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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."
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.
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.
Honestly, if your dog bit my kid because she was teasing it, my kid would be grounded, and your dog would be dead, and if you tried to prevent it, I'd most likely beat the shit out of you on your front lawn in front of your wife and kids and end up in the back of a police cruiser.
Personally, I prefer fish. They never pester you for attention when you're trying to code.
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Does it matter? These hunters unloaded their guns in a public space directed towards a highway. Their gun permits should be revoked, the sherriff should be investigated for abuse of power and an independent party should be called in to investigate the incident. It looks too much like the plot of a bad Adam Sandler movie.
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.
dude, you know that shooting a gun in the direction of people is stupid.
What the drunken idiot hunters (probably only 2 of them) did was wrong. the majority of the hunters were safe and put their firearms away and left. but there always is at least 2 idiots in a crowd that does something stupid. And that was the ones that shot at the remote control helicopter.
Anyone saying different needs to take gun safety classes again. Because any law enforcement seeing that or the video can have your Concealed carry permit revoked.
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bring it little girl I'll kick your ass fast.
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HAHA OH WOW you are so witty! How did you come up with that one? And you were only the fourth or fifth person to post a comment like that! HIVEMIND, AMIRITE?
Ahahahahahahahahahaha....
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.
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.
You are welcome on my lawn.
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.
Ah, so you ignored the "as humans" part. Do animals suffer an the negative emotional experience? I don't know. Do they suffer a negative sensory experience? Perhaps in your rush to prove that you're an idiot, you missed this passage:
"There are two distinct components to pain: the sensory component called "nociception" and the aversive, negative affective state. Nociception allows detection of noxious stimuli and enables a reflex response to move an appendage or whole body away from the source. This capacity is found across all major animal taxa.[3] Nociception can be observed using modern imaging techniques, and a physiological and behavioral response to nociception can be detected but, there is currently no objective measure of suffering."
So, animals do feel pain, we just don't know if it requires them to go to therapy to be able to deal with the overwhelming emotions brought about by their parents not loving them enough.
Damn hippy.
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