Walmart Photo Shop Turns in Deer Hunter

Press Republican ^ | 11/24/02 | Dennis Aprill

[El Gato]

All the deer hunters I knew used compound bows or rifles and actually did trudge around hunting. Most of the ones I know sit in a blind, somewhere where they think the deer will walk by. That blind might be in a tree, but it might not too. Different techniques are used in different terrain and on different species, including elk, antelope and of course the FR favorite Moose.

[El Gato]

I eat kosher meat. It's isn't slaughtered the same way.

Well they used to get a big dumb guy to stand over the chute and hit them in the head with a sledgehammer, but whatever the method, the animal has no chance and is just as dead, and pretty much just as tasty.

[Cultural Jihad]

Ahhhh....when citizens...begin turning in citizens.

As opposed to alien residents or foreign tourists? Those Carville-like posters who decried Tripp-like 'snitches' are a pathetic lot, and are not unlike Clinton who was only sorry that he was caught.

[PokeyJoe]

"Officer, I shot that bear in Alaska - where bait traps are legal."

[SengirV]

"What appears to be in a still photo may not actually be reality"

You had me until that sentance. It's a story about a Walmart employee going that Extra mile to screw over a customer. It's not a debate over the value of a real life photo.

[PokeyJoe]

Actually, Alaska bear hunting regulations state that you can't hunt using scent, unless you have a base scent permit. =)

[chadwimc]

One of my favorite deer hunting tactics is to watch the trail going from the oak trees. Am I guilty of shooting deer while looking for food? The acorns are like Lays potato chips to a deer, they just can't stop...

[nicmarlo]

where the picture was taken

It is legal to bait bears in Canada.....what right did this person have to ASSUME that the hunter committed any crime? to report the "crime," as he couldn't "know" where the animal was killed? I would say this was an invasion of privacy. It's not like a human being was videotaped being killed.

[July 4th]

Yup. The new Epsons (1280, or even better, the 2200) can make a better print off a film scan than conventional photo print process.

I'm in the process of pulling all of my treasured negs and getting them on PC. The photo lab doesn't see much of my money any more...

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Never have your photos processed at Walmart... especially if there should be nude underage children or game out of season on them.

It is very important that the authorities be notified and prosecution initiated if a parent takes a photo of his/her infant's first... GASP! ...naked bath! < /bubba bait>

[MattAMiller]

Ahhhh....when citizens...begin turning in citizens

So we're supposed to ignore it when people break the law? Or just some laws?

[Riley]

Try and antagonize the bear to attack, and then shoot him in self defense for dinner...

Mighn't that be...'bear baiting', as in 'Red baiting'? You could stand there and call him a filthy, worthless, disloyal, anti-American Pinko Commie fur-headed stubby tailed spy ba$tard until he charged you- then nail him.

Frickin' left-wing Eco-nut bear had it comin'...:-)

[BraveMan]

All poachers must hang!

Roger THAT! Poachers provide the cannon fodder for the gun-grabbers anti-sportsmen crowd. Poachers suck . . .

Speaking of Bears, I received this in an e-mail from a relative in Colorado . . .

The following photos are of a guy who works for the forest service in Alaska. He was out deer hunting and a large (did I say LARGE?), world record Grizzly charged him from about 50 yards away. The guy unloaded a 7mm Mag Semi-auto into the bear and it dropped a few feet from him. The Bear was still alive, so he reloaded and capped it in the head. It weighed over one thousand, six hundred pounds, and stood 12'6" high at the shoulder.

It's a world record. The bear had killed a couple of other people and was being hunted by other forest service and Game personnel. Of course, the Game department did not let him keep it.

[Still Thinking]

Now you have me intrigued. What did they try to do to prevent you from buying a product stocked by their store??

[MattAMiller]

Animals are NOT people, they don't have "feelings" and they are our food

Actually they do, to varying degrees. My concern is mostly about maintaining the populations of these animals. The herds need to be thinned from time to time, but the fact that we have farms makes indicriminate killing unecessary.

[rockfish59]

I'm tellin' youse, it was raspberry do-nuts!

[rockfish59]

Oso grande!

[Paulus Invictus]

Correct! Wal-Mart made a deal with Fuji for photofinishing at all W-M stores and it seriously hurt a US company--Kodak. Why does W-M support a subsidized foreign company? Low costs, that's all. But the Japanese govenrment makes up the difference in income for Fuji. The US government never did that for Kodak and will not do so (although they did bail our Chrysler and the airline companies.--go figure). I hate Wal-Mart!

[GovernmentShrinker]

I agree with your sentiment but, fact is, in most of the U.S. the deer population is so out of control that they've wiped out nearly all the vegetation they depend on for food, and as a result are virtually ALWAYS looking for food.

[Libertina]

Not only the photo police, but liberals. My brother hunts bear and it's dangerous even with the bait. No doubt libs would preferr calling "Here baby, baby, baby!" (And then having the bear eat the hunter.) Here in WA animals who are affected by the imbalance stemming no hunting, are coming into suburban areas - backyards where kids play etc. My brother's largets bear was a mile/two? from a local school. I do NOT condone poaching, but not being able to hunt with dogs or are rules made by non-hunters.