What a dick. And the problem with people like him is they steadfastly maintain there's nothing wrong with what they do. Thinning the herd, and all that.
Michigan gives farmers extra permits to take dozens, even hundreds of deer because of the crop damage that they do. Michigan has NO shortage of whitetail deer. This should be no big deal. When I lived in central Michigan and owned 80 acres that I rented out to a local farmer, he offered me permits to take as many deer as I wanted. It wasn't unusual to see a herd of a hundred plus whitetails in one field at night or dusk. They did a LOT of damage to corn and soybeans. Hell, it's legal to shoot deer over bait piles in Michigan.
My wife's uncle had permits to take up to ten Montana elk every season for crop depredation. They'd come in at night and he was known to be wearing his pajamas when shooting them because he'd roll out of bed and jump on the 4-wheeler to get it done. His wife, similarly clad would be on a second 4-wheeler with a spot light. He'd clean them, having changed clothes, hang them, and call the food bank in the morning. If the food bank wasn't open the next day he wouldn't shoot any. 400 elk can do a lot of damage even over night.
First, it is NOT legal anymore to hunt deer over bait piles. The DNR stopped that, due to chronic wasting disease, and concerns of nose to nose deer contact. Farmers do get full deer permits, but not by the hundreds, usually about 5-10 at a time, and then apply to the DNR for more. And also, Cedar Springs is where my twin brother has lived for over 30 years, so I will have to ask him about this. I don't have a problem with someone feeding their family, needing to bump off the occasional deer, as we certainly have a large population of them, and at times, you have to do what you have to do. But to kill a bunch of deer, or to just shoot them with a pistol, and leave them, not knowing if they are dead or alive, is beyond the pale, and this creep needs some serious help.
The charges are way too light. They should hit this piece of shit with every thing in the book. Total garbage human being.
ReplyDelete"officers were taken to nearby hospitals for tinnitus". Noise induced hearing loss from all the rounds they fired. Well at least they got the perp.
ReplyDeleteWhat a dick. And the problem with people like him is they steadfastly maintain there's nothing wrong with what they do. Thinning the herd, and all that.
ReplyDeleteJesus. At least he was caught before his need to take out his frustrations escaladed. Poster boy for the anti-2nd Amendment crowd.
ReplyDeleteMichigan gives farmers extra permits to take dozens, even hundreds of deer because of the crop damage that they do. Michigan has NO shortage of whitetail deer. This should be no big deal. When I lived in central Michigan and owned 80 acres that I rented out to a local farmer, he offered me permits to take as many deer as I wanted. It wasn't unusual to see a herd of a hundred plus whitetails in one field at night or dusk. They did a LOT of damage to corn and soybeans. Hell, it's legal to shoot deer over bait piles in Michigan.
ReplyDeleteYea, but then you harvest the meat. This POS wast just letting them rot.
DeleteLaws vary, and a scumbag poacher is still a scumbag poacher.
DeleteEven in MI.
My wife's uncle had permits to take up to ten Montana elk every season for crop depredation. They'd come in at night and he was known to be wearing his pajamas when shooting them because he'd roll out of bed and jump on the 4-wheeler to get it done. His wife, similarly clad would be on a second 4-wheeler with a spot light. He'd clean them, having changed clothes, hang them, and call the food bank in the morning. If the food bank wasn't open the next day he wouldn't shoot any. 400 elk can do a lot of damage even over night.
DeleteFirst, it is NOT legal anymore to hunt deer over bait piles. The DNR stopped that, due to chronic wasting disease, and concerns of nose to nose deer contact.
ReplyDeleteFarmers do get full deer permits, but not by the hundreds, usually about 5-10 at a time, and then apply to the DNR for more.
And also, Cedar Springs is where my twin brother has lived for over 30 years, so I will have to ask him about this. I don't have a problem with someone feeding their family, needing to bump off the occasional deer, as we certainly have a large population of them, and at times, you have to do what you have to do. But to kill a bunch of deer, or to just shoot them with a pistol, and leave them, not knowing if they are dead or alive, is beyond the pale, and this creep needs some serious help.
We only want to save the cute animals, don't we?
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