I can just imagine....
“Your Honor, the prosecution requests extraordinary sentencing in this case. Specifically, we’re asking for the death penalty.”
I wouldn’t put it past ‘em.
You screw with the elites of this Banana Republic & you know what happens.
He says he didn’t know about the law, and neither did the guide. He’s manning up anyway and taking his licks. Good for him.
The old saying that “ignorance of the law is no defense” was a good idea, but anymore as laws get more convoluted and nonsensical... There’s a point when it becomes nearly impossible to know what the law is.
Here in WA I would offer the game and fish regs as a prime example. The “pamphlet” I got (it used to be a pamphlet. It’s more of a book anymore) is so long and complex— with numerous exemptions, exceptions and temporary changes— and has you jumping all through the book just to figure out the dates that some place opens and closes... Or whatever... The damn thing is indecipherable. I would say that it is virtually impossible to go fishing for salmon on Puget Sound without unkowingly breaking at least one or more regulation— no matter how much you study the rules ahead of time.
hank jr got in trouble for this also
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So, he wounds one bear and moves on to another because first bear didn’t die? Can’t he be charged with cruelty to animals? Along with a few other things I won’t mention.