Re: [at-l] Re: Hunting & armed stupidity

["Poor Writer a.k.a. Ern Grover" <ern@tick-tock.com>]

So far, there have been many variations of this tragedy.  Does anyone have
the real story, the accurate account of this lady?

Poor Writer a.k.a. Ern Grover
http://www.tick-tock.com/morgan.html

" Good judgement comes from experience - which comes from poor judgement ".


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> From: bogey1 <bogey1@worldlynxyork.net>
> To: at-l@saffron.hack.net
> Cc: Trailplace Mail <atml@trailplace.com>
> Subject: [at-l] Re: Hunting & armed stupidity
> Date: Tuesday, July 07, 1998 6:21 AM
> 
> 
> > From: bullard@northnet.org
> > Subject: Re: [at-l] hiking in hunting season
> > > 
> 
> I asked how the hunting was and he
> > replied that he had gotten off a couple of 'sound shots'. What's that,
I
> > asked. I heard something and shot at it he replied."
> 
> Just goes to prove, its the person that kills, not the gun. 
> Or should we say, Its ignorance/stupidity that kills, not guns.
> Hunter stupidity ( know what and where you are shooting)
> Hiker ignorance ( practice safety precautions )
> 
> Almost all the hunters I know are conscientious and would not shoot if it
> was over a hill, across a road, not a clear shot, or not legal game. 
Here
> in PA a few years ago a man shot and killed a fellow hunter just before
> daybreak because he heard a noise. The Maine story blows me away about
the
> young mother hanging white socks on her washline and was mistakenly shot
> for a moose????? And the shooter got off, as was reported here,  because
> the victim should have known better than to hang socks on the washline in
> hunting season.  duh? 
> I always thought how easy it would be to get rid of someone you
> dislike...just get them to go hunting with you then shoot them in the
back
> and tell the police, "I thought he was deer" and then you get off with a
> game lands punishmnent, "NO MORE HUNTING FOR YOU IN PA."  You just got
away
> with murder.  But then the way the courts are, people are getting away
with
> murder everyday, its just easier to get through the system using the
> hunting ruse.
> SLIM and I'm not against hunting,  I'm against armed stupidity.
> > 
> 
> > 
> > Saunterer
> > 
> > Jim & Diane Bullard
> > PO Box 5, West Stockholm, NY 13696 USA
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