BS: 2 game wardens, 7 hunters and a cow

Subject: BS: 2 game wardens, 7 hunters and a cow
From: Jack Campin
Date: 07 May 16 - 12:19 PM

Just to show that gun-toting morons are not all American:

http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/79731122/10yearold-boy-shot-in-foot-while-hunting-in-taranaki

Subject: RE: BS: 2 game wardens, 7 hunters and a cow
From: Greg F.
Date: 07 May 16 - 12:33 PM

I don't think anyone ever claimed it was ONLY the Yanks. They're just better at it than most.

Subject: RE: BS: 2 game wardens, 7 hunters and a cow
From: punkfolkrocker
Date: 07 May 16 - 01:00 PM

Are we Brits even allowed to use catapults and slingshots..???

.. peashooters...???

Subject: RE: BS: 2 game wardens, 7 hunters and a cow
From: Mr Red
Date: 07 May 16 - 02:18 PM

invective?

Subject: RE: BS: 2 game wardens, 7 hunters and a cow
From: Joe Offer
Date: 07 May 16 - 02:42 PM

And Mr. Red scores two big points for that one!!!!

Touché!!

Subject: RE: BS: 2 game wardens, 7 hunters and a cow
From: punkfolkrocker
Date: 07 May 16 - 02:51 PM

Mr Red - I really like the image of a line of Edwardian gentlemen shouting, swearing, and insulting pheasants out of the sky... 😎

Subject: RE: BS: 2 game wardens, 7 hunters and a cow
From: Mr Red
Date: 08 May 16 - 03:21 AM

LOL
would that have been Punch?

Subject: RE: BS: 2 game wardens, 7 hunters and a cow
From: punkfolkrocker
Date: 08 May 16 - 09:11 AM

.. no just my imagination.. it's your 'invective' comment that sparked it.. 😎

Subject: RE: BS: 2 game wardens, 7 hunters and a cow
From: Bill D
Date: 08 May 16 - 10:35 AM

That poor kid... being shot even cost him a year off his age - or added a year. He was 10 in the headline and 9 in the story.

Over here, we have kids under 6 doing the shooting. Yessir... we train 'em young.


*sigh* it's pure math.... with couple hundred million guns out there, things are gonna happen

Subject: RE: BS: 2 game wardens, 7 hunters and a cow
From: Greg F.
Date: 08 May 16 - 12:44 PM

kids under 6 doing the shooting

Yeah, but at least in most cases its the moron parent who gets shot - sort of poetic justice.

Subject: RE: BS: 2 game wardens, 7 hunters and a cow
From: Nigel Parsons
Date: 08 May 16 - 02:14 PM

BillD:
That poor kid... being shot even cost him a year off his age - or added a year. He was 10 in the headline and 9 in the story.

Even those educated at top schools (Gordonstoun?) can get it wrong.
In a much quoted speech on his mother's 90th birthday recently Prince Charles said; "Your Majesty, Mummy, I find it so very hard to believe you've reached your 90th year". Of course, on the occasion of her 90th birthday she reached her 91st year. Maybe maths isn't the prince's strong point.

Subject: RE: BS: 2 game wardens, 7 hunters and a cow
From: Rapparee
Date: 08 May 16 - 09:19 PM

Remember this -- never forget it -- gun accidents do not happen, they are caused, and the cause is always human carelessness or human ignorance. [Emphasis in the original.]

       --National Rifle Association, Basic Small Arms Instruction (Washington, D. C., 1943).

Still true today.

Subject: RE: BS: 2 game wardens, 7 hunters and a cow
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 08 May 16 - 09:33 PM

He hasn't got any strong points, unless you call cheating on your bride-to-be the night before your wedding a strong point.

Subject: RE: BS: 2 game wardens, 7 hunters and a cow
From: Mrrzy
Date: 08 May 16 - 10:17 PM

There are newspapers that won't refer to unintended shootings as accidental, only as negligent.

-The law was very firm, it
Took away my permit

Subject: RE: BS: 2 game wardens, 7 hunters and a cow
From: Gurney
Date: 09 May 16 - 12:11 AM

But, but, if we stopped every and all the accidental/negligent shootings, every shooting thereafter would be deliberate!
How would the crooks get away with murder then?

Even if the hunter WAS insured.

Haven't sung that for a long time.

Subject: RE: BS: 2 game wardens, 7 hunters and a cow
From: Greg F.
Date: 09 May 16 - 08:46 AM

What's also true, Rap, is that the National Rifle Assassination of today bears no resemblance to the organization of 1946, and its current agenda is idiocy.

Subject: RE: BS: 2 game wardens, 7 hunters and a cow
From: Jack Campin
Date: 13 May 16 - 05:44 PM

New Zealand hunters carrying on the tradition:

http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/79985740/man-hit-by-shotgun-pellets-while-camping-in-the-bay-of-plenty

In this instance they were shooting in the middle of the night when it was too dark to tell a duck from a tent. Well done, guys. Musta been the tent's fault for flapping.

Subject: RE: BS: 2 game wardens, 7 hunters and a cow
From: Greg F.
Date: 13 May 16 - 06:02 PM

Boy, they keep this up and the Kiwis will make the USAsians look good!