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cybergrunt69 writes "An enterprising Texan, John Underwood currently has a website that lets you target-practice online with a .22 caliber rifle, but will soon start offering "hunting" abilities. He recently built a platform for about $10,000USD to house this new system on his 300 acre properly, but the Parks and Wildlife department is now scrambling to find ways to try and stop him. While this may sound like cheating to some people, this may be a large benefit to hunters with disabilities."
In the days of true hunting, hunters with disabilities became the prey.
An attendant will pick up the shot animals!!!
WTF?
Who wants that job?
At the golf driving range we all target the ball-retriever machines/attendants when they go to get the balls... and , hey this is Texas we are talking about!
yep. My great grandfather hunted his own food with a BOW AND ARROW well into his 60's because "guns didn't give the animal a chance." Oddly enough, this was in the California desert.
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Shoot the rabbit and WIN AN IPOD!!!
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What we NEED is a robot on a Segway (for terrain adaptation and minimal field footprint) that's noise-dampened, carrying a shotgun, with a sensor that won't allow it to shoot outside a given radius.
::Shht:: Counterhunters Win.
Why all this, you ask? So we can CIRCLE STRAFE those freaking animals over the internet~!
(Deer proceeds to knock over robot mid-hunt, rendering it useless)
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I'd like to see one of these in the food court of a mall, with a zoom feature and tanquilizer darts. I'd pay well over $20 if they mailed me a DVD compiling the video of me aiming, zooming, firing, and the associated reactions.
We are one consciousness experiencing itself subjectively. Back to you with the weather, Bob!
I don't think the "he was a camper" defense would stand up in court.
This issue is a bit more complicated than you think.
So, now people with disabilities can shoot at animals and thereby give them disabilities?
Try to hack my 31337 firewall!
Let the Blue Screen of Death jokes begin!
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paintball
A more concise summary of the essence of redneckhood may never have been spoken. Truly a quote for the ages.
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Just wait until someone writes an aimbot.
paintball
Shoot the rabbit and WIN AN IPOD!!!
For some reason I read that as "Shoot the rabbit and WIN POO".
I'm glad I was wrong.
I can see it now. Site gets mentioned on slashdot. Within a half of an hour,all ammo stores are completely spent, with the rifle barrels glowing red-hot and sagging toward the ground. The entire area is covered in a light grey smoke, and police are showing up after receiving reports of automatic weapon fire.
It gives a whole new meaning to the idea of a slashdotting "melting down" the victim.
steve
Oh, you're not stuck, you're just unable to let go of the onion rings.
How many of you city fellas ever get a chance to milk a cow? Or a goat?
Why not an on-line cow/goat milker?
And an attendant could collect the milk and send it to you?
Maybe I'd better be quiet. Microsoft might patent the idea and create a Milk The Cow xbox game. Would it be called Grand Milk Cow?
"Hunting is already lopsided in favor of humans anyway"
Oh yea? When the worlds largest militia hits the woods in PA for deer season they've been playing cards, telling dirty jokes and drinking like it's the last drink forever till 3:00am. Then they get up at 5:00am and hit the woods in 20deg cold hanging from a tree.
Deer are safe in most the hunting camps I've been at:-) Your beer isn't.
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Then why does every good hunting story start with "after the first six pack?"
A month ago I went to that website and played what I thought was another one of those "Whack the Monkey" flash ads. But it turned out to be *sniff* real! I feel horrible. I clobbered the living hell out of that poor darling little monkey before I realized it.
Table-ized A.I.
Thanks for totally missing the joke, and then EXPLAINING it.
paintball
I think the concept has some potential. How about some thing other than hunting. How about patrolling the streets of Fallujah with a rigged unmanned HumVee from your home ? Real life Counter Strike anyone ?
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Now we can have a real live Duck Hunt... But without that fucking dog there to laugh at you when you miss...
Meet new people, and kill them.
How long before the first redneck misunderstands and shoots at his computer wih a rifle?
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We should take this idea to Iraq, and mount it on some sort of mobile platform. I'll pay $1,000 an hour, to shoot at insurgents from the comfort of my own home!
...and you thought I didn't care...
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