Hunters Shoot Down Drone of Animal Rights Group

Required Snark writes "A remote control drone operated by an animal rights group was shot down in South Carolina by a group of thwarted hunters. Steve Hindi, the group president said 'his group was preparing to launch its Mikrokopter drone to video what he called a live pigeon shoot on Sunday when law enforcement officers and an attorney claiming to represent the privately-owned plantation near Ehrhardt tried to stop the aircraft from flying.' After the shoot was halted, the drone was launched anyway, and at this point it was shot down. 'Seconds after it hit the air, numerous shots rang out,' Hindi said in the release. 'As an act of revenge for us shutting down the pigeon slaughter, they had shot down our copter.' 'It is important to note how dangerous this was, as they were shooting toward and into a well-travelled highway,' Hindi stated in the release."

Comments

Re:If they hadn't brought their drone

[Anonymous Coward]

What are you, 11? Over here in the adult world we're responsible for our own actions. There was no need for the drone to be near the hunters (it wasn't any of their business as it all happened on private propery), so trying to blame the inherent stupidity of the drone owners' actions on the hunters is facile.

Re:Animal Rights?

[Anonymous Coward]

Where do they teach that kind of bullshit? Of course rights are not contingent upon the ability to adhere to agreements. Ever heard of "inalienable rights"? Even a "vegetable" has human rights, regardless of the ability to make agreements.

There were times when niggers didn't have the same rights as human beings, and I'm writing it this way to show how absurd that was. The whole animal rights movement is based on the notion that animals are sentient beings, like us, and thus deserve to be treated without unnecessary cruelty, like us.

This is hardly surprising

[Arrogant-Bastard]

Hunters -- well, nearly all hunters -- are cowards. They're too weak and afraid to actually face their prey on even terms, which is why they heavily stack the odds in their favor by using camouflage, lures, decoys, and weapons.

A hunter who actually had a modicum of courage would walk into the woods naked and carrying nothing -- which is exactly what the creatures they hunt have. This still putatively gives the hunter an enormous strategic advantage, because they possess a considerably more functional brain. But at least it would be a relatively fair fight, with both parties having only their intrinsic abilities.

But this never happens, of course. Hunters don't want a fair fight, they just want to slaughter whatever-it-is they're after that day. They would turn the entire exercise into a video game and engage in push-button butchery if they could. And the more unfair the fight can be made -- the better. (Have you walked through the hunting section of any store recently? There's an entire arsenal of technology designed for the purpose of making the hunter's advantage as lopsided as possible.)

This is why, on those rare occasions when an animal manages to overcome the odds and win this rigged contest by killing a hunter, I smile. It's justice, in its purest form.

So is it any wonder, really, that these same cowards would shoot a drone? Of course they don't want witnesses to and documentation of their cowardice. Somewhere, deep inside, they're ashamed -- as they should be. But unfortunately they're not strong enough to actually admit it: no, they would rather try to cover it up, no matter how ineptly.

Re:This is hardly surprising

[ledow]

I have to agree.

I'd even go so far as to say you could use any weapon that you *BUILT* from raw materials during your hunt, i.e. sticks, spears, bows, arrows, etc. If you want to "hunt", do it while being like a hunter. Not while trying to act like a special forces marine taking out an oil refinery.

Hunting is an excuse for people to fire guns. Even in the UK, where general gun ownership is illegal, we allowed them shotguns for an awful long time. They still run with the dogs and horses now (I think, I don't keep track) but the bottom's fallen completely out of it - and it's the dogs (in overwhelming numbers) that do the "hunting" even then. Wanna impress me? Chase down the fecking fox on foot yourself.

To paraphrase Rowan Atkinson in the comedy series The Thin Blue Line: I think that the person who WANTS a gun licence is exactly the sort of person that shouldn't be given one.

I'm not even close to being a greenie, vegetarian or anything else. You want to hunt the deer, do it. On its own terms. Hunter against hunted. And be a man about it. If you come back with meat, we'll celebrate your manliness. If you come back with scratches and broken ribs, you were just beaten that day - nothing that strips away your manliness.

Similarly, you want to mug someone, be a man, not a pussy. Beat me in a fair fist fight without your gang and your weapons and you can have my wallet. But if you can't, you have to ask yourself what gives you your status in the local food chain - your weapon, or your ability.

Ahem

[ThatsNotPudding]

There is an expectation of privacy on your own property.

Ahahahahahahahahahaha....

Re:Youtube video.

[PopeRatzo]

There is an expectation of privacy on your own property.

Where have you been, vacationing in another galaxy?

Further, I'm going to make up another rule, right here, on the spot.

If you're tromping around with weapons killing stuff, you're "expectation of privacy" is somewhat attenuated, and I don't care if you're on "private land". Hell, if you're having fun killing, I don't care if you're doing it in your own basement with the drapes pulled shut. Those pheasants you just blew into pieces were probably expecting a little privacy, too.

this was called the tree principle.

I've got something called "the creep principle". It goes like this: If your "sport" requires that something else has to die for your entertainment, my respect for you and your rights is going to be limited. I'm a pretty tolerant person, but blood sport is one of my bright red lines. It puts you in a special category. It's not that I care so much about animals, that I'm some animal hugger. I eat polish sausage, which I am told contains something that was once an animal (and judging from my digestive reaction, an animal that died of ebola). And if a squirrel were to threaten my family, I'd kill it with my bare hands and go inside, sleep like a baby.

But somebody who kills for sport bears watching. And no, it doesn't make it different if you're killing animals that are pests or the populations are out of control or whatever excuse you happen to be on this week. If you're killing for fun, somebody needs to keep an eye on you.

Re:Youtube video.

[pclminion]

Actually, if you are having sex anywhere you can be seen by the public, it is illegal anyway....

Funny how PETA psychotics can stand outside an elementary school with huge posters of blood and guts giving the kiddie a case of PTSD but if the Kiddie sees two people enjoying each other's presence, that'll get you on the sex offenders list.