happened" to mention that she has a 38...
I asked her a couple of questions about it because we share a common wall... and apparently, she hasn't fired it for several years. It is loaded because she is afraid of creeps.
And that is all fine and good... but I'm not too sure if it is a good idea to keep the gun loaded over the years and not test fire it or at least clean the gun out once in a while. So is my concerns valid and how do I broach this subject without offending her?
She is a good person... but dammit... she actually voted for OBAMA! believe it or not.
Bump!
A smart owner would (1) learn how to use a firearm, first and then (2) clean it at least 1-2 times a year.
Solution, invite your neighbor to the range, after offering to show her how to clean her pistol.
Everyone wins.
She gets (1) a safe gun, (2) learns how to protect herself and (3) probably has some fun.
You/we get one more person who better understands firearms for personal protection.
If you can’t do I’m sure there’s someone from a local gun club/range who’d be happy to help.
My friend, your neighbor is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma.
I did that when I was young.
Dad and I would go out around the sheds and spotlight them with a flashlight and shoot them with .22 pellets. Mostly I shot though - he held the light.
First off they are damaging type birds. Not “clean” birds like Robbins and the like. They make a mess (starlings, barn swallows in particular), they damage the overhangs on the sheds as well by pecking at the wood while nest building, they would often get into the grain bags if they were stored inside and try to peck them open to get the seed out and they are a general pain in the butt when it comes to breeding as once they establish in the area its hard to get them to stop coming back.
They also tend to run off the “clean” birds that you might find in the old barns like the Robbins as well as they will try to harm Owls if they are in a significant number. We liked Owls, beyond being very nice to look at they kept the mice down. So theres plenty of reasons for the removal of what really amounts to “pests”. People do the same with rodents all the time, its no different. I doubt many people would consider eating a mouse either. Its just not practical.
Anyway, the point is, theres plenty of reasons to remove them from the area. They don’t scare to easy though so shooting them is about the best solution one has.
We did have a cat though. Several actually over the years - their job was to keep the mice out. But there were no mice really (probably because of the Owls) - however with the bird removal once a week they were very well fed cats: so the starlings didn’t go to waste in most cases in our instance.
I’m sure the rational was the same for the MT guy above. Damage prevention, population control, possible neighbor or owner cats to eat the byproduct of the removals.
I wouldn’t assume the worst in other words.
Starlings are an invasive species in the U.S. -- brought here in the 1890s by a group that thought it would be a good idea to introduce in this country all the birds mentioned by Shakespeare.
A few years ago here in the Charlotte NC area, we had a cop kill a telephone maintenance worker who was in an equipment room just doing his job. It was caused when an idiot homeowner called police and told them a suspicious vehicle was at the equipment house and it shouldn't be there. The police apparently never bothered to ask this person how they know who should and should not be there. They just took their word for it. When the LE's got there, they went full out Rambo and entered the building (which only had one entrance). The worker couldn't hear anything because of the equipment noise but saw someone enter and drew his gun. The rest is history and the office, nor the homeowner, were ever charged. The worker was clearly murdered.
Considering it was a 12 year old who had been left alone in her house the parents need to answer something fierce, such as a nice fine of about $1,000 and restitution to my co-worker of another $1,000. That might lead to the parents taking control of their child. It seems she hs done this before.
Kid needs her ass beet with a willow switch.
great story.
Just explain that you are patriotic conservative refugees from California looking for a place where sanity reigns and that you never intend to vote the way a typical Californian votes. Oh, and don't offer any pointers on BBQ to anyone under ANY circumstances for about 10 years. ;)
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