Posted on 01/16/2012 3:04:51 PM PST by WOBBLY BOB
FOREST LAKE, Minn. - A Forest Lake homeowner says he is livid about an "outrageous, unnecessary ending to a great wildlife story" after a police officer came onto his property at about 7 a.m. on Saturday and shot two orphaned fawns that often slept in the dog house at close range without warning. Jeff Carpenter contacted FOX 9 News about the weekend shooting, saying an officer "brutally gunned down" the twin, 6-month-old fawns his family had come to love thirty yards from his home. Carpenter said he was working in the home office when he was startled by a shotgun blast just outside the garage. At first, he thought frost may have cracked the concrete because of the cold, but he heard another shot ring out a few minutes later near the deck area.
(Excerpt) Read more at myfoxtwincities.com ...
That does it! Shooting deer is one thing, but having a government issued Japanese warrior do it for them is the height of incivility!
“....that often slept in the dog house at close range without warning”????????
where do these “writers” come from
My aunt’s house in NJ has tons of deer, it would take an Army. Is that what is next
Boy, Capt Greg Salo sounds like one tough sumbitch. I'll bet he strikes fear in the hearts of fawns everywhere.
I just think the way this was handled by EVERYONE is just ridiculous. Whatever happened to brains? I mean, did we all regress to the caveman stage or what?
The chief of Police is Richard Peterson email: 401@flpd.com
Spot on. The “Cop on the beat” has had his discretion taken away and substituted with guidelines imposed by nameless, faceless, unaccountable bureaucrats.
The dead deer in the accompanied photo has no collar ....go ahead, enlarge it.
Actually, they're not. The hunters orange collars were likely placed on them to warn potential hunters that these deer were semi, if not completely domesticated and not worthy of being shot during hunting season........
P>In rural areas it is not uncommon for farmers to place sucn hunters orange vests, or a facsimile thereof, on their cattle, especially after losing cattle to hunters who couldn't tell the difference between a deer and a f'n cow.........
This family's only crime was saving two baby deer from death and subsequently raised, nurtured and tried to protect them via the hunters orange collars. They did nothing wrong.....In fact, they did everything right!
If someone were to start a ping list to address these incidents, I recommend you name it "LOOK, A AMINAL(sic)! KEEL EET!"
You'll need an accompanying graphic of some hayseed policeman shooting a beagle with his eyes closed and children looking on in horror, downrange in the line of fire. Probably some cop cars in the background speeding to the scene too late to take part in the fun.
The incident with the fawns was to show the slaves their place
Damn..., the cop should have his eyes checked. There’s no way those fawn resembled Golden Labradors in any way....
Where's the collar? How about you, read?
A few years ago there was a traffic slow down on a country road during a rain storm. When my wife got up to the disruption she saw a squirrel that had been hit by a car flopping around on the road. She stopped and the squirrel wedged itself under her front tire. She pulled it out and wrapped it up in my Nomex hood and firefighter helmet that had been in the trunk of our car.
The squirrel was paralyzed from the waist down. When she called the “wilderness vet” they told her to bring it to them so that they could put it out of it’s misery. We had a weiner dog that became paralyzed after it jumped off our tractor and he had gotten better on his own, so my wife refused. The person on the phone became irrate when my wife would not agree to bring the squirrel in. She said that my wife was a criminal for harboring a squirrel and that if caught she would be prosecuted to the full extent of the law and could be put in jail.
We nursed the ungrateful squirrel for three months. After receiving many scratches from her sharp little claws and minor bites she got better. We let her go at the end of summer. She lived behind out house for about three years. I think one of our neighbors cats finally got the better of her. She would eat the nuts and assorted squirrel food my wife put out for her. We could identify the squirrel because her tail never got better. She was unable to fluff it up or put it over her head.
Personally wouldn’t mind what they did to those deer, happening to them.
Government does not always know best.
Unannounced government discharging guns on private property can be shot by homeowners in self-defense. Unannounced is the key. In the state I live in.
“The hunters orange collars were likely placed on them to warn potential hunters that these deer were semi, if not completely domesticated and not worthy of being shot during hunting season........”
Is it legal to keep deer as pets in Minn. ? Heck, is it even legal to feed deer? I could understand it being seen as baiting or something.
Excellent link, Wobbly Bob:
http://www.twincities.com/ci_19752411
It gives details of the shooting and the orders to do so.
Essentially, it is that the DNR was protecting its turf. They should have been a bit more sensitive, and this is the bad publicity that they get because of it.
I guess I should don a flamesuit, because I think the DNR was right to order their destruction and the homeowner was wrong to collar them without contacting DNR and finding out whether it was appropriate or not.
Mostly, he was creating a neighborhood nuisance and traffic hazard for years to come. Wild animals that lose their fear of man raise offspring that likewise do not fear man. Pretty soon you’ve got a herd of deer that create traffic hazards and mob pedestrians looking for a handout of stale bread.
Since Federal terror and drug operations military training and practices, law enforcement has become corrupt, disrespectful and distant from the people they serve and their values. They need people to interact with and respect them out of goodness because they are in danger and dependent on the public and voters. They have no idea what they are setting up for themselves once the 100th monkey situation of public awareness is reached.
Police Chiefs and officers feel all powerful now because they are getting away with murder...but it is an illusion as they chip away at the good will (cultural civics) of the American middle class. When they lose that, they will find themselves in a really dangerous situation. The civic values of the middle class is what has stood between them and the Left’s anarchy.
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