Hunter charged with shooting truck he mistook for deer

New York Post ^ | November 25, 2017 | Tamar Lapin

[Blue Jays]

GMTA. We were all thinking the same thing nearly simultaneously.

[Clinging Bitterly]

I think many of us know that one guy who will shoot anything with hair, but a truck?

[BigEdLB]

http://www.longbeachoptometry.com/
. I have an optometrist I can recommend...

[PIF]

maybe all the ophthalmologists, optometrists, and opticians left town?

[Clinging Bitterly]

Shotgun only, I believe at one time it was but apparently not anymore. Or they just made up the "7mm high powered scoped rifle" part.

No they wouldn't do that.

I'm sure.

[DeWalt]

My bad, it’s New Jersey

[DeWalt]

I thought it was at one time, checked, rifles are good now.

[alloysteel]

I have heard of a tractor being mistaken for a deer - it was a John Deere....

[Diana in Wisconsin]

Maybe people need to stop doing THIS to their trucks! Just sayin'.

[falcon99]

What’s the matter with those NY hunters. Isn’t this the second case of a NY hunter shooting something he wasn’t sure of. The last was an idiot shooting a deer with a pistol at 200 yards — and the deer was actually a woman who he killed.

[NormsRevenge]

Blame it on globull varming. Jaaaa!!!

[umgud]

If we only had universal background checks nationwide. /s

[SJackson]

When hunting trucks, you have to aim for the driver.

On a more serious note, and I'm going to credit Vaquero again, I came in a bit early and read this thread. 45 minutes or so before, near sundown, idiot neighbor who may not like hunting is out on his tractor hunting wood for his furnace. Tractor, one of those Korean ones, bright red like the truck. Used my binoculars and I could seem him moving around in dark clothing. Safer than jaywalking on dark streets in all black I suppose. But, though not relative to this thread, were it not for the red tractor and the noise, he was invisible at dusk. If you're in the woods, even on your own land, wear something bright.

[Chode]

the closer you get to the city, some still do

[DaxtonBrown]

I mistook a woman for a truck once. Her name was Hillary.

[wjcsux]

Hold mah beer and watch this! What a dumbass.

[smokingfrog]

Truck // Buck

They’re pretty close.

[wjcsux]

Now that’s funny!

[omega4412]

I can remember that farmers painted “C O W” with spray paint on the sides of their cows during hunting season.

And as the story goes, a hunter shot the cow anyway. The farmer confronted the hunter, and the hunter said he thought it said "D E E R"

[moovova]

I can see the similarity...