November 22, 2004

Hunting season has started in Wisconsin Hunting season started in Wisconsin on Saturday. However it seems that deer hunting it's only dangerous for the deer. A hunter got in a arguement with some other hunters over a deer stand and ended up taking matters into his own hands. By shooting at them

Killed 5. Injured 3. However I'm sure he got the stand for the short time before the police arrived...

posted by tempest 20 years ago
  • Started? Washington state's hunting season has already ended, at least in my corner. I was burning some slash piles by the road this week when a fellow in a battered white pickup pulled by and stopped. "Do you hunt?" he called to me. To my smoke-inhalation-dulled "What?" rejoinder, he repeated, "Do you hunt?" whereupon I outed myself: YES! YES! I BATHE MYSELF IN THE BLOOD OF DEAD ANIMALS! or my actual still-dull response, "Yeah." "Well, if you have a tag, there's a huge 6x6 muley walking your way. Beautiful thing. Biggest buck I've seen all season." I didn't have either heart or sufficient wind to tell him that deer season was closed here, so I just replied, "I'm totally swamped here," which was indeed true-- the fire was doing its best to break out of its confines and ignite the rest of the forest. "Going to have to be live and let live for this fellow," I wheezed. He laughed, and drove on. In his wake, I wondered: should I be sorry that he saw a big, beautiful male mule deer as something that desperately needed collecting? Or should I be charmed that he turned to a nearby stranger to share the marvel of his discovery, as if it were a giant gold nugget rolling down the road that only needed some hand to reach out and WIN BIG!!! Of course I never saw the buck. I'm sure that when he caught wind of my personal inferno, he dashed for high ground. Would that I could have done the same. /representin' WA state GMUs 203 and 218
  • I admit this is shocking, but I don't really it is so for any good reason. I don't see what distinguishes it from the other cases of mentally disturbed/alienated individuals who are killing each other all over this country other than this guy just having good aim.
  • ...except for the larger amount of people killed and seriously wounded...nevermind. Think I'll go to bed now.
  • Deers come out more after the hunting season -- lot less people and gunshots in the wood.
  • Looks like the drugs the deer hid in the flask of coffee kicked in juuuust right!
  • Kill all extremists!!!11!
  • "An armed society is a polite society." Indeed.
  • Guns don't kill people. Hunters kill people.
  • There's more to be found out here.
  • "Row ends with five deerly departed" Brought to you by those wacky aussies.
  • Yeee Haw! Them's good shewtin'!
  • Duck Season! Rabbit Season! Duck Season! Rabbit Season! Duck Season!
  • "It's Wisconsin, Jake."
  • Rabbit season!
  • Rabbit Season! Duck Season! Shoot! *BAM*
  • Be vewwy, vewwy quiet....
  • Wabbit season!
  • Two game wardens, seven hunters, and a cow. (I am not the only person who thought of Tom Lehrer.)
  • You're dethpicable!
  • Myeeeeahh - ain't he a stinkah?