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Internet Hunting Banned in California

TheSync writes "California has banned Internet hunting. Emergency regulations will be put in place by the California Fish and Game Commission, and legislation (SB 1028) is in the works. West Virginia is considering legislation against it as well. Hunters consider hunting by robot and mouse click 'a digrace to the sport,' whereas tracking and killing innocent animals on foot is just fine."

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  1. You're violating my rights! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    It's my God given right as an American to be able to sit at home in my underwear and kill shit.

    1. Re:You're violating my rights! by Jonathan · · Score: 5, Funny

      Wow, that wasn't inflammatory.

      Yeah! Hunters don't kill the *innocent* animals -- they look for the shifty-eyed ones that are probably the criminal element of their species!

  2. My rights online by AthenianGadfly · · Score: 5, Funny

    I agree, this is integral "Your Rights Online." I protest this grave infringement against my inherent right as a human to operate a deadly weapon using some Flash game on my desktop.

  3. Re:PETA approved by ashmedai · · Score: 5, Funny

    Does this mean no more playing punch the monkey?

  4. Re:Wait... Logic Check... by daft_one · · Score: 5, Funny

    My bow and I would like you to come within 100 yards and say that ;-)

  5. Re:Can't control offshore shooting by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny
    Instead you'd pay your $50 or whatever and the whole shooting would be mocked up, probably from Discovery channel footage.
    I bet that Christmas lights guy is behind this...
  6. Re:Wait... Logic Check... by GoofyBoy · · Score: 5, Funny

    I think the orginal poster is talking about tearing the heart from a 9 foot tall bear with your bare hands then holding it over your head on top of a hill shouting in sheer barbaric primal release.

    In keeping with my roots, I do a similar thing when I buy a plastic and styrofoam refridgerated package of boneless, skinless chicken breast for $1.99/lb.

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  7. Re:Wait... Logic Check...(offtopic but true) by EtherAlchemist · · Score: 5, Funny


    But on some level you now understand what its like to crap in the bushes like a deer.

    Or piss on one.

    My dad and I were hunting years back on a tree farm. About 20 minutes before sunrise (can't shoot here till then) he went off to take a leak. A minute later I hear some loud rustling and he yelled astring of curses.

    He had walked up to a clump of tall grasses and was relieving himself when a buck jumped up from within the grass, where it was sleeping, and ran off. My dad had pissed on it and woke it up.

    He said "imagine being that buck's wife and trying to explain who's scent that is!"

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  8. Re:Hunting by sconeu · · Score: 5, Funny

    It's quite amazing, actually; they have evolved in a very short span of time

    For those living in Kansas, they have been intelligently designed in a very short span of time.

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