Golf clap for the reference. Nicely done.

Generally, if a gunshot is near enough to wake you up inside a house, then the hunting ground is too close to civilization. I've been duck hunting plenty of times but never with residences nearby. And shots don't carry as far as people think they do.

That dog was the first video game character I ever truly HATED.

My hate for him was nothing in comparison to my immortal grudge with the God Damned thief bot from Descent 2.

Let's get this out of the way.

why are the homeowners complaining now since this has been going on forever? maybe because they didn't do all their homework before buying the quiet home in the country recently.

/hotlinkkkkk powerrrrrrrr
//SA power too

Argues that it's really wabbit season.

Chunes: Generally, if a gunshot is near enough to wake you up inside a house, then the hunting ground is too close to civilization. I've been duck hunting plenty of times but never with residences nearby. And shots don't carry as far as people think they do.

You've never been to Maine during deer hunting season. From my house I hear gunshots almost every day. At least weekly off season. My thoughts are that just hearing the shots is enough to set off some people.

When I lived in the city I was walking home with a small billy club I had traded for something else earlier in the day. A police car came screaming to a stop at the end of the road I was walking on and the cop got out and leveled his gun at me screaming, "Drop it!" Which I promptly did even though by law I had every right to openly carry a gun. He thought I was carrying a gun. Where I live now it's not uncommon to see people walking the street with a rifle and nobody blinks an eye.

I guess what I'm trying to say is that it depends on where you live and the locals attitude on guns.

I'll finally be a believer
A "Duck Hunt"-ing overachiever
When Big N's volition
Creates an edition
Where you get to cap the retriever.

I enjoy eating delicious ducks, so I'm really getting a kick out of these replies!

Interesting problem, with the urban area stretching into long time hunting areas. I side with the hunters, but have a feeling all the rich landowners will win out.

This is just like the people that move near the airport and complain that the airport is too loud. Get over it, you decided to move to an area where this activity happens.

/move to the everglades
//the alligators don't make that boomy sound

Another case of yuppies moving into "the country" and finding out that the locals don't want to kiss their asses like the "nice" folks at Starbucks do.

Farmers start farming too early, cows mooing too loud, fertilizer smells bad, deer eat the landscaping, there's no stores/mall, we need sidewalks, we need curbs, we need another 4 lane highway, we need a rec center, we need more schools etc...And then they'll biatch when the taxes go up "for no reason". If they get everything they want, they'll then begin to whine that "the area's just not the same".

/why yes, that does sound like my neighborhood
//I hate tourists(shoobies)too
///no, that was the nice version

reverend_frag: My hate for him was nothing in comparison to my immortal grudge with the God Damned thief bot from Descent 2.

I'll second that.

/loved that game
//And the first one
/// and I love slashes
//

I live 200 yards down the road from a gun & rod club. I don't mind it actually, I usually only hear them on the weekends, and while it sometimes sounds like Iraq is right up the road, occasionally someone fires off something BIG and I wonder "What the hell was that? I want one!"

But I paid $3.6 Million dollars for this house! Everyone around here has to conform to my wishes, because I have money and that makes me more important!

Chunes: Generally, if a gunshot is near enough to wake you up inside a house, then the hunting ground is too close to civilization. I've been duck hunting plenty of times but never with residences nearby. And shots don't carry as far as people think they do.

I can hear the reports from shotguns here, they're not too bad. Rifles sometimes during deer season. I had someone fire towards my house once, he didn't know there was a house here. I ended up putting an army of blaze orange "no trespassing" signs up to keep 'em out.

Now the problem is roadside hunting. I was driving home from work one day and some guy is standing on the side of the road with a shotgun aiming at a doe...wasn't even season. Then again this is redneck hell were some douchenozzle shot and killed someone's pet deer, right in her front yard.

Does not approve.

mkiii

why are the homeowners complaining now since this has been going on forever? maybe because they didn't do all their homework before buying the quiet home in the country recently.

Except that it's not "in the country" - it's right off the beltway.

This guy used to hunt in the same area...

Well, who could blame the residents for getting upset if the hunters were like this... (new window)

Eatlemming I have to agree.

I'm a marine contractor in N.C., and we get the same idiots, like the one in the article, bringing their money down here and buying up waterfront property, then wanting everybody to conform to their ideas of what normal is.

I build the guy a $50,000 boardwalk, dock and boathouse, 400 feet to the swamp to reach the river. He and his wife then complain that there are snakes out there. Well, duh. This is a swamp. They never go outside, just stay in their airconditioned house 24/7. Furthermore, they don't own a boat, yet have a boathouse. They're afraid of snakes, so they don't swim in the river. Why the fark did you move down here to live on the water?

If I hear another person from Northern Virginia or New Jersey suggest to me that we need a Bed Bath and Beyond, a SuperTarget or an Olive Garden, I think I'll puke. You idiots! We now have a Starbucks, thanks to you. We now have a Dunkin Donuts, thanks to you. We now have and Applebee's and Outback, thanks to pricks like you. Yankee go home.

Virgina residents?

I can only think of that 'not a clown car' picture now.

j_dubya_s

Yankee go home

You should put that on your business cards.

I build the guy a $50,000 boardwalk, dock and boathouse, 400 feet to the swamp to reach the river. He and his wife then complain that there are snakes out there. Well, duh. This is a swamp. They never go outside, just stay in their airconditioned house 24/7. Furthermore, they don't own a boat, yet have a boathouse. They're afraid of snakes, so they don't swim in the river. Why the fark did you move down here to live on the water?

If I hear another person from Northern Virginia or New Jersey suggest to me that we need a Bed Bath and Beyond, a SuperTarget or an Olive Garden, I think I'll puke. You idiots! We now have a Starbucks, thanks to you. We now have a Dunkin Donuts, thanks to you. We now have and Applebee's and Outback, thanks to pricks like you. Yankee go home.

Hah, that's gold. And I agree with all of it. How many national chain stores a city has is inversely proportional to how desirable it is to live there, imo.

mkiii: why are the homeowners complaining now since this has been going on forever? maybe because they didn't do all their homework before buying the quiet home in the country recently.

Fairfax county is the country?

Chunes: I build the guy a $50,000 boardwalk, dock and boathouse, 400 feet to the swamp to reach the river. He and his wife then complain that there are snakes out there. Well, duh. This is a swamp. They never go outside, just stay in their airconditioned house 24/7. Furthermore, they don't own a boat, yet have a boathouse. They're afraid of snakes, so they don't swim in the river. Why the fark did you move down here to live on the water?

If I hear another person from Northern Virginia or New Jersey suggest to me that we need a Bed Bath and Beyond, a SuperTarget or an Olive Garden, I think I'll puke. You idiots! We now have a Starbucks, thanks to you. We now have a Dunkin Donuts, thanks to you. We now have and Applebee's and Outback, thanks to pricks like you. Yankee go home.

Hah, that's gold. And I agree with all of it. How many national chain stores a city has is inversely proportional to how desirable it is to live there, imo.

Well put.

/constantly fights with wife to go to non-chain/local restaurants.

Thank you suburban sprawl.

"These days, I spend more and more of my time in the winter in the Caribbean," he said, "so it doesn't bother me that much."

Problem solved!

If their children are scared of it, it's because their parents' reaction to the gunfire is making them scared.

I heard gunfire back in the woods behind my house the whole time I was growing up, and I never paid it any attention.

seatown75

You have a point... that'll make me the worlds biggest hypocrite. Yankees go home, but leave your dollars here to fund my child's college education.

Ironically, I lived in Fairfax as a little kid. We had 2 acres, a cow and some chickens. My folks regret selling that farm now. They thought they had done good to double their investment in 1977.

P.S. I haven't found out if the Starbucks (opened 2 months ago) is on the magic list of Starbucks set to close.... Hope springs eternal.

/got nothin'
//dekniltoh
///damn dyslexia..
////hotlinked I mean..

It's getting hard to find a place to hunt anywhere. People move into a marsh to get "waterfront" property, complain about the hunting, then complain about geese making their yard unusable and wonder what can be done about them. Dinner, that's what can be done.

j_dubya_s: P.S. I haven't found out if the Starbucks (opened 2 months ago) is on the magic list of Starbucks set to close.... Hope springs eternal.

You could check this list (new window) over at the Consumerist.

CBob: /why yes, that does sound like my neighborhood
//I hate tourists(shoobies)too
///no, that was the nice version

South Jersey FTW?

so.........these people move to a duck hunting area................and then complain about the duck hunters?

Easy to deal with. If the local residents really want to fix the problem, simply require that no hunting may occur within 1000 yards of a residence or place of business without the owners permission.

Try living near Compton during the height of the Blood & Crips Gang Wars. Nothing scarier than being woken up by gunshots in the middle of the night.

Thank god I moved out 3 months before the LA riots.

Chaghatai: Easy to deal with. If the local residents really want to fix the problem, simply require that no hunting may occur within 1000 yards of a residence or place of business without the owners permission.

Oh yeah... move next to an airport and do the same? "No plane traffic over my house" Pfft.


susanann: so.........these people move to a duck hunting area................and then complain about the duck hunters?

FTW!

mkiii: why are the homeowners complaining now since this has been going on forever? maybe because they didn't do all their homework before buying the quiet home in the country recently.

The county I live in here in West Michigan has a lot of farming that is switching over to housing, so you have sub divisions going up in the middle of what used to be all farms. About 5 years ago, the county made available brochures to people moving out to these areas describing what it is like to live in a farming area. It included a scratch and sniff panel of manure. The state passed a right to farm act about 10 years ago because of this trend.

/ another golf clap for the Duck Hunt reference
// used to play it all the time, and wished just once I could shoot the dog

Catran takes the cake....

I checked the Starbucks list... No such luck. Oh well... thats just progress. At least the Super Walmart got shelved, for a few years anyway.

That's what you get for contributing to suburban sprawl, morons.

Until I moved out to the 'burbs, I heard gunfire all the time. And ambulances. And fights in the alley under by window. And the homeless guy who lived in the parking garage and would get drunk and angry and knock over all the garbage cans.

Different area, different noise. After a while you learn to tune it out. Maybe they should make duck season year round. That would definitely get them use to the noise.

/feels a bit sorry for the ducks
//but thinks maybe they should try to not be so tasty

"Anytime anyone has a weapon of any kind, there's always a chance of an incident,"

Ma'am, your plastic kiddy bubble is ready for delivery.

r1nce: Virgina residents?

I can only think of that 'not a clown car' picture now.

Like this?

nursetim: ... It included a scratch and sniff panel of manure.



Worst "Little Trees" scent evar.

Is their right to dress up like a tree, hide like a coward, and shoot at defenseless wildlife really more important than someone's right to a good night's sleep? No. One is for amusement, one is a necessity. If I heard a gunshot when I was sleeping, even waaaaaay off in the distance, it'd wake me up. We don't all sleep like logs, folks.

Grow some balls, hunt a bear with a knife. Play paint ball or something. Or even better, go do something productive like volunteer to help kids or old people or whatever.

It's not the residents' fault that these guys don't feel manly without a gun.

bingethinker, Pinky Floyd, JonnyBGoode

Baseball Season!

muttley approoves.