Tuesday - August 11, 2009

Not Sporting

THREE Canadians who shelled ducklings on a pond, including firing at them from a vehicle and then posting their stunt on YouTube, were fined $17,305, media reported today.

The three men from Cudworth, Saskatchewan, were identified by police after a flood of tips to the province’s anti-poaching hotline.

They were charged with careless firearms use, allowing game meat to spoil, hunting waterfowl out of season and illegally hunting migratory birds with a rifle. One was also charged with firing a gun from a vehicle.

David Fraser, 30, his brother James, 23, and their brother-in-law Jeremy Rowlands pleaded guilty yesterday in court to 15 counts of violating wildlife protection laws.

“At the time that we did what we did we didn’t know it was a crime,” David Fraser said. “We had no idea that bullets ricocheted off water. And we made every effort at the time to make sure that there was nothing within eye view on the horizon of anywhere that we shot.”

In one scene, one of the three shooters unloads a hail of bullets at an unsuspecting duck, ripping it apart.

They posted the video online “because at the time we thought it was funny”, Fraser was quoted as saying by public broadcaster CBC.

It was viewed by more than 60,000 people, and provoked a national outcry.

I didn’t know that “allowing game meat to spoil” was a crime in Canada, but I don’t blame the authorities for throwing the book at these jerks. And Fraser’s “duh, I didn’t know” statement is a crock. That they videotaped it means they had planned it all ahead of time, and posting the video to YouTube is slimeball behavior. They thought it was funny. Fine the crap out of them.

I have no patience with slob hunters.

Posted by Drew458     on 08/11/2009 at 08:55 PM   
Filed Under: • Guns and Gun Control • Typical White People: Stupid, Evil, Willfully Blind •  
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