
Lag bolts, player?
Now, I can tell you that I’m not the hunting kind of guy but most hunters I know are very conscientious and actually treat nature with a great deal more respect than many other people.
Now, having said that….there are two reasons I don’t hunt:
A) Because I watched Bambi like 42 billion times as a kid and I just can’t bring myself to do it. There are times I wish I had a missile launcher in my car on the freeway but until deer start driving cars and running me off the damn road I don’t have any cause to shoot at them. And…
B) Because of idiots like the guy in this story…
“It was thought to be the backwoods version of an “urban legend,” but the Vermont Fish and Wildlife Department reported in March its first documented case of a deer hunter’s attempting to avoid detection after shooting a doe (instead of the permissible buck) by gluing antlers onto its head. Marcel Fournier, 19, used epoxy and lag bolts, said a game warden, but the finished product looked awkward because of the angle of placement and the size mismatch of the antlers.” (Fournier was jailed for 10 days and fined, and had his license revoked.) [Burlington Free Press, 3-14-09]
Epoxy and lag bolts? Really? This guy is like the psychotic MacGyver. How much of a slack-jawed, genetic reject must this dude be? He actually took lag bolts (and if you aren’t familiar with those then look at this) and some old antlers and screwed them into the head. And you wanna know HOW I know he was a complete idiot? (I mean, besides the fact he’s bolting antlers on a dead deer’s head) Because he put them on at the wrong angle! How the hell do you do that? I don’t even hunt and know they go on top of the damn head.
“No, Mr Game Warden. Some deer do have antlers growing from their eyes. Really. And I imagine the one on his nose means he probably has some rhinoceros in his family history, don’t you Mr Game Warden? What do you mean you’re taking me to jail?”
What a dumb ass.
Now, why would I go in the woods hunting when I could end up on the back of a 4-wheeler with some antlers lag-bolted to my forehead? Thanks but no thanks!