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Texas Lawmaker Wants To Let the Blind Hunt

Posted by kdawson on from the don't-shoot dept.

IHC Navistar writes with a story from Reuters Oddly Enough. A Texas lawmaker has introduced a measure that would allow blind people to hunt any game that sighted people can currently pursue. The article notes that the bill may have clear sailing in the hunting-besotted state of Texas. An education outreach person from the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department explained it this way: "A blind person can shoot a rifle by mounting an offset pistol scope on the side of the rifle instead of on top. This allows their companion behind them to peer over their shoulder and help them sight it, but the blind person can pull the trigger."

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  1. Chuck Norris by AKAImBatman · · Score: 5, Funny
    Texas Lawmaker Wants To Let the Blind Hunt

    It's not that big of a surprise. With Chuck Norris prowling the area, they figure that everyone has a right to take their chances.

    Look on the bright side. They'll never see it coming! (The roundhouse kick to the face, that is...) :P
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  2. Great idea by sentientbeing · · Score: 5, Funny

    What could possibly go wrong?

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  3. Trickery by MrSquishy · · Score: 5, Funny
    A blind person can shoot a rifle by mounting an offset pistol scope on the side of the rifle instead of on top. This allows their companion behind them to peer over their shoulder and help them sight it, but the blind person can pull the trigger.
    A less dangerous version could be:
    A blind person can "shoot" a rifle-shaped block of wood by mounting an offset pistol scope on the side of the rifle instead of on top. This allows their liar companion behind them to peer over their shoulder and tell them "Oh yeah, you totally got that one."
    1. Re:Trickery by HTTP+Error+403+403.9 · · Score: 5, Funny
      A less dangerous version could be:

      A blind person can "shoot" a rifle-shaped block of wood by mounting an offset pistol scope on the side of the rifle instead of on top. This allows their liar companion behind them to peer over their shoulder and tell them "Oh yeah, you totally got that one."

      Then you can stick the blind person's hand in spaghetti and peeled grapes and say it's the deer's intestines and eyeballs.
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    2. Re:Trickery by geekoid · · Score: 5, Funny

      Blind person: "Why does this dear have 3 eyeballs?"

      Sighted person thinking fast: "They all do, didn't anyone tell you?"

      Sounds like a penny arcade cominc.

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  4. Objection, your honor! by The_Wilschon · · Score: 5, Funny

    I am a Texan, and I seriously do object to the characterization of my state as "hunting-besotted". Note: this post is not intended to be humorous. I am aware that most (at least I hope) people will recognize this characterization as hyperbole, but from many other things that I have read and heard, there remain a significant number of people who will not. Therefore, while I am certainly not demanding that nobody ever say this about Texas, I do wish to speak up and be heard when I assert that this is, in fact, hyperbole. Hyperbole has its place in satire and parody (and other forms of mockery), but it should be countered (as opposed to censored or removed) unless it is known that everyone recognizes it as satire and parody. Texas is not "hunting-besotted".

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  5. Re:First question after the shot? by eck011219 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Or more to the point ...

    "Bob, did I hit anything? Bob? Bob?"

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  6. In Soviet Texas by Jeremiah+Cornelius · · Score: 5, Funny

    Hunters blind you!

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  7. Re:i can imagine... by MindKata · · Score: 5, Funny

    "Texas wants to let them be aided with lasers"

    Why?, is it so they can blind the sighted hunters as well?!?

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  8. Re:i can imagine... by geobeck · · Score: 5, Funny

    They arent allowed to drive for the same reason.

    Shh! Not so loud! Some Texas lawyer might get another bright idea.

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  9. oh great... by commodoresloat · · Score: 5, Funny

    blind people. with frickin' laser beams attached to their heads!