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(Some Guy) Strange If you're camping and you try and scare your friends as they sit around the bonfire by making scary animal noises, don't be so good at it that somebody shoots you with a shotgun   (syracuse.com) divider line 28
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Sybarite [TotalFark]
2011-10-24 11:24:46 AM
This would make a great episode of Scare Tactics.
 
MayoSlather
2011-10-24 11:59:04 AM
By using so many prepositions as subby does, which could make a sentence hard to read, at a time when preposition use should be limited, it then, by its very nature, becomes very hard to read anything that without drinking lots of beer is a headache to the reader, which I incidentally am.
 
xanadian [TotalFark]
2011-10-24 01:58:26 PM
In before the Dick Cheney jokes

/cuz I can't think of any right now
// :-/
 
flyurchin
2011-10-24 02:02:03 PM
MayoSlather: By using so many prepositions as subby does, which could make a sentence hard to read, at a time when preposition use should be limited, it then, by its very nature, becomes very hard to read anything that without drinking lots of beer is a headache to the reader, which I incidentally am.

Agreed.
 
2MS
2011-10-24 02:02:05 PM
<b><a target="_blank" href="http://www.fark.com/comments/6670042/72589204#c72589204">xanadia n</a>:</b> <i>In before the Dick Cheney jokes

/cuz I can't think of any right now
// :-/</i>

Beat me to it. I was going to say "shouldn't have invited"
 
BitwiseShift
2011-10-24 02:02:13 PM
Because shooting a shotgun at a bonfire is taught in Hunting 101.

//Guns don't kill. Bonfires kill -- old Texas Aggie saying
 
KnowEyeInnTeem
2011-10-24 02:03:36 PM
I am just going to take a shot in the dark with this one and say that the shooter should get off with light punishment.
 
flyurchin
2011-10-24 02:04:38 PM
Also,

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thebigfarker
2011-10-24 02:09:26 PM
So is it isn't just me Everyone feels the need to take a shotgun to every bonfire with friends.
 
Electromax
2011-10-24 02:14:19 PM
KnowEyeInnTeem: I am just going to take a shot in the dark with this one and say that the shooter should get off with light punishment.

Isn't it generally good hunting advice to actually see what you're shooting before you shoot at it? The dude playing the prank is an idiot (especially if he knew there might've been booze + guns at this thing) but the shooter could've easily killed his friend because he heard some animal noises.

What's the typical recourse for hunters who hit other hunters (serious question)? Is it a zero-tolerance thing or what? I've only ever seen that Parks and Rec episode.
 
misanthropic1
2011-10-24 02:21:45 PM
thebigfarker: So is it isn't just me Everyone feels the need to take a shotgun to every bonfire with friends.

Anytime there's drinking really; guns are way more fun when combined with alcohol...
 
KnowEyeInnTeem
2011-10-24 02:22:35 PM
Electromax: KnowEyeInnTeem: I am just going to take a shot in the dark with this one and say that the shooter should get off with light punishment.

Isn't it generally good hunting advice to actually see what you're shooting before you shoot at it?...

I just wanted to make multiple bad puns.

...What's the typical recourse for hunters who hit other hunters (serious question)? Is it a zero-tolerance thing or what? I've only ever seen that Parks and Rec episode.

I would imagine most people have zero tolerance for being shot.
 
dr_iacovone
2011-10-24 02:24:03 PM
Shot to the face
and your to blame
Darling you give pranks
a bad name
 
Loren
2011-10-24 02:33:02 PM
Electromax: KnowEyeInnTeem: I am just going to take a shot in the dark with this one and say that the shooter should get off with light punishment.

Isn't it generally good hunting advice to actually see what you're shooting before you shoot at it? The dude playing the prank is an idiot (especially if he knew there might've been booze + guns at this thing) but the shooter could've easily killed his friend because he heard some animal noises.

What's the typical recourse for hunters who hit other hunters (serious question)? Is it a zero-tolerance thing or what? I've only ever seen that Parks and Rec episode.

I don't think this is hunting but rather mistaken self-defense. They were trying to scare the guys--that says to me they were pretending to be big predators.
 
KingKauff [TotalFark]
2011-10-24 02:33:53 PM
thebigfarker: So is it isn't just me Everyone feels the need to take a shotgun to every bonfire with friends.

Apparently, they were worried about wild animals
 
NoGods
2011-10-24 03:01:43 PM
thebigfarker: So is it isn't just me Everyone feels the need to take a shotgun to every bonfire with friends.

Pistols or rifles with iron sights are also acceptable. Bringing a scoped hunting rifle would be considered a faux pas.

misanthropic1: Anytime there's drinking really; guns are way more fun when combined with alcohol...

Of course they are. We didn't even get to start drinking this weekend before someone got shot. We had about 25 people at our hunt club Saturday morning. The sun hadn't even come up and one of the guys shot himself in the foot with his 12 gauge. He actually said, "I didn't even know it was loaded." His buddy drove him to the hospital and we later heard he lost two toes.
 
Curious [TotalFark]
2011-10-24 03:11:03 PM
Electromax: What's the typical recourse for hunters who hit other hunters (serious question)? Is it a zero-tolerance thing or what? I've only ever seen that Parks and Rec episode.

according to an article further down the main page if the "hunter" shoots you because you made a noise and he shot at the sound it's ok. and that guy died.

i'm as pro gun rights as you can be but stupid folks misusing guns is farked up and they should be held accountable for the damage they do.
 
jake3988
2011-10-24 03:13:02 PM
A) You don't go hunting with a motherfarking shotgun
B) He gets shot in the face, leg, arms, and chest and is released the next day?

That's either one amazing walking cyborg or he's really lucky.
 
Curious [TotalFark]
2011-10-24 03:15:18 PM
Electromax: What's the typical recourse for hunters who hit other hunters (serious question)? Is it a zero-tolerance thing or what?

let's hope this isn't the typical response. hunter shots marine (new window)

that's the article i mentioned in my post above.
 
raygundan
2011-10-24 03:23:21 PM
jake3988: You don't go hunting with a motherfarking shotgun

As a non-hunter, this statement makes me genuinely curious. I was under the impression that shotguns were, in fact, used for several kinds of hunting. Is this just a popular misconception? Are things with names like "birdshot," "buckshot," and "deer slugs" just slang terms that don't imply what it sounds like?
 
Dogsbody
2011-10-24 03:37:13 PM
Wouldn't it depend on the animal noises? Something innocuous like a duck noise or totally implausible like an elephant (in upstate New York) probably doesn't warrant a shooting.
 
thebigfarker
2011-10-24 03:50:27 PM
jake3988 A) You don't go hunting with a motherfarking shotgun
B) He gets shot in the face, leg, arms, and chest and is released the next day?

That's either one amazing walking cyborg or he's really lucky.

A shotgun can use Birdshot. That's a lot of small metal balls that are generally not lethal to humans beyond close range. Ask that lawyer hunter Cheyney guy. Great for hitting flying birds because the shot scatters and covers a larger area. (not lethal to deer)

now, if it had been Buck Shot, that would have been about 3 larger slugs and the wounds could have benn much more fun - I mean serious. (also lethal for birds)

I just wish somone had a recording of the sounds that inspired the gunfire ....
 
Loren
2011-10-24 04:45:09 PM
jake3988: A) You don't go hunting with a motherfarking shotgun
B) He gets shot in the face, leg, arms, and chest and is released the next day?

That's either one amazing walking cyborg or he's really lucky.

Bird hunting, perhaps?
 
brantgoose [TotalFark]
2011-10-24 06:49:29 PM
That happened to a couple of my late uncles, only you can substitute "rutting moose" and "irate bear" for "shooting with a shotgun".

Bada-boom! Bada-bing!
 
FerneJohn
2011-10-24 08:24:44 PM
Too bad the shooter doesn't have his gun rights revoked for life. You're supposed to know what you're shooting at, dumbass.
 
Crosshair [TotalFark]
2011-10-24 10:10:26 PM
FerneJohn: Too bad the shooter doesn't have his gun rights revoked for life. You're supposed to know what you're shooting at, dumbass.

By all indications the shooter made a reasonable conclusion about what was going on, a predictor animal was stalking their camp site. Animals that hang around campsites acting aggressively are typically either rabid or have lost their fear of humans, either case can be very dangerous for humans. Rather than letting that animal chew on someone later on they decided to try and dispatch it. God help you if you let a rabid animal get in among your campsite/bonfire site/whatever.

If you dress like a deer and go walking around the woods during deer season you should not be surprised when you take a .270 to the chest. Likewise, when you sit in the dark and act like an animal acting aggressively toward humans, especially in a somewhat remote area where help will be slow to arrive, you should not be surprised when the humans act aggressively back.

The person hiding in the dark was being stupid and in this case being stupid hurt quite a bit. Hopefully they are less stupid in the future.
 
ARC7
2011-10-25 11:40:17 AM
FerneJohn: Too bad the shooter doesn't have his gun rights revoked for life. You're supposed to know what you're shooting at, dumbass.

If they were trying to take a trophy, they absolutely should have their gun rights revoked, but that doesn't seem to be what actually happened. By all evidence they were in immediate danger of their lives.
 
FerneJohn
2011-10-25 12:35:04 PM
Crosshair: FerneJohn: Too bad the shooter doesn't have his gun rights revoked for life. You're supposed to know what you're shooting at, dumbass.

By all indications the shooter made a reasonable conclusion about what was going on, a predictor animal was stalking their camp site. Animals that hang around campsites acting aggressively are typically either rabid or have lost their fear of humans, either case can be very dangerous for humans. Rather than letting that animal chew on someone later on they decided to try and dispatch it. God help you if you let a rabid animal get in among your campsite/bonfire site/whatever.

If you dress like a deer and go walking around the woods during deer season you should not be surprised when you take a .270 to the chest. Likewise, when you sit in the dark and act like an animal acting aggressively toward humans, especially in a somewhat remote area where help will be slow to arrive, you should not be surprised when the humans act aggressively back.

The person hiding in the dark was being stupid and in this case being stupid hurt quite a bit. Hopefully they are less stupid in the future.

ARC7: FerneJohn: Too bad the shooter doesn't have his gun rights revoked for life. You're supposed to know what you're shooting at, dumbass.

If they were trying to take a trophy, they absolutely should have their gun rights revoked, but that doesn't seem to be what actually happened. By all evidence they were in immediate danger of their lives.

Read the article. The guy didn't even see the "animal" and he's been arrested for his careless discharge of a firearm.
 
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